Boss Fan had only been doing business in Shanghai for a short time, so he had never seen Boss Bao and Wang Yue go into business together. It was only later, after making some inquiries, that he learned Wang Yue and A Bao were no longer partners.
So he figured Boss Bao didn't have much of a connection with Wang Mingzhu, and neither did he have much of one with Wang Yue. There was no reason he couldn't replace her with someone else.
But to Boss Fan's surprise, as soon as A Bao heard what he had in mind, he flew into a rage and immediately gave up the distribution rights to the Sanyang brand—in other words, he ended his partnership with Boss Fan.
A Bao had reacted so strongly for reasons of his own.
First, even if he and Wang Yue weren't brothers, they were friends, so he had to look out for his friend's wife and her job.
Second, he thought Boss Fan was an absolute fool. He was afraid that doing business with someone so stupid would get him dragged down with him.
After all, even without his close relationship with Wang Yue, Wang Yue had plundered so many industries in the Soviet Union that he was practically a business empire in his own right.
With business on that scale, even if Wang Yue wasn't personally involved in foreign trade, he still wasn't someone you could afford to offend lightly.
Mei Ping, of course, knew about the stupid thing Boss Fan had done. So after resigning, she took the initiative to approach him and discuss a partnership.
She figured Boss Fan had no other partners left, and without her, he had no other options.
Boss Fan, however, still didn't realize how precarious his position was. Now that