Shenzhen.
Inside a building in the technology industrial park.
A man wearing gold-rimmed glasses viciously slammed the report in his hand onto the desk and roared at his secretary.
"An order worth over a hundred million, and we only made a little over a million in penalties! Something like this happened, and I didn't even know until now. I'm ordering you to investigate immediately—who stole our order? Within three minutes, I want the competitor's company profile on my desk!"
This was the headquarters of NewTech Intelligent Manufacturing, and the middle-aged man throwing a fit was its chairman and CEO, Guan Chaowu.
As a high-tech company primarily engaged in logistics drones and intelligent software development, they had secured a drone order worth 110 million RMB from Shunfeng Group two months earlier.
The value of that order was nearly higher than their total revenue for all of last year.
When he got the order, Guan Chaowu had been so excited that he couldn't sleep for days. He practically woke up laughing in the middle of every night. Yet now, the department responsible for liaising with Shunfeng Group had brought news that Shunfeng Group had chosen to pay the penalty and cancel the 110-million-RMB order.
The feeling of falling from the clouds nearly made him cough up blood.
On the surface, they had only lost an order worth 110 million RMB and had even received a sizable penalty payment. In reality, however, their losses went far beyond that.
What they had lost was the opportunity to promote drone delivery with Shunfeng Group—and a massive market worth more than ten billion!
The scolded secretary barely dared to breathe as he spoke tremblingly.
"Boss..."
Guan Chaowu roared furiously.
"Didn't you hear what I said?"
"No, I mean... there's no need to investigate at all," the