Zhongshu Group Headquarters, 17th Floor.
"Mr. Xie, this way, please."
"Thank you."
Led by a female assistant, Xie Shuyu entered the inner conference room.
After pouring her a cup of hot water, the assistant bowed and withdrew, gently closing the door behind her.
Instead of sitting down, Xie Shuyu walked over to the enormous floor-to-ceiling window.
As she looked down at the bustling yet unfamiliar city below, her eyes were full of gloom.
Just moments ago, she had met with ShuFresh's operations director.
The outcome had been far from ideal.
The other party neither admitted there had been any issue with the deliveries nor mentioned compensation for terminating the contract.
He merely kept deflecting, washing his hands of every bit of responsibility.
Xie Shuyu had met and dealt with plenty of such seasoned workplace operators.
Under normal business circumstances, she could have activated the legal department, forcibly terminated the contract, and settled the matter with a not-too-large penalty payment.
But behind ShuFresh stood Zhongshu Group.
This company, with deep state-owned backing, was the leading logistics and catering enterprise across the entire Southwest region—a true local powerhouse.
For all of Glimmer Coffee's current stores in the Southwest, aside from cold-chain transportation, the suppliers behind every other core material in use bore Zhongshu Group's shadow to some extent.
Glimmer Coffee had only just entered the Southwest market.
She also had no desire to get into a legal dispute with them and drag down the expansion plans to come.
After reaching an impasse.
The operations director had someone bring her here to wait for ShuFresh's person in charge, General Manager Chen Hao.
According to the information Meng Ran had provided, this second-generation heir was not an easy person to deal with.
He was quite arrogant and eager to produce results so he could