After the Affair Falling into a Billionaire's Arms novel Chapter 514

Chapter 514

Louisa gave a brief overview of het proposed plan.

Every dismissive expression in the room instantly froze.

The project leader was a man in his forties named Rhett Bennett.

He immediately stepped forward to explain. “Ms. Forbes, the original project was the official plan established when it was approved. Corporate headquarters signed off on this direction. We’ve been following it for the past ten years. It’s environmental limitations that are the problem, not the plan itself.”

Louisa said, “It’s not environmental limitations. The direction was wrong from the start.”

Her calm gaze swept across the room–unhurried, unruffled–yet her steady presence crushed everyone else’s confidence.

For a moment, they were all intimidated by her commanding presence. No one knew how to argue back.

Louisa continued. “For the past ten years, you’ve been doing the most ridiculous thing imaginable. You’re sitting on an entire mountain of native resources, but instead of using them, you’ve been destroying the forest to import expensive foreign species at inflated costs. You ve

wasted and trampled the wild resources that are perfectly suited to this land. Meanwhile, you’ve spent a fortune trying to force an industry that

doesn’t belong here, and then you turn around and tell headquarters that the mountain’s no good, that the environment’s too poor? Starting

today, the old plan is completely scrapped.

First, all manual land clearing stops immediately. Every hillside and slope that’s been damaged will be restored. We’ll return farmland to forest and regenerate native vegetation. Second, eliminate all overseas imported mass–production models. We’re done copying the playbook from city industrial parks. Third, abandon all raw material wholesale channels.”

She said it all in one breath.

Everyone in the room was stunned, staring at Louisa in disbelief.

Ten years of groundwork–wiped out by three sentences?

Was she joking?

People exchanged bewildered looks.

Then Rhett raised an objection. “If we’re not doing mass production or importing species, what are we supposed to do? How does this project

make money?”

Louisa replied, “This mountain itself is the best asset we have. We don’t manufacture resources–we protect them, we use native resources. We’ll create a domestic supply of botanical raw materials specifically for high–end fragrance brands in our country, filling the gap in imported luxury ingredients”

That last sentence left the entire conference room in dead silence.

But a moment later, the room exploded.

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Everyone began firing off objections:

“If we’re only harvesting wild native plants, the supply will be unstable What if we caret meet order volumes?”

“The forest isn’t under unified management. Water and soil erosion is serious during the rainy season. How do we guarantee plant survival rates?”

“Without clearing land to expand planting scale, output won’t increase. How can we compete with imported materials?”

“There are all kinds of animals running wild in the mountains, trampling plants and damaging the forest. How are we supposed to cultivate anything?”

Question after question came flooding in, chaotic and practical.

These people had been rooted here for years. Every point they raised was a real, hard–hitting obstacle in the mountains–not just empty challenges.

Louisa couldn’t immediately offer precise, reliable answers.

She didn’t argue back forcefully. After a brief silence, she said calmly, “You’re all right. The plan needs refinement.”

With that, she left the conference room.

Only the internal staff remained. A few of the older employees laughed dismissively.

“Young people are so idealistic.”

“Exactly. She thinks sitting in headquarters reading a few reports qualifies her to spout off like this. Does she really think mountain industry is just playing house?”

“Native materials, protecting resources, ‘filling the national market gap–sounds nice, but if we don’t throw some hard problems at her and shatter her fantasy, she’ll never know her place.”

“Just wait. These are real, hard problems we face in the mountains. She can’t solve them. She won’t have any solutions. In the end, she’ll stink away in defeat, or she’ll stick with our old plan and request a transfer.”

“We’ve been stuck here for how many years? She thinks she can single–handedly turn this mess around? Pure delusion.”

The group grew more animated as they talked.

Elara had been about to follow Louisa out, but hearing this, she couldn’t hold back anymore.

She turned to face the gloating crowd. “Have you said enough? Whatever the final outcome, at least Ms. Forbes is trying to solve problems. What about you? All you do is go through the motions and give up. You have the nerve to say you’ve been guarding this place for years? If Ms. Forbes actually solves the problems you couldn’t, I’d love to see how you’ll keep your jobs while coasting on autopilot. I’m reporting today s meeting to headquarters–exactly as it happened.”

With that, she walked out.

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Elara wasn’t part of the mountain division. She was mid–level management at the Northwest regional branch.

Everyone in the mountain office knew her and understood her words carried weight.

Once she said that, panic spread visibly across the room.

To them, headquarters was too far away. The regional office held their fate in its hands.

Louisa knew they’d gossip behind her back. She just didn’t care.

To her, her time should be spent on what mattered most.

She went deep into the forest again and saw small animals wandering around foraging.

After the ecosystem collapsed, pests ran rampant, beneficial birds declined, plants grew worse and worse–a vicious cycle that kept getting

heavier.

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