Leaving aside the fact that under such a partnership model the other side wouldn't be able to offer him a very high share of the profits, even if Estée Lauder were willing to split fifty-fifty, or sixty-forty, or seventy-thirty, eighty-twenty, or even ninety-ten, he still wouldn't agree.
The reason was very simple: to help a foreign brand, to help a future competitor that would inevitably have to be dragged down from its pedestal—he simply couldn't do it. Truly couldn't do it.
"President Ye, you really are completely impervious to reason! I'm afraid any other domestic brand would never let slip an opportunity like this!" Yan Rubing offered another helpless, bitter smile.
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