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Janice’s face darkened, but she reacted quickly. “She’s doing this on purpose.”

Sophia didn’t understand. “What?”

Julia said, “Maggie wants to force us to terminate the contract between our two companies, to delay the release of our autonomous vehicle.”

There were countless companies both domestically and internationally working on autonomous vehicles. If their project was delayed, even a small misstep could cause their product’s competitiveness to drop significantly in the future.

If they really terminated their contract with Cole, they would have to find another partner.

The chances of finding a partner with the same technical capabilities as Cole were slim.

Moreover, finding a new partner would cost a significant amount of money.

This wasn’t a small sum.

Terminating the contract would cost money, and finding a new partner would also cost money. If their autonomou vehicle’s competitiveness decreased in the future, the cumulative loss could be staggering!

Sophia was stunned. She hadn’t expected things to become so serious.

It wasn’t just her–Julia and the others in the room hadn’t anticipated this either.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have naively thought that a phone call to Johnny, apologizing or even paying some compensation, would resolve the issue.

Sophia slammed the table and stood up, shouting, “We can’t terminate the contract! Absolutely not!”

Everyone knew that terminating the contract was out of the question.

However, whether or not to terminate it wasn’t something they could decide now.

Old Lady Green spoke with a serious expression, “We’ll find another opportunity to talk to Johnny. We can renegotiate the terms of the contract.

We can pay him a sum of money. After all, he’s a businessman. He has no reason to oppose money. Moreover, if he terminates the contract with us, he also loses some money. As long as we offer him favorable terms, there’s no reason he wouldn’t agree.”

Julia didn’t respond.

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It wasn’t that she didn’t want to negotiate with Johnny.

It was that she wasn’t confident that, after offering terms, Johnny would be tempted.

If Johnny terminated the contract with them, he too would suffer some losses, but if he was willing to shoulder those losses just to help Maggie get back at her, it meant that he truly cared about Maggie.

Janice also realized this.

But after thinking for a moment, she said, “This matter, while big, still has room to be handled as a smaller issue. Even if Cole takes us to court to terminate the contract, they might not win.”

Sophia’s eyes lit up. “Right! If they can’t win, they’ll have to obediently continue cooperating with us!”

Julia wasn’t as optimistic. noveldrama

She said, “Lawsuits are troublesome and time–consuming. Even if they can’t win, they will have achieved their goal of slowing down our progress.

Furthermore, what if they win? If we find a new partner after the lawsuit, won’t that cause us to miss even more opportunities?”

Sophia was speechless.

She suddenly had nothing to say.

Old Lady Green’s face darkened as well. “She always seemed like a soft touch, but I didn’t expect her to be so cunning and ruthless! I really underestimated her!”

Franklin had always been on their side, and his contributions to both families were countless compared to Maggie’s.

For them, they had originally thought that Maggie had no power to fight back, but unexpectedly, this sudden turn of events had caught them off guard!

In any case, if possible, not going to court and not terminating the contract would be the most beneficial for them.

With that thought, Janice looked at Julia and said, “This matter… you should talk to Franklin about it.”

Julia had been thinking the same way.

However…

The origin of this matter lay with them-

She had always had a good image in Franklin’s heart.

If Franklin found out about this incident, she wasn’t sure if he would think that she and her family were bullying

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Maggie, which might affect her image in his eyes.

Janice naturally understood her concerns.

No one knew better than her the importance of maintaining a good public image.

After all, it was the key to keeping a man in love with you!

Old Lady Green also understood. The reason Franklin loved Julia so much was because she was special and good enough in his eyes.

If Franklin found out about this matter, it could indeed affect how he saw Julia.

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