Chapter 708: Board’s Decision
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CHAPTER 708
“Ye Cheng, Ye Cheng,” he called his name as he made his way to the side of his office having an all-glass wall.
His gaze went down, watching the street and people on the street. “It is better you do not think about it this way. Just let your mother handle him and you focus on fixing the company.”
With those thoughts, he placed both hands into his pocket while his mind worked ways around, planning how to get to the bottom of things.
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At the appointed time, the board meetings began, with all the board members present. By now they all had gotten wind of the situation and the fact that money was spent wrongly.
…..
Most of them without prying further already knew how that money was spent.
Although their assumptions were wrong, it did not change the fact that it was related.
At this point, Ye Cheng was not bothered about what they thought. All he could think of was how to pacify them and improve so as to take this company up and ensure no loss of things.
“Good day everyone,” he began. “Thank you all for taking out time to come for this board meeting. A sad event occurred and as to that, we have all assembled here. You…”
“Why not save the formalities, Ye Cheng. If you would not say it and go straight to the point, we already know this money was stolen or better still squandered on girls by the previous chairman,” a man in his early forties voiced out in anger.
“My apologies sir. You must have gotten the wrong information,” Ye Cheng corrected. He did not bother to flatter anyone of them by wearing a fake smile.
He had plans and that did not include wasting his time on bored board members. “Ye Cheng,” one of the women present drew his attention to her calmly. “If I may,” she requested permission.
“You may.”
“Thank you. We are not children and we have heard the news. Well, news and although we do not know which is true but believe me the truth is that money had gone missing from this organization. Correct?”
“Correct. But you should know that the mean wasn’t an intentional one. A business warranted it and well the Chairman did that wrongly.”
“Right from time, everyone knows his lifestyle wasn’t cool but no one questioned it because the company remained ta the top but with this…” she took a pause and looked around. She brought her hands together and entwined her fingers. “This, I am afraid is on a big scale.”
“I know.”
“No, you do not. Three hundred thousand dollars was taken. How do you plan on working your way in recovering that?”
Ye Sheng who remained seated at the top chair to the right kept quiet while they spoke as though he was not present.
“I am working on it. Increase production, lower sales a bit. Do more marketing adverts and invest in smaller businesses to accumulate interest that can cover up such loss.”
“That would take time,” the woman added.”
“I know. For now, it is not something that would make the company go bankrupt so I do not intend to borrow from the banks and attract unwanted attention to this.”
“You know all too well how the stocks of this company can drop should incase the public hears of this?” The first man spoke.
“Yes, Mr Lou Yuchen. I know. And the same goes for you, Mrs Zhao Su, if you would give me the listening ear right after the first agenda of this meeting, then you would see that I have things under control.”
He peeled his gaze off them and looked at Yi Wang Lei. “Please proceed with the agenda of today’s meeting.”
Nodding his head, Yi Wang Lei sprang to his feet and greeted.
“Good day ladies and gentlemen. The first agenda of our meeting today would be the voting to remove the present Chairman and reinstate the acting Chairman as the Chairman of Dream Star Corporation.”
He took a slight pause, waiting to see if anyone had an objection. Once he found none, he cast a glance over at Ye Cheng and he nodded, permitting him to go ahead.
“Before we move to that, the Chairman, Mr Ye would like to give a brief speech and then we commence.” He turned around to his side and beckoned. “Mr Ye, please do us the honours.”
He stood up, cleared his throat and fixed his suit up as his gaze swept through the men and women present.
Most did not dare look at him for fear of having to be caged by him again.
“Good afternoon everyone. First, I would like to start by thanking everyone for coming. Secondly, I want to say it has been great working with you and having you trust me with your funds for this post and together we achieved great things.”
Some of the people present could only purse their lips and swallow their discontent but no one spoke. They were not scared of him anymore.
Rather they were scared of Ye Cheng. He was a young child prodigy and they have witnessed how he ruthlessly handled business and even more how the company grew to its peak because of him.
Offending him was not what anyone wanted.
“As we all know, all good times may one day come to an end and now this is my time.” He took a pause, and half lifted his hands in a lecturing manner.
“I would love to use this opportunity to properly and honestly apologize to you all for my misconduct and my easy trusting in new business that scammed me. And as such, I must resign since my judgements have put this company at grave risk.”
He took in a deep breath and smiled a little bit. “Hesitate not in voting who you think is right for this position. I am happy to have served.”
Ye Cheng rolled his eyes stylishly while waiting for the proceedings to begin.
“Thank you.” Ye Sheng said and sat back down.
“Now that is out of the way, it is time to vote for the new Chairman of Dream Star Corporation,” Yi Wang Lei announced.
Instantly murmurings ensued amongst the members as they thought about the matter carefully one last time.
All the while, Ye Cheng watched them make their decision and when he felt they had delayed enough he gestured for Yi Wang Lei to carry on.
“Now, time to cast our votes, ladies and gentlemen,” he announced.
The entire voting happened quicker than expected as Yi Wang Lei was not one to waste time. And by the time it was done, someone was called separately to give the counts.
He nodded at Ye Cheng and Ye Sheng as soon as he got the results of the voting.
“It was a fair election and once this result is called out, please we shall all accept it in good faith.”
He walked up to Zhao Su and handed the result over to her. “Please ma, do the honours.”
Nodding her head, she took it from him and went through it. She lifted her eyes and smiled at them.
“It is with great honour I am proud to announce to you today, the board’s decision.” The room fell into complete silence as they waited.
“The winner of the election with fifteen votes to nil and the new Chairman of Dream Star Corporation is none other than…” she swallowed hard and smiled again.
“Ye Cheng.”
