Carolina was shaking with anger, and the reporters were thrown off by Chloe’s words.
Yes, they had been thinking exactly that.
Ms. Summers was indeed smart, doing damage control for what had already happened. In the past, she probably wouldn't even let the damage happen in the first place. Just as she said, if she was going to giv her the money, she should have done it a long time ago. Why would she wait until now?
"How cruel can you be to be this heartless?"
Chloe scoffed, "Yes, I'm cruel. If I wasn’t, I would have been torn to shreds by you long ago, and I wouldn’t have survived."
"So I’d rather lose ten or a hundred times more than 2 billion, than give you anything."d2
Carolina swayed, her face almost twisted in anger. "Do you hate me so much that you have to humiliate me? Chloe, I am after all..."
"You are my grandmother. How could I treat you like this?" Chloe smoothly took over, wearing a sarcastic smile on her face. "Carolina, if you were not my grandmother, but someone else's, I might not treat you like this. Maybe if they were really in a predicament like yours, I might even help them out of pity, without any conditions."
She said, with a faint smile, "Because if I gave to them, they might be grateful. Not like you, thinking everything I should or shouldn’t give is taken for granted. What shouldn't exist between us is precisely this sense of entitlement, you know?"
Carolina's eyes were filled with gloom. Her face alternated between different expressions, but she finally squeezed out an ugly smile.
"Anyway, I don't have many years left. Are you going to wait until I die to forgive me?"
"I think you're hoping to live to a hundred, right? With 2 billion, you could live it up for decades."
Each sentence was laced with sarcasm. After she finished, she laughed softly, her eyes seemingly frosted over in the cold weather. She looked down at Carolina, her cold gaze fixed on her, and said firmly, "But I mean what I said. So continue your tantrum."
She withdrew her gaze, looking at the reporters in front of her, her stern face filled with seriousness. "I can also take this opportunity to clean up the companies I have cooperated with. I am glad that those who have terminated their cooperation with me due to public opinion in recent days. I disdain to continue cooperating with such timid companies. Since you choose to terminate the cooperation now, then listen, any of you, will be blacklisted from all companies under my name, Chloe.
“I don't accept those who leave and then want to come back, so if you want to cooperate with me in the future, don't bring up this topic again, and if we unavoidably meet, remember to avoid me.
“10 billion may bring some problems for future cooperation, but it won't make me lose much. I can accept the losses because I have the ability to make a comeback. I’ve been through a lot in the business world, and I have that confidence. So to the partners who chose to quit, I thank you for taking the initiative to quit, saving me a lot of penalty fees.”
The reporters were stirred by Chloe's words. They felt that Chloe's words always had convincing reasons. So far, they hadn't seen Chloe fail in anything. In the business world, even experienced veterans might not be able to beat the very smart and wise her.
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