Chapter 387 A drowning dog must be beaten hard.
Just as the group was plotting, the meeting room door was suddenly opened.
Everyone was startled.
They quickly turned around and saw Huo Yanmo standing at the door, smiling at them.
The group was startled and immediately stood up.
Feeling uneasy, Huo Yanmo wondered how much of what they had just said had been overheard.
"You're all here," Huo Yanmo's smiling voice came from inside.
"Young Master."
"Mr. Huo."
...
The group greeted each other instinctively.
"We're in a meeting," Huo Yanmo said with a smile. "I couldn't find anyone, and I just happened to open a door and bump into you guys."
Huo Yanmo remained as gentle as ever, seemingly unchanged.
But to these people, his smile looked like the smile of a devil.
"ah?"
"Oh..."
"Yes...a meeting..."
The group responded hesitantly.
Huo Yanmo admired the anxious and panicked expressions on their faces, then smiled and turned to leave.
Following behind Huo Yanmo, Secretary Xu almost couldn't help but laugh.
Huo Yanmo did it on purpose.
After Huo Yanmo left, these people lingered and finally came out.
They looked at each other, then walked together towards the conference room.
In the first conference room.
The meeting was held as usual.
But everyone sitting here today feels like they're sitting on pins and needles.
After all, many people here had put pressure on Huo Yanmo a few days ago.
Now they are a little afraid that Huo Yanmo will settle scores with them later.
After all, they understood that although Huo Yanmo seemed gentle, he was not someone who would show mercy.
Throughout the entire meeting, many people were in agony, wondering when Huo Yanmo would bring up Shi Nian's matter.
They had already agreed on their own terms: whenever Huo Yanmo brought it up, they would say they were only doing it for the good of the group.
The starting point was good.
It was out of kindness.
Moreover, Shi Nian's projects didn't make much money; they just broke even.
However, Huo Yanmo did not mention Shi Nian until the end of the meeting.
They endured this torment for a whole while.
"Is there anything else?" Huo Yanmo asked, looking at everyone present.
The group looked at each other, their faces showing dismay, but no one dared to speak.
An eerie silence filled the entire conference room.
"Meeting adjourned." Huo Yanmo stood up and walked out first.
Those who supported Huo Yanmo also walked out.
In the end, only those who had previously pressured Huo Yanmo remained.
They all breathed a sigh of relief.
But there was also a strange sense of loss.
It felt like I had been preparing a move for a long time but hadn't been able to use it, and I was feeling incredibly frustrated.
Everyone was stuck in an awkward silence.
Then infighting began.
“I told you before, don’t be in such a hurry. What if you don’t hit the mark on the first strike?” someone spoke up first.
"Yes, Director Wu, we only followed you because we believed that Shi Nian would implicate the Huo family and affect our income. What are we going to do now?"
...
The middle-aged man and his companions immediately retorted with the same excuse they had used before.
In short, it can be summarized in one sentence: "Shi Nian hasn't made much money yet, and we don't know what the future holds. We nipped the risk in the bud, so we did nothing wrong!"
...
While the meeting room was in an uproar, Huo Yanmo had already returned to the president's office.
Huo Zhiyao has finished his business and returned; he's waiting here now.
"Brother!" Huo Zhiyao happily followed Huo Yanmo into the office.
Huo Yanmo nodded.
Secretary Xu closed the door from the outside.
"Brother, why don't you teach them a lesson!" Huo Zhiyao said with a smile.
He came back specifically to see the joke, but unfortunately Huo Yanmo didn't mention Shi Nian at all.
He was also thinking of adding fuel to the fire.
During the years Huo Yanmo spent at sea, these people did quite a few things to them.
Huo Yanmo didn't look at Huo Zhiyao; he was just flipping through the documents.
"It's not time yet," Huo Yanmo said.
"How so?" Huo Zhiyao asked.
Huo Yanmo pointed to a chair on the side, gesturing for the excited Huo Zhiyao to sit down.
Huo Zhiyao quickly sat up straight and looked at Huo Yanmo expectantly.
“It’s not bad enough,” Huo Yanmo said.
The best time is when they realize how much less their year-end bonus and dividends will be if they miss this opportunity.
Only then will they realize how foolish they were to refuse to invest and to look down on Shinian.
“A drowning dog…” Huo Yanmo raised his eyes, looked at Huo Zhiyao, and said softly, “We must beat him hard.”
Huo Zhiyao met Huo Yanmo's gaze and revealed an expression of realization.
...
Yu Yan's news triggered a series of reactions.
Especially after many people asked about the original news of Gu Qian's departure, for some reason, another rumor was released.
It was Xu Cheng who, in collusion with Shi Nian, deliberately leaked the news that Gu Qian had left.
They conspired together to cheat.
Xu Cheng responded directly to this news.
Xu Cheng posted a video.
Xu Cheng looked speechless in the video.
He said, "These rumors are logically contradictory."
"If I go to a conference and say I need funding, and then I say my core technical staff are leaving, then am I supposed to ask for funding or not?"
Do I look that stupid?
"If I really wanted to give Shi Nian special treatment, I could just ask her directly. Why bother with all this?"
"Shi Nian is the same. She didn't originally intend to come up with that much funding. She was forced to, and she was also forced to bring Fu Jinyan along. Everyone at Yu Yan that day knows what I'm talking about."
Finally, Xu Cheng shook his head helplessly and said, "I don't know where this rumor came from, but neither I, Shi Nian, nor Fu Jinyan have spread this rumor. Stop trying to pin the blame on me; I can't take it!"
...
As soon as the video was released, most people immediately believed it.
After all, just as Xu Cheng said, he had no need to do this at all, which is contradictory.
Then some people became curious about what happened at Yuyan that day.
"It's a complicated story, but it's exactly as Xu Cheng said. Shi Nian and Fu Jinyan were forced to contribute 150 million together." A person with a high status in the industry spoke up.
Some people wanted to ask for more details, but were told that this was the end of the question.
On the other side, Lu Xinyi had just hung up the phone.
She just quickly found someone to stop this whole thing, and finally managed to clear her name. Now they're also people who were deceived. It might not have been Yu Yan who released them, but they were still fooled.
Although there will still be some objections, it won't be as severe.
If this continues, it could damage her reputation.
Lu Xinyi was furious.
And that Gu Qian!
She personally called Gu Qian, wanting to poach him to Lu's company, and made many promises.
But Gu Qian, that ungrateful wretch, actually rejected her!
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