After Reborn, I Become a Billionaire novel Chapter 449

Chapter 449 The Game (1)

Hannah chuckled. Somehow, she felt warm inside when speaking of Oscar. The feelings of strong affection never showed when she was with Charles. Their relationship followed the prescribed order and was just a marriage. She was a traditional wife who thought that the marriage would be lifelong and she should pay all attention to him. She never thought twice. But at that moment, she felt that she was too stupid in her last life.
"Hannah," Manuel called her name twice but she didn't hear it.
"What are you thinking about?" Manuel teased.
"Nothing." Hannah denied, "Just want to ask Susan's reaction on your arriving."
"You know." Manuel said slowly, "She hates me."
"But when she knows the truth..."
"She will never know." Manuel interrupted.
"You know, sometimes you are so thoughtful that I think Susan doesn't worth it."
"That's not true. She has no responsibility because she doesn't like me. She never forces me to do anything and I'd like to do her a favour." Manuel said calmly.
"Just a favour?" Hannah frowned a little.
Since when Manuel started to brag? Or Oscar, Manuel, and Theodore were all genius who had unimaginable superpowers?
She always felt that the three of them were beyond imagination even with those mediocre appearances. Anyway, she didn't dare to imagine what they could do.
"It's not as difficult as you think." Manuel avoided further explanation, "That's it. I'd like to do my work. I'll call you when I get Sawyer's loan record."
"Okay. Then I won't bother you."
"Bye-bye."
Hannah hung up the phone and became a little depressed.
How could the Sawyer Group get involved in so many businesses? Its previous investments were reasonable because they were affordable. But projects of the South Bay New Town and the international e-commerce exceeded their capacity. Whether they were too ambitious to take any risk or someone was helping them?
The door was opened when she was concentrating on thinking.
Rose said, "Ms Hannah, the man you want to meet has arrived and he is waiting in the meeting room."
"Okay." Hannah nodded, "Tell Tan to be there."
"Yes."
Hannah stood up and walked to the meeting room with Tan following hurriedly.
A mid-aged man was in the meeting room. He had a small e-commerce platform. He didn't invest a lot in it and it didn't extend the market to the whole country but only offered some door-to-door services in the local area. Hannah decided to take over it.
The man was a little nervous to meet Hannah. It was reasonable to be nervous for a boss worth millions to meet a leader from a company worth billions.
"Mr Dixon, right?" Hannah spoke first.
"Yes, Mrs Wells. How are you?" Jensen stood up to shake hands in a hurry.
"Sit, please." Then they sat down. Hannah said bluntly, "The reason I invite you today is that I'd like to have a conversation with you about taking over the Bead Chain e-commerce platform.
"It's a small company and the net profits are less than a million, I don't know why you want it?" Jensen was a little confused. The money was quiet enough for him and his family but meant nothing for the Cooper Group.
"Surely, e-commerce will have its day, and companies like yours will be replaced by a bigger one, such as the one the Sawyer Group is constructing, which will replace small ones like yours soon." Hannah cut to the chase, "But it will be different if it is arranged by the Cooper Group. Also, you may wonder why I don't run a company by myself. I've thought about that but there are too many troubles and procedures and we don't have time to waste. So we prefer taking over yours and doing some changes."
Jensen listened and believed what she said. Since they are far richer than him, he didn't think that the Cooper Group would take advantage of him.
"How much will you pay for it?" he said.
Hannah had done a lot of investigations and she knew that Jensen didn't pay much attention to his business. Given enough money, he would sell it immediately.
Hannah handed a file to him, which had made everything clear. Jensen took it hurriedly and was shocked.
Five million. She would like to give five dollars for it, which was worth two million at most.
"What do you think of the price?" Hannah asked.
"Absolutely." Jensen said in hurry and asked, "Can such a stroke of luck happen to me?"
"Miracles happen every day." Hannah was joking.
Jensen thought for a while, "Well if you won't defraud me and give me the money you promised, I can sell the Bead Chain e-commerce platform."
"You can check the contract and we'll give you the money the next day you sign."
Jensen picked it up and read it again, "I trust you."
"Sign here. You bring the official seal?"
"Yes," Jensen answered hurriedly.
"Then stamp."Jensen did what she said.
They shook the deal.
After some talks with courtesy, Hannah sent him away and went back to the office with Tan. Hannah said, "Do you think it is worth five million to buy a company less than two million?"
"Surely it does." Tan was candid, "Five million can boost the Bead Chain's market value and makes it more competitive. A lower price means that the e-commerce platform is worth less and it won't win their trust. However, five million is still far cheaper than two billion of the Sawyer Group."
"So, we're going to hype it up." Hannah said, "Local e-commerce platforms like the Bead Chain focus on two things. First, we follow the original operation mode of the Bead Chain and focus on the local market. Our advantage is the speed. It cost one day to deliver things within a city. Second, international e-commerce, import and export trade."
"So Ms Hannah, you mean that we are not as complicated as that of Sawyer? We find our position and do professional projects only and attract international e-commerce platforms to cooperate?"
"And the only advantage that we don't have is..." Hannah restrained.
"The clout." Tan felt the same way.