sbdcsierra Chapter 225 The Overlord Insists on Using Me as Bai Yueguang’s Stand-in (113)
Chapter 225 The Overlord Insists on Using Me as Bai Yueguang’s Stand-in (113)
In the morning, a few people gathered at the newsstand to read stock market news. These individual investors in the stock market always get together to exchange financial news, which is considered a form of fun before work for the day.
Someone shouted excitedly, "Hey, did you know? Unbounded is about to start its first round of financing. I heard that all the business giants will attend the project launch conference next week."
"What new project? So attractive?" the man lowered his voice and spoke mysteriously.
"I heard they were developing a new type of mobile phone."
"Mobile phones? Foreign mobile phones have always been the best-selling in China. She wants to get into the mobile phone industry. What solid technology can she come up with?"
"I don't know about that. Let's wait and see the future project launch conference. I heard that it will also be broadcast live on the Wujie website."
"I hope it's not just a gimmick to fool people." Someone else interrupted.
“Can retail investors like us participate?”
"Haha, you're dreaming! They can easily spend hundreds of millions of dollars. Even if we gather enough money, we can't even buy 1% of the shares. It's better not to daydream."
The sun shone through the clouds, lighting up the streets of the bustling city.
Song Ci yawned as he walked through the crowded crowd and into the office building.
Due to the vigorous promotion and publicity of Neon on the Ultrasurf website some time ago, almost everyone in the streets and alleys now holds a newspaper in their hands, enthusiastically discussing the hot topic that the entertainment company is about to develop a new type of mobile phone. This news is like a whirlwind, quickly sweeping the entire city and becoming a topic of conversation for people after dinner.
Song Ci has recently been working with a group of high-tech talents who returned from Silicon Valley. Instead of feeling any pressure, she is in a state of extreme excitement every day. She wishes she could lock herself in the R&D room all day, communicate face to face with those cold but charming computer equipment and explore unknown areas.
If Song Ci hadn't had an appointment with Ni Fang today to discuss some important matters together, he probably wouldn't have stepped out of the R&D room, let alone come to the company.
After coming out of the elevator, the secretary came to greet him from afar, "Mr. Song, there is a guest in Mr. Ni's office suddenly. You may have to wait a moment."
Song Ci frowned, and said impatiently, "Who is so proud that she is willing to take up my time?"
The secretary smiled and took out a lollipop from her pocket. After peeling off the candy wrapper, she handed it to Song Ci, "The chairman of Zhong Group, Zhong Youlin. The investor came to the company in person, and President Ni couldn't do anything about it. Please wait in the lounge. President Ni said it won't take longer than one lollipop."
Only then did Song Ci feel relieved.
The secretary breathed a sigh of relief.
The company's management are all younger than each other and have many strange quirks.
Song Ci, the boss of the R&D department, is a loner and doesn't like talking to people with lower IQs than her, but she loves eating candies, especially lollipops. When she holds one in her mouth, she looks like a little girl who has not grown up yet, not at all like the technical founder of Ultrasurf.
Huang Yihao, the boss of the entertainment department, appears to be easy to talk to. He is talkative and can chat with anyone for half a day. But when it comes to work, he can point out even a punctuation error in a contract.
The smallest quirk he has is that he cries when he's stressed out at work.
When several employees left the office floor late at night after working, they heard crying coming from the men's restroom. This triggered several versions of ghost stories, scaring many timid girls in the office, until several boys bravely waited outside the men's restroom and saw Huang Yihao wiping his tears and walking out of the restroom with red eyes. Only then did these ghost stories become self-defeating.
The biggest boss, Ni Fang, is also the youngest among all the people, but she looks the most mature. All the employees like her quirks.
Because as long as the big boss comes to work with a sullen face, she will give everyone bonuses before leaving. All employees say behind her back that Boss Ni is different from other bosses, and she will transfer money to everyone's card whenever she is unhappy.
……
Ni Fang, who was sitting on the sofa in the president's office, suddenly sneezed loudly without any warning.
This sudden action broke the silence in the room.
Zhong Youlin, who had been watching Ni Fang silently, immediately said with concern, "During the past few days of Frost Descent, the temperature has changed a lot. You should put on more clothes and don't catch a cold."
Zhong Youlin has never seen his beloved daughter again since he met Ni Fang at the holiday villa.
After listening to what Ni Fang said, Zhong Youlin also felt that he was a little too hasty about the family reunion, especially when he rashly proposed to adopt Ni Fang as his goddaughter without really putting himself in her shoes to consider her true feelings.
Since then, no matter how often he invited Ni Fang to meet, the response he got was always a ruthless rejection. Moreover, even if he carefully selected various precious gifts to give to Ni Fang, in the end these gifts would be returned intact without exception.
When he was anxious and panicked, Ni Fang actually took the initiative to call him!
Although the content of the call was simply to inform him that he could participate in the financing of the company's new project next week, for Zhong Youlin, this was undoubtedly an important step in their relationship.
So he immediately ordered the driver to drive him over.
Ni Fang put her finger under her nose and sneezed, then waved her hand and said, "It's okay. I've loved being sick since I was a kid, but now I'm used to it."
Zhong Youlin, who was sitting opposite, couldn't help but feel worried.
At the same time, he keenly captured the subtle changes in Ni Fang's expression when she spoke - there seemed to be a hint of imperceptible sadness in her eyes, as if she was telling him how much grievance she had suffered after leaving home.
Zhong Youlin realized that this was a good sign. The fact that Ni Fang could express such emotions showed that deep down in her heart she had always longed for the long-lost fatherly and motherly love.
Zhong Youlin only felt that his whole body was filled with infinite power. No matter what, he must find a way to bring Ni Fang back to the Zhong family.
"You must have suffered a lot in the past few years since you left home! I have specially investigated the situation of Ni's family before. The couple are just ordinary factory workers. Without money, how can they treat you well?" At the end, Zhong Youlin frowned and snorted coldly, as if he had witnessed with his own eyes the inhuman treatment that Ni Fang had suffered in Ni's family.
After hearing this, Ni Fang's eyes darkened. "The good and bad times are all in the past. I have grown up safely until I was eighteen."
Zhong Youlin sighed, "Yes, it's a great deed for them to raise you. Dad doesn't blame them, I just think they didn't take good care of you."
Ni Fang said "hmm" softly.
Zhong Youlin was shocked when he saw this scene.
He had always been focusing on the similarities between Ni Fang's eyebrows and eyes and Zhong Ying's. Because Ni Fang's cat eyes were always cold, he forgot to think about who Ni Fang looked like.
Just now, when I saw Ni Fang soften her attitude and lower her head, I realized that her facial features and temperament are actually more like Zhou Jingyun.
In the business world, she was able to establish Unbounded.com with great vigour and efficiency, and built her business from scratch to become one of the top 100 wealthiest people on the planet.
He has similar facial features and temperament to Zhou Jingyun and a business acumen similar to Zhong Youlin. He is actually a child who grew up with the strengths of both of them.
More like a child of the Zhong family than Zhong Ying.
Thinking of this, Zhong Youlin couldn't help but regret having let Jiaojiao run wild in the countryside.
"If you could grow up under the care of Jingyun and me, you would definitely achieve greater success than you have now," Zhong Youlin said with emotion. "We will definitely educate you well and provide you with the best learning environment. I will pass on all the experience I have accumulated over the years to you and teach you how to run a company step by step."
"By then, the Zhong family will have a true successor. Although Yingying is a good child, she doesn't like doing business. In the future, she can only inherit the shares of the Zhong Group and won't be able to run the business for a long time."
Ni Fang lowered her eyes to hide the coldness in them.
She sneered in her heart. What was the outcome of the real Zhong Jiao after he recognized his parents? Was it because Zhong Jiao did not show any talent for business at that time? Growing up in such an environment as the Ni family, it was already a great thing for Zhong Jiao to try his best to be admitted to the North China Film and Television Academy.
Zhong Jiao had no chance to learn financial knowledge, let alone the chance to show his talents in front of Zhong Youlin.
Zhong Jiao has lived under the shadow of Zhong Ying all his life, since he was born in the Zhong family. Later, when he met Ye Haotian, he was also regarded as Bai Yueguang's substitute, and finally his bone marrow was donated to Zhong Ying.
Putting aside these thoughts in her mind, Ni Fang raised her head again, with tears in her eyes because of Zhong Youlin's words, and a bit of defense trying hard to appear calm, "I don't want to be the successor of the Zhong family. I have my own career."
"Okay, it's good that Jiaojiao has her own ideas. When I was young, I was also determined to make a name for myself in the business world. You are very much like me now."
"Mr. Zhong, there is something I need to make clear to you. My calling you does not mean that I intend to acknowledge you as my father. I just hope that as the chairman of the Zhong Group, you will think carefully about whether to invest in the project of developing touch-screen mobile phones."
Zhong Youlin automatically ignored the first half of Ni Fang's sentence, "I've seen your new project. The idea is good, but it's not very realistic to implement. If the existing technology can't realize it, then your idea is just empty talk."
Zhong Youlin instinctively treated the development of touch-screen mobile phones as a child's play. He was willing to invest a little money to repair the relationship between father and daughter, rather than investing in it as a serious and forward-looking project.
"How about this, I will invest 10 million as a friendly sponsorship and will not take up any shares of your company."
Ni Fang could tell that Zhong Youlin was not optimistic about this project, he just took out 10 million to coax the child.
To be honest, Ni Fang doesn't need the 10 million now.
"I won't decide to launch a new project on a whim. I have thought about all the possibilities of developing a touch-screen phone, but as long as it succeeds, its benefits will be global. If Mr. Zhong still has concerns, you can see the results at the press conference in a few days."
Hearing Ni Fang's angry words, Zhong Youlin felt very happy. He felt that Ni Fang cared more and more about him. "We were talking nicely, why are you unhappy again? You are so childish. How much investment do you want? Daddy will satisfy you. Whether you make money or not, I am happy for you to waste my money."
Ni Fang watched Zhong Youlin step by step walk into the trap in the name of being a loving father. The more confident a person is, the more he will fall into his own imagination.
In fact, facing Zhong Youlin, Ni Fang doesn't need any great acting skills, because Zhong Youlin is very confident in his wealth, status and even character. Even if the other party has a small flaw in his acting, he can smooth it out himself.
"There is one more thing I really want to ask for your help." Ni Fang looked at Zhong Youlin sincerely.
"Come on, why do you need to use the word 'please' when talking to Dad?"
Ni Fang sat on the sofa, folded his hands, and looked firm and confident, "I want the shares of Zhong Group."
Without waiting for Zhong Youlin's frown to form, Ni Fang continued, "Don't worry, I'm not greedy for anything from your Zhong family. I just want you to pretend in front of Qi Youhong so that she can invest smoothly. You've been doing business for decades, and you know better than me that only things that everyone is fighting for are truly priceless."
Zhong Youlin couldn't help but look at Ni Fang again.
"As expected of my child, your vision and courage far exceed many people. You want me to cooperate with you in acting so that Qi Youhong can also come to the rescue and use the shares of the Ye Group to compete with me? What do you want her shares of the Ye family for?"
Zhong Youlin asked the key question.
Ni Fang had to answer this question well. She could neither show that this was a project that was doomed to lose money, nor let Zhong Youlin realize that her real purpose was to take over both companies.
She accompanied Zhong Youlin in acting for half a day, with the purpose of making Zhong Youlin realize that she was just a little girl who couldn't help but ask her parents for help when she encountered difficulties, and not the banker behind the scenes.
Emotions are far better at controlling people than rational judgment.
This is what Lu Wenyu taught her last night.
It was late at night. Lu Wenyu and Ni Fang stood side by side in front of the window of the top-floor apartment, facing the lights of thousands of homes.
He said, "When the time comes, Zhong Youlin will definitely ask you why you want to join him to deal with the Ye family? From Zhong Youlin's perspective, the Zhong family and the Ye family have kept to themselves for so many years, and Ye Haotian is the son-in-law that Zhong Youlin has chosen. It is not profitable for him to help you."
Ni Fang pinched his chin and thought carefully, "What if I can promise him a huge profit and agree to split the Ye family's equity equally afterwards? Anyway, it will be a waste of time and I don't have to pay him back."