Supreme Heir Son-in-law

Chapter 1411: This Is Just Too Stupid

"Alright, cut it out. If these words end up in the president’s ears, we’ll all be in deep trouble again. Right now it’s not just you and me, even the old chairman probably can’t do anything about the president. Besides, the old chairman has recently stepped into a lot of company affairs; maybe he’ll think of a way out for us. Everyone, don’t panic yet."

"How are we supposed not to panic? We’re watching our futures get smashed right here. Forget it, we can’t do anything to him anyway, the company belongs to someone else. As long as they pay our salaries, that’s enough. I’m going to resign right now, but I’m definitely getting my wages. It’s not like I can’t find another job; why should I waste my time here?"

"Exactly, I haven’t been paid for two months already, and my whole family relies on my salary to eat. This is just too much. If it goes on like this, I don’t think I’ll even be able to get through the New Year."

"As far as I can see, Xiao Group was already excellent to begin with. Now we’ve stirred up this public opinion storm—isn’t that just giving Xiao Group more hype? I really don’t get what the president is thinking. I’m done too, I’m going straight to Xiao Group to apply. With my skills, they might actually want me. Besides, the one who offended Xiao Group is our upper management, not me. I bet Xiao Group won’t hold it against me."

Seeing that everyone looked ready to walk out of the company, the assistant could only shake his head helplessly. The president treated himself like God, always thinking he alone was the company’s savior, that he was the most capable one, but he never once considered how the employees felt. That’s why things turned out like this. Now no one wants to listen to the president’s decisions, some even want to quit altogether.

If these core staff really leave, Yu Group will be nothing but an empty shell. What use are those shareholders then? Even if new employees come in, they won’t be able to handle the business. No one has any idea what the president is thinking.

Meanwhile, Yu Hao, ever since Ren Liang went back, had been glued to Weibo for several days straight, watching post after post of people furiously cursing Xiao Group. Yu Hao felt absolutely nothing.

But it was a different story for Xiao Zhen at the Headquarters. After finishing his work and hearing what an employee said, Xiao Zhen immediately flung his suit aside and stared straight at that employee.

"What exactly were you just saying? What’s wrong with our Xiao Group? Say it again, word for word. Miss even one word and you can get the hell out today!"

The employee was young to begin with and loved scrolling Weibo, so he thought he’d share the big news with everyone. He never imagined he’d run into the chairman, someone he almost never had any contact with.

And today of all days he actually bumped into the chairman—could his luck be any worse? It wasn’t even his own opinion, it was all from netizens. But the moment it came out of his mouth, didn’t that mean he was about to get fired?

So the employee was shaking like a leaf, his whole face flushed red, his hair hanging down on both sides, making him look especially pitiful.

"Chairman, these aren’t my words, they’re what people are saying online. It’s all trending on Weibo now, and it’s been on the hot search for several days. You can take a look yourself. Please don’t make things hard for a small fry like me. I still have work to do, I’ll get going first."

Just as he turned to leave, Xiao Zhen suddenly roared, "What are you rushing off for? Can’t you see I’m asking you a question? I don’t want to look at Weibo right now—I want you to tell me exactly what happened. You’ve got the guts to gossip behind my back but not the guts to say it to my face? What, is there something you can’t talk about?"

Everyone silently lit a candle for this unlucky guy. During work hours, instead of working properly, he just had to spread gossip. Now look, he’s screwed. The president is dead set on making an example of him. Even if the king of heaven himself came down, as long as it’s something the president can’t get over, you’re not getting past it either.

Seeing that there was no way to dodge this, the employee thought, since I’m already cornered, I might as well go all in. He squeezed his eyes shut and just spilled it.

"These days, people on Weibo have been saying our Xiao Group’s anime plagiarized Yu Group’s work, and Yu Group has already hired a PR team to sue us. The netizens online have been tearing into our Xiao Group like crazy."

"They’re even saying Xiao Group is throwing its weight around, that after all these years of development we just want to keep leeching off other companies. This kind of talk is everywhere online now. It’s not me saying it, it’s all the netizens."

As soon as he finished, the employee took advantage of the moment when Xiao Zhen was about to explode and bolted. There was no way he was going to stand there and take the president’s fire. If the president was going to rage, he should be raging at the branch. The Headquarters is in real estate; that anime unit in Xiao Group is just another branch in the same city as them. No one knew what that branch was thinking.

They could have just stuck to steady growth and nothing would have gone wrong, but this branch actually stirred up a mess like this. Of course that would piss the president off. Forget the chairman—anyone would find this ridiculously absurd.

At that moment, after thinking it over for a long time, Xiao Zhen finally got it. There was nothing wrong with the Headquarters; the problem was all in the branch. One little branch had managed to stir up such a huge storm—what, they don’t want to work anymore? If they don’t want to, then fine, they can stop.

He grabbed his suit and put it on, then shot a vicious glare at the assistant trembling behind him. The assistant had followed him for so many years and still had such a weak spine. It’s not like he ate people. The assistant really didn’t seem to be good for much if he couldn’t handle even this.

"Why aren’t you going to get the car? The branch has caused such a huge mess, and I want to see for myself what exactly he thinks he’s doing. I was kind enough to let him work at our Xiao Group’s branch, and now he’s dumped this pile of crap on me. He actually dares to ride on the coattails of other companies? Fine, I just want to see what he’s capable of."

Xiao Zhen didn’t even bother to verify whether it was true or not, didn’t ask about the details, didn’t look at the anime produced by Xiao Group’s branch. He just directly concluded that everything was Xu Ke’s plagiarism, and that none of this was the fault of anyone else in the Xiao Group’s branch—it was all on Xu Ke alone.

When the employees heard this, their jaws dropped. So the chairman knew about this too? What were they supposed to do now? It seemed like what Xiao Group had done this time was pretty shady.

After watching the president leave, the staff all exploded. They’d thought Xiao Group was completely in the right, but who would’ve thought that the mighty Xiao Group would actually pull such sneaky, low-down tricks.

"My god, what are we going to do? I used to be proud of our company. Now it just feels incredibly stupid."