After counseling the young leader, Li Qianqian felt quite pleased with herself, convinced she had made a significant contribution to the company's healthy development, and returned to the office in high spirits.
Only after sitting down at her desk did she realize something was amiss.
Wait a minute, she had gone there to inquire about the stock situation, so how did she end up playing the role of a confidante?
With no other choice, she contacted Shao Yichen again.
"Director Shao, what's really happening with the stocks?" she asked with a pained expression. "We're just a small company—we can't withstand being toyed with by these big capital players!"
"I thought you'd already figured it out when you left," the CEO replied unhurriedly, continuing her role as a riddle-maker.
Li Qianqian: "Boss, please speak plainly and stop being so evasive..."
Shao Yichen sighed: "It's simple. Our company's stock price increase is also part of the Heir's plan from the story."
Li Qianqian: "...Are you saying those two companies buying shares at the limit-up price are connected to Li Xingyu?!"
Shao Yichen was startled: "How did you guess that the Heir was Li Xingyu!"
Li Qianqian thought to herself, so the boss really believed no one could figure out who the prototype of the story was.
Intending to preserve her boss's dignity, she didn't pursue this line of conversation and instead continued her inquiry: "Then what's his ultimate goal? Even charity work isn't done this way. He could have just given us a heads-up, and we would have discussed however many shares he wanted in advance—"
"The secrets of heaven cannot be revealed, at least not before tomorrow," Shao Yichen said mysteriously. After a pause, she added, "But you should prepare yourself mentally—tomorrow's stock price might not look good... though after nearly a week of limit-up, I think we've made enough profit, so, just keep a level head?"
Li Qianqian: ?
She wanted to know more, but Shao Yichen remained tight-lipped. Based on what Shao Yichen said when pressured, Li Qianqian suspected that even Shao Yichen herself didn't fully understand Li Xingyu's plan, so she was just being evasive...
Li Qianqian could only wait anxiously until the next day. Just three minutes after the market opened, she had merely gone to fill her water cup, and when she returned, she saw a lethal downward line on her computer screen.
General Manager Qianqian almost couldn't catch her breath.
The stock had halted again—but this time it wasn't because it hit the limit-up, but because it hit the limit-down!
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While General Manager Qianqian was staring helplessly at the inexplicably plummeting stock, Li Xingyu was entering the conference room of Liming Group.
When they saw him walk in, some people in the conference room appeared as if they had anticipated it, while others looked very surprised. In an instant, the previously calm room was like a lake disturbed by a thrown stone, ripples spreading as whispers circulated.
Regardless of the reactions, Li Xingyu walked steadily into the room and took a seat near the chairman's position.
—By now, through his lawyer, he had reclaimed the twenty-five percent of shares that belonged to him, becoming the company's largest shareholder after Wu Ming, and unquestionably had the right to sit there.
Seeing him settled, Le Ziyao, sitting diagonally across from him, winked. Having been accustomed to Le Ziyao's meticulous makeup and trendy idol attire, Li Xingyu found it somewhat strange to see him with his hair dyed black, dressed in formal business attire.
Since Li Xingyu couldn't wink—closing one eye while keeping the other open was essentially asking him to make exaggerated facial expressions—he simply nodded formally to Le Ziyao.
Le Ziyao wasn't here representing their private equity firm, but rather his family's ten percent share, appearing as a shareholder—who knows what method he used to convince his strong-willed sister to let him represent their family in the vote.
Li Xingyu continued to survey the others in the room. Most faces were familiar, but there were also unfamiliar ones, such as his mother's parents—his grandparents—who didn't attend this shareholders' meeting but sent a proxy instead.
He understood why—they simply didn't want to see the person sitting at the end of the conference table, yet had no way to remove him.
Most surprising to him, however, was that Li Qiaoqiao was also sitting among these people, head down, face pale, lost in thought.
The faction she represented was obvious—she represented the Liming Video Platform, as she was the daughter of one of the platform's shareholders, holding over five percent of Liming Group's shares.
He hadn't expected they would directly send Li Qiaoqiao to attend the shareholders' meeting; apparently, no one else wanted to show their face.
Li Xingyu's cold gaze swept over her before withdrawing.
Finally, his eyes fell on the person at the front of the conference room.
—Wu Ming still wore that nauseating smile as he looked at him, seeming confident of victory.
Li Xingyu slowly clenched his hands beneath the table.
Just you wait—we'll see whether this meeting goes as you wish, and whether you can remain in the position of company chairman!
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The Liming Group shareholders' meeting began on time.
As the current chairman, Wu Ming followed custom by saying some perfunctory words about the company's development prospects, current challenges, and internal unity issues—while saying this, he didn't look toward Li Xingyu, but almost everyone else secretly glanced at the two of them.
Bringing up this issue now, wasn't it declaring that father and son were officially at war?
Sure enough.
After voting on several company bylaw issues, the shareholders' meeting finally reached its main agenda—the chairman's re-election.
When this item was announced, secretive glances again focused on Li Xingyu.
In their eyes, this young man was too impulsive.
Indeed, he now held twenty-five percent of the shares, and Le Ziyao's family had always been inclined to oppose the chairman, so they would likely stand with Li Xingyu. If this young man could persuade the old shareholders who had been allied with his now-deceased mother, he might gain the support of nearly another ten percent of shareholders.
But that was the limit—forty-five percent, less than fifty percent.
And the remaining fifty-five percent were Wu Ming's die-hard supporters. Their interests were too tightly intertwined with Wu Ming's; if anything happened to him, their previous issues would also be uncovered! They had no choice but to vote for Wu Ming!
The outcome of this election was predetermined from the start.
And if he missed this opportunity, Li Xingyu would likely be completely sidelined—it was rumored that Wu Ming had already begun amending the relevant bylaws.
Just thinking about it made his future seem bleak.
If they were to advise, they would suggest Li Xingyu concede to his father, admit his mistake, and honestly wait until Wu Ming passed away naturally. Wouldn't his shares then naturally be inherited? But now, by openly breaking ties, Wu Ming would probably find an illegitimate son to inherit the shares rather than give them to him...
While everyone was thinking this, they suddenly discovered that the previously certain election process had run into a problem.
—Liming Video Platform didn't cast its vote for Wu Ming!
—The shareholder representative had cast the chairman's vote for... Li Xingyu!
Instantly, all eyes were fixed on the representative of Liming Video Platform—Li Qiaoqiao.
It was known that although Liming Video Platform's shares were less than ten percent, they absolutely exceeded five percent. Once they defected, Wu Ming's resolution to continue as chairman would not receive the majority support of over fifty percent!
Some impatient shareholders had already begun questioning Li Qiaoqiao about what she was doing, whether she had been seduced by Li Xingyu, and whether she could truly represent nearly ten percent of the shares.
Li Qiaoqiao could only stare intently at the table before her, suffering in silence.
She was on the verge of collapse.
—Never had she imagined that Li Xingyu could be so ruthless!
—She had thought that at least when it came to matters concerning Director Shao, Li Xingyu would show mercy... But she never expected that even issues involving Shao Yichen could become a weight on his scale!
Author's Note:
First update! There will be another update tonight!! (Really)
Still a magical business battle in a fictional world, totally made up, just for your entertainment, just for fun...
The afternoon update will resolve Li Xingyu's issues! No, I mean, resolve Li Xingyu's problems
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