Jean looked bland and her question was raised in a casual tone. But as soon as she dropped the question, all the old shareholders, or rather, the entire Board of Directors turned their eyes on Joy and began whispering to each other, as if Jean had dropped a bombshell on them.
Their stares and whispers seemed to get under Joy's skin and she yelled angrily,"Get this woman out of here!"
She kept yelling loudly again and again but no security guard showed up as if all of them had somehow disappeared from the outside.
Panic set in on Joy and she began losing control.
She was getting more and more certain that Jean had come totally prepared on seeing that Jean looked totally calm and confident and was giving her an ironic smile.
Shirley also felt that the current situation was far graver than she had imagined and she hurriedly walked over to Joy and murmured to her in an attempt to remind her,"Mom..."
"What the hell do you want to do?" Joy abruptly shifted her gaze to Jean and barked at her furiously.
"I want to do what you intend to do," Jean replied in a brisk and clear voice without concealing the truth, turning her eyes to all shareholders present around the table.
"You? How can you?" Shirley sneered on one side.
"Really? How can you two?" Shirley stared at her and replied back coldly.
"We two?" A complacent smile ran across Shirley's face. She arrogantly looked at Jean and declared,"I hold 10% shares of the Wen Group, and my father holds 40% shares. In other words, I hold 50% shares altogether. It is undeniable that I am totally qualified for acting as the CEO of the Wen Group."
All others present were shocked by her declaration.
A few days before, Joy and Shirley had been outside the hospital with two middle-aged men. Seeing them there, Jean had become very clear that the two of them had racked their brains and tried every possible means that would get them the CEO's position in the Wen Group!
But she had never imagined that they would stealthily buy shares.
'Hadn't they been complaining that they had no money and couldn't afford Henry's medical treatment?
Then, where did they get the money to buy the shares?'
Jean chuckled to herself. It was only because they were so heartless and ruthless that Henry had been rather disappointed and lost his hope in them.
'Joy, Shirley, you have been overjoyed and underestimated Henry.
You have been so careless that your evil intentions have been noticed and uncovered before your plot could succeed. Because of this, Henry has lost his trust in you.'
"I am also a part of the Wen family. Why didn't I get to know when my father transferred his shares to you?" Jean stared at Shirley and asked her in feinted astonishment,"Besides, dad has come back to his senses now. And he will be fully recovered soon. Now he is still not old. How can he retire from his position just like that and hand over his business to you? Why hasn't he handed over it to Winner?"
"Winner? That black sheep?" Repeating the ugly name, Shirley sneered and said,"I knew that you wouldn't believe me. So here, I have a share transfer agreement with my father's signature, and an official document where he appoints me as a CEO in the Wen Group. You can check and confirm these documents by yourselves..."
As she finished speaking, Shirley took the documents out of two kraft paper bags and passed them to the shareholders sitting next to her.
However, what Shirley was doing and saying didn't stir up any of Jean's feelings at all.
By that moment, she had now pieced together all that Shirley and Joy had been plotting for such a long time.
Initially, Henry had only felt disheartened for their acts. But later, he had become desperate for them. As Shirley showed the shareholders the documents, Jean finally understood why Henry's attitudes towards them had changed this much. They had forced Henry to sign the share transfer agreement.
But she was still puzzled about why Joy was supporting Shirley and letting her be the CEO of the company.
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