Camphor Forest Villa, Building 66.
Looking at her own face in the makeup mirror, Ouyang Bingbing was scared stiff.
Her face, which had been as fresh and tender as an 18-year-old girl’s the night before, had aged by twenty or thirty years overnight, turning into the face of a woman in her forties or fifties.
How could this be?
This is impossible!
My face was fine, how could it have turned into this ghastly appearance?
Unable to believe what she was seeing, Ouyang Bingbing quickly grabbed the Youth-Keeping Cream and started applying it frantically.
Had she not applied it, it might have been better; after applying it, she imdiately felt an intense burning sensation.
Her face swelled up, swelled like a pig’s head, an old sow’s head.
Hideously ugly!
At this mont, Ouyang Bingbing’s phone rang. It was her assistant, Ding Yuxin.
"Yuxin, what’s up?"
"Bingbing, Mrs. Yu from Huani Group wants to et with you. The ti is set for this morning at ten."
"et with ? Why does she suddenly want to et with ?"
"Huani Group’s performance has declined, and they want to launch a new product. Mrs. Yu wants to talk to you personally about the advertising campaign for the new product launch."
"I understand."
After hanging up, Ouyang Bingbing felt desperate.
With her current face, how could she et Yu Keqing?
And how could she continue to be the spokesperson for Huani Group?
But if Mrs. Yu requested a eting, she couldn’t simply not go!
Huani Group.
Ouyang Bingbing walked into the president’s office.
Because her face had aged by twenty or thirty years and had also swollen.
Ouyang Bingbing wore a duckbill cap and put on a mask, covering her entire face, revealing only a pair of big eyes.
Huani Group had invited Ouyang Bingbing to be their spokesperson three years ago.
Mrs. Yu, the president, had only t Ouyang Bingbing once during the signing that year.
Afterward, it was the brand director who interfaced with Ouyang Bingbing.
Today, Mrs. Yu’s eting with Ouyang Bingbing was because of what Qin Feng had said to her that day.
Originally, Mrs. Yu was skeptical about Qin Feng’s words.
But after seeing the way Ouyang Bingbing appeared, she believed him halfway.
If there hadn’t been a problem with her face, would Ouyang Bingbing have bundled up so tightly?
Before Ouyang Bingbing entered, the secretary had reported her arrival, so Mrs. Yu knew it was her.
But to get Ouyang Bingbing to show her face, she deliberately asked as if she didn’t know, "May I ask who you are?"
"Mrs. Yu, hello! I am Ouyang Bingbing."
"Wrapped up so tightly, I can’t be sure whether you are really Miss Ouyang or not?"
"I’ve had so allergies recently, so I have to wear the mask. I ask for your understanding, Mrs. Yu."
"Allergies?"
Mrs. Yu glanced at Ouyang Bingbing’s hand.
She wore silk gloves on her hands, but the wrists were exposed.
The skin is very loose and dull, with quite a lot of lanin deposits.
It looks like the hand of a woman in her forties or fifties.
If the skin on her hand is like this, could her face be any better?
Yu Keqing was certain that sothing must have gone wrong with Ouyang Bingbing’s face.
So, she laid her cards on the table.
"Miss Ouyang, Huani Group’s new product is about to launch, and we need to start shooting the advertisent for it tomorrow. I called you here today because I heard that there’s a problem with your face. So, please remove your hat, take off your mask, and let see your face."
"Mrs. Yu, I’m sorry! I’m having an allergic reaction and I definitely won’t be able to shoot the advertisent tomorrow."
"You are the spokesperson for Huani Group, and now, when the company is about to launch a new product, you can’t shoot the advertisent? Huani Group pays you an endorsent fee of a hundred million yuan each year! We pay such a colossal sum for your endorsent, and you can’t shoot an advertisent for our company? Miss Ouyang, are you trying to breach the contract?"
"I didn’t intend to breach the contract, it’s an accident this ti. With my face in this condition, I really can’t shoot an advertisent!"
"You say your face can’t shoot an advertisent, so it can’t be fild? Without even letting take a look at your face, how would I know whether you’re pretending to be a diva or not?"
"Fine! I’ll show you!"
Proving that she wasn’t pretending to be a diva, Ouyang Bingbing removed her hat and mask.
Yu Keqing had braced herself, but upon seeing Ouyang Bingbing’s face, she was imdiately shocked.
After the shock, she was overjoyed.
The major shareholder of Huani Group, Sanrenhe Group, would take away large dividends every year.
The dividends were calculated not based on net profit, but on total revenue.
Previous performance was good, and dividends were distributed in this manner.
Although not much profit remained for Huani, at least so did, ensuring the group could operate normally.
This year, the group’s performance plumted, and funds were extrely tight.
If we continue to distribute dividends in this manner, the company’s cash flow would instantly break.
Yu Keqing had contacted the Sanrenhe side, hoping to postpone this year’s dividend.
She proposed to wait until the group had weathered this storm and recovered performance, then make up the full amount later.
To her shock, Sanrenhe not only disagreed, but also demanded imdiate dividends.
In the end, they even forcibly transferred the dividends out of Huani Group’s account.
The domineering behavior of the majority shareholder caused a three-billion-yuan shortfall in Huani’s cash flow.
If it couldn’t be filled, the break in cash flow would imdiately bring the group’s operations to a halt.
Sanrenhe had already demonstrated with their actions that they didn’t care about the life or death of Huani Group.
Once the group stopped operating, Sanrenhe would certainly let Huani go bankrupt, then sell off its assets to recover their original investnt.
Ouyang Bingbing had been the spokesperson for Huani Group for three years, and the endorsent fees paid to her totaled exactly three billion yuan.
Yu Keqing pulled out the endorsent contract she had prepared in advance from the drawer.
Pointing to the clause on the penalty for breach of contract, she said, "Miss Ouyang, according to the terms of our endorsent contract. Either party in breach must pay a penalty of ten billion yuan."
"Mrs. Yu, what do you an?"
"The terms of the contract are clear. If tomorrow, Miss Ouyang cannot shoot the advertisent for the new product, then you will have breached the contract. Given the condition of your face, it definitely won’t be better by tomorrow. So, at this ti tomorrow, you’ll need to pay Huani Group ten billion yuan as a penalty for breach of contract!"
"This was an accidental allergy, and it’ll get better in a few days. Mrs. Yu, aren’t you being a bit too inhumane?"
"I don’t mix sentint with business, I only abide by contracts. These past three years, working with Miss Ouyang has been quite pleasant. Therefore, I can offer you another choice. Terminate your contract with Huani Group voluntarily and return the three billion yuan endorsent fee that we have already paid you in full. That way, we are even. You won’t have to pay the ten billion yuan penalty!"
"They say that Mrs. Yu devours people without spitting out the bones in the business arena. I didn’t believe it before, but now I do. You used up, and now you want to drain dry? Fine! I’ll terminate my contract with Huani Group! I’ll return the three billion yuan to you!"
Ouyang Bingbing had a temper. As soon as Yu Keqing took out the termination agreent, she imdiately signed her na.
Then, she said coldly, "Mrs. Yu, I hope you won’t regret this!"
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