Becoming A Tech Tycoon Begins With Regression novel Chapter 188

Chapter 188: Launch Day

Lillian placed a finger on her chin, completely lost in thought.

She might’ve been tired and had her eyes closed but she could clearly hear Aria’s apology.

So why was she so lost in thought? Well, she was thinking of a plan to make her friend feel...less guilty.

Aria’s apology was because she hadn’t been there for Lillian went she got kidnapped.

She blamed herself for not insisting on stopping Lillian that night and even though Lillian had insisted that it wasn’t her fault, Aria hadn’t stopped blaming herself...

Which was unfair.

So she had to come up with a plan to make sure that she’d feel a little less guilty.

"Everything is ready ma’am," her assistant suddenly came up to her and informed.

Well, maybe not right now.

Now was time to launch one of their most anticipated product, Vitaband.

"You ready?" Aria stepped in with a sweet in hand, mostly for Lillian since Ethan had rubbed off her and now, she had developed a sweet tooth.

"Well," Lillian smiled as she took the drink, "as ready as I can be....though I’m still a bit nervous."

"You’ve got this," Aria said, "and even if you don’t, We can just turn off the power and I, your knight in shining armor...."

"Well, knight in stunning dress," Aria corrected herself as she looked at her reflection in the mirror, "will swoop in and save you from the evil gazes of those fogeys with medical degrees."

"Or I can just phone Ethan," Aria added, "I’m sure you’d prefer him instead."

This successfully got a chuckle out of Lillian as she put the half empty glass down. She shook her head as she adjusted her blazer.

"I don’t think Ethan would enjoy storming a stage full of doctors," she muttered.

Aria scoffed, "Please, he’d bulldoze through them if you so much as sneezed wrong."

Lillian blushed lightly but didn’t comment. Instead, she drew in a slow breath as her assistant handed her the final checklist before walking back out.

Unlike Sentinel’s chaotic debut filled with security firms, hackers, tech CEOs, and government vultures...

VitaBand had drawn a calmer, but in many ways more intimidating crowd.

Doctors, surgeons, medical innovators. Pharmaceutical representatives, university researchers.

People who lived and breathed science, they were also people who could spot a flaw from a mile away.

And of course, the media. A lot of media.

OmniTech had announced a revolutionary health-tech product. The world had shown up to see if they could back up those claims.

Lillian exhaled.

"You okay?" Aria asked, nudging her.

"A little overwhelmed," Lillian admitted, "what if I mess this up?"

Aria flicked her forehead.

"Ow—!" Lillian grabbed the spot that was flicked.

"You won’t slip up," Aria said firmly. "You know this product inside out by now, you’ve worked really hard to make sure of that."

Her assistant suddenly returned, "Ma’am, they’re ready for you. You’ll be going on in three minutes."

"Three minutes," Lillian repeated, her heart skipping.

Aria clasped her shoulders and forced her to face the mirror.

"What do you see?"

"...A very nervous woman."

"Wrong," Aria shook her head. "I see Lillian Hayes. OmniTech’s Midas. The woman who convinced the Caldwell hospital board to collaborate with a few months old company, you can do this."

"Yeah," Lillian nodded, "I’ve got this."

She stepped out from backstage as the announcer’s voice carried across the hall.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome OmniTech’s Chief Operations Officer... Lillian Hayes."

A wave of camera flashes hit her the moment she stepped on stage.

The hall was packed, journalists in the front rows, medical professionals clustered together, executives from competing health-tech startups watching intently, and scattered among them were Caldwell Hospital’s senior administrators.

She reached the podium, placed the slim black wristband on the display stand, and tapped the mic.

"Good afternoon, everyone." 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

Her voice came out clearer than she expected.

"Today... OmniTech would like to introduce a product we’ve been developing quietly for months. A product designed to address one of the most fundamental problems in modern healthcare."

The screen behind her lit up with images of the VitaBand, it sleek, matte and modern but most of all, the build looked insanely high quality.

"A device," she continued, "that can detect medical anomalies before they become emergencies. A wearable that monitors heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen, glucose levels, and more... in real-time and with medical-grade precision."

A few doctors leaned forward, interested in her words.

Some journalists lifted their pens and immediately started taking notes.

"With the VitaBand," Lillian said, "we can reduce silent heart complications, flag early signs of stroke, identify irregular glucose patterns, and alert medical personnel before a patient even realizes something is wrong."

She pressed a button on the remote.

A new slide appeared.

Caldwell Hospital Clinical Trial, Results

Murmurs rose through the room.

"We ran a month-long closed trial with Caldwell Hospital," Lillian said. "Today, representing Caldwell, we have Mr. Gabriel Caldwell to share the findings."

A tall man in a pale blue suit stood and walked up to the stage. Gabriel Caldwell, the recent owner of Caldwell Hospital and

He shook Lillian’s hand before turning to the mic.

"I know what many of you are thinking," he said, addressing the crowd, "another wearable promising accuracy, another gadget claiming to be life-changing."

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