“A set-up.” Jasper shrugged and passed the invitation to Chad.
Chad took a look and reacted completely differently from Jasper by immediately frowning at its content.
“Melody Electronics wants to invite us for a joint product launch? And they even invited a few television and newspaper representatives?”
At that, Chad instantly reacted. “This is the MP3 player manufacturer that’s been advertising their products all this while?”
“Exactly. And they have a domestic license to manufacture the MP3 player,” Jasper spoke calmly.
Chad frowned and spoke, “So they’re just intending to make a fool out of us in front of the media, then.”
“That’s why I called it a set-up. I’m afraid this isn’t as simple as making a fool of us. They’re going to use the power of the press to completely kill our product the moment it launches.”
Jasper had a calm expression on his face. He could already imagine how excited and proud Conrad must have looked when he made this decision.
Even though Conrad’s move was rather surprising and sudden, Jasper was not angry at him at all.
After all, they were rivals, and there was no law claiming that only Jasper could plot against Conrad and not the other way around.
The two of them were merely trying to spot weak points while they attacked and countered each other, in hopes to get rid of the other once and for all.
About the incident in Coreana regarding the patent, Jasper had found a way to counter Conrad. However, it was not a lie that Conrad’s move had almost destroyed Jasper’s chances of making profits through the MP3 player.
Conrad was still the one attacking now, and Jasper had to react.
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