"Why did you come here?" Seeing Song Xia knock on the door and come in, Xie Yuan quickly covered his eyes with the documents next to him, his eyes filled with panic.
"I came up to ask if you wanted to have lunch together." Song Xia sat down opposite him. "You look a little tired. What's wrong? Did you run into some trouble at work?"
"It's nothing." Xie Yuan forced a smile. "That's how work is. I still have some urgent documents to process. You go and eat first."
Song Xia smiled and said, "That's fine too. Do you want me to bring one up for you?"
"I'm not hungry, and I have an appointment with a client this afternoon, so it's the same whether I eat then or not."
Song Xia played along, saying, "It's all my fault. I didn't know you were so busy. I should have come to the company to help you sooner."
Xie Yuan quickly adopted a doting tone: "How could I bear to let you work so hard? It just looks busy, but I can handle it all. How's that project you're working on going?"
"The new product proposal has been completed and is just waiting for you to sign it before implementation. It's going quite smoothly. Okay, I won't bother you anymore. You can go ahead and get back to work."
As soon as everyone left, Xie Yuan quickly called the manager in: "What's going on? Why was the proposal approved?"
The manager also looked troubled: "I've intervened in every possible way, but Ms. Song always manages to resolve things promptly. In the end, when I keep asking questions, it makes me seem unprofessional. Mr. Xie, I think Ms. Song is very determined to come back."
Xie Yuan knew, of course, that Song Xia was very determined to come back, and that the morale of the company had been somewhat volatile recently.
No, we absolutely cannot let Song Xia continue to stay at the company.
His eyes darkened, and he said in a deep voice, "I will approve the proposal, but you can find excuses to delay the production and promotion process. It would be best to have Lin's Group release a similar product first, and then..."
The manager hesitated, "But if we do that, Lin's will have a head start on our new product plan..."
Xie Yuan stared at him with a sinister look: "Do you still want to work for me? If Song Xia continues to stay in the company, I am her husband, and she loves me. I can coax her a bit, and we can still be a loving couple. But what about you? A subordinate with many thoughts, how do you think she will handle it? Even if I plead for you, it won't work."
Xie Yuan has given a lot in the past two years, and the manager can never go back to the way things were. Hearing this, his face turned pale instantly.
"Mr. Xie, what do you want me to do?"
"They delayed the new product launch plan, and after Lin's family seized the market first, they used that as an excuse to say that she was not suitable for the job."
In addition, Xie Yuan kept inciting people in the company to subconsciously make them feel that Song Xia's abilities were not as good as before and that she was no longer suitable for work.
These days, he thought Song Xia would be unable to withstand the pressure and would either cry to him or throw a tantrum at the company. This would give him an excuse to make Song Xia give up the project she was in, so he could take over, expand the project, and finally show off his outstanding abilities and turn the tide.
But he never expected that Song Xia's mental resilience would become so strong. When she first handed the company over to him, she always said that she couldn't do this or that and asked him to take care of her.
However, Xie Yuan never imagined that Song Xia was the only heir of the Song family, so how could they not raise her well from a young age? In the past, Song Xia pretended to do poorly in order to save face for him and to make him feel more at ease managing the company.
Little did he know that Song Xia's good intentions were misunderstood by him as Song Xia being truly incompetent.
Song Xia does have her shortcomings. Her parents only focused on cultivating her abilities but overlooked the fact that she might be blinded by love and deceived by men for the rest of her life.
Downstairs, Song Xia was eating in the staff cafeteria. Everyone kept their distance from her and occasionally whispered and questioned something.
If it were an ordinary person, they would definitely find it hard to accept. She is the actual successor and manager of the company, why would she need you lowly employees to question her? Perhaps someone with a bad temper would fire these people on the spot.
But Song Xia didn't. She seemed not to have heard anything and continued to sit there calmly and eat her meal with elegant posture.
As a boss, employees are employees. There's no need to befriend them or expect their understanding. Right now, she's in a weak position, and Xie Yuan is secretly manipulating things, so gossip is inevitable. Even if she regains real power one day, aside from those few who break the law, as long as these people work diligently and bring benefits to the company, there's no need to be overly concerned.
Besides, not everyone in the Song family is Xie Yuan's person. Some people recognize her as the actual heir, and others have been won over by her work ability and personal charm in their interactions over the past few days.
She figured Xie Yuan must be panicking now, and he would definitely sabotage the project she was in charge of.
But it will happen soon. The more flustered Xie Yuan becomes, the more flaws he reveals.
In fact, based on the current evidence, it is enough for her to divorce Xie Yuan and for Xie Yuan to leave the scene, but she still wants to get back more money and wants Xie Yuan to suffer a heavier punishment.
You don't know until you investigate. The deeper you investigate, the more you realize that Xie Yuan not only planned a way out for himself, but also considered a backup plan in case the plan failed, in addition to wanting to take over the Song family and make it his own.
Therefore, he has had a habit of acquiring assets overseas over the years, and he doesn't know how much money he has in his overseas private bank accounts. It is estimated that even Zhang Yuefen, Xie Chuancai, and Zuo Shan are unaware of this.
“Ms. Song, currently, trying to recover money overseas is not only time-consuming, but the final outcome is also unpredictable. It's not like China, and those people there won't cooperate. Moreover, even if you get the relevant documents, the fees are incredibly high, and the amount you get back will be much lower than you imagine. So the simplest way is to have Xie Yuan transfer the money back to China himself.”
After listening to the law firm's professional introduction, Song Xia lowered her eyes and pondered deeply.
“This is what he left for himself, and I’m afraid it will be difficult.” Song Xia had considered using Xie Tianci as leverage, but given Xie Yuan’s selfishness, he could have another son, but earning back this money would be much harder.
"Let's try to gather evidence through normal means first. If that doesn't work, we can block what we can, and for what we can't block, I think it won't be easy to get those assets after Xie Yuan gets out."
Unless Xie Yuan never comes back, he won't have any peace; she will keep suing to recover the money.
Besides, life abroad isn't that easy, and she didn't believe Xie Yuan was powerful enough to build a career on his own.
Having grown accustomed to being bossed around by superiors and to large investments and high returns, he couldn't adapt to working his way up from a young age, nor could he adapt to humbling himself for a small order. If he could truly endure such hardship, he wouldn't have bothered to deceive Song Xia in the first place.
Besides, there isn't a platform as big as the one in China for him to showcase his abilities abroad. Being in an unfamiliar place with a sum of money, it would be lucky if he didn't get scammed.
After figuring all this out, Song Xia gave up on agonizing over it. Losing some money and getting away from the Xie family as quickly as possible seemed like a good thing, since the family's fate was already predictable anyway.
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