A month later, Gu Pharmaceuticals officially launched ‘Rebirth’, an ointment that can treat severe scars, and it was sold out by people waiting for it. A single ointment’s width is 6,5 cm[1] and Gu’s pricing was 30,000 RMB per ointment, and three ointments is needed for a palm-sized scar. After watching the clinical trial results video shown by Gu’s, no one doubted the effect of ‘Rebirth’.
Some ordinary families, not to mention the unfortunate ones who are disfigured extensively, are willing to pay a high price for ‘Rebirth’, so they can choose to treat their faces first, get out of their houses, resume their normal lives, find a job that suits them, and fight hard to cure the remaining scars on their bodies. It’s not worth mentioning the despair, the fear, it’s only important to let their bodies return to normal.
In just three days, Gu’s stock rose sharply, and major hospitals have proposed to Gu’s for the next cooperation. In front of the interest, no one could resist the temptation.
In everyone’s view, the rise of Gu’s was the most unfriendly to Huanyuan, and almost no one paid attention to Huanyuan anymore. Not only Huanyuan, but also other pharmaceutical companies’ future orders can only be described as dismal.
Many people are speculating whether Qin’s will withdraw its investment because of this matter, if Qin has decided to withdraw, it will have a great impact on the Huanyuan medicine, it is possible that this battle directly make Huanyuan medicine never rise. In the past half a month, President Qin was very quiet, and has no intention to withdraw its capital, which is puzzling.
At this time, President Qin was in the Huanyuan Medical Company, and there was a middle-aged woman standing beside him. From the side, the middle-aged woman’s temperament was undoubtedly very good, but if you looked at her front, you would find a very hideous scar on the side of her face, and the beauty of her face was ruined because of this scar. She’s President Qin’s wife, when a fire broke out in the house and President Qin was drunk, Madam Qin did not escape alone, but with her small body, she carried the sleeping President Qin out, she wrapped the quilt around President Qin’s body, because she had to walk, there was no way to cover herself with anything, so she was burned by the fire, and there were some big and small scars on her arms and legs.
“Does President Qin trust our Huanyuan that much?” Ah Xin asked, “Gu has already launched ‘Rebirth’, with President Qin’s status, there should be no problem in getting a large amount of the ointment.”
President Qin shook his head, “President Yuan is joking, I know exactly who researched and developed ‘Rebirth’, and I am more willing to trust Huanyuan than a thief. I invested in Huanyuan because of the ‘Rebirth’ project, and to deny Huanyuan is to deny myself, isn’t it?”
He looked fondly at the middle-aged woman standing beside him and held her hand tightly, “I wouldn’t dare to let my wife take a chance with something produced by a thief.”
“Mister and Madam Qin are so affectionate,” Lin Siya’s envious gaze fell on their clasped hands, anyone can see the deep affection between them, “Don’t worry President Qin, Madam Qin will definitely recover.”
“President Yuan, President Yuan, we finally get the full results.”
The assistant pushed open the office door, walked steadily and quickly to Ah Xin’s side, and put a document in front of Ah Xin, “President Yuan, your prediction was right, the previous rebirth was indeed imperfect, the first two months worked very well, after three months, the doctor thought there was no problem,” She said. “But the next day, a researcher found that the skin in the scarred area of the white mouse has developed special symptoms, and there is no research yet on how to solve the problem.”
Hearing the assistant’s words, President Qin looked at Madam Qin, who had been wearing a gentle smile, and was glad that she didn’t use the product. More love and tenderness is reflected in President Qin’s eyes. There were many people around them, everyone were persuading them to buy Gu’s ‘rebirth’ to use, and it was President Qin who insisted on believing in his own vision, and Mradam Qin who insisted on believing in her husband’s choice, and also escaped, not knowing yet what the most serious consequences of ‘rebirth’ would be.
Ah Xin looked at the lab report and said. “Make the consequences of the use of ‘Rebirth’ public.”
“Understood, President Yuan.”
“Have they worked out the information I gave them last time, Doctor?”
“It’s almost out.”
“After the results come out, use the product on the white rats that have used ‘Rebirth’.”
As the words fell out, several people in the office looked at Ah Xin. President Qin and Lin Siya both looked at each other. The young woman in front of him sat upright and calmly made a series of decisions, and his back went cold. President Qin was a smart man. Now he was even more convinced that only Huanyuan Pharmacy could help his wife to recover her looks while didn’t asking much about them. After all, business is a battlefield. One decision may well be the difference between success and failure.
After only Lin Siya is left in the office, she took a chair and sitting next to Ah Xin, staring at her with her chin up. “Ah Xin.”
“What?” Ah Xin didn’t look up, staring unblinkingly at the computer.
Lin Siya took a deep breath and plucked up the courage to say, “’Rebirth’ was stolen, did you do it on purpose?”
“No,” Ah Xin said simply, “They were the ones who wanted to steal it, and I’m just going to make it up as I go along. By all means, they should thank me for helping them wipe their failed product’s asses with the new ‘reborn’.”
Lin Siya’s head went black, and that wasn’t even intentional.
“Wouldn’t it be a problem if so many people bought ‘Rebirth’?” Lin Siya wasn’t really a cruel person. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been framed by a child.
Ah Xin smiled, “I’ve had people send out a statement.”
“They probably won’t believe it.”
“That’s their choice.”
Lin Siya was at lost of words. This Ah Xin is so cold and indifferent. Lin Siya was startled. She always thought that Ah Xin was a gentle and tolerant person, but she didn’t want her to be indifferent, which was really like having a knife in her hand.
“What are you thinking about?” Ah Xin looked away from the computer and put her hand on Lin Siya’s shoulder, “Are you afraid?”
Lin Siya looked away. She squeezed her hands together and finally nodded, “A little.” She was afraid that one day Ah Xin would be so cold and unkind to her, and the warmth in those eyes would no longer belong to her.
“What are you afraid of?”
Lin Siya’s heart became blank. She didn’t dare to look up and answered; “I was afraid that one day Ah Xin would look at me like she’s looking at a stranger and would never be nice to me or smile at me again.”
It was because this person was too nice to her. She was too good that the thought of losing her heart would tear her apart. She didn’t care what kind of person Ah Xin was. She was just afraid that Ah Xin will disappear from her life one day.
“You’re thinking too much.” Ah Xin smiled slightly. She hugged Lin Siya and patted her back lightly, her voice ringing in her ears, “I will never be indifferent to you, Siya.”
Lin Siya was embraced by this unexpected hug. She was stunned by the words that she didn’t expect. Ah Xin had taken the initiative to hug her and told her that she would never be indifferent to her.
She even lifted her hand to wrap it around the woman she had been trying to get closer to, smelling her fragrance. Her heart was pounding so hard that she felt like she was going to suffocate.
“Why? Why?” Her voice trembled as she asked. ‘Why would you never be indifferent to me?’
Ah Xin was startled by the question, ‘Why?’ She didn’t know that she felt that way, and she couldn’t think of any reason as to why she should do it, she just felt that it was the right thing to do.
“I don’t know, just want to be nice to you.”
Lin Siya didn’t get the desired answer, but this answer still made her little heart about to pop out, only good for her, only good for her alone? Lin Siya pursed her lips and smiled, with tears in her eyes, and that was enough.
“Ah Xin, you’re busy, I’m going to call a press conference and tell the consequences of the ‘rebirth’ widely, as to whether they believe it or not, that’s none of our business.” Her eyes were bright, “I believe that Ah Xin has a way out.”
She understood that this was an opportunity for Huanyuan Medicine to become truly world famous and defeat Gu completely. Ah Xin said it would only be good for her, and Ah Xin would only deal with Gu because of her. She is sure that she is in ah Xin’s heart, but it is as if Ah Xin was born without a certain something and doesn’t understand why she was only good for her because she liked her.
As she thought about it, Lin Siya pursed her lips and with a smile on her face, she left the office. The people who passed by were very strange, except for a few core staff of Huan Yuan Medicine, all staffs were in fear, afraid that if they weren’t careful, Huanyuan Medicine would collapse. Why is CEO Lin is still smiling, could it be… Huanyuan had a hidden ace card? It seemed like they didn’t have to worry so much.
Lin Siya didn’t know that she had unintentionally stabilized the hearts and minds of Huanyuan Pharmacy staff by smiling and passing through various departments of the company.
Lin Siya, the CEO of Huanyuan Medicine, held a press conference, stating that “Rebirth” is imperfect, and that it is very likely to bring serious side effects to the human body after use, and warned the consumers who bought it that it is best to suspend its use. At the same time, the company issued a condemnation to Gu’s Pharmaceuticals, hoping that they can treat ‘Rebirth’ with caution, one month of clinical trials, it isn’t enough to prove that ‘Rebirth’ has no side effects. Medicine can’t harm the health of consumers for the sake of profit, with such an irresponsible attitude, to get black money.
Anyway, at the press conference, Lin Siya denounced Gu’s, tried to tell everyone that ‘Rebirth’ has side effects, invited Huanyuan’s medical research doctor to appear, and Huanyuan put out the proof of the mouse test.
But no one believed it.
Among them, the most intense reaction wasn’t from Gu, but from the buyers, who looked at the scars that were recovering and flattening day by day, and did not want to believe that Huanyuan said there were side effects. As for the video of the guinea pig’s test, they didn’t believe it even more.
Although mice are the closest to humans, they… believed the human testimonies that Gu put out, which were different from mice. Before Gu’s counterattacked, the buyers hurled abuse at Huanyuan on the Internet, saying that they will no longer use any drugs produced by Huanyuan in the future.
For a time, Huanyuan’s pharmaceutical products encountered a global boycott.
The Gu’s had some concerns, but after they saw how fiercely consumers resisted, even though more than two months had passed, and no one reacted to the ‘rebirth’ at all. They put their minds at ease, and also held a press conference to elaborate that ‘rebirth’ was the result of their years of research, and that the CEO of Huanyuan was simply trying to smear them in an attempt to crush Gu’s, and that this kind of vicious competition was very undesirable.
Huanyuan Medicine’s previous statements have caused serious damage to Gu’s reputation, and they have sent a letter to Huanyuan Medicine to pursue their legal responsibility.
Gu’s delayed counterattack has been greeted with cheers from all purchasers, expressing support for their crusade against Huanyuan, and even willing to donate to Gu’s lawsuit, one by one, hating to bring Huanyuan down. Not only in China, but also in various parts of the world, all the buyers of ‘Rebirth’ supported Gu’s lawsuit against Huanyuan Medicine.
“President Yuan, your Huanyuan is now world-famous.” President Qin joked, only the insider of Huanyuan seemed calm, but in fact, many people outside were already speculating when Huanyuan Medicine would declare bankruptcy.
Lin Siya said happily, “The finished product of ‘reborn’ has been produced and has been tested for three months. For safety, volunteers will be recruited during the period to test the scars on the local skin and the whole process is observed on camera.”
“Once we’re assured that there are no problems, Madam Qin will be able to use ‘reborn’.” Lin Siya smiled, “During the trial, if President Qin is interested, he can also come and observe the whole process.” She said this because she understood how much President Qin cared about his wife and was unwilling to make any mistakes.
Even if he believed in Huan Yuan Medicine, he was still more than willing to see the miracle of ‘reborn’ with his own eyes.
“You are recruiting volunteers?”
“Well, if we only use the guinea pig test, we fear that those purchasers will be afraid to buy because of the trauma from ‘rebirth’, we plan to recruit some volunteers who don’t have the monetary ability, or test scarred local skin, and give them some monetary compensation, according to their worth, even if something goes wrong, it won’t affect them much, and it’s a good deal to get some money from being tested.”
President Qin nodded, he rolled up his sleeve, there was a scar on his arm, “Then I’ll participate in one too.” This thing, he needed to experience it by himself, before he dared to give it to his most important person. Otherwise how can he be at ease?
“It’s a scar from the fire, just the length of my finger.” President Qin was lost in his memories, “Let me do it this time.”
Another month passed, and the side effects of the ‘rebirth’ finally happened.
The users, whose skin was smooth and back to normal again, woke up one morning, and when they looked in the mirror, they found that the place where there used to be a scar was swollen, along with soreness and pain, so they didn’t dare to delay and went to the hospital for treatment.
This kind of thing happens all over the world. For a while, they didn’t think it was ‘rebirth’ problem, until the hospital gave the result that it wasn’t salvageable, and they finally remembered ‘rebirth’. Excluding all the possible circumstances, they were sure that such a situation was a side effect of the ‘rebirth’.
For a time, Gu’s was in crisis. Consumers from around the world joined together in a crusade to hold Gu accountable, and, most importantly, to have Gu immediately address the consequences of ‘Rebirth’ for them.
The domestic users are even more numerous, and after almost certain that there is something wrong with ‘Rebirth’, Gu’s pharmaceuticals are ordered to inspect, focusing on ‘Rebirth’ and the environment in which Gu’s pharmaceuticals are producing its medicine.
In short, Gu’s that was attractive yesterday, is finished today.
The stock almost collapsed in just three days, and many shareholders withdrew.
The Gu family, which had been flourishing for decades, collapsed. Dr. Yu who was censored admitted that the ‘rebirth’ was not his research result, and said that he planned to do a three-month clinical trial, and that it was Gu Yan who wanted him to give the result in half a month.
Consumers then chose to scold Gu Yan from Gu, calling him black-hearted. The victims, when they look at Gu Yan’s picture, spit on it, cut it with a knife, or rip it with their bare hands if they don’t have a knife.
No matter where he went, Gu Yan was followed by a group of reporters, and Gu Rui’s elementary school also had a group of reporters standing by, making it impossible for him to go to school.
The old man of the Gu family also wanted to save Gu’s, but he never expected that the place where Gu’s was produced would be inspected and many drugs were found to be manufactured that were substandard, and even illegal drugs were found, wiping out Gu’s last hope.
Gu family, finally, went bankrupt.
Even if bankruptcy, closure, and fines were imposed, the Gu family wouldn’t be destitute. But, victims from all over the world have already joined together to sue them, and they are about to face a huge amount of compensation lawsuit from consumers.
By the time the lawsuit is lost and the money paid out, the Gu family will have incurred huge debts and will have to sell their entire collection, and they will have breathed a sigh of relief when Gu Yan is arrested. He was arrested on charges of theft. The master Gu was unable to bail out Gu Yan, and even if he could, he wouldn’t have done so, as he was the one who brought about the demise of the Gu family, and Gu Yan was sentenced.
Gu was bought by Lin Siya personally at a low price, and the Lin family was in crisis because they had invested a lot of money in it and couldn’t get their cash flow back.
Facing all of this, Jian Jia didn’t respond, she simply packed up her things, abandoned her luxury villa, expensive dresses, bags, and jewellery, and moved to a small, ordinary house. This small house was also given to Gu Rui by Master Gu, who was quite fond of this clever grandson. His plan was to train Gu Rui and make a comeback.
The consumers won their lawsuit, but the swollen areas of their skin hadn’t been resolved yet.
At that time, Huanyuan Medical announced a solution to the side effects of ‘Rebirth’ and offered to treat 1,000 victims for free. Many people watched the guinea pig trial and wanted to try it out, and a thousand victims were quickly added as volunteers.
Huanyuan Pharmacy also announced that they were willing to broadcast the treatment live around the world, a confident declaration that gave the victims even more confidence. The duration of the treatment was about ten days, during which time humans around the world stared at the live broadcast to see the swollen skin of the victims go down and finally return to normal and smooth.
In another month, to ensure that there were no side effects, victims around the world asked when this drug from Huanyuan Medicine would be available. They have long forgotten how they once scolded Huanyuan Pharmacy, saying that they would never use the medicine produced by Huanyuan.
During the period when this anti-swelling drug was promoted to the whole world, Huanyuan Pharmacy also announced the existence of ‘Reborn’, and also indicated that the clinical trials of ‘Reborn’ were broadcasted live for up to a year, which means that human beings all over the world, as long as they have the conditions, are able to observe the use of Reborn’ by volunteers every day.
This will undoubtedly make those victims less resistant to the existence of ‘reborn’. On the contrary, they will pay more attention to the ointment that can also remove scars, and once they are sure that there is no problem, they will never hesitate to buy it compared to the original ‘rebirth’.
A year later, ‘Reborn’ went on sale around the world, and no one boycotted it, and the number of products on sale that day was sold out.
At this time, Lin Siya was approached by the Lin family, the Lin family did not want to go bankrupt, from the upper class family into bankruptcy, intended to break through from Lin Siya here, after all, her surname is Lin, in view of blood relations, Lin Siya should give them face.
At that time, Lin Siya was in the office, but recently she has been busy, so Ah Xin had some free time, and today Ah Xin brought her the soup she made herself. When the Lin family came, she was eating soup.
Her parents died when she was young. If her parents were still alive, she wouldn’t have been expelled from the Lin family so easily in the first place.
“Eat the soup first, it won’t taste good if it’s cold.” Ah Xin sat on the side playing with her phone, not looking at the Lin family, only looking up and advising Lin Siya.
Lin Siya smiled brightly at Ah Xin, her voice was a little sweet, “Okay, I’ll drink the soup first, how can I let the soup Ah Xin made for me to be wasted.”
The old man of the Lin family sat on the sofa with a livid face, but because he had a request to make, he and the Lin family could only wait aside, not daring to say any accusation.
The soup, Lin Siya ate it for half an hour, and when Master Lin was about to speak, she stood up, stretched her legs, walked to the window, and only looked at Ah Xin and said, “After eating, I like to stand for ten minutes to digest the food, so I wouldn’t gain weight.”
The Lin family looked dark and sullen, but didn’t dare to let out a single fart, Lin Siya said. When she turned around and looked at the Lin family, there was neither affection nor hatred in her eyes, but it was as if she was looking at a group of strangers.
“What did Director Lin come to see me for today?”
Master Lin can finally speak, didn’t hold back to show off the momentum of him being the elders, grabbed the walking stick resolution, “You didn’t even call me Grandpa, the more you grow up the more your morals went down, were all the manners you were taught all for naught?”
“Director Lin, you want to talk about this?” asked Lin Siya. “I still have the letter to severance the kinship, so I’m not a member of the Lin family.”
Master Lin was a little speechless for a moment, he looked at the bright and confident girl in front of him, and then looked at Ah Xin, who was sitting and playing a mobile game with her voice, and understood that he could no longer speak to Lin Siya. In the end, the Lin family compromised and put on begging attitude.
Lin Siya had a big appetite and directly wanted a controlling stake in the Lin family. Although the Lin family was angry, they didn’t want Lin family ti face bankruptcy, and finally had to compromise and hand over the shares to Lin Siya.
They thought that with the prosperity of Huanyuan Medical today, if they handed over Lin’s to Lin Siya, Lin’s would definitely get better and better, and they would have a chance to take back the shares in the future.
They did not expect that Lin Siya would sell her shares of Lin’s at a low price within two months.
Lin family, after all, was no longer her family.
“Miss, are you here to buy flowers?”
When the florist saw Lin Siya, a beautiful woman, walk in, she smiled and asked, seeing Lin Siya’s nod, she asked again, “Miss, would you like to give this to your relative or boyfriend?”
“Girlfriend.” Lin Siya smiled and gushed.
The sales clerk girl was clearly stunned, and finally decided that Lin Siya was serious, but said politely, “Miss’ girlfriend must be very pretty, right?”
“Well, she’s pretty.” Lin Siya thought of Ah Xin, the corners of her mouth went up sweetly, that happy smile, made the clerk forget that Lin Siya was buying flowers for her girlfriend, “Get me the most beautiful red roses, representing the most passionate love, I want to confess my love to her with red roses.”
The shopkeeper dizzily brought Lin Siya a big bunch of red roses, and finally watched Lin Siya’s departing back, all still a bit unresponsive, muttering, “She actually has a girlfriend.”
Lin Siya was just about to get into the car when the phone rang, picking up the phone, the voice over there called, “YaYa, it’s me.”
“Mu Shen, I’ve been very clear with you.” Lin Siya looked unhappy.
“YaYa, I’m leaving, can I see you one last time?”
Lin Siya was impatient, “Sorry, no time.” Who knows what will happen if she went to meet him, so she won’t go. She was going to confess her love to Ah Xin and officially become her girlfriend.
When the phone was hung up, Mu Shen’s face was extremely gloomy, “Lin Siya, if you’re so ruthless, then don’t blame me.”
Lin Siya hung up the phone, opened the door to get into the car, when a white van came from behind, she ignored it. She didn’t know that three tall men come down from the van, who rushed in front of her while she wasn’t paying attention, and didn’t even have time to react.
Next to her car was a bouquet of scattered roses, the blooming petals of seemed to reflect the owner’s sweet smile.
The florist who happened to glance outside saw the scene, she covered her mouth, it was too late to scream, she could only watch the van drive away. In the end, she reacted, panicked and took out her cell phone to call the police, “Hello, I saw someone being kidnapped, I’m sure she was involuntarily, those three men looked very fierce, and they didn’t look like good people, right, it was a very pretty lady, the address is…”
Ah Xin, who was working on the paperwork, received a call from the police station, and when she heard the content, the pen she was holding is cracked into two pieces with a snap.