51 The Pancake Storm
Chu Xiao has been spinning like a top these past two days, working non-stop for 48 hours straight.
Chu Xiao actually had no experience in seizing power. Her family background was simple, and the power she once held was gradually relinquished by her father. However, her nemesis, Qian Xiaopang, did.
Qian Xiaopang was born into a complicated family and rose to power through a power grab.
It's often said that the person who understands you best isn't your friend, but your rival.
Just as Qian Xiaopang enjoys studying his nemesis Chu Xiao, Chu Xiao also enjoys studying his nemesis Qian Xiaopang.
Qian Xiaopang seized upon his own group's financial and legal vulnerabilities, and by being faster, more ruthless, and more accurate than his competitors, he ousted a group of half-siblings and bloodsucking relatives from the board of directors in just three days.
When Qian Xiaopang took over, not only were her brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles caught off guard, but even Chu Xiao, who was secretly planning to cause some trouble for his nemesis, was caught off guard.
This greatly shocked Chu Xiao, who was still naive at the time, and Qian Xiaopang's rise to power left a deep impression on her.
The arrogant mockery of his arch-nemesis, Qian Xiaopang, still echoed in his ears: "You think you're so great? You're just lucky to have been born into a good family."
Chu Xiao stared at the swirling vortex in the coffee cup, her eyes darkening.
Let's have a competition this time.
To this day, Chu Xiao has discovered that she has an advantage in the supply chain compared to Qian Xiaopang, and she doesn't hesitate to copy Qian Xiaopang's homework.
Within two hours of receiving Jian Bing's call in the morning informing him of Jian's father's accident, Chu Xiao, together with the CFO, legal director, and IT manager, blocked the news and controlled cash flow and data access.
After Jian's father was successfully rescued, Chu Xiao rushed back to the headquarters of the Jianbing Group without even having lunch. He convened a closed-door meeting with Jian's father's former senior executives and announced the establishment of a "temporary operating committee".
After several hours of intense meetings, Chu Xiao casually ate a couple of bites of pancake after the meeting adjourned, and then, under the guise of an "emergency supply chain meeting," asked the regional heads to sign their support.
That night, the legal department was instructed to work through the night to study the company's articles of association and find a clause that "the COO may exercise some powers in an emergency." At the same time, people were dispatched to urgently search for dirt on the directors.
Unlike typical emerging tech companies, Jianbing Group usually doesn't have overtime. But that one night, the entire Jianbing Group headquarters was brightly lit, with the building's lights on from dusk until sunrise the next day.
After two days and nights of tireless effort, on the third day, Chu Xiao, sporting panda eyes with droopy eyelids, successfully sat down in the chairman's office of the Jianbing Group.
She turned her stiff neck, and her cervical spine made a "crackling" sound.
Thinking that she had taken the position a day faster than Qian Xiaopang, she felt secretly pleased and her fatigue eased considerably.
Gazing at the rising sun through the panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows, Chu Xiao silently gave a mental "thumbs up."
Having not slept for two days, Chu Xiao had no interest in admiring the scenery of the chairman's office and decided to go to the lounge to take a nap.
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At three o'clock in the afternoon, Chu Xiao had just gotten up, taken a sip of ice water, and was about to swallow when Jian's father's special assistant, Wang Xue, suddenly burst into the room—
"Mr. Jian, something's happened! We've taken up three of the top five spots on Weibo's trending topics!"
Chu Xiao choked, instantly sobered up by the icy water.
She lifted her eyelids and took Wang Xue's tablet. On the tablet, the tags #JianbingGutterOil#, #JianbingButtocks#, and #yue!JianbingGroupGoesBankrupt!# were skyrocketing at a rate of over 100,000 per minute.
Wiping the water from her chin, Chu Xiao scrolled through three screenshots of trending topics.
The first image, a "butt-picking" control panel blurred out in a nine-grid layout, received 580,000 likes.
The second picture of the yellow oil drum labeled "Special Supply to Jianbing Group" was forwarded 660,000 times.
The third image is a collection of vomiting emojis, with the top comment angrily shouting: "Give me my money back!!!"
Chu Xiao's lips twitched.
She personally audited all the processes of the pancake group, from raw material procurement to sales data, in the past two days. There was no "shady dealing" involved, let alone the absurd claim of gutter oil.
This negative trending topic just happened right after she successfully seized power; anyone with a brain knows it's a counterattack from some ambitious members of the board.
She remembered that when Qian Xiaopang first took over, the board of directors observed him for a whole month before making their move.
How come it's her turn to seize power, and on her very first day in office, some people are already jumping out to cause trouble... Is that right?
Could it be that her methods were too forceful, pushing some people to their limits?
But she basically copied all of Qian Xiaopang's methods, even down to the small, easily imitated details like how Qian Xiaopang bribed the security captain. So why is the result different?
Chu Xiao fell into self-doubt.
"Mr. Jian, now—"
Chu Xiao put down the tablet and sneered, "Wang Xue, go and release the marketing accounts that the public relations department is keeping."
Ten minutes later, the following trending topics, forcibly locked by unknown capital, were added: [Breaking News] #Jianbing Casanova Xie Qianwan's Explosive Chat Logs Exposed: "Baby, I'll Support You by Making Jianbing!"# [Breaking News] #Jianbing Director Zhao is Actually a Fried Chicken Spy! He Once Said "Jianbing Has No Future, Fried Chicken is the Future"#
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