bookrebus Chapter 705 has very few options?
Chapter 705 has very few options?
Ning Xiuyuan didn't think for long before saying directly, "Of course, I was originally going to ask President Sheng for guidance anyway."
"I wouldn't call it giving pointers, but I can offer some suggestions. Please feel free to speak your mind, Ms. Ning," Sheng Hanyu said politely.
"Okay. Then I'll be frank, this matter might affect my reputation."
Upon hearing Ning Xiuyuan's words, Sheng Hanyu glanced at Lu Xuening.
Lu Xuening didn't show any extra expression, and Sheng Hanyu mentally added a point to her score.
Although he didn't think that such a situation would occur, there are indeed people in the world who, if others don't agree with them in the slightest, will immediately jump up and feel that others look down on them.
Fortunately, Lu Xuening is not that kind of person.
"I'm not entirely sure what that means... to be precise, I'm not familiar with your industry. So, what do you mean by reputation?"
Since Ning Xiuyuan was direct, Sheng Hanyu also spoke directly.
"Hmm. If you don't mind taking a few minutes, I can give you a brief explanation." Ning Xiuyuan didn't hesitate much; he had an attitude of being used to being asked this question so often.
"Please say."
"You might find this absurd, but in our industry... the matchmaking industry, what do people generally consider to be the most important thing?"
"Perhaps it's connections?" Xu Jingyan chimed in.
"Connections are important, but their importance is secondary. The most important thing is actually fairness."
“This is the first time I’ve heard this. But isn’t it only the legal profession that values fairness?” Sheng Hanyu asked.
Even so, he actually understood Ning Xiuyuan's meaning to some extent, and he just wanted to see if it was as Ning Xiuyuan thought.
"If we were to rank these two professions in this respect, I would say that the legal profession is more impartial. Moreover, they also have similarities. For example, we need to be authoritative, which means we cannot show any obvious bias."
Ning Xiuyuan continued to explain, "Especially for our Ning family, not only is it an industry that has been passed down for a hundred years, but our main clients have always been major wealthy families... So, whether people believe that we are not secretly manipulating things is very important, and it can basically be said to be the foundation of our business."
“Okay.” Sheng Hanyu gestured for him to continue.
That's exactly what he thought.
If it's just a regular matchmaking service, of course it wouldn't involve issues at this level.
Whether it's the kind with high membership fees or the kind that's located at the entrance of a vegetable market, it's actually still primarily based on interpersonal relationships.
However, if the client is a wealthy family, then the issue of marriage alliances between wealthy families comes into play, and going even deeper, it involves the issue of economic lifelines.
In other words, the Ning family is not some kind of brotherhood organization that secretly controls the world; otherwise, it would be too easy to manipulate them.
Therefore, it is normal for them to have credibility in the outside world.
"Okay, so next is the happiness of the marriage. This may sound cold-blooded, but the happiness of a marriage is never determined by feelings. But I think you can easily understand this, since they need a marriage introduction, which means they have already assumed that feelings are not an important factor."
“No, I think it’s very realistic,” Sheng Hanyu said.
"I hope you understand. So what we're doing at this stage is matching, or to put it more scientifically, studying the compatibility between two people and their families... This work needs to be done well, at least we can't have any bad reviews."
"So, can I understand that the reason we don't do business with the Lu family is because of their bad reputation? Of course, I don't mean it to you personally."
Sheng Hanyu's last words were addressed to Lu Xuening, who shook her head, indicating that she didn't care.
The Lu family is indeed the type that takes advantage of others and then leaves negative reviews... So the Ning family's avoidance of them is more about this than a matter of principle.
“That’s part of it, but actually…” Ning Xiuyuan paused for a moment and said, “Could I request that the rest of the conversation be kept confidential?”
“Relatively confidentiality is acceptable,” Sheng Hanyu said.
Ning Xiuyuan knew that he would probably go back and tell Ye Sanqing about this, which was within the scope of the confidentiality he requested, so he continued, "Actually, several major wealthy families have made it clear that they will not consider their family."
"Isn't this considered inside information?"
Sheng Hanyu wasn't surprised at all by these words, because the Lu family was certainly notorious, but to the point of being explicitly blacklisted by everyone...
"Of course, that's why I requested confidentiality. There have been several couples in history who married freely without our Ning family's interference. But the endings were all unpleasant. However, I think you should already know this."
“I’ve heard about it, but I certainly don’t know as much as you do,” Sheng Hanyu said.
Since it's a historical event, it's something that happened to the previous generation. In fact, he doesn't need to know at all, because just look at the current state of the concubines—some are dead, some are injured. It would be a miracle if their families were happy about that.
The reason they haven't caused much trouble right now is because they all depend on the Lu family for survival. If it were a more respectable family, anyone could easily understand that no family could tolerate this.
Conversely, since the girls of the Lu family are all trained for marriage alliances, they are not going out to support the other family or work together, but rather to plunder resources for their own use.
In addition, the Lu family's methods can only be described as ruthless and vicious... "unpleasant" is an understatement.
"Yes, that's exactly why. Even if I didn't intend to get involved in the Lu family's dispute, as long as I explicitly stated that I was helping the Lu family, others would interpret my actions differently. And that's beyond my control."
Ning Xiuyuan finally finished explaining, and he concluded, "What I proposed was the simplest solution to avoid getting out of control."
“Okay, I completely understand.” Sheng Hanyu looked at Lu Xuening. “But actually, I’m not the one who should be bothered. Why don’t we hear what Miss Lu has to say?”
“I have no objection,” Lu Xuening said without hesitation.
Because she could never possibly say something like "I have an opinion".
Sheng Hanyu's words were merely a formality. "Since Miss Lu has no objections, let's proceed accordingly. However, I am indeed quite curious: a real marriage is fine, but what about a fake marriage?"
"All I can say is that since it's a matchmaking agency, there's a demand for both real and fake marriages, as well as semi-real and semi-fake marriages, where the real marriage is disguised as the fake one."
"Mr. Ning is quite humorous. Do you have any alternative lists for us to consider?"
"Yes, but you need to be mentally prepared."
Ning Xiuyuan stopped using the term "you all," indicating that he now fully understood that Sheng Hanyu was the one in charge here.
"What, are there very few options?"
"You can't say that..."