Chapter 323 Impartial
“Fine.”
Melanie kept her laptop, and stood up. Since Lena insisted on behaving this way, there was no point for her to continue with this.
Before she left, she said coldly, “I’ll say this one last time. Even if you don’t believe the popularity of the perfumes I concocted, you should at least trust Morgan Group, right? Morgan Group is a full sponsor for this exhibition. If Damon’s company can be in charge of the exhibition, they’ll be able to add Morgan Group as one of its partners in its future promotional and marketing materials. That would make Thousand Acre Exhibitions’ value self-evident, wouldn’t it?”
“Nothing and no one can persuade me!” Lena snarled.
Lena had long heard about this from Olivia, but she was bent on rejecting Melanie. Even Morgan Group was not enough to entice her!
“In that case, I have nothing more to say.”
Melanie smiled as she grabbed her bag. She walked past Lena and out the door.
The sight of Melanie leaving defeated made Lena gleeful. She immediately pulled out her phone, and texted
Olivia.
“Olivia, I’ve taken revenge for you! Melanie really came looking for Damon for a collaboration, but I rejected her
no matter what she threw at me. She just left looking all crushed and defeated. I feel so good!”
Olivia gave her a call immediately, and the both of them talked gleefully over the phone for a while. Just then,
a secretary pushed the door to the meeting room open.
“Miss Jones, Mr. Chairman is back. He wants to see you in his office.”
Back so fast?
Lena hurriedly hung up on Olivia, and headed straight to Damon’s office. Along the way, she kept mentally
reciting her excuses to explain herself lest Melanie told on her to Damon.
“Did Melanie come by just now?” Damon asked expressionlessly the moment Lena entered his office.
Lena nodded, and started brewing a cup of tea for Damon in an expression of servile obedience. “She just left. You must be thirsty after your appointments outside. You love drinking my tea.”
“She wants to collaborate with us on an exhibition, didn’t she?” Damon asked.
Lena nodded. “Yes, but I rejected her.”
“Why?”
“You should have seen her face for yourself! She acted as if she could come completely unprepared in hopes that Thousand Acre Exhibitions was guaranteed to work with her just because you’re her second uncle.”
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Lena continued lying through her teeth.
“She came with a mere three to five page proposal that clearly looked like it was thrown together at the last minute. If we accepted a proposal like that, it would tarnish our reputation! I have to reject her for the sake of
the company, even if she’s my sister.”
“That’s thoughtful of you.”
Damon stood up with his hands behind his back. “Since you joined my company, you’ve rejected quite a few customers who sought out exhibition collaborations with us. I heard those customers used to work with your dad’s company. Did you also reject them so impartially?”
“Yes…”
Lena’s voice became smaller as guilt flashed past her heart.
Those customers she rejected were companies her family had conflict with when they worked together previously. She was using the opportunity to take revenge on them.
“Very good.”
Damon sighed. “Seems like I’m getting old, and my eyesight is getting poorer.”
Lena didn’t know what Damon meant by that, but she continued serving him tea.
“Damon, you’re not old at all. What’s more, I’m helping you out at work. Let me do things you don’t want to. I’ll do my best and share your burden.”
“I spent my entire lifetime building up Thousand Acre. If I were to hand things over to you, you might try to get a share of the pie instead of sharing my burden.”
Suddenly, a bright female voice sounded in the office. It sent shivers down Lena’s spine. She looked inside the office in disbelief.
“What.what are you doing here?”
“Feeling scared now?”
Melanie walked out, and stood right beside Damon.
Lena immediately stood up straight. “Melanie, you’re being too petty! I rejected you, and here you are, complaining to Damon. You were insincere and ill-prepared to begin with. I’m not scared of you, even with Damon around.”
“You can do nothing but lie!” Melanie spat.
She stepped forward and typed something on Damon’s computer. Turning the monitor screen around to face Lena, she said, “Is this the proposal you were talking about? You didn’t even look at it, so how do you know that it’s insincere?”
“Um…”
Lena was completely taken aback. She didn’t even think about reading through Melanie’s proposal, not to
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out of panic.
“Damon, don’t listen to her nonsense! She must have forced someone in Jones Enterprise rush this proposal out at the last minute. It may look like it has many pages, but it’s definitely not comprehensive.”
“I took the last hour reading through the entire proposal. No details were spared, and it’s impeccable.”
Damon’s voice turned dark. He ignored Lena, and turned to look at Melanie instead.
“What a daughter my brother has brought up. Be it your brains or your attitude, you bear such a striking resemblance to him back when he was running his own business. Even if Morgan Group were not sponsoring this event, I would take it up in a heartbeat!”
