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When Wynn was on the phone with Matthias, she was sitting in a luxurious private room in a restaurant with Lilian, Erin, and the others, waiting for their dishes to be served.

Lilian noticed the awful look on Wynn’s face after the phone call ended. She asked, “What’s the matter? What did Matthias say to you?”

Wynn tightened her grip on her phone and responded, “Matthias is terminating the collaboration with us and demanding we compensate YodaVision Co. for damage of reputation.”

“What?” Lilian gasped, and so did Erin, Linda, and the others.

Linda said angrily, “We have apologized properly for this incident. Didn’t the bitch say that the whole thing will blow over once you get in touch with Matthias and tell him how sorry we are?

“Why is he terminating the contract and demanding some kind of compensation?”

Lilian wore an icy expression, but she caught on fast and chimed in, “Celeste did it on purpose.”

Linda didn’t get it, though. “Huh?”

Wynn said, “Celeste wanted InnovaTech and YodaVision’s collaboration to fall through because she wanted to delay the launch of our autonomous vehicles.”

companies, both local and foreign, were dabbling in autonomous vehicles. If they

would definitely have to look for another collaborative partner. The thing was, there was next to no chance that their new partner could

funding, and it wouldn’t be a small amount. Terminating the contract and searching for a new partner would both cost

were radically reduced, the estimated total

was utterly dumbfounded. She had never expected for the matter to become this serious. It wasn’t just her, either. Wynn

have naively made a phone call to Matthias, thinking that an apology

slammed the table and cried out, “He can’t terminate the

that they couldn’t let this come to pass, but none of them had the kind of say

again. We can amend the agreement again

profit if the collaboration is terminated. There’s no reason to think that he wouldn’t

didn’t respond to Erin. It wasn’t so much that she didn’t want to talk to Matthias as it was that she lacked confidence he would accept

profits if the collaboration was terminated, but he was willing to bear that loss because he wanted to screw her over on Celeste’s behalf. In other words, it also meant that Celeste still meant a

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same conclusion, but she pondered on it and said, “This incident could be a big deal, but it’s perfectly possible to handle it as a minor hiccup. Matthias could try taking us to court to terminate the collaboration, but

they can’t win us in the legal battle, they won’t have any choice but to continue collaborating