Peninsula: I, a chaebol! I will never follow hidden rules.

"Ugh!"

At nine o'clock in the morning, in the office of the chairman of Coupang, the largest e-commerce platform in South Korea, Coupang's founder and chairman Kim Beom-sik couldn't help but sigh heavily!
Today marks one month since Xuanyao Mall went online, and Kim Fan-seok has just received Coupang’s performance report for the past three months.

Sales in the first two months increased by 7.2% and 5.6% year-on-year respectively, but sales in the most recent month not only did not increase, but also decreased by 12.1% year-on-year.

Who took up this share? Undoubtedly, it was the recently launched Xuanyao Mall.

And as far as Kim Fan-seok knows, it's not just Coupang's sales that have declined, but the performance of all e-commerce platforms in South Korea has declined.

Xuanyao Mall only announced on the opening day and the next day that its sales exceeded 30 billion yuan in one hour, 100 billion yuan in ten hours, and 200 billion yuan in one day.

After that, Xuanyao Mall never announced any news about its performance.

However, based on the sales performance announced by some brands that have settled in Xuanyao Mall, the industry estimates that the sales of Xuanyao Mall in the first month of its launch were conservatively estimated to be 1 trillion South Korean won.

One trillion! What does this even mean?
As the largest e-commerce platform in South Korea, Coupang's sales last year were just 9 trillion won.

In other words, Xuanxiao Mall completed one-ninth of Coupang's performance last year in just one month.

For a newly established e-commerce platform, this result is simply terrifying!
What drives Kim Beom-seok crazy isn't the declining performance, after all, didn't Xuanxiao Mall use a 100 billion yuan subsidy to boost performance? Coupang can do the same.

What drives Jin Fanxi crazy the most is that Xuanyao Mall’s logistics can now deliver the goods to cities across the country on the same day and to rural areas the next day as long as the user places an order before noon.

This level of convenience has greatly enhanced users' satisfaction with Xuanyao Mall, and even their love for it.

From top to bottom, from Min Zaicheng who is in charge of logistics to the couriers below, most of these people in Xuanyao Logistics are from Coupang.

They were all forced out by Coupang’s new president through methods such as exclusion and salary cuts!
Moreover, there is news online that in order to enable the unemployed people who were laid off by Coupang or forced to resign from Coupang to find jobs as soon as possible, the chairman of Xuanyao Group specially launched Xuanyao Mall a month in advance.

To this end, Xuanyao Mall also paid a lot of extra costs in personnel and rewards.

As a result, the chairman of Xuanyao Group became a good guy, and people who left Coupang got new jobs almost seamlessly, while Coupang became a big joke.

Jin Fanxi was anxious and angry about this, but it was useless.

First of all, he knew that Xuanxiao Group was backed by the Li Group.

Secondly, he is now in a state of being sidelined but not completely sidelined. As the chairman, he can no longer interfere in many of Coupang's work. Otherwise, Coupang would not have cut the couriers' salaries before, and Min Jae-sung would not have been squeezed out.

What he has to do now is to find a way to regain the lost power while pushing Coupang to launch its own 100 billion subsidy plan to compete with Xuanxiao Mall.

At the same time, in the living room of a high-end ward in Seoul Hospital, Li Zhixuan was expressing his feelings to Min Jae-sung.

"Kim Fanxi was sidelined? He's the founder and a major shareholder, how could he be sidelined?"

"Do you think everyone is the same as you? From the very beginning of the business, every decision was made by you alone. You have to be involved in all the big and small matters of the company. Who dares to have any opinions?

But Kim Fanxi started his business with funds from Americans, so he was born with a deficiency.

"Having taken their funding, he had to consider their opinions on many decisions and personnel arrangements. Now that they think he's disobeying them, there are certainly ways to replace him."

Hearing this, Li Zhixuan couldn't help but sneer: "Ha! Just because you take their money, you have to listen to them? Then does Xuanyao Mall need to raise funds next?"

Xuanyao Group has almost spent its initial 50 billion yuan in funding, and will definitely need to raise funds next. In fact, Xuanyao Mall is already in talks with many investment institutions on this matter.

If you take someone's money, does that mean you have to accept their advice and suggestions? After all this, is the company still yours? Even if it's still yours in name, what about in reality?
"We need to do a good job in personnel arrangements."

As he spoke, Li Zhixuan raised his hand and pointed at his eyes: "You need to open those eyes. You deserve to be bitten if you keep someone else's dog by your side!"

Keep someone else's dog as your own.

Hearing this, Min Jae-sung's eyes lit up, and then he clapped his hands and laughed, "Haha! That's brilliant! It makes so much sense! Kim Fan-seok is the one who got bitten. Hahaha!"

"Ha ha!"

After laughing, the two chatted about work for a while, then Min Zaicheng stood up and said, "Okay, I've finished reporting my work. Now I'll go back and start implementing the plan you decided on. Goodbye."

After saying this, Min Zaicheng was about to bow and say goodbye.

Seeing this, Li Zhixuan quickly reached out to support him and said with a smile, "You're not a young man anymore, so don't bow in private. Take good care of your waist and body, and work with me for two more years. I hope that on the day I reach the summit, my assistant won't be replaced."

Hearing this, Min Zaicheng showed a relieved and touched smile on his face: "Yes, sir."

"Slow down on the road."

"I know. Goodbye."

Afterwards, Li Zhixuan sent Min Jae-sung out of the ward and came to Park Min-young's ward.

There were only Park Min-young and Park Ji-yeon in the ward, and they were playing online games on their mobile phones.

Seeing him come back, Park Min-young couldn't help but ask curiously, "Who's here? I heard you guys talking and laughing outside."

"Min Zaicheng, the president of Xuanxiao Mall, is here to report on his work."

Hearing about Xuanyao Mall, Park Min-young raised her hand and slapped her forehead. "If you hadn't mentioned Xuanyao Mall, I would have forgotten about it. Yesterday afternoon, I saw someone online saying that Xuanyao Mall's sales performance was not good, so after announcing the first day's results, they haven't announced any subsequent results. This matter even became a trending topic."

"Ha! Childish trick!"

Seeing Li Zhixuan's disdainful look, Park Minying was puzzled: "What do you mean?"

"For example, a seven-year-old elementary school student just took his final exam and scored 90 points. You want to know his score, but he won't tell you. At this time, if you say to him with disdain: "You can only get 60 points at most."

How will the child react at this time? "

"I know!" Park Ji-yeon quickly raised her hand and answered, "He'll probably angrily tell Min-young that he actually got 90 points."

Park Min-young understood now: "You mean, someone is trying to trick Xuanyao Mall?"

Li Zhixuan nodded: "If this matter had not become a hot search, then it would most likely not be a routine. But since it has become a hot search, it is probably a routine.

Xuanyao Mall has not announced its sales results, but a considerable number of brands have announced their weekly sales figures, which is also part of the publicity plan.

The current situation is that the sales of the announced part are already terrifying when added together, but what if we add the sales that have not yet been announced?
Other e-commerce platforms are scared, so they want to create public opinion and force Xuanyao Mall to release its sales results so that they can prescribe the right medicine and formulate corresponding countermeasures.

The two girls understood, but a new question arose: "Why doesn't Xuanyao Mall announce its sales results? If the results are good, publishing them should attract more users to shop online at Xuanyao Mall, right?
If this is kept secret, it’s inevitable that some people will actually believe that Xuanyao Mall’s sales performance is poor and thus choose not to shop there.”

"Of course I have to announce it, but it's boring to announce it every day. I'm going to hold it in for a long time."

Are you holding it in for a big one?

Upon hearing this, the curiosity of the two girls was immediately piqued. Park Ji-yeon quickly asked, "How big is it?" Li Zhixuan smiled slightly and said, "You'll know tomorrow."

"Keeping us in suspense? Humph~ annoying!"

"Ha ha!"

"Dingling bell~"

Just as he was smiling, Li Zhixuan's cell phone rang. Seeing that it was Kim Go-eun calling, he immediately answered the call.

"Gao En, is everything done?"

Li Zhixuan thought that Kim Go-eun had found the murderer of Park Min-young, and was in a good mood.

But just as he finished speaking, Jin Gaoen's somewhat nervous voice came from the phone: "I'm sorry, President, the matter is not settled yet. Something went wrong again."

The smile on Li Zhixuan's face disappeared instantly, and he quickly asked, "What happened?"

"Ms. Taeyeon fell and got hurt."

"WTF?!"

Li Zhixuan, who was originally sitting on a chair, suddenly sat up with a look of anger on his face. Park Ji-yeon and Park Min-young were both startled.

Kim Go-eun on the other end of the phone was also startled, then she gritted her teeth and said carefully again: "Ms. Taeyeon fell and got hurt."

"Accident or man-made?!"

"The fall can be said to be an accident, but someone did want to harm Miss Taeyeon."

What does this mean?
Li Zhixuan frowned and said angrily, "What's going on? Tell me more specifically."

"Ms. Taeyeon is going to Busan to film today..."

"Wait a minute, isn't Girls' Generation's comeback season coming up? Why is she filming in Busan? Who asked her to go? Is this a last-minute trip or was it planned long ago?"

After three consecutive questions, Kim Go-eun almost had her computer crash.

"Well...I...I'm not sure."

"Check it out!!!"

Li Zhixuan hung up the phone angrily. He felt like hitting someone who couldn't even answer three simple questions like that.
It was the first time that Park Min-young and Li Zhixuan had seen him get angry, and it was such a big rage. Both women were unconsciously nervous, and Park Min-young quickly comforted him, saying, "Don't worry, don't get yourself hurt by anger. What happened?"

"Taeyeon went to Busan to film and got injured."

"Ah?" The two women looked at each other in surprise, and both of them were thinking: Another one?
Park Ji-yeon got sick, Park Min-young got injured, and two days later, Kim Taeyeon got injured again. Is this a bad year?

Li Zhixuan didn't have time to explain to them.

"I have to go to Busan. Call me if you have anything."

"Got it. Just go slowly on your way."

"Don't worry, be careful on the road."

"Uh-huh."

At 11:30 am, in a VIP ward of Donggui Hospital in Busan, Kim Taeyeon was lying on the bed with her head against the headboard, a circle of white gauze wrapped around her head, and a menu in her hand, thinking about what dishes to order.

What should I eat? I don’t want to eat anything too vegetarian, but I’m in the recovery period, and eating too well will make me gain weight easily. Sigh!

This morning, she flew from Seoul to the railway maintenance plant in Busan to film as planned.

She plays a female cheerleader in Train to Busan. The first scene she has to shoot today is where she is pushed off the train by the villain and then bitten by a zombie.

The audition went well at first, but something unexpected happened during the actual filming. When she was pushed off the train, she tripped at the door, which caused her to fall in a different posture and landing position than originally planned.

The place where she landed changed, but the protective pad on the ground was fixed and would not change position accordingly.

As a result, after Kim Taeyeon landed, most of her body was on the protective mat, with only her head exposed.

There were stones everywhere next to the railway, and one of them hit her head.

Fortunately, she landed lying down and hit the back of her head, which saved her from disfigurement, though she did bleed. It was just a minor cut, though, and she didn't suffer a concussion or anything like that.

Because the problem was not serious, Kim Taeyeon didn't take it seriously, so she was in the mood to order food.

She was just worrying here when the ward door was pushed open with a click and Li Zhixuan rushed in with a nervous look on his face.

"Taeyeon, how are you feeling now?"

Seeing Li Zhixuan coming, Jin Taeyeon was very surprised and a little dissatisfied: "Why are you here? Didn't I tell them not to tell you?"

"You fell and got hurt. Who would have the guts to not tell me? How are you? Are you still in pain?"

"Don't worry, it's just a minor injury. It doesn't hurt much."

A minor injury?! You silly girl! You almost died!
Because Park Min-young was assassinated, Lee Chi-xuan increased the security level for all his women, including Kim Taeyeon.

In today's scene, the protective pad that Kim Taeyeon will use was purchased and placed by her bodyguard.

Even so, the bodyguards specially checked the protective pads before the audition began.

Results! I actually found something!

Three 15-centimeter-long steel needles were placed at different positions in the sponge of the protective pad!

If Kim Taeyeon fell off the train and hit the protective pad, she would be seriously injured if not dead!

Fortunately, it was found. But who put the needle in?
There were a large group of people on the crew, a mixed bag, and the bodyguards were unable to find out for the time being. Therefore, Jin Gaoen and An Zaixi did not report the matter to Li Zhixuan for the time being.

It wasn't until Kim Taeyeon accidentally fell that they dared not keep it secret any longer.

Li Zhixuan was almost going crazy. Park Min-young was assassinated and the real murderer had not been found yet, and Kim Taeyeon was almost killed again.

Who is it that holds such a grudge against me? Li Zhiwen? Li Zhiwu? Xin Yongjun?
If it were them, they could just kill me. There's no need to attack my woman, right?
Could it be... palace fighting?
(End of this chapter)