CHAPTER 848: CHAPTER 848: WHAT IS THE GOAL? (6)

"President Ou is certainly a cautious person. It’s said that the group’s investment projects require at least two or three years of research and discussion before decisions are made. Now, suddenly returning to negotiate with the second Miss Xiao is indeed unexpected. I wonder if the cooperation with Changda and the Xiao Family had already been considered by the Ou Corporation. If that’s the case, then Ou’s move at this moment is quite well-timed," Chen Jiaming pondered.

One has to admit, at this moment, the Xiao Family is relying on the Ou Family, which is akin to selling their assets cheaply. If the old crocodile were to find out, one wonders if he would think his daughter is being quite wasteful.

Regarding this, Gu Nuan looked at Chen Jiaming’s face: "Weren’t you in the same team as the second Miss before? Didn’t you know she had the intention to cooperate with the other party?"

"Mrs. Ou indeed visited the second Miss’s company, and she spoke with both the second and third Miss," Chen Jiaming spoke truthfully, "but Mrs. Ou didn’t make a firm decision to say that she wanted to cooperate with Changda. Overall, Mrs. Ou’s attitude was very ambiguous, making the second Miss feel quite troubled and angry for a while."

In business, the most feared situation is dealing with such ambiguous attitudes, where the negotiation partner never gives a definite answer. This is because the other party not only doesn’t agree or disagree but is practically wasting our time, and time is money.

"Mrs. Ou is probably thinking—" Gu Nuan implied.

The others hearing her words couldn’t help but be curious.

How could she know what Ou Chunhua was thinking? Had she met with Ou Chunhua?

Gu Nuan expressed, "Mrs. Ou is too smart a person not to know that her cooperation partners are fools?"

Zhong Qiaohui couldn’t hold back her laughter.

Truly, when it comes to actual business talks, as Xiao Shuzhu said with self-awareness, how could a few tigresses of the Xiao Family compare to Gu Jinrong?

Xiao Shulan’s company has always been a façade, relying only on the fact that she is a daughter of the Xiao Family; it would have closed down due to losses long ago otherwise.

Others do business with her only because she is of the Xiao Family, to put it bluntly, just like her husband, they’re all looking at the Xiao Family’s wealth.

"Letting her really negotiate with the Ou Corporation, she’d probably lose everything," Gu Nuan said.

Chen Jiaming asked, "Then what should we do?"

"There’s nothing to do. The other side hasn’t shown their real face yet, so just wait," Gu Nuan said, recalling her mother’s words before she left, she added calmly, "No need to rush, you can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry."

This statement of hers seemed to prove true when, after meeting with Ou Shihua that day, Xiao Shulan had lunch with him. The talk seemed to last a long time to those outside looking in, but Xiao Shulan herself knew they never got to the point.

When she parted ways with Ou Shihua, she couldn’t help but feel anxious.

One could say she had easily bitten onto the hook that Ou Shihua had cast out psychologically.

Ou Yanan heard that Ou Chunhua’s plane had arrived in the country, and Ou Shihua’s secretary had brought her to the Ou Family villa.

The Ou Family, accustomed to investment, had already invested in several properties years ago when domestic real estate wasn’t yet booming, making a sound profit.

The best of those properties was kept by the Ou Family and not intended for sale. Ou Chunhua had it renovated and thought that if her son married and stayed to work locally without returning to Hong Kong Island, she could come here to help with grandchildren. Therefore, every time she returns to the country, Ou Chunhua is reluctant to stay in that property, choosing to stay elsewhere.