Chapter 635: A Silent War (1)
Gu Yu was the first to enter, followed by Zuo Si and Assistant Lin.
As a secretary, Xu Weilai naturally picked a seat behind her boss from the row of chairs that were lined up against the wall. She then settled down in the corner.
The trio walked straight to their seats as if they did not notice her and sat down as well.
Gu Yu took the seat of the host while Zuo Si sat in the seat on his immediate right, which was directly across from Xu Weilai’s boss.
The agenda of the meeting was to address matters about the shuffling of manpower and redeployment among members of the higher management. Firstly, the meeting would mark the official entrance of the Zuo Corporation into Gu Corporation as its second largest shareholder and the Zuo Corporation had sent two representatives over to the meeting.
Assistant Lin began by introducing Zuo Si to everyone. However, everyone already knew who she was, for she had already participated in various meetings held by the Gu Corporation since a month ago.
Zuo Si stood up and nodded at everyone coldly. After she briefly introduced herself, sat back down while everyone applauded for her.
Assistant Lin then turned to Xu Weilai’s superior and introduced, “Mr. Zuo An is the other representative from Zuo Corporation. He is…”
After a series of introductions, the crowd applauded again.
Both representatives that Zuo Corporation had sent over were highly competent. Zuo Si was a prestigious and powerful businesswoman while Zuo An had already established his own magazine publication house despite his young age and could easily manipulate public opinion.
Zuo An stood up and greeted everyone elegantly with a warm, gentle smile that made him appear as graceful and harmless as an aristocrat.
Xu Weilai listened in silence. Previously, she had roughly guessed that Zuo An was related to Zuo Corporation and now that he was assigned to be a representative for the company, it ascertained that her guess was right—he must be closely related to the company.
“Could he be the second son of the Zuo family who started the Zuo Corporation? Could he be Zuo Si’s brother? But…They hardly behaved like siblings. They did not even look at each other and seemed even more aloof to each other than how actual strangers would be,” Xu Weilai mused.
After introductions were made, Assistant Lin explained, “Zuo Corporation has requested for one of their representatives to assume the position of the Vice President. Thus, we would have to choose between Miss and Mr. Zuo. We will now conduct a fair vote. Every shareholder could exercise his or her voting rights and the party with the most number of votes will be our new Vice President.”
“Vice President…” the words echoed in Xu Weilai’s mind.
“To think that Boss would take over such a high-level position right after Zuo Corporation becomes a shareholder to the Gu Corporation,” she thought.
It then dawned on Xu Weilai that she had truly underestimated her boss. All along, she had thought that he was merely a small stakeholder in Zuo Corporation and that he would only be appointed as a Director at best. She never expected him to become the Vice President.
Although Xu Weilai barely knew anything about commerce, she could still sense the competitive atmosphere in the conference room. It was a silent war.
Everyone had seen how capable Zuo Si was and while Zuo An owned a magazine publication house, it would pale in comparison to the Zuo Corporation that Zuo Si had managed.
Moreover, rumours about Zuo Si and Gu Yu had spread like wildfire. They were close and many people felt certain that they would announce their marriage anytime soon. If they were to pick Zuo Si as the Vice President, she would join hands with Gu Yu, the CEO of Gu Corporation, and this would be a perfect merger of the two corporations. It would also bring about a win-win situation and the synergy would propel the company to greater heights.
The outcome was seemingly apparent, but, much to everyone’s surprise, Zuo An eventually won by a narrow margin of one vote.
Maintaining his warm smile, Zuo An rose to his feet and looked towards Xu Weilai before he began to express his gratitude, “I would like to use this opportunity to formally introduce my secretary, Miss Xu Weilai!”
The crowd couldn’t help but gasp in shock right after he said this.