Being Reborn And Starting Off By Not Being A Simp - Chapter 38

Chapter 38 The Game Within the Rules

Ding Yun and Su Qi rarely interacted and had always been at odds with each other.

Ding Yun only became the new chairwoman of this company slightly more than 10 days ago, and she had not communicated with Su Qi yet.

This was the first time Ding Yun had asked Su Qi for a discussion in the office.

There was reluctance written all over Su Qi’s face, but she was actually feeling a little uneasy.

She was worried that the matter Ding Yun wanted to discuss was to remove her position of acting president and appoint Liu Qing as the president of the company.

Ding Yun had the authority to do that.

Su Qi was already thinking about how to join forces with the other major shareholders of the company to pressure Ding Yun to give up on this idea.

The other major shareholders of the company were still on her side.

On one side was a returning talent from an Ivy League university who had done well in the company over the past few years, and on the other side was a semi-literate person who only attended elementary school and had no business experience. How easy was it to choose which side to take?

As expected, Ding Yun started talking about Liu Qing.

“I’ve just said that Liu Qing is the son I had with my ex-husband. He’s also my only son now. I don’t have any goals at my age. He’s my only hope from now on.”

“He’s also my only son now.” Su Qi felt a little guilty when she heard that.

Ding Yun originally had another son, her half-brother, but her mother had killed him in a car accident.

She did feel guilty about this matter.

However, she would not agree to hand over her authority to manage the company. Ding Yun continued, “I haven’t seen him in more than 10 years. I learned some time ago that he had a really difficult time during that period of time. As a mother, I want to make it up to him.”

Su Qi spoke to her coldly.

“You can make it up to him any way you want. This is your family business. You don’t have to tell me.”

Ding Yun said, “But I want to compensate him by making him the boss of a company. I need to tell you about this since you are acting president.”

Su Qi immediately interpreted the “company” that Ding Yun mentioned to mean Tianyuan Group and snorted. “The company doesn’t belong to you alone. You have no right to make such a decision.”

Ding Yun frowned. “I own 55% of the company’s shares. If I want to train him by letting him manage a small company under the group, I can’t even make this decision?”

Su Qi was stunned for a moment before she realized that she had misunderstood the request.

She had been so fixated about her worry that she had lost her composure.

After a moment of frustration, she said, “Which company do you want to let him manage? If it’s really just a small company, we can talk about it.”

“There’s a new media company that was established in Pengcheng at the end of last year. I think we can let him hone his experience there. He has been working in Pengcheng all these years, so he’s more familiar with the area,” Ding Yun said.

Su Qi thought back and recalled her memories of the company. It was a small company with a registered capital of 10 million dollars. At that time, she thought that Su Yi’s main purpose was to date internet celebrities so she did not object even though she was not supportive.

It was such a small company that she would have forgotten it if Ding Yun had not mentioned it.

She did not agree immediately but said, “I need to find out more about that company first.”

Although she did not think it would hurt to agree to such a small request, she did not want to agree so readily as well.

If she agreed too quickly, then they would only ask for more in the future.

Ding Yun said, “I’ve already sent someone to get the information on that company.”

She told Su Qi about her plans. She wanted to invest in that company under Liu Qing’s name and change the ownership of the company so that Liu Qing could obtain at least 90% of the shares.

Although that company was fully owned by Tianyuan Group, Ding Yun only owned 55% of Tianyuan Group’s shares. If Liu Qing just took over the management of the company, there would still be too many restrictions on him. He could not just do whatever he wanted.

If the venture succeeded, it could not prove Liu Qing’s capability.

If the venture failed, it also could not prove that Liu Qing did not have any capability.

Su Qi was puzzled and asked, “Then why don’t you take that money and start another company?” Ding Yun said frankly, “It’s too troublesome for him to register a company and set it up. If there’s a shell company that he can use, then why not?”

Liu Qing felt a little embarrassed.

What it meant was that he had no real skills and could only handle something that was ready-made.

However, it was the truth.

If he was asked to register a company, he would not even know the first step or the second step, or where to hire people, or what kind of people to hire.

After a while, the information about the new media company in Pengcheng was brought over.

Su Qi flipped through a few pages and gained an understanding of the company.

That company was called Tianyuan Media, and it was under the banner of Tianyuan Group.

The company was based in Pengcheng and had rented two offices. At the moment, it had around a dozen employees, and had signed more than a dozen minor internet celebrities to do livestreams on the video app platform.

In addition, the company had two social media accounts with more than a hundred thousand followers and three Weibo marketing accounts with more than a million fans.

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The company was only set up late last year and had only started operating in February this year.

At the moment, it was still at the stage of spending money to market itself, and was still far from making a profit.

According to the books, the company had already lost a few million dollars.

Su Qi looked at the information and then at Ding Yun with a strange expression. “Are you sure you want this company?”

Ding Yun said, “I just want to find him a company in Pengcheng. We don’t have another company in Pengcheng, so it can only be this one.”

“This company has already lost a few millions,” Su Qi said.

“It’s just a few millions.” Ding Yun was not concerned about that.

“How about this,” Su Qi said. “If you cover the losses, I can make the decision to separate that company from Tianyuan Group and transfer it to Mr. Liu.”

“There’s no need to separate it from Tianyuan Group,” Ding Yun said. “Just give him absolute control of the company.”

Su Qi pursed her lips.

She wondered about Ding Yun’s intentions.

She quickly figured it out. Ding Yun wanted that company to continue to be under the Tianyuan Group umbrella because she wanted Liu Qing to be able to progress within Tianyuan Group.

On one hand, she wanted him to have absolute control over the company. She did not want Liu Qing’s growth to face interference from the group headquarters, so that he could fully show off his capability.

On the other hand, she did not want the company to be separated from Tianyuan Group. This was to pave the way for him to control Tianyuan Group in the future.

As long as he obtained success with that small company, he would be able to amass enough clout to fight for the role of president of the company.

If he was separated from the Tianyuan Group ecosystem, his success would have nothing to do with Tianyuan Group. Later on, if he wanted to become the president of Tianyuan Group, it would be equivalent to letting an outsider control Tianyuan Group. He might not be able to garner the support of the other shareholders.

It appeared that Ding Yun still wanted to support her son to climb to the top and take over Tianyuan Group.

Su Qi initially wanted to insist that this company be separated from Tianyuan Group, but after thinking about it, she gave up the

idea.

If Ding Yun wanted to play this game of fighting for control of the company within the rules, then it was the best situation for her.

If she rejected Ding Yun’s suggestion, in turn causing Ding Yun to take a hard stance and make Liu Qing the president despite objections from the other shareholders, then she would be doomed.

Ding Yun, who owned 55% of the company’s shares, definitely had the ability to take that hard stance.

In comparison, it was better to let her play the game within the rules.

Su Qi did not believe that in terms of making money, she would lose to a person with only middle school education.

Hence, she nodded and said, “Alright, if you cover those few million dollars in losses, I’ll transfer 90% of the company’s shares to Mr. Liu.”