Chapter 77


    I’ll find the best fewpanies that we can work with. “Hello, Mr. Jacobs. May I ask… Oh, but I believe


    you still remember the deal that we discussed yesterday, right?” The moment Pauline picked up the


    call, she drew everyone’s attention, including Selena, who looked at her as well.


    “Sure, we’ll work together some other time.” Right after Pauline had just hung up the call, she heard her


    phone ringing again, so she had to pick up her phone again. “Hello, Miss Nn. Regarding our deal


    yesterday—Oh… Okay, I understand.” After putting her phone away, Pauline appeared to be a little


    disheartened.


    “What’s wrong, Pauline?”


    “Well, we can talk about that after the meeting,” Pauline said with a gloomy look on her face.


    As soon as everyone was seated, Selena started off the meeting byplimenting her team,


    whereupon Linda proceeded to distribute the dossiers on each of thepanies that they would soon


    be coborating with.


    “Let’s discuss and select thepanies that we think are suitable for us to work with. Then, we’ll vote


    for the bestter on.”


    When Selena finished her words, Pauline said, “I think there is no need for that, President Yard.” The


    next moment, all eyes in the meeting room fell upon her.


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    “When you told me to give up the n about working with Fowler Corporation, I asked Linda for all the


    information on our potential partneringpanies and went through every single one of them. In fact, I


    even paid some of them a visit to thrash out the details further. The discussions went well, and we even


    came to the point where they drafted a coboration proposal for us.” Pauline sounded dispirited, and


    Selena had never seen her like that before.


    “I thought I could give you aplete proposal by today, but they just called me up this morning and


    told me to forget about the deals we discussed yesterday.” Pauline apologized to Selena, looking guilty.


    “I’m sorry, President Yard.”


    Witnessing Pauline’s depressed look, Selena felt sympathetic toward her. Poor Pauline! She could


    have taken two days off to get recharged, but she spent them all on her work instead. It was all


    because of my decision. “It’s okay, Pauline. I won’t me you, but why is this so sudden? What did


    they say over the phone?” Selena brought up her main concern, as she had absolute faith in Pauline’s


    capability. If she says it’s taken care of, it’s taken care of.


    “It beats me as well. The excuses they gave me simply didn’t add up. Some of them told me they’re


    going to put the n on hold for the year, while the others said they’ve already found some other better


    companies to work with, which sounds absurd to me. How could they possibly have found another


    company this morning when they just sealed the deal with me yesterday?”


    While Pauline was confused about the sudden change of events, Selena immediately knew something


    was wrong. “It’s okay. We’ll look for some otherpanies if these few won’t work with us.” Selena


    pulled herself together and shook Pauline’s hand.


    In response, Pauline forced a brittle smile. After all, these were the bestpanies that she had


    selected from the industry. Therefore, they would now have to lower their expectations and make do


    with their alternatives since it was no longer possible to work with these top-notch business yers.


    For that, Pauline mentally braced herself, knowing that the path ahead to enter Astoria’s market had


    be more difficult. “Alright, I’ll find some otherpanies and talk to them.”


    After that, they moved on to discuss their brand positioning strategy before ending the meeting. Then,


    Selena sat in her office and took a few sips of her coffee. A few momentster, she suddenly thought of


    something, so she quickly went through her files to read more about thosepanies that turned them


    down.


    “I see what’s going on now!” Selena soon realized that thosepanies had business rtions with


    either Empire Group or Fowler Corporation in one form or another. It’s not so hard to figure out who’s


    behind this ‘strike’, is it? At that moment, Selena could already see that smirk on Pierre’s face in her


    mind’s eye as he said, “Beg me!”