Chapter 336 — Hope Shattered in an Instant
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"What does that have to do with me? I've already given my shares to someone else," Xie Guangbo said, a note of impatience creeping in. "All right, if there's nothing else, I'm hanging up. Goodbye."
"Click, click, click..." A few tones sounded in Jin Gubang's ear, and then the screen read, "Call ended"...
Jin Gubang was stunned — utterly stunned. He gasped for breath in great heaving gulps, at a loss for what to do. Minutes ago he had still believed he was about to become chairman, but this phone call was nothing short of a bolt from the blue, blasting him clean out of his wits.
It was over. Everything was over... Jin Gubang knew there was now absolutely no chance of his becoming chairman. What a joke! The company's largest shareholder and its third-largest shareholder were now one family. What the hell was he supposed to play at anymore?
And those minor shareholders who had previously leaned his way would surely, seeing how things now stood, lean his way no longer. At the shareholders' meetings to come, it was plain as day that Gu Pengzhan and Wei Zhao's side would be overwhelming in their strength. What did he have left to contend with them?
Hope, shattered in an instant.
How Wei Zhao had come by Xie Guangbo's shares, Jin Gubang no longer wished to know. It was utterly meaningless now. The only thing left for him to do was find a way to save his own skin.
Jin Gubang was certain that when Gu Pengzhan moved against him next, there would be no mercy in it. So whether he could become chairman was now a secondary matter; whether he could even keep his place in the company at all was a different question entirely.
"Bang!" Jin Gubang slammed his phone down onto the floor with all his might, and it burst apart on impact.
After smashing the phone, Jin Gubang rose straight to his feet and walked out of the meeting room without a backward glance, his face written all over with gloom.
Gu Pengzhan did not mind. Such a reaction from Jin Gubang was only natural. Gu Pengzhan was not the least bit offended; on the contrary, he felt rather gratified, for back when Jin Gubang and Xie Guangbo had been playing their duet of echo and response, Gu Pengzhan had long since wanted to smash a phone himself.
"The purpose of this emergency shareholders' meeting is to introduce to everyone our new shareholder, Mr. Wei Zhao," Gu Pengzhan said with a smile, presenting Wei Zhao to the other shareholders present.
At once the meeting room rang with enthusiastic applause. No one there was a fool: this man was the company's third-largest shareholder, and he stood in "intimate" relations with Gu Pengzhan's daughter. Who among them would dare offend such a person?
Moreover, by now no one doubted in the least that Wei Zhao had been right to accuse Jin Gubang of borrowing the tiger's might. The man had the capital to be arrogant — he was the company's third-largest shareholder.
"I look forward to working with you all," Wei Zhao said, rising and nodding to the assembly.
"Next, I propose that Wei Zhao be made a member of the company's board of directors. I ask everyone to cast their votes," Gu Pengzhan proposed.
Jin Gubang had already walked out — who would offend Gu Pengzhan on his behalf now? And so, beyond any doubt, Wei Zhao became the company's newest director. Whether Jin Gubang's vote was counted or not no longer mattered in the slightest.
"Heh... though I am a shareholder and director of the company, I authorize Uncle Chu to represent me with full authority. His decisions are my decisions." Wei Zhao had no wish to come to board meetings and shareholders' meetings whenever the whim took him, so he simply handed his rights over to Gu Pengzhan.