The scheduled meeting time is 1:00 p.m. sharp.

The board members who had arrived underwent necessary security checks and entered the venue early one after another.

Due to the sudden death of the former chairman, Gu Hui, who currently holds the largest stake, will temporarily serve as the chairman of the board of directors.

Qi Nuan sat in the last row, looking around the conference room that was decorated like an examination room, feeling dissatisfied.

What's going on? Is Gu Hui keeping everyone separate because he's afraid the directors might start whispering to each other?

Although she felt several passionate glances from Mr. Hu, who was sitting two rows away from her, Qi Nuan ignored them.

She was a little anxious at the moment because her strongest ally, Director Gao Yi, had not shown up.

Could it be that Gu Hui used some trick to trip someone up?

But until 13:30, Gu Hui arrived, but Gao Yi still hadn't arrived.

Gu Hui asked the CEO about the attendees and learned that Gao Yi was absent.

Because the board of directors' charter stipulates that if the number of external directors present does not exceed half of the total number of directors, the meeting cannot be held.

As a last resort, the interim chairman of the board, Gu Hui, ordered them to wait another half an hour.

Gao Yi's vote is related to the success or failure of this board meeting. Qi Nuan is even more anxious. She uses a 2G mobile phone to secretly pass this news to Lu Yin under the table.

But after waiting for more than ten minutes, I didn't receive any response from him.

About ten minutes later, just when Qi Nuan thought that the board meeting would be postponed to another time due to the absence of a director, she saw Gu Hui's assistant come in and ask for instructions, and then quickly brought in a strange man.

The man walked straight towards Gu Hui and handed him the documents in his hand.

Gu Hui also seemed a little surprised. After reading the document, he introduced to the other directors that this person was the agent of Director Gao Yi and would exercise voting rights on his behalf at this meeting.

What the hell?

Qi Nuan frowned. She felt that she had to stop things from going on like this, so she raised her hand to Gu Hui, indicating that she wanted to speak.

"Please wait a moment. As far as I know, directors cannot use proxies to vote on the board of directors. They must be present in person to vote."

"Director Qi Nuan, the interim chairman has not given you permission to speak. Please listen. We are all following the company's board charter."

Gu Hui ignored Qi Nuan's words with a cold face and prepared to start the board meeting to vote immediately.

Qi Nuan was already anxious because she couldn't contact Lu Yin and Gao Yi. Seeing the current development of the situation, she instantly guessed that this agent was arranged by Gu Hui, and naturally she couldn't let it go on.

"Even if it's the company's articles of association, it can't violate the legal requirements."

Qi Nuan once again shamelessly interrupted the interim chairman of the board, Gu Hui, who was on stage. Naturally, this led to another round of ridicule from him, who told Qi Nuan to stop speaking carelessly.

It was all about achieving something big, so she didn't mind. As long as they won in the end, both face and substance wouldn't be a problem. However, this time, she was very considerate and raised her hand to indicate that she wanted to speak.

Although Gu Hui was angry, he could not stop the directors present from raising objections.

After receiving permission, Qi Nuan continued, "I understand your eagerness to move the meeting forward, Vice Chairman. However, in the absence of such an important director, even if a vote is taken on the meeting agenda, you can still file a lawsuit in court to invalidate or revoke it. There's precedent for this, and I'm not just making this up."

Gu Hui didn't really know much about laws and regulations, but two of the other directors had legal backgrounds. He then turned the conversation to them: "Director Hu, Director Liu, from your professional perspective, is this true?"

Knowing that these two people would be asked, Qi Nuan deliberately avoided looking at them and just waited attentively for the answer.

Mr. Liu nodded immediately and said that in the past ten years, there were at least three cases in which well-known companies were sued to overturn the conclusions of meetings and the conclusions were declared invalid due to improper operations of the board of directors.

Mr. Hu glanced at Qi Nuan twice but got no response, so he was still a little hesitant.

But after hearing Director Liu's affirmative support for Director Qi, he also made up his mind and echoed, "Although most of the time we act in accordance with the company's board charter, Directors Qi and Liu are right. According to commercial law, there is precedent for invalidating board resolutions with proxy attendance."

After saying this, Qi Nuan finally felt relieved.

Mr. Hu has been with the Gu family for so many years, and Gu Hui has the upper hand over him, so he will definitely be regarded as a loyal spokesperson.

Qi Nuan knew that he would definitely be asked by Gu Hui, and she was anxious to take a gamble that non-professionals did not know the details of the precedent, but she was sure that the professionals Mr. Liu and Mr. Hu must know it. The companies in the precedents she mentioned were all limited liability companies, which were different from Hongsheng Electronics of the Gu family.

Fortunately, these two people finally made up their minds to stand on their side.

Gu Hui's dissatisfaction was directly reflected in his eyes. He questioned how Lu Yin explained attending the board meeting on behalf of the two major shareholders.

This time, Mr. Hu was more confident. He said frankly that because it only involved the reading of the will of the previous chairman and no voting resolution was made, there was no content of revocation or invalidity.

Since the professionals had given their conclusion, the other directors who had been whispering about Qi Nuan's bold behavior shut up. Gu Hui had no choice but to compromise and said that he would wait for another hour. If Gao Yi still could not show up, the board meeting would be postponed to another time.

I don’t know what important matter held up the two people. After waiting for another hour, Qi Nuan still received no response to his several consecutive inquiries.

The time had come. Gu Hui didn't delay any further this time and directly asked Qi Nuan, the only one who had expressed objection, "Dr. Gao's power of attorney clearly states that he is on an important business trip and cannot attend. So, we can hold another board meeting in three days when he returns. Is that okay with that, Mr. Qi?"

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