Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 454 - 454 449 Daydreaming about Eating Farts

Chapter 454: Chapter 449: Daydreaming about Eating Farts Chapter 454: Chapter 449: Daydreaming about Eating Farts Mu Jiawen was clueless about the happenings at the research institute. She only learned about them during dinner with Mu Jun and Mu Miao on September 8.

Mu Miao had invited her several times, and finally, when she could no longer decline, they chose a restaurant at the school entrance.

“I heard from some senior brothers and sisters in the lab that Pan Jian and He Chong were supposed to join their mentor’s team, but on the sixth, the contract wasn’t signed, and they even got thrown out.”

Mu Miao curled her lips, “Serves them right!”

Mu Jiawen didn’t care about those two, so she asked Mu Jun, “How is it going with Sergei?”

“Dr. Sergei is very kind, I’ve learned a lot with him.” A genuine smile appeared on Mu Jun’s face. For an ordinary graduate student like him, having a good mentor during his internship was incredibly important.

Mu Jiawen nodded, “That’s good to hear. My third brother is coming back the day after tomorrow, he should be looking for you then.”

Now that she knew, she should at least look out for him a little.

After dinner, as the three of them walked back, they passed a computer store, and Jiang Yan came out from it.

Mu Jiawen was a bit surprised to see him, “Weren’t you supposed to be at the electronics factory? Why are you back already?”

Today was Friday, and normally Jiang Yan would head to the electronics factory after school and wouldn’t return before nine. But now it was just seven o’clock, so why was he at the computer store?

After greeting Mu Miao and Mu Jun, and watching them leave, Jiang Yan then turned to Mu Jiawen, “This afternoon, old Jing had a meeting with them at the factory. When I got there, there was a dispute, and Jing Junyang was quite angry. I thought it was pointless to argue, so I pulled him out of there and we came back.”

They had been cooperating with the electronics factory for two years, and it had gone smoothly, but recently there had been frequent disputes.

“Why?”

Jiang Yan hadn’t previously mentioned it to Mu Jiawen, so she didn’t know.

“The owner’s son of the electronics factory returned from studying abroad. No, I should say his stepson.”

The two of them didn’t go back to the store but stood at the door, enjoying the coolness of an autumn evening.

Jiang Yan continued, “I had heard from people in the engineering department before that after the owner of the electronics factory got divorced, his son didn’t want to stay with him. He’d rather manage a small supermarket with his mother than work at the electronics factory. So, he put all his effort into training his stepson, sending him abroad for education, and after graduation, even arranged for him to learn at the headquarters of a foreign enterprise abroad. Now he has returned, feeling he possesses leading-edge concepts and unparalleled innovation. He finds fault with everything at the electronics factory and wants to carry out sweeping reforms.”

“Reforms?” Mu Jiawen looked at him, “Do they want to use ‘Feixue’ for the reforms?”

‘Feixue’ wasn’t owned entirely by the electronics factory; it was Jing Junyang and Jiang Yan’s brand. The two parties were merely collaborating. But in the past year, ‘Feixue’ had become extremely popular nationwide, its sales far exceeding the total of other brands.

And yet, it was looked down upon?

So had he drunk a little foreign piss and forgotten who he was?

“He looks down on domestic brands and orders, calling them too backward and without potential for development. He wants to focus solely on exports and even brought in two large orders from abroad. In other words, he plans to do OEM for foreign brands. But the electronics factory only has so many production lines and just as many engineering staff, who are all assigned to his orders now, causing ‘Feixue’ to halt production.”

“Halt production?” Mu Jiawen’s eyes widened, their second cybercafe was still being refurbished, and all the computers were supposed to use ‘Feixue.’ With the production stopped, what were they supposed to do?

“We already had contracts signed, how can he just stop production on a whim?”

This wasn’t child’s play, after all, it was a legitimate collaboration. Although Jing Junyang and Jiang Yan were relatively young, they didn’t cut corners when it came to formal procedures.

Jiang Yan said, “The contract is specific to the two parties’ cooperation, not to any particular order, and they didn’t directly refuse to produce, they just said they can’t spare the time right now and will have to delay it.”

But they didn’t give a specific date to which day it would be delayed, so that’s why Jing Junyang was so angry he couldn’t help arguing with the newly appointed deputy manager.

Mu Jiawen frowned, “It looks like this Manager Zhuang isn’t a good person either, letting a stepson mess around like that. Did he cheat when he got divorced? Otherwise, why would his son not acknowledge him? Or is it that the stepson is actually his own flesh and blood? Did he get divorced because his wife discovered he had another family on the side?”

Jiang Yan chuckled, reached out, and pinched her smooth and tender cheek, “You’ve been reading too many novels, haven’t you? Not every story is that complicated. But… I have heard that he was with his current wife before the divorce. His ex-wife came to the factory to make a scene once, even hitting his current wife, who at that time was just a junior accountant, and now she’s the boss. Some of the older factory staff know about this. But to say his stepson is his own kid, probably not, because they look nothing alike, and those gossiping old employees never said so.”

Mu Jiawen pouted, “Scumbag!”

“Whether he’s scummy isn’t our concern, but if he really lets his stepson undergo some kind of reform and targets ‘Feixue’ as the first casualty, then we also need to come up with countermeasures.”

“What are you going to do?”

“On the way back, I discussed with Jing Junyang, and we might as well ask his aunt to invest, and start our own electronics factory.”

They hadn’t thought about opening a factory before, firstly because both of them were too young, especially Jiang Yan, who hadn’t even graduated from university, and Jing Junyang had just graduated – they didn’t want to step too far too quickly; secondly, Jing Junyang preferred working at a gaming company because he liked it.

‘Blue Deer’ was established for just over a year and had created more than twenty new games, making Feixue’s specialized gaming computers, keyboards, and mice sell even better. The two complemented each other well, resulting in unexpected sales results.

And the electronics factory didn’t just collaborate with Jiang Yan for ‘Feixue’ production; they also used Jiang Yan’s new design ideas on their own products, including one computer model that was shaped like a ‘Feixue’ but under a different brand. Then there were small electronics like voice recorders and MP3 players, where Jiang Yan also proposed new innovations and improvements.

In the domestic market, these gadgets were considered cutting-edge, and the electronics factory even expanded four production lines specifically, establishing a second plant in the process.

In just two years, with their involvement and partnership, the electronics factory, which was a medium-sized enterprise, had grown into a large-scale business. But all of a sudden, they were about to be left behind, as the factory wanted to soar on its own.

In Jing Junyang’s view, the electronics factory wanted to cast them aside and take ‘Feixue’ for themselves.

Because at the afternoon meeting that same day, Manager Zhuang’s stepson proposed that he sell the ‘Feixue’ brand to the electronics factory.

What was he thinking?

That damn prick even had the gall to say that, in the future, the electronics factory would only operate in two directions: one was for exports, focusing on foreign markets and providing manufacturing services for foreign clients—that was the big picture and they must grasp the current situation well in order for the factory to follow the path of sustainable and thriving development.

The second direction for the domestic market was simply subordinate, and they would only produce their own brand domestically in the future. So if ‘Feixue’ wanted to continue, the only option would be to sell the brand to him.