First Milk Tea was left completely unable to fight back by this wave of attacks. It could only fume at Forest Style Milk Tea's shameless behavior while trying to figure out some crisis management.
In the end, Xin Bosong, humiliated into anger, even issued a statement in First Milk Tea's official name, sternly criticizing Forest Style Milk Tea's internet-famous operating model of relying solely on marketing hype as utterly misguided. He believed that real industrialists should devote themselves wholeheartedly to researching products and let quality speak for itself, rather than constantly seeking attention and climbing upward by stepping on established companies.
"We should build star enterprises, not make enterprises into stars."
The implication was that upstart brands like Forest Style Milk Tea, which only wanted to become internet-famous brands, were clearly enterprises that could not honestly focus on making products.
Forest Style Milk Tea quickly responded to First Milk Tea's statement. Cheng Lang said that they had already been working overtime to stockpile Milk Tea Powder and Milk Tea Paste. Although they did not yet have the capacity to open branch stores, their online shop had already been registered. He welcomed interested netizens and diners to place orders and taste for themselves whether Forest Style Milk Tea's products truly lived up to their price.
"Whether a product is good or not isn't for the company to decide—it's for consumers to decide. Letting quality speak for itself doesn't mean praising your own wares; consumers need to evaluate them."
After saying that, Forest Style Milk Tea rode the wave of attention and posted its store link. Before this, Cheng Lang had requisitioned Xuanpu Tea House's tea paste workshop. More than a dozen master craftsmen and nearly a hundred newly recruited apprentices had painstakingly stockpiled one hundred thousand packs of Milk Tea Powder,