Chapter 40: Possessive Daughter & Twisted Daddy.

Leo was driving his car with a pouting princess sitting in the back. Today Lily was wearing a sky blue colored skirt. Leo knew why she was angry, this kid wanted to stay back at home once again. However, Leo did not agree, it was important that while they pampered her, they also needed to keep her in discipline.

Leo sighed as the car stopped at a traffic signal and said, "Baby, please don’t be angry."

Lily snorted and turned her head to look outside the window. She took a deep breath and said, "You just want to send me to school so that you can be with Ma. You don’t love me."

Leo wished to cry but his tears had dried up, and he asked, "Why do you think that is the case?"

Lily snorted but did not reply. The young man took a deep breath and said, "Love, I have an event to attend, I will not be at home for long. Plus, all these years, your Ma did not take a day off work, and still cared for me. Is it not fair to say that I will care for her when she is sick?"

The little girl lowered her head as if she was thinking deeply and asked, "Then who do you love more?"

Leo was surprised and he said, "Ofcourse, I love my darling more."

Lily narrowed her gaze, she could feel that something in this statement was wrong, but she could not tell what exactly it was. She nodded, and her mood improved.

Leo did not know how his daughter grew up to be so possessive. She was even competing with her mother in this manner. The car drove to the gate of the school. He helped Lily out of the car, and the little girl beckoned him closer. Leo crouched down and then she pecked his cheek and said, "I love you Baba."

Leo smiled heartily and pecked her back as he said, "I love you too, Lily."

Then she went inside the school, with Miss Verse, who was there to receive the students. The two waved at each other and Leo got back in his car. He picked up his mobile and sent a message to Snow, "Our daughter is a possessive soul."

Then he drove to the Opulence Arena. This place was known for holding some of the biggest events in the city. Be it film launch events, fashion shows, award shows, or gaming tournaments.

So, to gather even more attention, Butterfly Technologies booked the hall for launching their mobile phone. They had invited all the influencers that helped them promote the product early on, along with many media representatives as well.

Leo parked his car, and as he got down, he found that Snow had replied to him, "Haha, so you finally understood that your princess is an angel with horns. Huh?"

The young man smiled and then asked her how she was feeling and walked inside the venue. He was greeted by Rama Kashyap. The tech head greeted Leo with a smile on his face, and said, "Boss, the chairman is waiting for you inside."

Leo nodded and Rama silently led him to the back stage, where Percie Hibiscal was communicating with a bunch of people. She smiled and excused the people, when she spotted Leo coming in.

She approached him and suddenly frowned as she asked, "President, why are you dressed up so casually?"

Leo shook his head and said, "It is fine like this. Can you arrange for a face mask?"

Percie was surprised and asked, "Boss, you don’t want to show your face?"

Leo shook his head and replied, "I want to create a mystery element around myself. This way the people will have more questions and curiosity about the products and the company. It will give us a marketing edge."

Percie did not have too much stress, but she could not say otherwise, after all, this man was the president of the company. She nodded and looked at one of the staff members from her side to quickly get a nice face mask.

Leo called the chairman of the Yulu streaming platform, Elvin Stein and told him to arrange for a promoted channel that would be streaming the launch event live. Elvin did not have any problem, and agreed to do it.

…

Percie Hibiscal stood on the stage glimmering with the spotlight and said, "Thank you all of the friends from the media, for coming and joining us at the launch event of the Butterfly Monarch."

She was greeted with a warm round of applause. Yes, this event was just akin to a publicity stunt for them. In the past week, the influencers have done a lot of marketing for their product. The most shocking fact of the campaign was that all of them were completely satisfied with the mobile.

Be it price, be it specs, or be it the performance. The people praised it and even were ready to replace their old phones. Although they still mentioned the points that could be improvised in the final product, and they were paid, the people did not think that this was a biased opinion.

The company had only invited a few people who were known for their honest operation and opinions. They even broadcast the meeting where all the terms were discussed.

Percie said, "Today, we are going to unveil the first of the many products of the Butterfly Tech company. For that, I would like to call upon the President and the founder of the company, Mister X."

That name alone caused some people to exchange glances and soon Leo Cardinal climbed the stairs and came to the stage with a white mask on his face. Only his eyes were visible to the people but the sharp aura he had an intimidating effect on them all.

The young man held a microphone in his hand and nodded to Percie who took a step back before giving the center to him. Leo said, "Thank you, Percie, and greetings everyone."

The crowd was silent but they were all itching to ask Leo a few questions about the reasons behind why he was hiding behind a mask, but before anyone could heckle, Leo said, "I am sure that everyone of you wants to know why is my face covered with a mask. However, we can discuss that after we have finished the product launch."

As soon as he finished speaking, a video began to play on a huge screen behind him. Leo turned around to watch as well, after all this was the first time he had watched the video. All he knew about the mobile was from the blueprints that he gave to the company. He just wanted to know how it was being presented to the world. S~eaʀᴄh the Nôvelƒire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Soon, a butterfly appeared fluttering through the void and it landed on a flower, however, after a few seconds, it flew again, and the flower turned out to be a wallpaper that was zoomed in by the camera.

Then began the introduction of the phone, and after a few minutes the video stopped. Leo said, "Well, so that was the AV, I must say that the graphics team has worked really well on it."

A few people laughed and Leo said, "So, the company designed the phone from scratch and while we are new, we can assure you that we don’t compromise in standards. Nor do we hold back in terms of performance. For the first batch we partnered with Helios seven, the latest chip was used to power each one of these devices.

I don’t think I need to elaborate on the capabilities of the processor. Let us see the combination of the processor with our phone.

You get a 6.1 inches LTPO Oled display, with the resolution of 1316x 2932 pixels, and 120 hz refresh rate. The brightness goes as high as 2400 nits. It has a 290 hz touch sampling rate, with P3 wide color gamut, and 1500 Hz high frequency PWM dimming…"

Leo went on and on about the features and the internals of the phone. This shocked the entire company staff, because if they were to be asked to go and explain all this even they might need to look at a paper. However, Leo, who had not stepped in the company for more than three times, was now just shooting bullets at the media.

The session lasted for one hour before it all came to an end, and then began the question and answer session. Leo said, "Alright, ladies and gents, we can begin with questions and answers. One at a time please."

He looked around and asked a reporter, "Yes, Sir, please go on."

The person said, "Hello, Sir, may I ask what would be the selling price of the device?"

Leo replied, "It would be priced for twenty thousand ren, we will be starting with the budget phone segment."

Then the reporter sat down and a lady raised her hand. Leo nodded to her and she asked, "Mister X, why the mystery?"

Leo chuckled and said, "My daughter thinks I am very handsome and she doesn’t want me to show my face outside."

The people were amused, and the lady asked, "Don’t you think it will affect the sales of your product? After all, how will you show that your company is credible?"

Leo replied, "Ma’am, if you wish to ask for credibility, then you must know our company has set up seven hundred service centers all over the country before selling the device out. This is our resolve and statement, we are here to stay."

The lady was shot down and she sat down. Till now, the conference was moving smoothly and suddenly a person raised his hand and asked, "Sir, it is said that the Pristine Mobiles, owned and run by Cardinal Group is the king in the budget phone market. Will your product not be in contradiction with them?"

Leo looked at the person for a prolonged moment and said, "Trash."

Everyone was stunned, Leo said, "Had it been the old administration which was led by the visionary Mister Cardinal, I might have been worried, but this new bunch of people, Mister Echo, and Mister Vincent, their business skills are just trash and we all know this."

He dismissed the Cardinal group directly, without hesitating for even a second, and the media got what they wanted. The scent of controversy that fueled their higher sales.

After a bit, the session ended, and Leo said, "Starting tonight, the product will be going live on all the major market places, and digital shopping platforms. Hope you all like what we are doing here at Butterfly Technologies."

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At noon, Leo came back home, and Snow was sitting on the couch as she said, "Congratulations, now the battle has begun."

Leo nodded with a smile and said, "They will try to attack us now. So let us see what they have in the store, because I am sure they won’t be ready for what I have in store."

Snow smiled and placed her feet in his lap, and Leo frowned as he said, "What will Lily do if she knew that I massaged your feet?"

Snow chuckled and joked, "You just challenged the Cardinal Group and you are scared of your four year old daughter. How twisted are you!"