Preparing for Both Possibilities

Anna stood by the windowsill, watching her father talk with Lin Qi and watching her father fall into silence.

She rarely saw such a deeply contemplative expression on Mr. Patu's face. Born into a family of this level, she knew that problems that would become "problems" for many people would never arise around her, much less around Mr. Patu.

Business competition?

The great conglomerates had never feared competition. They could easily mobilize their upstream and downstream partners, even entire industries, against some competitors.

Cutting off raw material supplies, making it difficult to collect payments, canceling orders, demanding repayment from banks...

For a dominant conglomerate like this to destroy a company that had yet to gain momentum, or even an entire group, was far too easy.

With a few phone calls, a chat and a game of golf with bank presidents, governors, and senators, their opponent would be finished.

That was why, in Anna's memory, Mr. Patu had always been invincible, the strongest person of all.

No one had ever been able to put him in a difficult position—not Mr. Wo Delike, not Mr. Jieluno.

No one had ever been able to make him think for so long. No one.

But now, he was frowning as he thought, seemingly faced with a troublesome matter. This made her somewhat curious. What had he encountered that required so much time to consider, yet still left him unable to reach a definite answer?

Was it really that difficult? Five, six, seven, eight minutes later, Mr. Patu relaxed his brow and shook his head slightly. "In principle, I approve of this idea, but I still need time to think about it more deeply."

Those words meant he had no way to give Lin Qi an answer today. That had originally been part of the arrangement