Chapter 405: Unveiling
Bond Street.
Since the 18th century, Bond Street has been a paradise for fashion shoppers and treasure hunters. There are many famous shops on both sides of the street, with a wide range of top luxury brands, jewelry, antiques and artworks.
Early in the morning, dozens of reporters holding cameras stood in front of a newly renovated store.
If this was just a simple luxury brand opening event, there wouldn't be such a big fuss, and these reporters wouldn't waste their time on such things.
However, this store held a different significance. Besides being the first sub-brand of Burberry, the world's leading luxury brand, the fact that Chinese people were behind this luxury store intrigued the reporters.
You know, this kind of thing has never happened before with any European luxury brand.
According to Burberry's financial report, the Burberry Group's turnover from April to September this year increased to 1.23 billion pounds, and Burberry's current growth momentum is very stable. Logically, it does not need any cooperation at all.
Because once Burberry cooperates with others, it will inevitably give up part of its profits, which is a situation that almost every luxury group does not want to see.
The reporters present were all very curious about the identity of the Chinese people who were cooperating with Burberry this time, and who could make the Burberry family sacrifice such high interests.
At 9:00 AM, the brand store, called Knight's Tears, officially opened its doors. Reporters and tourists gathered along the street, observing the newly opened store with great interest.
Soon, a black Brabus business car stopped in front of the store. Zhang Jingxin and Yang Chen got out of the car and greeted the reporters present.
Following closely behind was the car driven by Cribber. Cribber and Adam, father and son, got out of the car together and began to accept interviews from reporters with a smile.
Among the reporters present was Zhang Jingxin's pre-placed insider. One reporter immediately raised the microphone and asked, "Mr. Barber, who are you collaborating with this time?"
Kerry Barber knew what questions the reporter would ask and immediately responded with a smile: "My partners are relatively low-key and don't want to appear in front of the media. If you have any questions about the brand, you can ask me directly."
"Mr. Barber, is this brand store led by Burberry?" another reporter immediately interrupted.
"That's not the case." Cribber's expression froze, but he quickly recovered and replied to the reporter, "This brand is a joint venture. There's no one party that's in control."
After answering this question, Cribber took two steps back and pointed to Zhang Jingxin and Yang Chen standing aside. "You can ask Mr. Zhang and Mr. Yang about any specific questions regarding the brand. They will be responsible for the brand's operations."
Kerry Barber then smiled at the reporter and walked inside with Adam.
Tang Shuo, who had already been in the store, immediately stepped forward and said, "Good morning, Mr. Barber."
Then he looked at Adam standing behind Cribber and said, "Mr. Adam looks very handsome today."
Adam looked at Tang Shuo with an uncertain look, and nodded hesitantly.
After chatting with Tang Shuo at Tang Yun’s headquarters last time, Adam seemed to be possessed by a demon, thinking about the issue of succession all day long.
In fact, although he had considered this before, he also knew the difficulty of inheriting the family, so he had been trying his best to restrain himself. Now he really wanted to know whether Tang Shuo's words were true, and what methods he had to push himself into this position.
Kribabur looked around the store and said to Tang Shuo, "Should we talk in private?"
"Of course." Tang Shuo nodded, then pointed to an office inside the store and said, "Mr. Barber, please come in."
Tang Shuo and Cribber entered the office one after another. When Adam wanted to follow in, Cribber turned around and said, "Wait outside."
Adam frowned in confusion and could only stop.
Li Yihe, who was sorting documents in the office, saw Tang Shuo come in. She wanted to scold Tang Shuo out loud, but when she saw Cribber behind Tang Shuo, she swallowed her words.
When she went to bed last night, she had planned to wake up before Tang Shuo and pretend nothing had happened. But she was woken by the ringing of the phone in the middle of the night. When she opened her eyes, she found herself hanging on Tang Shuo's body.
Tang Shuo even looked at her with a playful expression while answering the phone.
Li Yihe was immediately embarrassed and sat up from the bed, ready to leave the room. However, Tang Shuo, who had hung up the phone, held her tightly and threatened her with his injuries. In the end, the two of them lay in bed together all night without knowing what was going on.
She knew that Tang Shuo and Cribber must have something important to discuss, so she immediately put down what she was holding and prepared to leave the office.
Tang Shuo waved to Li Yihe and said, "It's okay, you stay."
Cribber, who followed Tang Shuo in, frowned and said to Tang Shuo, "Mr. Tang..."
"Don't worry, Mr. Barber. She's one of us." Tang Shuo replied, then said to Li Yihe, "Pour two cups of tea."
Li Yihe glared at Tang Shuo, but did not lose face for Tang Shuo in front of outsiders. He stood up and walked to the water dispenser.
Seeing that Tang Shuo had said so, Cribbble didn't insist. After sitting down on the sofa, she said, "Mr. Tang, can you give me the videotape now?"
Tang Shuo smiled and shook his head, then took the teacup from Li Yihe.
Although Cribber was annoyed by Tang Shuo's attitude, he suppressed his anger. After taking the teacup handed to him by Li Yihe, he turned around and glared at Tang Shuo. "What do you mean, Mr. Tang?"
Tang Shuo smiled and said, "Mr. Barber, I think it's safer to keep the videotape with me than with you."
"I'll keep it myself." Cribab said dissatisfiedly.
"I'm discussing this with Mr. Barber with full sincerity." Tang Shuo took a sip of tea and said, "Mr. Barber, can you guarantee that you won't be secretly photographed in the future?"
Cribber really wanted to ask Tang Shuo what the relationship was between these two things, but he was also thinking about Tang Shuo's question in his heart.
Last time, he and John even went to France to meet in order to hide their relationship from the public. They were worried that their relationship would be discovered by the outside world, but who knew that they were still photographed in the end, and the footage was the most unfavorable scene for both of them.
"I can help Mr. Barber keep it, and I can guarantee the absolute safety of the video." Tang Shuo insisted again.
Cribber was already a little angry at this time. In his opinion, Tang Shuo was completely making fun of him.
What could be a safer way of storage than complete destruction?
Although he and Tang Shuo had not previously agreed on when the video should be returned, he believed that this was something that did not need to be stated at all.
Now he has waited until the sub-brand opens and has completely fulfilled Tang Shuo's conditions, but Tang Shuo still doesn't want to return the video.
"Mr. Barber, don't be angry. I'm doing this entirely for your benefit." Tang Shuo said with a smile, "If, of course, I'm just saying if. If another videotape about Mr. Barber were to be circulated, it would mean that the videotape in my hand would no longer be important. So I would definitely help Mr. Barber then. Mr. Barber, do you understand me?"
Cribber's face turned grim as he replied, "That's not something Mr. Tang needs to worry about. I can handle it myself."
"So Mr. Barber doesn't consider me a friend anymore?" Tang Shuo put away his smile and said to Chris Barber, "Let me guess, Mr. Barber is planning to block all news about the sub-brand after the unveiling ceremony."
Kribabur's face froze, and then he shook his head and said, "I have no such intention at all, and we have already signed the contract."
He did mean this, and his meaning was even harsher than what Tang Shuo said.
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