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[Our Glamorous Time]
[Episode 40]
This is Peter Smith, DP's president of Greater China.
This is President Chen of Simeiqi.
How are you?
This is?
Yayi. She's my...
I'm President Chen's assistant. Hi.
Have a seat.
You are harder to have a face time with than Jade Emperor, Peter.
Can you translate for me please?
I'm no Jade Emperor.
And she is no Goddess Queen.
You speak Chinese?
One of the four languages I speak.
President Chen,
time is precious.
We had a verbal agreement with your father.
I could offer 2% more,
but that is it.
If you accept it,
we will be partners. If you don't,
then you'll have to explain it to your father.
Peter, I think...
Drinking up before your host does is a show of respect in your culture.
I'll show mine.
What is all this, Peter?
- I think... - I just hate wasting time.
I have nothing else to say.
And you've met me. I'll wait for your decision.
Yayi?
You are beautiful. Can I take a picture?
Eh, wait...
You...
I never said you could do it!
This foreigner was rude!
Find out what brand Yayi was wearing.
I'll send you the photo.
Very well.
Try this braised pork.
I cooked for a very long time.
Right.
I heard you met Peter?
What do you think of the DP investment?
Does it matter since you and Peter already have an agreement?
Chen Zheng,
we have had our arguments.
But I never said I would definitely sell the company.
You are the executive director.
You run the show.
Who else would I ask?
I need to know what you think.
Of course,
I hope you'll learn how to run a company from DP.
It'll be a layer of
supervision for you.
But it'll also be a push.
You see why I'm doing this?
Dad, Peter talked like he had been rehearsed.
Like he never went off script.
The man is a nutjob!
We didn't even get to lunch.
Just a quick word. One glass of wine. That was it!
You think I don't know what you think?
You're afraid Peter might undermine your authority.
Don't forget. There are other shareholders.
Get them prepared.
Then you'll be able to stand your ground.
Dad, those old folks...
Watch your mouth. What old folks?
I mean you could just say the word and those uncles of mine will know what to do.
Actually, it's not unlike this stew.
You want to make sure you give it just the right amount of heat.
For the meat. For the vegetables. For the broth.
So that you won't end up in the pot.
Here, Dad.
I think I'm handling
a big pot of stew.
Can you make it natural?
Gu Yanzhi, what is your point of this?
You dragged me to Yellow Crane Tower, and you said you wanted for me to have some fun.
I see you just want me as your model.
Nonsense.
I know.
You got into a fight on their platform thinking you were doing the right thing
but only to have your posts deleted.
You must be feeling frustrated.
So you know why
I took you here?
Did you notice the couplets on the side of the crane mural in the lobby?
It says: "There comes the pleasant breeze from the west,"
"blowing away the clouds hanging over the horizon;"
"There goes the River to the east, washing off the perpetual depression."
All visitors can come and
forget about their problems.
Gu Yanzhi,
since when do you read?
You even made some sense.
Oh, I read.
I've just been faking it.
Alright. Cheer up.
If you don't like having your posts deleted,
then build your own platform.
That way you could say whatever you like
and communicate with your followers however you like.
That's a good idea.
I'll build an app
where people can be bitter about things.
People posting on it will be
sharp-tongued but mean no harm.
Fighting will bring us together and we will build a safe place filled with positivity.
Let the river wash away
the muddy sediments of bad media.
President Gu, invest in me.
This is the blue ocean.
Who knew you would come up with a business idea
on top of Yellow Crane?
So what shall I call my app?
Li Qian loves my brother
so she called her brand Qingcheng.
What is my app called?
How aboout Jinqing Fahui?
That's a silly name for someone who reads.
Forget it.
I'll think of something.
You figure out how to make it profitable.
What should we call it?
It has to be deep, with layers.
DP's president of Greater China is a rule breaker.
He keeps it low profile
and shies away from media and even from the public
Anything else about him is just useless information.
I worry this may be peace before the storm.
Keep a close eye on him.
It's been ages since we got together.
Let's have dinner together. Call Ma Feng.
Sure.
Hi! Welcome to Derier. This way please.
Can you show me your rings?
Sure. These are our new arrivals...
Every one of our diamond is unique, carrying a unique serial number.
Or you may be interested in our Discovery line.
Globally renowned designers created this line.
They convey the notion of pure love. Good symbolism, too.
You can have a close look.
I recommend this ring, Mr. Li. What size is your wife's finger?
I'll package the right size for you.
One size bigger than this.
Of course. I'll be right back.
Here! Drink up this Xiao Lang liquor.
Hold on. Big brother,
You don't bring us all together just for some liquor, do you?
Make it official with the Mrs.
- Really? - We have the red envelopes ready for your wedding.
When is the ceremony?
Yes, when?
Come on! Stop with the suspension.
Drink up first.
We don't know what we are drinking to.
Big brother, what exactly is this? You can tell us.
Sit down, all of you.
I have a job for you and Woodpecker.
A job? That's fine. We'll drink for it.
Another round.
Wait. They have jobs but we don't?
Unfair!
Be patient. I have bigger jobs for you two.
What job?
Moron!
Just do whatever Big Brother says.
Cheers!
It must be good. Cheers!
So what is the job?
I'm going to propose and you will help me get it right.
Propose?
This is known as "luring the wolf into the lair".
Old President Chen, what kind of attitude is this?
We should listen to his explanation.
His explanation is my explanation.
Then Simeiqi will belong to someone else?
Uncles, you are acting like we are losing our national sovereignty.
It's not that bad, is it?
First off, the government encourages foreign investors
to invest in China. Why can't we?
We should embrace the opportunity.
Secondly, in the market,
Simeiqi's stores are among the weakest in Linhai.
Do you admit it? Hence, this time, with the entry of DP,
This is our chance to expand.
Third, we've been number three for so long.
and has been under constant pressure from Wenda and Xing Baorui.
This is our big comeback.
but the shares that you gave to PD
they are more than yours.
In the future, they will have the rights to vote.
DP will be holding 35% of the shares while I own 30%.
You gentlemen will hold 30%.
Thus, as long as we stand together,
we are still in control.
Simeiqi will be the same.
That's right too.
Why don't we sleep on this?
Okay, fine.
That's right. It has been a long time since we met. Dinner is on me this evening. Okay?
Let's think about it.
Have your mysterious Peter sign it.
I'm going out of the way to make DP look good and yet he is not even here for the signing.
Per business etiquette, you may want to tell him
that he should come and discuss DP's plan in China with me.
Even more so when we are in the same family now.
Once we have signed the contract, I will bring your copy here.
President Chen, bye.
Take care.
This will be a proposal filled with romantic memories.
The final rehearsal of our super proposal, joined by the navy, the army and the air force
Start now.
- Navy? - Navy copy.
- Air force? - Air force copy.
-Army? - Army copy.
Action!
Our bride and groom first met each other if the fire of a war.
Furthermore, everything is for a great love.
Now, a military helicopter of love and bliss
slowly flies in.
Jian, we have been in love for a long time.
Let them witness our love today.
Diamond ring.
It's for ever, like you and me.
I hope we can witness this important moment.
Jian, marry me.
Enough. I can't take it anymore. I'm getting goose bumps.
Surprise. Romance. Love. Memories. Military. We've got the whole package.
This will be the proposal of all time!
Hold on. My tank missed its position. Let's do it one more time.
We still have five minutes before the boss arrives. Move it.
- Let's move it. - Ma Feng, the ring!
It's mine.
What are you getting?
I'm getting the proposal document.
I remembered to switch off the lights. Why are they still on?
I had Monkey install a surveillance camera.
Move it.
This...
What is this?
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What's going on?
There's smoke. Is it going to explode?
What's going on? Who is it?
Come out.
What are you doing here?
We...actually...
Sister Jian, we wanted to propose...
I'm begging you. How old are you guys? Can't you be more mature?
If you want to play, go to an arcade. This is a garment shop. Okay?
- Okay? - Yes.
Fine.
They just came out from the army. When they miss their times in the army,
They have a military complex. They like playing with tanks and stuff.
Can you swear not play here in the future again?
- I swear. - I swear. - I swear.
Pack up now.
Leave now.
I'm going to get the proposal document.
[ DP Group ]
Welcome.
DP stores opened all over Linhai overnight.
They came serious with such a dynamite debut.
This Greater China president is quite a piece of work.
Yanzhi, check out all their stores and report back to me.
Okay.
[ DP Group ]
DP has several labels under its flagship. They are equally trendy.
Some second-tier and first-tier brands will be perfect for China.
I just checked their boutique. It's extremely popular.
How did they quietly set up so many branches overnight?
I had someone peek around. They covered up their entire sites during construction.
Just a white board at the front. Some of them claimed it was a restaurant.
No wonder we had no idea.
But this morning DP announced on social media
they are offering free membership and big discounts. WeChat exploded with their news.
What does DP need most badly if they do dynamite marketing like this?
Distributions and production.
That's right.
Hello.
Hello, President Ning. It's me.
I guessed that you would call me. It's regarding DP, right?
That's right.
Frankly, I just found out too but DP...is not that simple
Their login is brutally straightforward.
It seems sudden but actually, it's not.
He has been silently doing his homework.
I heard about them in the past
but it's not that easy to penetrate into the China's market.
So I'll hold for now and watch.
And you don't have to worry either.
Let's not worry too much about this.
They came prepared. We must be careful.
Older sister, this is Mr Peter, the CEO of DP.
Hello, Mr Peter. I'm Grace.
Hello.
I heard that Grace from H Group
A powerful woman. Gets her jobs done.
And you are more beautiful than I expected.
Van Cleef & Arpels. Global limited edition. Good taste.
Thank you. You are overpraising me. Please take a seat.
Mr Peter, I wonder why you are here to see me. What's it regarding?
I will get straight to the point then.
I came to discuss in-depth cooperation between DP and H Magazine.
This is my business proposal.
Please take a look.
Alright.
[ Collaboration Business Proposal ]
I wonder if we can find a restaurant this evening to further discuss this in details.
Sorry, I have an appointment this evening.
Why was I not invited?
Sorry if I interrupted.
Hi. Lisa of H Group American HQ.
No interruption. Not if a beautiful woman like you walks in.
I heard someone from DP was coming.
I thought it would be my old friend Frank.
So I stopped by to say hi.
I didn't know...
Sorry to disappoint.
Frank is on Southeast Asia. And I'm Peter.
How could I be disappointed? You are way better looking than Frank.
But don't tell Frank I said that.
I had a good time in Italy working with DP.
They had awesome brands.
And they always had enough budget for marketing.
Grace, I think you should dive into details about cooperation with them.
Sorry, there is an internal decision making process that has to be completed first.
The board of directors will
review your proposal
before we know if we can do this.
But DP is a foreign brand.
Chinese consumers like foreign brands.
Let me have a look.
Sorry, Lisa.
It is for Grace.
Okay. We'll have a look later.
There will be time.
Dear lord! Was she here for business or for guys?
Direct and brazen.
I was shocked.
Me too.
You haven't found that coffee?
Hello! What are the odds?
Now that you are here,
I'm having dinner with Peter tonight.
I hope you don't mind?
Sister, I can't find that coffee. How about this one?
You pour hot water in and you are done.
I never like things too easy.
I bet someone does, though.
Enjoy the dinner.
You can have it. It suits you.
DP opened another 10 stores.
They were formerly Simeiqi's store spaces.
Simeiqi's spaces?
Yes. Chen Zheng is working with DP.
Just like I thought. DP will win over Simeiqi first.
DP does not have a Chinese site or post-sales.
Now that they are working together,
all they have to do is redo the website and they are good to go.
It saves them time to staff all their new stores, too.
But their weakness is production.
You are right.
Take Simeiqi's An Ka Da project for example.
It missed its deadline and they had to pay for the damage. All because they didn't have the manufacturing capacity.
So even if Simeiqi and DP join hands
they won't be a big threat for us.
But there is a problem.
We will be in for a big trouble if DP works with Xin Baorui.
What do you think?
DP will choose a contract manufacturer between Wenda and Xin Baorui.
This will bring me into a head-on collision with Ning Weikai.
But DP has not come to us.
Looks like we'll have to go on the offensive.
Sales at our stores exceeded expectation by 41 points.
We must strike while the iron is hot.
Our next move is acquire Xin Baorui and Wenda.
In a year's time, there will be only one brand in Linhai
in the high-end attire market, the low-end market and anything in between. And that will be DP.
Great!
Our priority is to find out what kind of relationship Simeiqi is having with DP.
And how is it coming with Peter's background research?
He has the weirdest background I've seen.
I found nothing about him except his nationality.
No record of what he did at DP or his current status.
Keep digging.
Keep me posted on anything about DP.
Sure.
- Yanjing. -Weikai, can I have a word?
Okay.
Dad knows about DP. He sent me here.
Did you know DP was coming?
This is news to me.
Tell me the truth. How do you think this will affect Xin Baorui?
I don't know yet. But either of these things will happen:
We cooperate, or we fight.
DP has a strong partner now that it has Simeiqi's resources.
They have fired the first gun shot in Linhai.
They will sure choose a local manufacturer to lower the cost.
That will be us and Wenda.
Dad said we must act before Wenda.
We must secure DP's orders.
Okay, we'll see.
I will get in touch with DP and see what they are doing.
President Chen, congratulations.
Simeiqi's stores are now DP's.
It seems you are working together now?
Save your sarcasm. There is nothing to be celebrating.
Simeiqi is tiny compared to Wenda.
We have to survive.
I still have to clean up An Ka Da's mess.
What kind of a cooperation is it with DP?
I'm really curious if you can divulge.
If I can't, will it hurt the last drop of friendship between you and me?
If you can't, then forget it.
[Ning Weikai]
Ning Weikai.
I bet he has the same question as you do.
DP is opening stores by the minute.
That's no secret.
DP owns 35% of Simeiqi.
Surprised?
As was I.
I don't know how Peter convinced my father.
My hands are tied.
I've met Peter only once.
A mysterious man. Very few words.
Like a special agent.
This is all I know.
This brand is called Qingcheng, owned by Wenda.
Designed and managed by Lin Qian, Wenda president Li Zhicheng's girlfriend.
The dress Yayi was wearing was by her.
Take care.
Come again.
Is it her?
Yes. Do you want me to go in there and pick up a few samples?
No need. Let's go.
And Ning Weikai's assistant wanted to meet you. I said no as you told me.
Okay.
Let's go.
Run an analysis on this and email me the results.
Alright.
Grace.
Why did security let you in again?
What do you want?
It's been so many days.
You still don't want to see me?
I know you are still mad at me.
But I came for business.
Important business.
What is it? I'm listening.
I must have heard DP acquired 35% of Simeiqi's shares.
And they opened a lot of stores.
What is their plan?
What do you think?
I wanted to warn you.
DP is more complicated than you and I think.
It is interested in more than just Simeiqi's shares and some stores.
It is after the entire apparel market of linhai.
With this online-offline maneuver,
DP is taking market share from Simeiqi and Xin Baorui.
i believe it will want Wenda to be its supplier.
And if that happens, they will have control on Linhai's garment industry,
with either me or Li Zhicheng being the next to fall.
Then you will have no leverage
in any talks over any kind of cooperation with them.
Thanks for the warning. I got it.
Everyone on the apparel market in Linhai
wants to come together
and fight foreign businessmen.
We can't do it without you on our side.
I can't do it
without you.
Can you give me another chance?
Is there anything I can do to get you to forgive me?
I'm working. Please show some professionalism.
President Li.
Your way of meeting is very unique.
Everyone said that you are very mysterious. I wanted to check how mysterious you are.
At least, you beat Ning Weikai in the first round.
He used a lot of interesting methods to try to meet me.
Aren't you curious how I knew you were staying here?
Didn't you used to be a military personnel? It should be easy for you.
Seems like you have already checked my details.
How could I come to Linhai without first doing some homework?
You took down Simeiqi that easily.
It means that you have done your homework thoroughly.
If you want to infiltrate into a system,
you need to find its weakest point.
Simeiqi happened to be it.
Xin Baorui is the strongest of the three but it is going down.
Wenda's prospect is the best.
It is the first local company to enter into a partnership with foreign investors.
And it produces good quality items.
They even meet the EU environment criteria.
Brilliant.
You'll get the answer that you wanted tomorrow. Goodnight.
Good night.
President Li, your girlfriend is beautiful.
I admire her fashion designs.
If you allow DP to invest in Qingcheng,
I'll consider letting Wenda
be DP's sole manufacturer.,
I can tell you the answer now. Impossible.
How's it?
Peter is tougher than I expected.
He even knows about Lin Qian and Qingcheng.
He knows lot. Are we collaborating with him?
Some people can be made use of but can't be reused.
There are some people we can do business with but we can't be associated with them.
Peter is this kind of person.
Collaboration is possible but we must think carefully.
President Ning, this lady is looking for you.
President Ning, CEO Peter would to invite you to discuss about business.
Where are we going?
I will drive you there.
Fine. Let's go.
I should go with you.
CEO Peter said that he should go alone.
President Li. CEO Peter would like to invite to discuss business.
Okay. Arrange for the chauffeur to wait for me downstairs. I will be there soon.
Alright.
You didn't send the proposal directly to here. Let's see what games you are playing.
President Ning?
President Li?
What are you doing here?
Mr Peter of DP invited me here for a discussion. What are you doing here?
He invited me too.
What?
Dear both, sorry to have kept you waiting.
This is related to the business proposal of DP.
Please take a look first.
I will be back in an hour.
Act according to your wishes.
- Sit. I wonder what he's up to.
He's regarding us as a killing field. It's either you die or I die.
Maybe this is his way, never following the rules.
I really don't understand him. In the past, I told my assistant to make an appointment with him.
In the end, his assistant declined it.
He's not taking us seriously.
I met him in the past.
What did you talk about?
It was just idle talk.
What kind of proposal is this?
It's an unfair contract.
The price is low, the output is high and the timing is tight.
If the production is based on this proposal,
Xin Baorui will put aside 80-85% of its manufacturing capacity for DP.
So it won't have enough capacity left for its own brand.
In terms of market positioning and pricing,
there will be a conflict between DP and Xing Baorui.
Looking at this contract. I feel that you shouldn't collaborate with them.
By letting Xing Baorui be DP's manufacturer,
it will weaken our own brand.
Furthermore, this proposal is not clearly written
that it's a sole manufacturer.
If you were me, you wouldn't collaborate with DP too.
Seems like this project was prepared for me.
The reporting time for the company is 10am. What time is it now?
It's 12 noon. Are you here to have lunch?
The person who sits in my seat doesn't need to clock in my card.
Don't tell me when you were the Chief Editor in Italy, you needed to clock in your card every day?
Aren't you a staff of H Group?
If I were to sit in the office every day,
Who will liaise with the external connections?
Do I have to make telephone calls every day?
I think you need to focus on the overall operation of the company
instead of just monitoring me closely.
If you can't stop breathing down my neck, people will think you are dangerously ambitious.
Okay then. Please go back to your seat. I'm going to start working.
Cindy, call for a meeting in half an hour.
Sorry, sorry.
One person is missing.
Xing Baorui has withdrawn.
Looks like I don't have other choices?
Yes. I read this proposal.
There's no problem with the proposal but regarding the price,
I need you to give me some time to estimate the cost.
I hope to see a genuine price.
DP needs a production line that is ready now.
and Wenda is satisfying all the conditions of DP.
I want you to know that I'm not imploring you. You need me instead.
♫ I believe, if you still don't understand ♫
♫ Having you in my life is the best thing to ever touch my heart. ♫
♫ I believe no matter how many days will pass, ♫
♫ When I look at you, I forget to let my tears fall. ♫
♫ The sunset when you look back, ♫
♫ when you smile into the camera ♫
♫ When you look at me, ♫