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Meng Xin knew with chilling clarity that if he didn’t resolve this problem quickly, the company’s entire Double 11 promotion and its Q4 performance would be ruined.

In just one hour, Ah Fu Essential Oil had sold eight million worth of products on Jingdong.

Although he explained the truth to the merchant operations teams at Pinbei and Tmall, Ah Fu Essential Oil’s products remained hidden from search results.

From Hu Li’s perspective, regardless of Meng Xin’s reasons, Ah Fu Essential Oil’s actions had already harmed the interests of both her company and its users.

Even though Ah Fu was a top beauty brand, according to their contract, Pinbei had the right to deduct cash from the store’s security deposit to compensate users who had purchased the product at a higher price.

Tmall Mall, on the other hand, didn’t make Ah Fu Essential Oil pay compensation, but the representative’s tone was anything but polite. ”Ah Li can build Ah Fu Essential Oil up, and Ah Li can just as easily crush it.”

In the Tmall representative’s eyes, Meng Xin was simply causing him trouble. How could he not understand how crucial Double 11 was?

Mr. Ma and President Zhang were both watching!

If the big bosses noticed, his year-end performance review would be slapped with a ’3.25’ (the lowest score, with 3.5 being average and 3.75 the highest). Two of those in a row, and he’d be ”happily” collecting his severance package.

As for Meng Xin’s explanation, he couldn’t be bothered to care!

This left Meng Xin with only two paths: side with Jingdong, or side with Pinbei and Tmall Mall.

From a business perspective, there was almost no comparison.

Although Jingdong was also a major online sales channel, its sales volume was 70 to 80 percent lower than that of Pinbei and Tmall Mall combined.

Meng Xin decisively abandoned Jingdong. At 3:15 AM, in his capacity as the CEO of Ah Fu Essential Oil, he posted a statement on Weibo: ”Effective immediately, Ah Fu will be pulling out of Jingdong. Ah Fu Essential Oil will not be responsible for, nor will we ship, any Double 11 orders placed on the Jingdong platform.”

Handsome Dong had backed him into a corner, and Meng Xin wasn’t giving Jingdong an iota of face in return.

He had made his defiant stand, but his contacts at Pinbei and Tmall Mall had long since gone to bed.

Meng Xin sat alone in his office, chain-smoking cigarettes. He wouldn’t be able to sleep until this whole mess was resolved.

The period from midnight to 8:00 AM accounted for at least fifty percent of the total orders and sales generated during the promotion.

In other words, because of Jingdong’s dirty move, Ah Fu Essential Oil’s sales for the major promotion were likely to be cut in half.