A Flash Marriage Can Be A Treasure

Chapter 479: Why Do I Always Play the Scapegoat?

People are still talking about the news about Louis and Valentina on the internet, but Lily doesn't have

more time to pay attention to that.

Director Jarvis has already finished editing the video clip and sent it to her.

This means that HS Company's new product will enter the publicity period.

The sales of the new product are not only related to the VAM between HS Company and other

companies, but also have something to do with John.

So Lily has to keep an eye on the new product herself.

John has to manage the company in Country R and talk with Jonathan about Coffey's body. She can't

offer much help so she hopes that at least he doesn't need to worry about the company here.

Lily doesn't have the courage to open the video sent by Director Jarvis.

She's afraid of seeing the person in the video.

Lily also knows that Director Jarvis is very capable, so she directly hands the video over to the Publicity

Department to handle.

Two days later, Lily gets a sample of the new product. Exclusive content from NôvelDrama.Org.

She has participated in designing the shape and color of the perfume bottle, and even the packaging

box, so she is very satisfied with them.

However, when she gets the new product, she finds a typo in the promotional slogan on the packaging

box. She frowns and says, "What's wrong with the Planning Department? Why is there a typo here?"

Ella hasn't left yet. She hears Lily's words and comes over to have a look.

She takes a deep breath when she sees the obvious typo, "Oh my God! It should be 'to make', but it

was printed as 'to made' here."

"But tens of thousands of these packaging boxes have already been made, and the workers are still

working around the clock...” Ella pauses and subconsciously looks at Lily, “What should we do,

President Lily?"

"How could they make such a silly mistake!" Lily rubs her eyebrows with her fingers and says,

"Fortunately, it was noticed before the product gets into the market. Otherwise, we can't imagine how

the media will make fun of our company."

Ella immediately takes out her phone and says, "I'm going to contact the factory now."

"It's too late. This batch of packaging boxes is useless now." Lily looks at the box in her hand and

ponders for a while. Then she says to Ella in a calm tone, "Go ask the Planning Department to use the

cover of version B. Make sure to double check the text this time."

"After making sure no mistake is made in the cover, send it to the factory. Ask the workers to work

overtime and make a batch first. If they say there's not enough time, talk with them and pay them more

if necessary."

"OK." Ella marks down her words and asks, "President Lily, is there anything else?"

Lily adds, "Put aside everything else first and keep an eye on the factory. Once the first batch of

packaging boxes is finished, ask the workers to start packing the perfumes at once and then ship the

finished products to the counters."

Ella nods, "OK, got it."

When they're still talking, someone is knocking on the door quickly for a few times.

"President Lily, are you inside?"

It sounds like the deputy manager of the Public Relations Department, so Lily raises her voice and

says, "I'm here. Come in."

The door is opened in the next second.

Jasper Harper enters, with a document held tightly in his hand and a gloomy expression on his face.

He is the deputy manager of the Public Relations Department.

"President Lily, then I'll just go out first." Ella turns around and leaves.

After she leaves, Lily looks at Jasper and asks, "What's wrong? You look terrible."

"Didn't anyone from the head office call you?" Jasper asks and hands the document to Lily. "A perfume

company called 'Egret Company' sued us for stealing the formula of their old product."

"How can that be!" Lily says. "The head office bought this formula from a perfumer and they signed a

contract. This perfumer shouldn't have sent us a formula that he's given to another company, unless he

doesn't want to stay in this field anymore."

Jasper says, "I think so too, but ... President Lily, please look at this document first."

Lily flips through the document.

It was a complaint from the Egret Company with a piece of evidence on the back. It shows that their

product came out last month. It hasn't been sold much, but now its formula was stolen by the HS

Company.

An employee of the Egret Company has a sister who happens to be working in the Product Department

of HS Company and has gotten a sample of the new product, so she told her sister that she also

wanted to have a try.

To her surprise, HS Company's new perfume smelled exactly like a former product of her company.

It's the Egret Company that first sold this perfume, so when it learnt that the new product of the HS

Company smelled exactly like its own product, it got angry and sued the latter.

"At the beginning, I thought the Egret Company just wanted to cheat us and extort some money, but I

tried its perfume and found that it smelled exactly like our new product." Jasper says while Lily is still

reading the document.

"The Egret Company even posted a statement on the internet so that everyone knows this news now.

But I'm not sure what happened exactly so I asked my team to follow up on that and then came here to

tell you first."

"Didn't the Product Department sign a confidentiality agreement? The samples of the new product are

for them to try. How could they give the samples to our rival company!" Lily's face darkens when she

finishes reading the document.

She sent Willow a sample of the new product because she's not her rival in the same field.

And the sample is just five milliliters, only enough for spraying several times, so it's impossible for

Willow to give it to others.

"It's wrong for them to break the confidentiality agreement, but the most important thing now is the new

product. I brought the perfume product of the Egret Company here," Jasper says.

He sprays the perfume on the perfume test paper, flings it a bit, and hands it to Lily.

Lily sniffs lightly and looks very terrible.

The perfume of the Egret Company smells exactly the same as the new perfume they are releasing!

She takes a deep breath and asks Jasper, "Did you call the head office?"

"I did when I was coming up here," Jasper replies. "The head office has contacted the perfumer, but he

denied that he had sold the perfume formula to any other company. He also said all this happened after

he sold the formula to us so it was our problem, not his. But he's willing to help with the investigation

and provide all the evidence needed."

"The Egret Company started to sell this product last month. If it's not the perfumer, who else could have

leaked the formula?" Lily frowns, "Did someone from the management team betray us?"

"I guess so. President Lily, it's better to check about that carefully," Jasper whispered. "But the head

office said only three from the management had seen this perfume formula. For their close ties to the

company, it was impossible for them to leak it."

"They also said since it happened at the branch office so you had to deal with it by yourself. If there's

anything wrong, the branch office and you should take the responsibility."

Hearing this, Lily laughs coldly, "Why I don't get any benefit but always become the scapegoat?"

"What do they mean that these three are close to the company so it's impossible for them to leak the

formula? What nonsense!"

Jasper shrugs his shoulders, "The Egret Company released its product last month while our new

product is still in the publicity period now, so no matter how we try to explain, it's hard for us to deny

that we've stolen the perfume formula."

"Contact the newspapers and websites and ask them to post some other news first to cover this," Lily

says with a cold voice. "Check the staff one by one from the bottom up, including those three from the

management team of the head office!"

"But..." Jasper looks awkward. "President Lily, I don't have that much authority to investigate them."

Lily closes the document and gives it back to him. She looks indifferent but says in an imposing

manner, "Go tell the head office if we can't find out who's betrayed us, we have to admit that we stole

the formula from the Egret Company."

"Then there will be no need to sell the new product anymore. We'll just compensate the Egret

Company. In any case, if we lose the VAM, the head office will be the one suffering the most."

Jasper nods.

Faced with such a serious situation, Lily doesn't panic at all. Instead, she can still calmly tell him what

to do next. Jasper does admire her in his mind.