Chapter 1023: Chapter 1012: Collusion of Interests
“Yes!”
Ouyang Feifei’s face lit up with joy, and she nodded in response.
She was like Ning Fan’s shadow, and shadows don’t move by themselves, they only move with their owner.
With Ning Fan’s orders, she immediately found her resolve, and her face gradually regained its vitality.
Although the company’s situation was very complicated at present, her confidence in Ning Fan made her not entertain any pessimistic thoughts at all.
Carrying Ning Fan’s orders, Ouyang Feifei left the general manager’s office.
Ning Fan stood up, looked out the window, contemplated for a moment, and suddenly heard a knock on the door behind him.
“Is there something else?”
Ning Fan thought it might be Ouyang Feifei who had forgotten to ask about something, so she returned.
“Um… General Manager, I have some things I want to report to you.”
A timid voice sounded behind him.
“Hmm?”
Ning Fan turned around, and saw a girl with a ponytail, wearing a snow-white fitted blouse and a knee-length black skirt, standing hesitantly at the office door with an expression of indecision on her face.
“Come in.”
Ning Fan gestured to her to come over and sat down on his chair.
The girl seemed to breathe a sigh of relief upon hearing Ning Fan’s non-rejection, and she stood before him, hesitant to speak.
“Don’t be nervous, sit down and talk. Would you like me to pour you a cup of tea?”
Ning Fan smiled slightly, looking at the girl, and said, “I don’t eat people, why are you so afraid of me?”
“But… I heard that yesterday the general manager almost beat Liu from the marketing department to death, just because you thought he didn’t follow your ideas, offending your authority as the general manager.”
The girl said fearfully.
She wore light makeup, with slightly flushed cheeks, and this timid girl seemed quite young, harboring an inherent fear of Ning Fan.
“Which department are you from?”
Ning Fan didn’t bother to explain her misconception about his intentions in the marketing department yesterday, and directly asked.
“I’m the deputy leader of the business department team, my name is Lin Xia.”
After introducing herself, Lin Xia’s nervousness seemed to ease.
She took a deep breath and solemnly said, “General Manager, it’s not that I’m speaking ill of them behind my direct superior’s back. When I came to work today, I heard them discussing things harmful to the company in the business department’s meeting room!”
Lin Xia’s words were stunning, instantly capturing Ning Fan’s attention.
“Them? Who all?”
Ning Fan slowly asked.
“The business department supervisor, deputy supervisor, manager, and deputy manager, along with leaders from several other departments, gathered in what felt like a shareholder meeting. I didn’t dare to listen for long, fearing discovery, but I did learn that they seem to be planning to manipulate the company’s accounts, pulling it into tax evasion and falsified accounts scandal.”
Lin Xia bit her lip and said, “And there’s a chubby middle-aged man who contacted the tax bureau in Dragon City, planning a surprise check on the company. According to him, once the tax bureau arrives, the general manager will be heading to jail!”
“Going to jail, is it that scary?”
Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with a hint of amused smile as he tapped the table, asking, “Anything else?”
“No… nothing else.”
Faced with Ning Fan’s smile, Lin Xia seemed overwhelmed, and after a second of eye contact, she quickly looked away.
“Alright, I got it. You may go for now; I’ll handle this matter.”
Ning Fan smiled slightly and said sincerely, “Young lady, thank you very much for the intelligence you provided. Once the company gets back on track, your contribution will be remembered.”
“No need, no need!”
Lin Xia waved her hands repeatedly, softly saying, “I just don’t want to see the general manager being framed, nor do I want the company to collapse under their conspiracy. After all, this is my first job, and I hope the company continues to thrive.”
Speaking lower and lower, Lin Xia took a deep breath and, without daring to look at Ning Fan even once, said, “General Manager, I’ve finished my report; I need to get back to work. Take care of yourself.”
“I will, and once these corporate parasites are cleared away, you’ll have a place in the business department.”
“Ah… Are you considering promoting me to team leader?”
Lin Xia looked at Ning Fan with a bit of surprise.
“Not… the business department supervisor.”
Watching Lin Xia leave with a shocked expression and an open mouth, Ning Fan smiled slightly and swept the matter to the back of his mind.
Lin Xia’s reminder wasn’t crucial, as he’d already caught hints of this from the snowstorm-like resignations.
However, the tax bureau’s imminent surprise inspection was timely news.
“Heh heh, trying to topple me with underhanded tactics?”
Ning Fan laughed coldly, filled with disdain.
Asura, the ruler who walks out of the night.
Darkness, to him, was nothing but a cloak.
A bunch of parasitic, bloated leaders trying to use dark methods to overthrow him, how ridiculous!
Outside the office, groups of employees were distracted from work, whispering among themselves.
Now, with all department heads resigning, these middle and lower-tier employees were leaderless, and though each had work to handle, they seemed to have lost their backbone, feeling utterly disoriented.
The company overall was steeped in an atmosphere of anxiety and confusion.
Discussion about Ning Fan as the general manager was everywhere.
“I hear several major departments united and resigned today, leaving only a group of small fry and General Manager Ning as a lone commander.”
A dark-skinned employee whispered to a colleague beside him.
“Is it true? I just saw the supervisor this morning, did he resign too?”
“It’s no lie, I was the one who found the paper for the supervisor’s resignation letter!”
The dark-faced employee spoke with such conviction that one could hardly disbelieve him.
“Well, this is good then, without leaders, doesn’t this mean we all have a chance to advance?”
The employee talking to him seemed quite optimistic, his voice filled with delight.
“Heh heh, you might be overthinking it. Do you think those who have held important positions for over a decade would resign so easily?”
“Then what?”
“This is called retreating to advance, you don’t understand. Our young General Manager Ning is soon going to be in trouble. I’ll bet, within three days, major changes will occur, and these leaders who submitted resignations will be courteously invited back.”
“By then, it’ll be the end for General Manager Ning.”
Similar conversations continued to happen across all company departments.
Overnight, after Ning Fan intimidated the company branch with thunderous means, a beautifully executed counterattack came from the company’s interest-allied faction.