Honour?
Honour?
Gu Yuan's initiative of educating the women had caught everyone's attention, bringing her under the attention of the political party to which her husband belongs to. They supported her initiative.
On the other side, Suyin wrote a short message that today she would be revealing the name of the company and a shocking truth about it. Everyone should stay tuned. It's her first project in collaboration with the People's Hospital.
The people's group, Feng Corporations and R-Tech (Xiu Mei's company) shared the post to let it reach the masses.
"Do you think the company Zhao Suyin pointed at is Unicharm?"
"Don't know. But if she's true, Gu Yuan can only dream of moving ahead in politics."
"Among the two, Zhao Suyin is influential and Gu Yuan is powerful. I'm sure both women will try to prove themselves correct."
People are experts to assume things, and soon they started taking it as a face-off between Gu Yuan and Zhao Suyin.
One thing was sure, one of them was bound to go downhill while the other would climb heights.
Wish they knew about the setting of the two women….
In the Ace hospital, Qi Wren saw the news on tv and typed something on phone to ask Chouming. Because of the broken jaw, forget about saying a word he cannot even open his mouth.
[Gu Yuan vs Zhao Suyin? Didn't we saw them together at the art event?]
"Don't mention about the art event," Hui Chouming's face twisted. Because of that one article released by Chen Wenwei, she and her husband had received all types of hateful and mocking comments. Some even went to comment, if her husband's 'thing' was working fine; if yes, can they kick it again?
Chen Wenwei's article had left many things at the people's imagination, and that's exactly what they were doing. Irritated, she had to close the comment section. To worse, her husband was not willing to tell her anything about his injury, but she too can make assumptions just like everyone. Suyin it must be.
"Suyin is bound to defeat as TSS is a common issue with tampons and the warning on the packet is all that's needed. She's just creating a hype. Does she not know Minister Gu would never let his wife be humiliated?"
Qi Wren, [Suyin has Dr Wang Shi's support.]
"You are overthinking, it's just a collaboration, not like he is her personal support."
Though Chouming was confident, he was not….
Though Qi Wren didn't reply, somewhere he had a hunch it was Wang Shi who had kicked him that night. Only if he could have seen his face…..
To worse, if Suyin succeeded, it would be a double loss for him. Not only he would be pressurised to pay her the pending compensation, but the money he had loaned to Xu Tong might become a bad debt.
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Parked in an inconspicuous position just a km away from the factory, Suyin was sitting in the car with Wang Shi. Seeing her shaking her legs, he pressed his hand on her knees. "Nothing will happen to Maddie. Haven't you given him the medicine? Don't underestimate the magic of kitchen ingredients."
"They were just kitchen ingredients, not antibiotics." She dropped her head on his shoulder. Even though she didn't say much, he seemed to have read through her mind and patted her. After facing her baby's death, she had been sensitive towards kids and can't bear to see them in pain. At the same time, Suyin also knew why Wang Shi had come here personally and brought along his best team of doctors. He was doing everything for her peace of mind.
At the factory, Xu Tong was satisfied as Gu Yuan attached so much importance in proving him wrong. He looked around the factory; cleaned and shining, and workers working with uniform, gloves, and masks on. "Kids?"
"I have taken care of them," his secretary replied.
Gu Yuan's arrival was scheduled for two in the noon, after lunch. She came at the correct time, bringing along the reporters with their heavy cameras. One of them was recording live as promised by her.
Xu Tong and the company's managers received her and the entire entourage with a welcoming smile. Wearing a formal suit in grey, she gave a business smile and shook hands with everyone.
"Mrs Gu, it's an honour you came to Unicharm's manufacturing facility. Thank you."
"I had to come here to let people see the truth. Frankly, I decided to come here after I saw your company's product in the PR package. Interesting it was."
"Glad you like our products. Unicharm not only pays attention to quality and hygiene, but we have even created employment opportunities for the underprivileged. 40% of our employees are unskilled labours who are trained before appointing at the job." With his smile, anyone can tell he was happy. Who says people stutter while lying? He himself must be a liar!
Wish people could grow nose just like Pinocchio as they lie.
"Quality, hygiene, underprivileged…. heavy words they are! Let's see if we can really use them with Unicharm. Shall we?"
Her words made Xu Tong frown, but he was overconfident at his preparations. Anyway, he liked it that Gu Yuan came straight to business, wasting no more time. "Sure."
The factory tour impressed the onlookers watching live streaming; it was anything but unhygienic. They almost concluded Zhao Suyin was wrong when she hinted at Unicharm…..
Hui Chouming grinned, "I told you. Suyin was just creating a hype. This is her end!" she hurried to write her non required opinion on Gu Yuan's Weibo, praising her, supporting her….
At the end of the tour, Xu Tong was all grinning from ear to ear. "Thank you so much for the opportunity and for taking time out of your busy schedule to come here. I hope you liked it."
He then looked at that live streaming camera, "I'm not against Miss Zhao Suyin, after all, she is doing her job. Though it cost me big trouble and had delayed the launch of my new product, I thanked Mrs Gu for clearing the name of my company. Here I take this opportunity to announce the launch of her new high absorbent tampons. It's made by women, for the women, and would be launched by our country's iron lady."
His secretary brought forward a wooden box wrapped by a ribbon and placed it on the table…..
"Mam, please do the honours."
"Honour?" she frowned, "The product that had caused the death of over 75 women, how can its launch be an honour for me?"
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