It was Yu Chengtan’s birthday party on Friday night, and he had just returned from abroad that afternoon. If they hadn't celebrated his birthday, his return would have been further delayed.
The first thing I did when I got back to the company was to send a message to Min Xi: [Come to my office. 】
Min Xi: [Mr. Yu, you’re back? 】
Yu Chengtan took off his windbreaker and replied: [Yeah. 】
I just got to the office and haven’t even turned on the computer yet.
He draped his windbreaker over the back of the chair, pressed the power button, and went to make coffee without paying attention to whether the computer was on or not.
Ju Youyou knocked on the door and came in, holding a stack of documents that needed to be signed.
"Mr. Yu, I'll cook."
She will do the job and ask the boss to sign it to her quickly.
Yu Chengtan didn't let her. "You don't have to cook. Just leave the document there and sign it later."
Ju Youyou just raised her foot and retracted it: "Okay."
After standing at the office desk for a while, she saw that her boss had no other instructions, so she made an excuse to leave.
Soon, Min Xi went upstairs to see if Yu Chengtan's coffee was ready.
"Sit down." He pointed to the chair in front of the desk.
Min Xi first said happy birthday before sitting down.
She was used to carrying a notebook with her when she came to her boss's office and spreading it out on the table.
Yu Chengtan asked: "How are you doing with Lemeng's project plan?"
Min Xi was confident: "It should be fine."
Yu Chengtan could tell from her tone that she was in a good mood. He took two candies and put one back, only giving her half a candy and adding a little more cream.
"I have asked, Lemeng Food will release a tender notice next Monday."
It turned out that she was called over to tell her the good news.
Min Xi has been looking forward to it these past few days, fearing that something unexpected might happen. An open tender means she has a chance.
Yu Chengtan told her to relax: "Whether you win the bid or not, you won't regret it as long as you have done your best."
Min Xi smiled and said, "It's an open bidding. I will admit defeat even if I lose."
In fact, getting this project can be entirely achieved through connections; it’s just a matter of a word from her. Not only the Lemeng Food project, but other projects will also come in an endless stream as long as she wants, and Min Ting will actively present the projects to her.
But before Yu Chengtan brought her back to China to join this industry, he agreed that he would only take her to experience the charm of different industries. He said frankly that he did not want their relationship to be mixed with interests. Life is not just about money, and there is no end to making money.
She understood what Yu Chengtan meant. Becoming friends with her was not about using her family background to get projects for Jiachen.
Last year, because Sheng Jianqi made things difficult for her and wanted to replace her, he had no choice but to borrow Fu Yanzhou's power to keep the project. At that moment, he must have felt very complicated, feeling that he had violated the original agreement first.
Even if it was just to prevent her hard work from going to waste, he would blame himself.
I followed him back from abroad and switched careers from finance to public relations, all because of his personal charm as a boss, which always made me feel at ease and reassured.
Yu Chengtan brought her the coffee and asked her to come over for something else, which was related to Zhuoran Public Relations.
"Have you paid attention to Wu Qianxin's recent developments?"
Min Xi gently stirred the coffee and nodded: "Ju Youyou said something a few days ago, but I can't guarantee its authenticity. Are you still paying attention while you are on vacation abroad?"
Yu Chengtan answered the question irrelevantly: "Wu Qianxin registered a second account to expose the news that Zhuoran PR sold the client's business secrets to the client's competitors at a high price. In addition, Zhuoran also took advantage of the shortcomings of some of the client's products and hired Internet trolls to carry out malicious attacks to create the illusion of a crisis. Then they conducted crisis PR for the client and earned the client's crisis PR fees."
Leaking clients' business secrets, maliciously smearing clients, and taking the opportunity to earn crisis public relations fees, any one of these is enough to put Zhuoran Public Relations into a credibility crisis.
"Today, all of Zoran's major clients received an anonymous email reminding them to be careful about their business secrets to prevent them from being leaked. It also included evidence that Zoran PR had previously leaked client business secrets."
Min Xi was shocked: "Is the evidence real?"
Yu Chengtan was uncertain: "It should be true."
If it is fake, there is no need to do so, as it can be easily discovered.
There is an earthquake inside Zhuoran now.
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Zhu Youran folded his arms, opened the window and let in the cool air in an attempt to calm himself down. Today's incident is the biggest credibility crisis that Zhuoran Public Relations has encountered since its establishment.
She has already given orders to monitor online public opinion and suppress all negative information.
Public opinion has been brought under control, but the most critical issue is how to stabilize the customer side. Once one customer terminates the contract, it will cause a chain reaction with disastrous consequences.
After his credibility completely collapsed, no one could save Zhuoran.
Wu Qianxin was blinded by profit and took the risk of selling out the business secrets of a former client. He was the only one who knew the inside story and had the so-called evidence in his hands.
Now he is turning the tables and throwing dirty water on the company, portraying himself as a victim who was threatened by her to resign because he accidentally learned about the company's inside information and was unwilling to go along with the company.
He is now abroad and he thinks that they can't do anything to him, so he starts to retaliate unscrupulously.
It is difficult for her to take legal action now.
When he left, she treated him with dignity and did not point out the mistakes he had made in the past, thinking that they could part ways amicably.
It turned out that he was narrow-minded and vindictive. He spent a year carefully planning and caught her off guard.
"Knock knock," there were several rapid knocks on the door.
Zhu Youran came back to his senses, and before he could say anything to come in, the door was pushed open from the outside, and it was his brother.
Zhu Youzhuo was holding a glass of freshly squeezed juice. His sister hadn't even had lunch yet, so he gave her some juice and said, "Drink something and then we'll think of a solution."
He took all the responsibility on himself: "It was me who agreed to your dismissal of Wu Qianxin. It was also my fault for not judging people and making friends properly. If there is any problem, it has nothing to do with you."
Zhu Youran took the juice and regretted it: "I should have handled it differently at that time."
"He is an extreme person. No matter what you do, it will be useless." Zhu Youzhuo motioned her to stop talking and drink some juice. "What company doesn't encounter problems? Don't worry. I am here, the sky will not fall."
Her brother was trying to comfort her. How could she not know how serious the situation was?
She thought about it for a whole afternoon and finally decided to ask someone for help.
"Brother," she took a sip of the juice and couldn't taste it, "I'll ask my classmates for help. This matter can be salvaged and it won't be affected too much."
Zhu Youzhuo looked at his sister and asked, "Which classmate?"
Zhu Youran bit the straw and was silent for a moment: "Fu Yanzhou."
Zhu Youzhuo warned coldly: "Impossible! Don't even think about it. Just try and find him!" It would be fine if he didn't know that Fu Yanzhou was the person his sister liked, but if he asked his sister to put aside her self-esteem and ask for the person she liked, he would be unworthy of being a brother.
"Think of another way. I'll just pretend you never said anything."
Zhu Youran couldn't finish the juice and put it aside. "Brother, others may not know, but don't you know how serious this is? If you delay it any further, you and I won't be able to explain to the board of directors."
She had made up her mind to ask Fu Yanzhou for help. In the face of the company's crisis, what did her self-esteem and face matter?
Now all customers are waiting and watching. Once one of them loses trust in them and wants to terminate the contract early, other customers will become restless.
Fu Yanzhou is the second largest shareholder of Lemeng Food. She asked him for help to win the public relations agency business of Lemeng Food.
Lemeng Food, an old and powerful company, attaches great importance to the credibility of its suppliers and will evaluate any possible risks of suppliers before cooperating.
If Lemeng Food signs the agency business to them during this crisis, it would be equivalent to endorsing Zhuoran Public Relations and proving that Zhuoran's credibility is not a problem.
As long as we win the big customer Lemeng Food, we can stabilize the hearts of other customers.
In this way, they can buy enough time to find evidence that Wu Qianxin is slandering the company.
She thought about it for so long, this is the best crisis resolution strategy.
You don't need to go through a lot of trouble to explain and assure the customer, and you can still take the initiative. When the customer wants to terminate the contract, you will be passive and there will be no room for maneuver.
Zhu Youran tried to persuade his brother: "I have been married for more than a year and I am planning to have a child soon. Those things in the past are long gone and I don't take them to heart. It's okay to ask a classmate for help. There are many classmates in our class who ask him for help. In the business world, it's always me asking you for help and you asking me for help."
Zhu Youzhuo: "You know Fu Yanzhou's wife works at Jiachen Public Relations. If he gives the project to his wife, and you ask for help but get nothing, you will be embarrassed. You haven't asked for help yet, so you think it's nothing. When you really ask for help, you will know how difficult it is."
Zhu Youran blurted out: "Min Xi focuses on the fields of automobiles and artificial intelligence."
"You pay so much attention to her?"
“I follow my peers.”
Zhu Youzhuo remained firm: "That won't work either. I'll handle this matter, you don't need to interfere!"
It was impossible for him to keep an eye on his sister 24 hours a day, as there were other difficult matters waiting for him to deal with. Before leaving, he repeatedly reminded and even warned his sister not to go look for Fu Yanzhou.
Zhu Youran promised her brother that she had always been responsible for crisis public relations, and she knew better than her brother how to do it most effectively.
In the past, when she met Fu Yanzhou, she would first ask Secretary Bai to make an appointment. Today, she needed help, so she called him directly.
Fu Yanzhou was preparing for a meeting when his cell phone vibrated.
After seeing the number on the screen, he paused for a few seconds before answering. She has been married for more than a year. Is she going to send him an invitation to his child’s full-month banquet?
Several married classmates in high school have become parents, but Min Xi never mentions children.
After answering the call, Zhu Youran said with a smile, "I am here to bother you again."
Fu Yanzhou said politely: "It's okay, go ahead."
Zhu Youran secretly exhaled and got straight to the point: "I want to ask you, my old classmate, for a favor."
I have known her for more than ten years, and this is the first time she has spoken to him in such a humble tone. Unless it is absolutely necessary, with her personality, she would not ask him for help.
But even so, his first reaction was not to ask Zhu Youran what difficulties she encountered, but Min Xi popped up in his mind, always complaining about how she once failed to stand up to him and drank alone in a bar.
Pausing his thoughts, Fu Yanzhou asked, "What happened?"
Zhu Youran: "There's a problem at the company, it's a bit complicated. If you're not free now, let me make an appointment and I'll go to your company." You can't ask someone for help over the phone without even showing up.
Fu Yanzhou looked at his watch. There were still ten minutes before the meeting, which should be enough time.
He promised Min Xi that he would always put her needs first.
Zhu Youran's company is in competition with Min Xi's company. If asking him to help would damage the interests of Jiachen Public Relations, he would not help.
He said to Zhu Youran: "Tell me more about it."
Zhu Youran did not hide anything and told him everything that happened to the company. He also told him his true thoughts and purpose: "I want to use Lemeng Food to restore the company's reputation and retain other customers."
When asking for help from others, you cannot take it for granted. You have to show sincerity and not let the other party suffer any loss.
She expressed her sincerity: "The contract is only for one year. If Lemeng Food encounters any crisis during this year, I will do public relations for Lemeng for free. I will only charge one-third of the other agency fees."
Because she wanted to use Lemeng to restore the company's reputation, she even paid for this business with Lemeng.
Zhu Youran couldn't help but hold the phone tightly, waiting for his reply.
As my brother said, you only realize how difficult it is when you really ask for it.
Fu Yanzhou originally thought that it was competition between industries and she came to him for help because she encountered a difficult problem, but it turned out that there was a crisis within their company.
Min Xi likes and is good at marketing in the fields of high-end luxury, automobiles, the Internet, and AI intelligence. All the clients she is responsible for are also in related industries. Fast-moving consumer goods companies such as Lemeng Food do not conflict with her business.
After careful consideration, he decided to help Zhu Youran.
In fact, he was helping Zhu Youran, and if the cooperation was successful, it would be a win-win situation. Zhu Youran solved the company crisis at the lowest cost, and for Le Meng, it saved a lot of public relations agency fees.
The prerequisite is that the credibility of Zhuoran Public Relations must be flawless.
Fu Yanzhou replied to Zhu Youran, saying bluntly: "I never participate in the specific operation of Lemeng Food, and I cannot interfere without principles. Let their risk control department do a background check and risk assessment. If the risk assessment passes, we will give the business to Zhuoran. If it fails, I have to say sorry to you."
When he was in college, he asked Zhou Yu to tactfully tell Zhu Youran that if he encountered any difficulties that could not be solved in the future, he would do his best.
Before graduation, the three of them had the best relationship. They could talk to each other and their ideas and concepts were sometimes surprisingly consistent. Zhou Yu was his partner in the project, and Zhu Youran was also in the team. They often stayed up all night together and had dinner together in groups of three or five from time to time. In addition, she was his classmate for three years in high school, and he admired her, so their relationship was naturally closer than that of ordinary classmates.
But people change unconsciously. After graduation, they drifted apart and had their own families and new circles of friends. Especially after entering society, they no longer considered things as simply as they did in school. Now, when he helped her, it was mixed with interests and no longer purely considered the relationship between classmates.
He can't damage his own company just by helping.
This is the bottom line and principle, he will not make an exception.
The only people who could make him help unconditionally and regardless of the risks were Min Xi and his childhood friends.
"Risk assessment is what we should do." Zhu Youran said gratefully, "Thank you."
She was not new to society and naive to expect him to help her unconditionally. The fact that he could consider signing the Lemeng Food business to her at this critical juncture was already giving her enough face and helping her a lot.
The person who leaked client secrets was Wu Qianxin. Their outstanding reputation is impeccable and they can pass the risk assessment.
Fu Yanzhou hung up the phone with Zhu Youran, and then called the CEO of Lemeng Food, asking him to make arrangements as soon as possible.
The CEO was surprised when he received the call because Fu Yanzhou never interfered in any of Lemeng’s business.
However, the conditions offered by Zhu Youran were quite sincere and could save Le Meng a lot of money. From this perspective, Fu Yanzhou could not be said to be interfering in Le Meng's business, but was just considering Le Meng's interests.
Originally planning to issue the tender notice on Monday, he informed his secretary that there was no need to open the tender.
After ending the call, Fu Yanzhou went to the meeting room. As he walked, he sent a message to Min Xi: [What time will the birthday party end? 】
Min Xi: [I haven’t been there yet. 】
Fu Yanzhou: [Ask you what time it will end. 】
Min Xi smiled and asked: [Are you coming to pick me up? 】
Passing by the secretary's office, they greeted him one after another. Fu Yanzhou nodded and typed with one hand: [I have a meeting, let Uncle Chen pick you up. 】
Min Xi responded with an eyes-rolling emoticon.
Fu Yanzhou smiled and said, "Send me the address of the birthday party." 】
Min Xi sent another eye-rolling emoticon before telling him the address.
He didn't go to Yu Chengtan's birthday party last year, and she wasn't very happy when she got home.
After the meeting, Fu Yanzhou asked Uncle Chen to go back first, and he drove to the hotel for the birthday party.
At 9:20, he arrived downstairs at the hotel.
I waited until half past eleven when Min Xi came out of the hotel.
As usual, Min Xi opened the back door and found no one in the back seat.
She thought he would give her a surprise.
Fu Yanzhou was leaning back in the driver's seat processing emails. He didn't notice Min Xi coming up until he heard the door close.
The atmosphere in the car was different. Min Xi glanced at the steering wheel. The hands on the steering wheel were slender and strong. She was very familiar with them.
Min Xi leaned forward and lay on the driver's seat: "When did you arrive? Why didn't you call me?"
Fu Yanzhou turned his head to look at her: "Let you play for a while longer."
Min Xi bent down and tried to cross from the back seat to the front passenger seat. Fu Yanzhou motioned for her, "Sit tight. I'll be your driver today."
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