59: Chapter 59 This thing looks just like Doraemon!

Su Qingxue looked at the phone screen.

That image, titled "Project: Doraemon," was like a massive boulder crashing into the lake of her heart, stirring up monstrous waves.

The black silhouette was filled with mechanical beauty, that rounded outline...

She had originally thought that the "cute companion-style Robot" Lu Li had asked the Su Family Machinery Factory to prepare was at most just some kind of technical verification for an industrial production line, a rough prototype.

But now, he even had a project codename and a futuristic-looking rendering.

How could this be a spur-of-the-moment idea?

This was clearly a long-planned scheme!

She looked up abruptly at the man sprawled on the sofa, her voice trembling slightly from excessive shock.

"Lu Li, is this... 'Doraemon,' the companion-style Robot from the blueprints?"

Lu Li lazily yawned.

"Yeah."

"It's just a little toy that can help you share housework and keep you company when you're bored."

"So you won't have to be so tired in the future."

A little... toy?

Su Qingxue felt a wave of dizziness and had to steady her forehead to keep from losing her composure.

To dismissively call a home Robot that could potentially overturn human lifestyles and even change the industrial landscape a "little toy."

At this moment, she finally understood completely.

Her husband's ambition had never been limited to the battlefield of smartphones.

That "1999 Yuan Pioneer sub-brand" that was enough to scare competitors out of their wits was, in his eyes, likely just a brick he'd picked up casually to swat flies.

Su Qingxue took a deep breath to calm herself, then decisively posted the silhouette to Weibo, immediately following the nuclear-level price announcement of the pioneer s1.

The caption was just a brief sentence: "Let us get a little closer to the future."

...

Meanwhile.

Dami Technology headquarters, top-floor conference room.

The atmosphere was terrifyingly oppressive.

Lei Jun stared expressionlessly at the "pioneer s1" poster on the projector, the glaring "1999" making his eyelid twitch uncontrollably.

Beside the conference table, Xiaomi's executives had already exploded into chaos.

"They're crazy! Guanghui Technology is absolutely crazy! A Snapdragon 835 with a Full-screen display for 1999? This isn't even called losing money, this is charity!"

"This is suicide marketing! Does Su Qingxue want to trade this for market share? How many days can her meager cash flow hold up?"

"Su Qingxue is still too young and can't keep her cool. This is completely a case of 'injuring the enemy by a thousand while damaging oneself by eight hundred'..."

"Clap."

A crisp sound.

The purple clay teacup in Lei Jun's hand was placed heavily on the table.

The conference room fell silent instantly.

Everyone shrank their necks, not daring to make a sound.

Lei Jun didn't look at anyone, just stared fixedly at the poster. After a long time, he squeezed a sentence out from between his teeth.

"This is not suicide."

He raised his head, his usually gentle gaze now filled with gravity.

"Look at the month she announced: December. Qualcomm is about to release their next-generation flagship chip, and the price of the 835 will plummet!"

This sentence was like a basin of ice water, instantly waking everyone present.

The mockery on the executives' faces instantly froze, replaced by terror.

"Mr. Lei, do you mean..."

"Guanghui Technology is clearing inventory, and by the way, flipping the table over," Lei Jun said coldly. "Nominally, they are encircling Tianqiong Interactive Entertainment, but with this blow, will our Green Rice have any way to survive?"

"Could it be?"

"Does this aftermath affect us too?"

An executive swallowed hard; even if he didn't want to admit it, he voiced the terrifying conjecture.

Guanghui Technology was clearly beating up Tianqiong Interactive Entertainment, but the overflowing AoE damage was about to melt Xiaomi's mid-to-low-end market as well!

"In any case, the focus of this Xiaomi MIX2 launch event must be changed."

Lei Jun stood up abruptly, his tone unquestionable.

Yes, because of the guanghui 7 and 7Ultra, the Xiaomi MIX2 launch had been delayed, but it couldn't be delayed much longer.

"The new Green Rice model must be priced lower again. Cut whatever configurations can be cut, use the 835 chip too. We must be cheaper than them to have any room for survival."

...

Across the Pacific Ocean, Silicon Valley.

Apple Inc.'s circular headquarters was brightly lit.

At a late-night emergency meeting, Cook frowned, scrolling repeatedly through the information about the "pioneer s1" on his screen.

The participating company executives had faces more grim than the last.

"1999 RMB... converted to USD, it's less than 300 dollars. Selling a Full-screen display of this quality at this price is breaking industry rules!"

"Boss, this is just the low-end market. It shouldn't affect our high-end positioning, right?"

Cook sneered, pointing at the Full-screen display on the screen that was almost overflowing.

"Of course it has an impact. They are reshaping consumer perception."

His voice was hoarse and low, carrying a sense of crisis.

"Once users get used to this kind of visual impact, and obtain it at such a low price... then Apple's pride-and-joy brand premium will be slashed in half."

"What's even more terrifying is that if Guanghui Mobile and Pioneer mobile phones go overseas in the future, and when the public in our country knows that they can own a screen with such good material for 300 dollars..."

"That will be a terrible disaster for Apple!!"

He had no mind to pay attention to the silhouette of the inconspicuous Robot figure in the corner of the poster.

Because the smartphone war currently unfolding, sparked by the "1999 Yuan" price tag, had already made him feel terrifying pressure.

This Guanghui Technology from the East was no longer just a lucky upstart.

Cook had already listed it as the number one potential competitor in the future global market.

...

However, on the other side, the atmosphere was completely different.

Tianqiong Interactive Entertainment, CEO's office.

Zhang Yuqing rushed in, almost dancing with excitement, his face filled with uncontrollable ecstasy.

"Mr. Fan! Mr. Fan! That stupid woman Su Qingxue has gone crazy!"

He shoved his phone in front of Fan Yu, reporting excitedly: "1999 Yuan! I had people in the supply chain calculate it. After stripping away the costs of the Snapdragon 835 and that Full-screen display, they don't even have enough for assembly fees! Every phone sold means a loss of at least four hundred!"

"She is using her own life to set off fireworks for us to watch! Hahahaha!"

Fan Yu leaned back on the sofa, slowly swirling the red wine in his glass, a sinister sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Good."

"Since she wants to die in a blaze of glory, we'll give her a push."

He took a sip of wine, his eyes flashing with malicious light.

That woman had rejected his family's proposal for a marriage alliance and instead found a "three-nothing" ordinary man. He had endured this grudge for two years.

Only after taking over as CEO of Tianqiong Interactive Entertainment did he decide to make a small move.

"Notify all the internet trolls and distributors we keep. From now on, hype up the 'pioneer s1' like crazy! Get the buzz up to the sky for me!"

Zhang Yuqing was stunned: "Mr. Fan, this... isn't this helping her promote it?"

"Idiot!" Fan Yu snorted coldly. "I want her pioneer s1 to explode in popularity! I want everyone to know she has a phone with 'unbeatable price-performance ratio'! Then, when millions of orders come crashing down, I'll see where she gets the money to fill this bottomless pit!"

"I want to watch her helplessly as her capital chain breaks! That is what you call breaking someone's heart!"

Fan Yu's face was filled with the pleasure of controlling everything.

He even ordered the communication software department of Tianqiong Interactive Entertainment to proactively send invisible advertisements for the "pioneer s1," actually wanting to use the terrifying order volume to completely crush Guanghui Technology's cash flow.

He could never have dreamed.

That "Non-notch Full-screen display production line optimization plan" that Lu Li provided to Su Qingxue, which was enough to make the Samsung screen factory envious, had already given the 1999 price point a certain amount of profit margin.

On the internet, the discussion about the "pioneer s1" completely exploded.

[Guanghui is awesome (voice crack)! 1999 for a Full-screen display! I'm hyping it to the max!]

[Just finished calling the Guanghui flagship phone industrial trash, and they turn around and release a charity phone? My face hurts, but I feel so good!]

[Mr. Lei: My mentality has collapsed, damn it!]

[Is the tianqiong t1 still not lowering its price? If not, I'm canceling my order.]

[Will you buy it if they lower the price?]

[Of course not, just teasing them!]

[But I have to wait until December. Still, for the Full-screen display and the Xiao Dou AI assistant that's a few hundred cheaper, I'm willing to wait!!]

The carnival of public opinion drowned everything out.

And in a corner of an obscure digital forum, a discussion post about the details of the poster quietly emerged.

"[Rational Discussion] You guys look at the silhouette of the Blue Fatty in the bottom right corner of the pioneer s1 poster. It looks just like Doraemon. What does this mean?"