Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

"Hey, Croft, have you finished all my beer?" When Appal came back, he found Croft lying on the table. The whole room was filled with the smell of wine, and the table on the floor was full of wine.

Appal shook Croft, and Croft opened his eyes in a daze.

"Hey, Appal, why are you back...Isn't the party fun?"

"It's nine-twenty now, you bastard," Appal said.

"What? Nine-twenty?" Croft's face changed in shock: "Damn it, it's over, I have an exam today."

"When is the exam?"

"Nine thirty, West Building."

Appal looked at the time again: "If you rush over now, you might be able to make it in time, but you've been drinking all night... Are you sure you want to take the exam?"

Croft couldn't care less about the smell of alcohol at this time and hurriedly packed up his books and pens.

"Forget it, I'll drive you there on a motorcycle." Appal is worthy of being Croft's best friend.

Seeing that Croft was so nervous, he could only help.

"What kind of exam is this?"

"The Comprehensive Graduate Examination is a preliminary exam before the official exam." Croft said: "However, the number of places provided by the school is limited. If my results are not outstanding enough in this exam, I will probably lose the opportunity to take the official exam. , then my half-year preparations will be finished."

"Okay, is there anything I can do to help you?"

"Bless me." Croft said helplessly.

Appale sent Croft outside the examination room, and the invigilator had already arrived.

But when Croft passed by him, the invigilator couldn't help but frown.

"Keruofu, did you drink last night? Don't you know that today's exam is very important? Do you face an important test with this attitude?" The invigilator obviously knew Keluofu.

"I'm sorry, teacher." Croft hurriedly entered the examination room without explaining.

Although the invigilator scolded me a few words, he didn't say much.

After all, Croft is an adult, he is just a teacher.

But he obviously didn't have much hope for Croft.

It can be felt from the smell of Croft's body that Croft drank a lot last night.

Maybe I'm not awake yet. What kind of results can I get in this state?

Croft was also very nervous at the moment.

I already regretted it so much in my heart, how could I be so reckless last night.

I had an exam the next day, and I drank so much that night.

And... Croft felt the urge to urinate...

After the test paper came first, Croft tensed his legs.

He wanted to go to the toilet...so badly...

Croft was answering questions in the exam, but Croft's only thought now was to finish the exam quickly and then go to the toilet.

Ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes...

The exam was originally ninety minutes long, but Croft finished it in less than sixty minutes.

"Crofo, what are you doing standing up?"

"Teacher... I'm done." Croft hurriedly put the test paper in front of the invigilator, and then ran away like a gust of wind.

"This bastard, is he fooling me?" The invigilator looked at Croft's back, picked up the test paper and looked at it.

The invigilator originally didn't have much hope for Croft's results.

"Hey, this guy doesn't seem to be answering randomly." The invigilator became more and more surprised as he looked at it. Croft was not just coping, he was really answering the questions seriously.

Could it be that the guy felt confident, so he answered in a hurry?

…

"Mr. Chen, let me report to you the sales of our beer since it was put on the shelves." Denver dialed Chen Zhao's phone number: "Currently we have distributed the products in 21 supermarkets in Mara Supermarket across California, with three types of cans The total sales volume of the beer in the first day was only 10,000 cans."

Chen Zhao rubbed his forehead. Even if Chen Zhao didn't understand the beer market, he knew that the sales volume on the first day was only 10,000 cans. This was by no means a good result.

"Aren't our ads spread out?"

"No, our advertising has already covered a wide range of people. However, my old employer, Xiyuan Beer, deliberately carried out a discount promotion on the day we were put on the shelves. This led to a significant reduction in our promotion efforts, and then Xiyuan Beer's US headquarters bought some of them. The media exposed our sales.”

Denver was not in a good mood either. After all, he and Chen Zhao originally expected to get off to a good start.

As a result, the sales volume on the first day was a huge blow to them.

"So what's the sales going to be like later?"

"It doubled on the second day, with 20,000 cans sold, and there was some increase on the third day, reaching 32,000 cans."

Denver paused and then said: "In terms of sales volume in the past three days, Dashan Beer only ranked 68th on the sales list of various beer brands in California."

"It's okay, we are just a new product, we have time." Chen Zhao knew that now was definitely not the time to blame anyone.

What Chen Zhao can do is to stabilize the morale of the army.

At the same time, give Denver enough credit.

Both Chen Zhao and the brewery need funds to withdraw money.

Otherwise, Chen Zhao's funds on hand would not be able to last for half a year.

However, everything is difficult at the beginning. Even if the start is unfavorable, Chen Zhao will not give up easily.

Chen Zhao's ultimate goal is to make money, but the current situation is completely different from the original idea and plan.

At first, Chen Zhao only planned to invest a few million dollars and do whatever he wanted, as long as he didn't lose money.

But now with the increase in investment, Chen Zhao has invested tens of millions of dollars so far.

From factories to production lines to raw materials, as well as employee salaries and advertising investment, these are all huge amounts.

If the brewery cannot improve, then Chen Zhao will suffer serious losses.

It will no longer be a loss of millions of dollars, but tens of millions.

Fortunately, Chen Zhao has not borrowed money from the bank yet.

Therefore, even if he loses money, Chen Zhao will not go bankrupt.

It cannot be said that Chen Zhao has not regretted it.

The more you invest, the more you worry about.

It is impossible for Chen Zhao to invest huge amounts of money, and he has a heartless attitude.

With the products on the shelves and investment in advertising, Chen Zhao will spend tens of millions of dollars on advertising and promotion in the next six months.

Of course, Chen Zhao doesn't have time to worry about the brewery's problems now.

Chen Zhao focused on Fali, who was less than a month away from her due date.

In the next twenty days, Fali may give birth at any time.

You can even give birth just by walking around anywhere.

Now wherever Fali goes, a large group of bodyguards follow her.

It's better to call it protection than surveillance.

Fali could swim in the water before, but now she is completely banned by Chen Zhao.

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