Chapter 1076: Chapter 1078: Change Is Necessary

Zhao Xuran saw Gong Ruwen in Gong Ruini’s study and habitually poured him a cup of tea.

Gong Ruwen’s eye twitched slightly. If he didn’t know this was his sister’s study, he might have thought it was Zhao Xuran’s.

Forget it, why bother arguing with him about this? Considering these details is a good thing; otherwise, his sister would have to think about everything, which is overly exhausting.

"Do you think our mom will become a director in the future?" Gong Ruwen was stunned. He still couldn’t quite process it.

"Impossible." Zhao Xuran wasn’t even surprised. "Someone is deceiving Auntie."

See, Zhao Xuran didn’t even need to analyze, he directly gave a reply. Actually, if you think about it, you’d know that some people are just deceivers.

"Yeah, my mom got excited over nothing." Gong Ruini felt quite helpless as well. "It’s a pity that mom seems a bit angry with me."

Gong Ruini wanted to say once again that people shouldn’t be too honest. Look at what her honesty got her into. Even though Cai Meina knew she was right, she still felt a bit uncomfortable inside.

"Who said so?" Zhao Xuran wasn’t naive, especially with Cai Meina leaving Jing University during the summer, there were already losses emerging; how could it not make the top management anxious?

But they couldn’t just go to Cai Meina and ask her not to resign or anything like that; how would they save face as leaders?

"It’s the department head."

The department head, huh? Zhao Xuran couldn’t help but consider. If it were someone else, he would say they were deceiving others, but if it really was the department head, it wouldn’t make sense to deceive people.

Everyone knew he was upright; otherwise, with his impeccable background, how would he have endured so much hardship during those ten years?

"Maybe he’s being used." Gong Ruwen recalled something Mr. Chu had mentioned earlier. "Barring any surprises, when the current director retires, he’ll be the successor."

Gong Ruwen calmly named a name.

"Impossible, right?"

"Impossible." Cai Meina, though regretful, had already resigned. Her self-respect wouldn’t allow her to return to school to continue teaching after knowing she’d become the director.

Once Cai Meina snapped out of it, she remembered how she had previously shown a stern face to Gong Ruini and uneasily went to apologize to her daughter.

After all, her daughter was discussing things with her, afraid she might impulsively agree to return to school.

She hadn’t expected to hear such bombshell news from her daughter.

"He’s so low-key, and if he can become the department head, if I stick it out for a decade or so, I could too." Cai Meina said, unconvinced.

In the whole department, there were only a few who were better than her, but this guy was definitely not one of them.

See, everyone thinks it’s impossible, "But he has a powerful cousin in the Ministry of Education."

"And he’ll most likely become a minister soonest next year. Do you think appointing his cousin as a department head would be difficult?"

"Or he might not even need to intervene personally, someone will take the initiative to handle it enthusiastically."

Oh dear, is there really such a background? Cai Meina was dumbfounded, she had never heard him mention it.

Oh my God, Cai Meina started recalling if she had done anything to offend him before.

After a good reflection, Cai Meina came to her senses, realizing she hadn’t done anything stupid but actually been quite courteous.

"That’s good, guess I shouldn’t be this target." With such a strong background from the other party, she should stop daydreaming.

However, Cai Meina was a bit dissatisfied with the department head, thinking he might plan to trick her back as a scapegoat.

If that’s the case, it would be too much.

"The department head doesn’t know about this." Gong Ruwen paused for a moment, "I mainly saw it a few times."

"Of course, it might just be my speculation, whether it would happen like this, who knows." After all, Mr. Chu only mentioned interpersonal relationships, no more details could be said.

Well, if you have relatives in high places, and such ambitious relatives, of course, you would use this as a banner to get a promotion.

After receiving an unexpected answer, Cai Meina completely stopped worrying about it. Whether the department head was being used or agreed to it, she stopped caring.

Rather than pondering these things, she thought she might as well consider how the factory’s construction was going.

"By the way, how’s the product testing going?" Even though relying on past reputations, once the item is produced, there’s no need to worry about sales.

But Gong Ruini insisted on finding people to use it, even if it cost a little, as long as the product was good, maybe testers would become loyal customers.

"The results are good, they’ve all said it’s better than the skincare products they’ve been using."

"Some are even actively asking if they could have some samples." Zhao Xuran was ecstatic.

Even though their previously launched products had good results, upon really having them try it, some complained they were treated like guinea pigs.

This point Zhao Xuran admitted and didn’t deny, but he couldn’t endure the cursing, it really angered him.

In a fit of anger, he looked for ordinary people to test the products, though he was quite reluctant, as the products wouldn’t be cheap in the future, and he couldn’t turn these people into customers.

Gong Ruini felt Zhao Xuran was overthinking. Maybe right now women are stingy with spending on skincare products, but do they not love beauty?

No, it’s just that there’s nothing good, plus they don’t have much money. Once they have more money and discover something good for their skin, they’d definitely be willing to spend this money, thus expanding the customer base.

If they directly found wealthy people to try it, even if they said it worked well and spread the word, ordinary people wouldn’t buy it. To them, even if the product was great, given the price, they’d rather buy food or clothes for their kids than such an expensive skincare item.

"Were there any allergic reactions?" Gong Ruini was most concerned about this. Generally, if the allergy isn’t severe, there shouldn’t be major problems.

But if the allergic reaction is strong, could it be leveraged against them? Gong Ruini definitely didn’t want this highly anticipated product to be doomed.

Allergies? Zhao Xuran thought for a bit, then shook his head, "None."

"Really none, if there were any discomfort, they would’ve mentioned it. Otherwise, when it goes on sale, if they then complain about discomfort during testing, they’d be deducted money."

Zhao Xuran had never experienced needing product testing, but it didn’t stop him from figuring out how to cover this loophole, leaving no chance for others to attack them.

Wow, as expected of Zhao Xuran, Gong Ruini was full of admiration, that’s Zhao Xuran for you, always so thorough in his considerations.

"That’s great, that’s great." After saying a couple more things, Cai Meina hurried back to her room to continue receiving Gong Tao’s teachings.

About to become a factory leader, some retraining was essential. Otherwise, if she didn’t change a bit, it would be just like before.

Although Cai Meina wasn’t very fortunate, she couldn’t resist the stupid things she had done, everyone knew, so she had no choice but to agree helplessly.

Of course, Cai Meina also held her breath, determined to prove herself, otherwise, she really would become a laughingstock.