Chapter 421 - The Pinnacle
She would consider a lot. Was Mo Jingshen’s character still as cold, detached, and noble? Was he making a lot of Shine’s partners uncomfortable?
However, no matter how she thought about it, she still felt that she was worrying for no reason. She could barely deal with her own problems, yet she was actually wasting time to worry about others.
Just from seeing Shine Group’s glory in the past few years, it was sufficient to understand how brilliant Mo Jingshen was. He was not like her, who had been confronted with countless risks and crises. As of now, she did not know if MN Group would even remain in her hands.
When a person was not sufficiently powerful, they needed to be smooth and cunning like her.
For someone like Mo Jingshen, who was sufficiently capable, the only people who needed to be smooth and cunning were the audience under his hand and not him.
Shine Group had gradually become a legend among the Chinese corporate world. On the other hand, Ji Nuan feared that no matter how much work she put in, MN Group would remain suppressed by other similar corporations. They were even narrowly disqualified from the Chinese Enterprise selection process that happened at the end of the year.
She heard that someone from Shine Group had participated in this year’s voting. She wasn’t sure who had actually come forward, but this year, Ji Nuan did not have the right to attend.
The end of her second year was spent with failures.
It was the beginning of another year, and Ji Nuan began a frantic style of working, often busying herself until the sky was pitch-black. She personally attended all of the projects in every department.
This year was MN Group’s third year since its establishment. She could not lose; victory was necessary.
This time, she had learned from her previous mistakes. She held onto all of her new projects with a tight grip; instead of fully publicizing them before they were listed, she only revealed bits and pieces. Not only did they manage to attract the attention of consumers, but they also made it difficult for those with covetous gaze to see through them. MN Group’s projects were no longer as easily duplicated. Even if others wanted to make their own imitations, they would only be able to do so after the projects were popularized. This meant that not only would they fail to suppress MN Group, but those who tried would also even be rejected by the public.
Ji Nuan had grown careful as she treaded her path, and her footsteps were also growing stable. This was worth celebrating. Although she had kept away all of her initial arrogance, she had gained a lot of success.
Right after spring that year, MN Group won the innovation award from the International Business Summit and drew in many attractive investments. They were able to pick up their confidence, and all of the shelved ideas from a year ago were brought back into focus. Within half a year, under admiring eyes, Ji Nuan was able to regain everything she had lost.
For this past year, Ji Nuan’s focus was entirely placed on MN Group’s development. Her refusal to bow down had stirred all of the employees into fighting alongside her. Even Xiao Ba did not have any time for love and stayed in the office with Ji Nuan every day.
Mr. Zand saw that Ji Nuan actually could return to her former glory starting right from the beginning. When he witnessed her achievements today, in a rush of joy, he invested the several billion she had earned for him in her first year back to the company. He still did not participate as a shareholder and allowed Ji Nuan to remain in control. The old fox knew to invest money when she was earning, but he had kept away his net when she was in deficit. Now that MN Group was gradually seeing the sunlight again, he actually ran back to invest another sum.
Although Ji Nuan had learned to see through sly, old foxes like him who were used to navigating the corporate world, she did not refuse his investments. After all, she was truly lacking in funds. Besides, interacting with old foxes like him did not bring her any loss. In fact, she was able to learn even more.
In her third year, Ji Nuan fought for all of the investment opportunities she could find. Every day was spent busily, and occasionally, she would even run out of time to wash her hair. There were several instances when she wanted to cut her hair to Feng Ling’s length, but she was always stopped by Xiao Ba.
Time gradually flowed, and Ji Nuan’s company slowly matured with her.
Finally, at the beginning of Ji Nuan’s third year away from Hai City, like an irresistible force, MN Group entered the ranking of the Top Ten Chinese International Corporations.
MN Group monopolized several of the most profitable industries and was always able to pick the right business opportunities and timings. They slowly became involved in charity, and MN Group also gradually expanded as a charity foundation.
Three years after her divorce, Ji Nuan directly entered the Forbes’ List and was ranked first on Chinese Power Businesswomen Under Twenty-Five.
That year, Ji Nuan stood on the pinnacle of her career.
When she saw Ji Nuan’s ranking on Forbes, Xia Tian, who had been maintaining her composure for the past few years, intentionally made a call to congratulate Ji Nuan. She then repeatedly asked about her plans to return to Hai City.
Xia Tian had shown off her capable tongue and burned Ji Nuan with an hour-long phone call. The call could be summarized in one paragraph: MN Group was stabilized. She could return to Hai City now. After all, her home was in Hai City. It was fine to move back to MN Group’s headquarters anytime. Many Chinese corporations like hers first developed overseas before moving its headquarters back home. This was not a difficult task to accomplish, and it only depended on when Ji Nuan planned to do so.
Xiao Ba had fewer opinions. She had already fought with Ji Nuan for so many years and was willing to follow Ji Nuan wherever she went
Afterward, Ji Nuan only said she would consider this and did not continue on the topic.
Recently, Ji Nuan had obtained three pieces of information.
Firstly, it was that An Shuyan had actually married half a year ago. Her partner was a foreign entrepreneur whose bloodline could be traced back to four separate countries. She now lived in New York and had already resigned from her job in Shine Group.
The other piece of news was that there was about to be large movements within various local corporations. This was indeed a suitable timing for MN Group’s headquarters to move back to Hai City. Hai City was a unique city and was suited for corporations that worked on both local and international projects. Its market adaptability was more direct and convenient.
The third piece of news was that Xia Tian was pregnant and was about to give birth. As she was helping to guard the studio in Hai City, which was now a subsidiary company of theirs, she did not inform Ji Nuan about her pregnancy. The reason she was constantly urging Ji Nuan to return was also because she feared that she wouldn’t hold on for much longer. If she were to give birth right now, she would be of no use to Ji Nuan. There were also no suitable replacements who could take over the studio. This was why she urged Ji Nuan to return.
Ji Nuan and Xia Tian were of the same age; it wasn’t strange for her to be pregnant.
However, what Ji Nuan struggled to understand was, did Xia Tian’s police-captain-officer-boyfriend even have a marriage ceremony with her? Could it be that this stubborn woman had fought, argued, and broken up with her boyfriend again, and was now hiding her pregnancy? She heard that this police captain had been busy with a drug trafficking mission for the past year and had not returned to Hai City in a long time.
At the thought that Xia Tian, who was still estranged from her family, may have to lay alone in the labor room…
Ji Nuan finally began on the plans to return home.