Wait. "
Liu Ye shouted at Bai Huaqing's retreating figure.
Bai Huaqing turned around slowly with a smile on his face. What he saw was Liu Ye's face, flushed with anger.
Liu Ye didn't say anything. Instead, right in front of him, she took out the business card and tore it into shreds, piece by piece. Then, with a flick of her wrist, the shredded cards scattered across the ground, becoming a pile of trash.
Bai Huaqing looked up at her, then at the scraps of paper on the ground, and sneered.
You'll regret this.
After saying that, he ignored everyone else and turned to enter the elevator.
In the chairman's office on the twelfth floor, Xiao Weiguo, unaware of what was happening below, was comfortably leaning back in his chair, pretending to doze off, with a newspaper covering his face.
A knock came at the door, and the secretary, Fang Mei, came in to say that someone had come to see him.
Xiao Weiguo put the newspaper away, sat up straight, and before he could even ask who was looking for him...
A man in his thirties with slicked-back hair walked in.
That person's behavior was extremely impolite. If they weren't acquaintances, entering the office in this way would mean they didn't respect the office owner at all, and were just coming and going as they pleased.
Xiao Weiguo was deeply bothered by the visitor's impolite behavior. He narrowed his eyes and leaned back in his comfortable executive chair.
With her arms crossed, she stared at the uninvited guest with a cold, unwavering gaze.
Bai Huaqing ignored Xiao Weiguo's indifference and walked naturally to the middle of the office, plopping down on the sofa.
He moved as freely as if he were at home. Like Xiao Weiguo, he leaned back on the sofa and looked at Xiao Weiguo with disdain.
"Chairman Xiao, let me introduce myself. My name is Bai Huaqing, and I am the vice president of Bai Brothers Film Industry in Hong Kong."
He kept saying he wanted to get to know Xiao Weiguo, but he remained seated on the sofa without moving an inch, showing no intention of going up to befriend him.
Before Xiao Weiguo could speak, his secretary Fang Mei became displeased.
No one knew better than her how much influence Xiao Weiguo wielded in the county and even the province.
Normally, not to mention ordinary businessmen, even leaders from the county or city would have to be very polite when speaking to their Chairman Xiao.
This damn Bai's Film Industry, a mere vice president, dares to speak to Chairman Xiao like that, how could Fang Mei possibly tolerate it?
She walked up to Bai Huaqing in a few steps and reprimanded him sternly.
"Sir, please leave. Mr. Xiao's office does not welcome impolite people like you."
She wasn't in the entertainment industry and had no idea about the Bai or Li families.
In her eyes, Panlong Group was already the top company in China, and with Chairman Xiao's status and position, who would dare to do this?
Bai Huaqing completely ignored the secretary's provocation, still staring at Xiao Weiguo with a mocking gaze, waiting to see his reaction.
Xiao Weiguo smiled slightly and waved to Fang Mei.
"Fang Mei, you go out first, don't get bitten."
Fang Mei glanced back at Xiao Weiguo and obediently left.
Bai Huaqing's face darkened. What the hell do you mean, "Don't bite me"? I'm not a dog, why would I bite someone?
As Fang Mei walked outside and turned to close the door, she chuckled at Bai Huaqing.
When it comes to being scathing in speech, the chairman has to be the best.
Xiao Weiguo didn't explicitly call him a dog, so Bai Huaqing couldn't get angry, otherwise he would have truly admitted to being a biting dog.
He calmed himself down, sat up straight, and his face showed a disdainful expression again.
"Chairman Xiao, you must have heard of Bai Brothers Film Industry, right?"
He still wanted to use his company's reputation and scale to intimidate Xiao Weiguo, so that he could defeat him in terms of momentum and make things much easier when they started talking.
From the moment he entered and announced his name, Xiao Weiguo had a pretty good idea of his purpose. It was nothing more than his entertainment business affecting the Bai family, and he'd come knocking to demand an explanation.
In the Panlong Building, let alone Bai Huaqing, even if Bai Huaqiang, the boss of their company, came in person, Xiao Weiguo would not be intimidated in the slightest.
He's an experienced person; he knows the trajectory of development decades from now. Don't be fooled by the Bai family's current success; in less than ten years, they too will be swallowed up by the dust of history. Who didn't start from the bottom and rise through the ranks?
He certainly knew what the Bai family had relied on to rise to power: first, a few well-known movies; and second, family influence, through which they had engaged in countless shady dealings, both openly and secretly. This kind of enterprise could rise rapidly, but it could also fall just as quickly.
The events of the previous life showed that not long after Hong Kong returned to the mainland, their businesses were severely cracked down on by the state.
A civilized and proactive government would not allow such companies to tarnish the country's reputation.
Therefore, although the Bai family is powerful now, Xiao Weiguo doesn't take them too seriously.
No matter how powerful you are in Gangcheng, in Shangxian County, you have to be subservient to me, whether you're a dragon or a tiger.
Xiao Weiguo casually lit a cigarette, not even offering the other person a cigarette out of politeness, and simply lit one for himself and took a puff.
"What brings you here, Mr. Bai? Why aren't you staying in your vibrant and bustling port city? What brings you to my humble place?"
Bai Huaqing didn't care about Xiao Weiguo's rudeness. He was just trying to cause trouble, so why would he expect Xiao Weiguo to greet him with a smile?
“Chairman Xiao is right. I really didn’t want to come to this lousy place. It’s so poor it’s practically nonexistent, and the weather is freezing cold. But Chairman Xiao doesn’t leave any way out for others, so I had no choice but to come here in person to demand an explanation from him.”
Looking at his smug and unreasonable face, Xiao Weiguo felt an urge to slap him twice.
However, given his level of self-control, resorting to violence is no longer something he would consider, unless he absolutely cannot tolerate it.
His biggest weakness is his family. As long as his family isn't disturbed, nothing will cause him much trouble.
Although he gets angry about business matters, he wouldn't actually resort to violence.
"Mr. Bai is right. Our place has four distinct seasons. Frogs that have been boiled in lukewarm water for too long can't stand it in a place like ours."
Many people in later generations called the reactionaries there "frogmen," but Xiao Weiguo simply borrowed the term to satirize them.
Although Bai Huaqing didn't understand what his connection was with frogs, he was just a bit arrogant, but he wasn't stupid; otherwise, he wouldn't have gotten to where he is today.
He could tell that these weren't kind words; the other person was actually cursing him.
This finally wounded his proud little heart.
He stood up from the sofa with a grim face and walked step by step to Xiao Weiguo's desk. He bent down and stared at Xiao Weiguo with cold eyes. He spoke, word by word.
"Hey Xiao, you're so arrogant."
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