Within the past couple of days, Li Shiqi had refined quite a few Youth-Preserving Pills, and now he had come to Wanbao Pavilion.
"You're finally here!"
Liu Mengxue waved her cattail fan, her face wreathed in smiles.
"What, did the boss lady know I was coming?" Li Shiqi chuckled.
"You're the only one in all of Longcheng who can refine Youth-Preserving Pills, and only our Wanbao Pavilion can buy them!"
Liu Mengxue said bluntly: "So of course you'd come!"
"That's true enough!"
Li Shiqi nodded and pulled out a gourd filled with pills: "Take a look at these. Can your Wanbao Pavilion take them all?"
Liu Mengxue took a look and was somewhat surprised to see a full hundred Youth-Preserving Pills.
"What, can't handle this many?" Li Shiqi asked.
"There is nothing my Wanbao Pavilion can't handle!"
Liu Mengxue smiled: "Bring as many as you have, Wanbao Pavilion turns no one away!"
"That's the boss lady I wanted to hear!"
Li Shiqi nodded repeatedly and walked inside.
As soon as they entered the reception room, however, Liu Mengxue closed the door behind them.
"Boss lady, it's broad daylight, why are you closing the door?"
Li Shiqi glanced at her, a peculiar look in his eyes.
"If I'm not mistaken, you brat must have been cultivating some special technique!"
Liu Mengxue walked over to Li Shiqi, her hands roaming over his body: "Ever since I saw you last time, I've been wishing day and night for you to come!"
"Boss lady, don't do that, it's a good way to spark a fire!"
Li Shiqi looked awkward. The technique he practiced was the Dragon Origin Formula.
For the boss lady to act like this was practically playing with fire.
"Then that's exactly what I want!"
Instead of stopping, the boss lady became even bolder, pressing closer to Li Shiqi.
A wave of intense heat washed over Li Shiqi, and the vigorous masculine energy within him gradually began to stir.
Liu Mengxue's eyes grew hazy, completely lost in the moment.
...
Hours later, after a tempestuous storm of passion, the atmosphere finally grew still.
Liu Mengxue glanced at Li Shiqi: "From now on, you're my man. In all of Longcheng, if anyone dares to touch you, just drop my name!"
"What, are you trying to make me a kept man who lives off a woman?"
Li Shiqi rolled his eyes. He hadn't expected Liu Mengxue to be so formidable in bed.
Even with his cultivation of the Dragon Origin Formula, he had almost lost the upper hand just now.
"Wouldn't being a kept man be pretty nice?"
Liu Mengxue smiled, looking quite alluring.
"That's not what I'm after!"
Li Shiqi shook his head: "Is there any pharmaceutical company in Longcheng that's currently struggling to stay afloat?"
"Why are you asking about that?"
Liu Mengxue looked surprised: "Are you thinking of taking over a company?"
"I am indeed thinking about taking over a pharmaceutical company!"
Li Shiqi nodded: "After all, since I've made so much money here at Wanbao Pavilion, I should do something substantial with it."
"I heard Tianhai Pharmaceuticals has been mismanaged lately and is about to go under!"
Liu Mengxue remarked: "You could go check them out."
"Thanks!"
Li Shiqi nodded, stood up, gave Liu Mengxue a smack on her backside, and turned to leave.
Watching his retreating figure, Liu Mengxue pouted in a coquettish manner, looking charming and captivating.
Inside the meeting room of Tianhai Pharmaceuticals, several shareholders were holding a discussion, though none of them looked very happy.
"Tian Yuhan, the few of us old folks always believed you could lead Tianhai Pharmaceuticals to glory!"
Several shareholders complained: "And yet look at where we are now. Tianhai Pharmaceuticals is about to collapse, and as executive CEO, you bear the primary responsibility!"
"Is there any point in saying this now?"
At the head of the table, the woman Liu Yuemei looked ice-cold: "Every decision the company made was approved by all the major shareholders. Now that the company is failing, you're dumping all the blame on me. That hardly seems fair!"
"What's the use of talking about that now!"
Several shareholders said coldly: "Things have come to this, isn't there any other way to save the company?"
Tian Yuhan sat in her seat without saying a word.
These past few days, she had thought of many strategies, but none of them worked.
There were simply too many pharmaceutical companies in Longcheng.
For Tianhai Pharmaceuticals to carve out a bloody path among them was exceptionally difficult.
"CEO, someone outside says they want to do business with Tianhai Pharmaceuticals!" A secretary walked over and said to Tian Yuhan.
"Ignore them!"
Tian Yuhan waved her hand. People who just showed up out of the blue looking for partnerships usually had nothing to offer.
Besides, with Tianhai Group facing a life-or-death crisis, she had no leisure time to deal with outsiders.
The shareholders muttered among themselves, continuing to debate countermeasures.
Boom...
Right at that moment, the door to the meeting room was smashed open, and a security guard was sent flying inside.
Li Shiqi looked slightly awkward: "Really sorry about this. I came to propose a partnership, and since I had no other choice, I had to be a bit abrupt!"
Tian Yuhan looked at Li Shiqi, the corners of her mouth twitching slightly.
This was Tianhai Pharmaceuticals, yet Li Shiqi had simply broken into their office like this, completely showing a lack of regard for anyone present.
"A partnership?"
The several shareholders glanced over and simultaneously looked at Tian Yuhan.
Tian Yuhan shook her head: "I don't know him."
"What on earth is the security department doing? The company hasn't gone bankrupt yet, and they've already lost all basic competence?" A shareholder said coldly: "Allowing someone to just barge in like this, what kind of behavior is that?"
"I have a way to bring Tianhai Pharmaceuticals back from the brink of death!" Li Shiqi stated directly.
The shareholders gave disdainful laughs, and even Tian Yuhan thought Li Shiqi was talking nonsense.
With so many elites sitting here unable to come up with a good solution, Li Shiqi, an outsider who knew nothing about the company's internal affairs, was making such wild claims.
"The primary reason for Tianhai Pharmaceuticals' declining performance over the past few months is the lack of new products!"
Li Shiqi stated: "I have a formula here that can produce the Youth Pill. Its effects are exceptional. Once launched on the market, Tianhai Pharmaceuticals will undoubtedly become the top player in Longcheng!"
"The Youth Pill?" Tian Yuhan was somewhat curious: "We've made products of that type before! But they had no effect at all!"
"That's because the products you developed were subpar!"
Li Shiqi took out a few Youth Pills: "These pills deliver instant results. A few minutes after taking them, a person's complexion and appearance will show a remarkable improvement!"
"You're just blowing hot air!"
The shareholders looked utterly skeptical: "How could such a thing possibly exist in this world? If there were something that powerful, it would have taken the whole country by storm long ago!"
"You can have someone test them and see!"
Li Shiqi stated: "If you think it won't work, I'll just take it to another company. Miss this opportunity, and you're the ones who lose out."
The shareholders looked disdainful, believing Li Shiqi was merely trying to scam them.
Tian Yuhan, however, picked up a Youth Pill and swallowed it.
Tianhai Pharmaceuticals had reached a life-or-death juncture. If these Youth Pills truly possessed the efficacy Li Shiqi claimed, Tianhai Pharmaceuticals would be able to revive from the dead.