I Want a Lifetime with You novel Chapter 77

They were already beyond the term ‘old fogey’. However, the executive level of the company was mainly made up of these old, conservative directors, and their decisions determined the future of Shengyuan. Even if Fu Chengyan’s power grew, he couldn’t completely transform Shengyuan.

The truth was that these old seniors didn’t do much on a daily basis so Fu Chengyan could let them go if he felt like it. In fact, it would probably benefit the company if they were dismissed, but these old geezers would never let that happen.

After firing Fu Renjiang, Fu Chengyan had bought over the shares held by Fu Renjiang and his two accomplices using his own name. This was what infuriated the old directors.

They were putting up a fight today because they wanted to obtain those shares from Fu Chengyan, or at least have them distributed to another party. In any case, they didn’t want everything to belong to Fu Chengyan alone.

They feared that Fu Chengyan would become difficult to control if he became too powerful. Fu Chengyan might still be young, but his actions were far from immature.

If Fu Chengyan knew the power those shares held, then the seniors certainly did too.

Now that the two positions initially held by Fu Renjiang were empty, everyone was trying to get their own people to take over and control the entire department. After all, there was much to gain.

“What should we do now, Mr. Fu?” Zhou Zheng asked as he looked at the documents in his hands. “Those old directors will surely think of other ways. If they don’t make it this time, there’ll be a next time!”

“We’ll leave that for next time, then!” Fu Chengyan said with a devious smile. He didn’t seem to care about them at all. He turned to his silent secretary. “Good job back there!”

The lady’s eyes lit up upon hearing her boss praise her. “Thank you, Mr. Fu!” She chirped before continuing, “Mr. Fu, you received a call earlier, but I didn’t answer it for you.”

Fu Chengyan nodded and paused for a moment. “Pass me my phone!”

The secretary immediately handed his phone over. Fu Chengyan glanced at it and frowned slightly – he didn’t expect Shi Nuan to call him. However, what perplexed him even more was that he never gave her his work number, so how did she obtain it?

Fu Chengyan cocked an eyebrow and took out his personal phone. It turned out there was also a missed call from Shi Nuan there. Smiling, Fu Chengyan waved his hand to dismiss the people standing next to him.

Zhou Zheng immediately understood the man’s gesture. He beckoned at the secretary to leave together.

The lady snuck a few glances at Fu Chengyan out of curiosity. She had worked for Fu Chengyan for so long, but this was her first time seeing Fu Chengyan without a cold expression. “Who was the call from, Mr. Zhou?”

Zhou Zheng replied with narrowed eyes, “It’s better to not stick your nose where it doesn’t belong!”

“Yes sir,” the lady immediately responded when she saw how stern Zhou Zheng looked.

Fu Chengyan stared at Shi Nuan’s number for a while. Her contact name had been saved as ‘May’. He then dialed her number, but the line was busy.

The corner of his lips twitched as Fu Chengyan shook his head and pocketed his phone.

Shi Nuan had tried calling both of Fu Chengyan’s numbers, but assumed he was busy since he didn’t pick up. So, she called her good friend, Song Rongrong, instead.

Song Rongrong happened to be outside covering some news, but upon hearing Shi Nuan say that she had something to talk about, she quickly came up with an excuse to leave work.

“What’s going on?” It had been a while since Song Rongrong returned to the country, and she had been busy recently. It had been agreed that Shi Nuan would treat her to a meal, but they hadn’t had the time to meet up until now. “Are you buying me a meal?”

“I guess so!” Shi Nuan briefly explained to Song Rongrong what was going on, and the latter immediately exploded. “What the hell? What’s with that scumbag Fu Xicheng? And what’s wrong with your parents?”

Song Rongrong was much more straightforward and loathed injustice, so she felt her blood boil the moment Shi Nuan started to recount the incident that happened earlier. “What about your husband? What did he say?”

Shi Nuan pursed her lips. “He knows about this, and he said he’d help me take care of it. But my mother just came looking for me a day later, so I guess he doesn’t know about it yet! I tried calling him earlier, but he didn’t pick up. He must be busy. What do you think I should do?”

“Your mom sure is a crazy one. How dare she use the incident with Yun Shen to blackmail you? Shouldn’t she destroy the information and fight against the Yun family instead?” Song Rongrong also didn’t understand why the Shi family treated Shi Nuan this way.

There was a brief moment of silence on Shi Nuan’s end. Song Rongrong realized belatedly that her blunt words might have hurt her friend. “Sorry, I…”

“It’s fine. You were just stating the truth.” Shi Nuan shook her head. “I’ll have to go over today. Can you help me out, Rongrong?”

“Of course!” Song Rongrong patted her own chest. “What time tonight? And where?”

“7pm, Jinyi Hotel!” A past memory flashed through her mind at the mention of the hotel.

It was the same hotel Fu Xicheng and Shi Wei had organized their engagement party. She couldn’t believe that her parents had the audacity to make it their meeting place. Shi Nuan’s gaze darkened. “You have to come!”

“Don’t worry, I got it. By the way, don’t forget to call your husband. He should know about something this important.”

Song Rongrong had never met Fu Chengyan, but based on her friend’s own words, she could tell this man treated Shi Nuan well. So she had a fairly good impression of Fu Chengyan.