Chapter 13 - 1.13 Second Place
"I also don't know! The announcement has just been sent out." Brother Tang replied in annoyance. "The staff can't find a suitable sponsor so the only thing they can do is to postpone it to an indefinite time. But what's the difference between that and cancellation?"
"There's no sponsor?" Jing Xuehao asked in disbelief. "How is that possible?!"
Brother Tang clicked his tongue. "I don't know. If it's indeed cancelled, then forget it."
"How can I—" The call was hung up in the next second.
"Damn it!" Jing Xuehao cursed out loud. He had painstakingly gone through the effort to search for a perfect partner before finding Brother Tang and convinced him to form a team, and then they had also created an almost perfect business proposal that was both new and innovative. The hours they spent...the money they lost... And now, they were saying that the competition was cancelled just like that?!
The first prize was two million dollars... Dividing it with Brother Tang, he could still get one million dollars. For a high schooler without any working experience and moreover, an orphan at that, it was already an enormous amount of money he couldn't even dream of obtaining.
Imagining the money and his bright future plans slipping out of his fingers was more detrimental than knowing the fact that Ren Zexi would inherit a company and become a billionaire as soon as he entered adulthood.
From that day on, he tried to search for another business plans competition to no avail. Such a competition was rare especially when it was opened to students. Jing Xuehao didn't give up and tried to submit his business plan to every decent company he could find.
Some responded while the majority didn't even bother to look at the proposal a high schooler had created. The ones who were eager to reach out to him either wanted to exploit his talents or offer him only a ridiculously meager share of profit.