The talk of being a genius was, of course, just an excuse Xia Xu had made up on the spot.
The reason he had learned why the owner of Tonghe Pharmaceuticals was stubbornly holding out was very simple.
[Name]: Jiang Hai [Life Level]: 1 [Fate Potential]: [Supporting character: "Superbrain"] [Talent Potential]: Pharmaceuticals (3 stars) [Special]: None [Obsession]: Cure his mother. [Affinity]: 0
Zero affinity...
That makes sense. To Jiang Hai, wouldn't I be the villain stealing his company and stopping him from saving his mother?
Looking at the attribute panel he had yet to close, Xia Xu gave a wry chuckle.
The owner and founder of Tonghe Pharmaceuticals was not purely a businessman.
Although Tonghe Pharmaceuticals had initially only done contract manufacturing for others, the owner who had built the pharmaceutical factory from scratch had some grounding in pharmaceuticals himself. Otherwise, he would never have entered the industry.
As for why he had kept pushing for new drug development and now refused to sell his shares even if it killed him, the attribute panel made that clear at a glance-his mother probably suffered from hypertension or something similar.
Among the elderly, this sort of illness could basically be considered commonplace. It was nothing particularly rare.
Yet there happened to be no particularly good treatment for it, and a complete cure was essentially impossible.
As for antihypertensive drugs, Xia Xu happened to have looked into them before. Blue Ocean Star had no shortage of them, but it lacked the crucial technology for Controlled-Release Tablets.
Being unable to release a drug's active ingredients steadily over twenty-four hours might not have much impact on other illnesses, but for conditions such as hypertension, it was almost fatal.
A shorter duration of action meant taking repeated doses, along with the risks of forgetting