An unnameable grand conference center.
A tense negotiation was underway.
"Our first-round offer is... 168 yuan."
"Your offer is still quite far from our expectations for this negotiation."
"Then our second-round offer is..."
"Congratulations, this price has barely entered the negotiable range, but it still falls short of expectations..."
The entire venue was quiet. Everyone spoke softly, yet invisible blades seemed to flash through the air.
This was a war without gunfire.
And clearly, Chen Leyao, who had rushed to the capital overnight the day before yesterday, was one of its combatants.
"Our first-round offer is 286 yuan."
Compared with the other pharmaceutical companies in the same category, she could just about claim a slight advantage.
That confidence came from overwhelming technological superiority. After all, with its new blood pressure-lowering ingredient and proprietary controlled-release technology, Star Tranquility had virtually no competitors in its drug category.
"Your price is too high compared with similar drugs..."
"But ours currently offers the best efficacy in the world. Our company invested enormous sums in developing this new drug, and it has only just gone on sale..."
"Recovering research and development costs is a long-term process. Our principle is to use volume to bring prices down. This is an enormous market of over a billion people. Your company's concessions won't..."
Compared with the cold price offers dominated by one side earlier, the smell of gunpowder grew noticeably stronger once Star Sea Biotech, represented by Chen Leyao, took the stage. Both sides argued their cases.
"My third-round offer is 220 yuan. That is already forty percent below the market price."
"Forty percent. That is probably the smallest discount range I've heard in my career. We're talking about the lowest price worldwide. Discounts of seventy or eighty percent are quite common here.
"How about this? We Chinese