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At first, Xia Shu’an was just guided by Shen Boyan to talk. Gradually, the conversation started, and he began to “report” to Shen Boyan about his work this morning with some joy, especially about the current situation of his flowers and plants.
Shen Boyan slowly walked to the window and looked at the scenery of most of the city from above. In a trance, he pictured the young man standing under the tree at the entrance of the institute building, facing the playground opposite, his face bathing the bright golden light at noon, chattering to him.
“I saw a piece of grass that had not withered in a corner of the school. I transplanted it to my experimental field and named it ‘Hope’…”
The assistant was knocking on the door outside. Shen Boyan covered the receiver with his hand and said, “I’m going back to work. You should also go to work as well. In the evening… I will be back early in the evening.”
“Oh, okay.” The young man replied without noticing anything strange.
“.…..Bye.”
Shen Boyan cut off the call and moved the phone aside.
“President Shen, the chairman of Chuang Yan Medical Technology, came over. ”
“Okay, take him to the conference room; I’ll be there right away. By the way, order another meal for me and just put it on my table. I’ll eat it when I get back.”
“Okay, President Shen.”
……
Gu’s heat continued to escalate, with new hot searches creeping up more than two hours after the previous hot searches.
#Gu’s drugs were withdrawn from the market due to excessive side effects#
#Major medical accidents have occurred in several hospitals under Gu#
The entry and withdrawal of a certain drug from the market is something that is very difficult for ordinary people to notice. Those complicated names will probably be forgotten, even if they are mentioned. But medical accidents leave a deep impression, and they often cost people a very painful price to learn lessons and remember the details.
The person who made the statement in the second hot search was a doctor. He listed the medical accidents that had occurred in hospitals invested by Gu in the past decade. There are several almost every year, at the cost of blood and tears. Many local tabloids still have remnants of them, but none appear in the major newspapers and media.
One of the things that caught the public’s attention was that three years ago, a person went to the hospital for acute appendicitis. Generally speaking, acute appendicitis is a common and non-fatal disease, and as long as the appendix is removed, the pain can be relieved. It’s a relatively common and simple operation. However, the doctor who performed the surgery that day, for some reason, cut a blood vessel, causing the patient to suffer a massive hemorrhage and die on the spot.
Afterwards, the patient’s family was compensated a sum of money, and because the incident gradually passed, it didn’t cause any more discussion. However, a small local media outlet wrote that the sister who accompanied the deceased clearly remembered that it was a young man who operated on her brother at the time, but the surgeon who was later introduced by the hospital was a middle-aged man in his forties who was said to have twenty years of work experience. This incident was still not mentioned by any major media, hidden in the dust of time, until today, three years later, only to be unearthed again.
[No f*cking way. I’ve only heard of people being replaced in hit-and-run cases. Can a surgeon not know how to perform a surgery?]
[Let’s make a bold guess: What’s impossible about this? If you hit someone with a car, there will be surveillance. But you can’t see the surgeon’s face because they are wearing masks. It’s possible that the person was replaced.]
[I don’t dare to think about it anymore.]
[I’m a local, and everyone knows that this hospital is the back garden of many powerful families, with many second and third generations here. We often see doctors driving sports cars to work, so it may be that they replace a prince with someone without a background.]
[No way, no way; it feels like a movie. ]
[That Gu family is really disgusting. I don’t know how they hide their dirt, but I have never seen relevant reports as a local!]
[This post has been blocked.]
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The public is very sensitive to news about the rich. As soon as this report was dug up, it once again ignited the topic.
Soon, someone claiming to be a family member of a patient who died that year came out, retelling what happened and saying in a very firm tone that what she saw that night was a young man who was flirting with the nurses. He was by no means the middle-aged man who later came out later to apologize.
This Weibo post was forwarded tens of thousands of times in an instant, and comments poured in continuously.
The resumes of the second and third generations1Children of wealthy families doctors are constantly being dug up, followed by the excavation of the Gu family’s power holders. Gu Jiakang and Gu’s eldest son are fine; they are just not very smart businessmen, but Gu’s second child’s “fame” is quite notorious. Netizens can find out all the things he’s done almost effortlessly.
[Gu’s second child is very famous in our school. Even if he doesn’t come to class every day, he is also very disgusting. He will hook up with pretty girls when he sees them. If they ignore him, he will use disgusting methods. It is said that a senior sister in our college fell into his trap and did not come to class for a while. ]
[From the school next door, I have personal experience. My classmate happened to attract his attention. He sent flowers and food every day. He sees himself as a domineering president. After class, he even drove a sports car to pick her up. It’s simply unstoppable.]
[Gu’s second child is well-known in the circle and notorious for his extravagance and bad deeds.]
[……]
[Looking at it this way, the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. Gu’s bones are broken from top to bottom.]
While there were heated discussions on the Internet about Gu’s affairs, a lot of bad reviews about Wenhui gradually appeared in some corners. It was said that Wenhui played dirty, monopolizing the market, and its products caused adverse effects on patients and so on.
There were only a few numbers at first, but gradually they became louder, and in a blink of an eye, they jumped to a hot search.
[Wen Hui? Am I the only one who thinks this name is familiar? ]
[You don’t need to think. This is the company that was on the hot search not long ago because it acquired an old milk factory. ]
[No way, no way; I thought this was a conscientious company, and I said good things to them! ]
[Sure enough, the world is as black as crows.]
[I told you it was for show. How can there be good capitalists?]
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But soon, a verified legal account with millions of fans began to break down the relationship between these two companies.
[Seeing that Gu was spurned by the public and Wenhui, in a twinkling of an eye, was brought under fire as well, let’s learn more about this company. Wenhui is a very interesting company…]
This account vividly tells the story from Wenhui’s past obscurity to its take-off to its entry to Rongchuan, how it squeezed Gu’s market, and Gu’s humble survival under Wenhui’s oppression, living up to its name as a qualified popular science account.
He used concise and clear data to slap Gu’s face, which was still wearing a mask, and even produced a list of drugs developed and marketed by Wenhui in recent years, pointing out their superior status among similar drugs. Finally, it was quietly revealed that Wenhui also seemed to be developing anti-cancer drugs, which they had been doing secretly and were currently in the clinical stage. It’s unknown how the latecomer Gu rushed to the front and applied for a patent first.
[Yeah, how can a drug get a patent before being clinically tested? Do you want to occupy the patent in advance? Then, when similar drugs are released in the future, Gu can also be said to have stolen their technology!]
[It’s scary to think about it! ]
[Although Gu’s family does have problems, we can’t accuse others of stealing out of thin air. ]
[Let me show you something good, hee hee. ]
The picture attached by this netizen is a research paper discussing anti-cancer drugs published in a medical journal by employees of the Wenhui Research Institute.
[You can go to Wenhui’s official website to check. These are the people on their R&D team. There are also records of the company awarding them after they published papers. And I found that not only him but also other people have published papers, large and small. I will show you another one. ]
He also attached a research paper on Chinese medicine with the words, [No one would think Chinese medicine is a pheasant journal, right?]
[I checked Gu’s official website and papers published by their employees, but there’s nothing related to this anti-cancer drug. For such an important drug, not a single paper was written.]
[What do you want to say upstairs? ]
[I am brave enough to translate: It was Gu who stole Wenhui’s technical information and preempted the patent registration, only to discover that the information was incorrect, right?]
[Give the person upstairs a thumbs up. ]
[It’s so funny that the Gu family has such a big grievance. They try to steal a chicken, only to end up losing the rice2Try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off.. I finally know what the real business war is like. ]
[Novel business war: various high-end financial terms, short selling stocks; real-life business war: stealing other people’s technical data and applying for patents first. ]
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Not only did this wave of hot searches not drag Wenhui into trouble, it even did a good job of disclosing the declining situation of the Gu family in the past few years, as well as the current situation of Wenhui suppressing the Gu family, and then came the last part:
There are seeds of doubt as to whether Gu stole Wenhui’s technical information.
—”How could this happen!”
Gu Jiakang flew into a howling rage and smashed a porcelain cup to the ground. The assistant ran in: “Director Gu, the media are blocking the entrance!”
“Go away; tell them to go away.” The assistant hesitated to go out, but Gu Jiakang stopped him again: “Wait a minute.”
“Invite them to sit in the coffee shop on the first floor and entertain them, but don’t let them come up.”
“Yes!”
Gu Jiakang turned around, snorting hot air like an old cow, raised his head, and shouted at the man in front of him, “Where is your brother?”
Gu’s eldest son trembled: “He, he’s out.”
“Why is he going out now? People are pointing at our noses and scolding us on the Internet. And him, I didn’t even know he had done so many things!”
Gu’s eldest son seemed to want to say something. He muttered a few words before Gu Jiakang yelled again: “Tell him to come back and stop causing trouble!”
“Yes Yes.”
After Gu’s eldest son ran to the office, he called his brother, but the phone rang for a long time and no one answered.
On the other side, Gu’s second child glanced at the cell phone in his hand, muted it, and threw it back into his pocket.
One of his underlings looked at the location of the school parking lot and said, “Brother, why don’t we go directly to Shen Boyan? Why are we waiting here for his boyfriend?”
Gu’s second child had an expression of having eaten a fly as he said in a stiff tone, “If it wasn’t for Shen Boyan hiding and not coming out, do I need to come looking for someone else? After capturing Xia Shu’an, Shen Boyan would naturally appear.”
“Really?”
“Don’t talk nonsense; just do whatever I ask you to do!”
“He’s out, he’s out!” an underling shouted.
Even though they had been discussing it all afternoon, they still had an excited expression on their faces.
“I didn’t expect Gu to be such a company!”
“I still can’t believe that the hospital I went to since childhood would do such a thing.”
“Did Gu’s anti-cancer drug steal Wenhui’s technical information…”
“…”
Someone noticed Xia Shu’an’s silence and said, “Hey, Xiao Xia, why don’t you say anything? Your family is rich; you should know these inside stories better.”
“I, uh… I believe in Wenhui.” He could only say this in the end.
Senior sister: “Right, Boss Wenhui is so handsome; he must be a good person.”
Xia Shu’an: I don’t agree with that.
“Let’s go; see you tomorrow; ah, no, I’m off tomorrow; see you in the New Year!”
“See you in the New Year!”
“See you in 2023!”
Smiling and waving goodbye to the crowd, Xia Shu’an got into his car. After he drove out, there was a long stretch of quiet Ginkgo Road. There were relatively few cars on this road, and it was Xia Shu’an’s favorite road. He drove for a while as usual, and suddenly, a white van came barreling out from the side. A bloody memory fragment made Xia Shu’an subconsciously step on the brakes.
The car suddenly stopped, and his body swayed forward.
The next moment, someone rushed towards him in his field of vision.
