Actually, Shen Bing felt rather aggrieved. When he had stood onstage speaking, everyone had looked at him with admiration. But now that he had stepped down, they looked at him as though he were a performing monkey.
Ah! Outsiders only saw the glamour of standing at the top of the world. Who knew what indignities I had to endure?
Fortunately, Shen Bing only thought this to himself. Had anyone found out, every last one of them would surely have shouted, "Let those indignities hit me even harder!"
Shen Bing strolled along, rambling about everything under the sun. He simply refused to get to the point.
Just as everyone began to think Shen Bing had lost his mind today, he finally said, "My original intention in launching this product was to restore sight to every blind person in the world. Offering it at an extremely low price might be one option, but making that low price available to everyone would undermine the very foundations of my company. So I have decided to treat it as a commercial product after all and let market demand determine its final price."
Everyone in the audience barely managed to resist the urge to punch him. After all that buildup, everything he had said earlier was just fucking nonsense.
Let market demand determine the price? This was practically an essential need! Just look at housing—how high would the price get driven?
Regardless of their complicated feelings, Shen Bing said leisurely, "Taking our research, development, and manufacturing costs into account, along with market demand, we have set the base price of this product at 100,000 Chinese yuan per unit. The base price will apply in Huaxia and certain other countries, while prices in the remaining countries will be somewhat higher. The specific rates for each country will