Ding Ruola naturally couldn't deal with Gu Tingjun in a bold and straightforward way. She could only bite the bullet and cooperate with him.
However, after terminating the contract with Kaida, Ding Ruola felt that Gu Tingjun had become much more docile. He basically only showed up in front of her after they truly started to cooperate.
Ding Ruola thought this crisis could be resolved, but never in her wildest dreams did she expect that only the crisis on her side was resolved.
That man had recently started contacting some of the small shareholders of Fangyuan Group, some of whom were close to the Gu family.
In the evenings when she got home these days, she could hardly say a few words to Fang Siyan.
Every night, he seemed to be on the phone with someone, discussing something.
"Buy as much as you can when the time comes!"
That was all Ding Ruola heard. Could it be that Fang Siyan had become so poor that he had to make money by speculating?
Every night after she finished drawing her manuscripts, she would pour a cup of hot water and bring it to Fang Siyan.
They would be intimate for less than a quarter of an hour, and then Fang Siyan would start working again.
With such a high workload, Ding Ruola was worried that Fang Siyan's body couldn't take it, so she went to Fangyuan Group the next day.
She arrived just in time. Fang Siyan had just finished a shareholders' meeting.
When she saw Fang Siyan, the man didn't look well.
When he left home this morning, Fang Siyan didn't slick his hair back.
The man's soft hair naturally hung over his forehead. The length of his hair just covered his upper eyelids, revealing his pair of deep eyes.
The affection in the man's eyes made Ding Ruola unable to resist.
"Those people are crazy about money!"
Fang Siyan directly threw the documents in his hand into the trash can. If Fang Siyan didn't sign these documents, they were just like toilet paper.
He didn't know what big promises Gu Tingjun had made to those few shareholders, but they were all desperate to force Fang Siyan to cooperate with the Gu family.
Those old shareholders knew that the Fang family and the Gu family had stopped cooperating after that incident, so they basically didn't participate in this conspiracy.
Only those young people who didn't know the situation were constantly shouting in front of Fang Siyan.
"Go and call Zhang Jun!"
Fang Siyan originally didn't want to take action against those young guys, but at this moment, only by forcing those people's shares into his own hands or the hands of his trusted people could he be sure of victory.
He knew that Gu Tingjun's tricks must not be limited to this.
"Ask someone to investigate Yin Siyuan's live - streaming platform!"
Zhang Jun understood what Fang Siyan meant. What the man meant by "investigate" was to bring this company down.
This business was the biggest company under Yin Siyuan's control. As long as this company went bankrupt, the other companies would basically fail too. Then he could find someone to buy the shares in his hands.
He currently had 40% of the shares, and the shares in the hands of the shareholders who supported him were only 9%.
No matter how he calculated, there was still a shortage of about 1%.
Yin Siyuan held 5% of the company's shares. As long as Fang Siyan could get them into his hands, he could be sure of victory.
Just as Fang Siyan had arranged this matter, there was already movement on Gu Tingjun's side.
"Lao Fang! He has exposed your matter with Bai Lijingming!"
The incident three months ago was already an old story for Fang Siyan.
The man looked at the report in the news, curled his lips, snorted through his nose, and there was a disdainful smile on his face.
What a clever move to kill two birds with one stone.
Fang Siyan knew that Gu Tingjun would use Bai Lijingming to suppress him, but he didn't expect it to be at this time.
"Lao Fang, look at the stocks of Fangyuan Group!"
"It's not a publicly - traded company. These are just internal company stocks."
Ding Ruola was just thinking that if the company issued stocks, she could buy them and give the shares to Fang Siyan.
Before she could express her idea, Fang Siyan rejected it.
"Don't be silly. This method can only fool you."
In the afternoon, the tax officials came to investigate Fang Siyan.
When Fang Siyan was taken away, Ding Ruola felt as if her heart had been ripped out of her chest.
She watched the man's calm back as he left. The girl could only follow behind him for a few steps and then stop.
After Fang Siyan left, the girl didn't go back to the studio. She went to the publicity department to find Zhang Wei.
Zhang Wei was also extremely anxious at the moment. He was asking his public relations team to quickly find someone to whitewash this matter.
"For now, this is the only way. Siyan has to pay off the arrears."
Just as they were discussing, Zhang Jun suddenly appeared behind Ding Ruola.
"Ruola, sign this contract."
Proxy, Ding Ruola was a bit confused. She was still hesitating when Zhang Jun on the side started to urge her.
He told Ding Ruola that this was all Fang Siyan's intention. There was a shareholders' meeting going on upstairs. After Ding Ruola signed the contract, she would represent Fang Siyan in the meeting.
Shareholders' meeting!
Ding Ruola swallowed hard. She was scared.
Ding Ruola had seen big scenes, but today's matter was about the fate of Fangyuan Group. How could she act as if nothing had happened?
"Once you're up there, say no to anything related to the Gu family!"
The meeting started. Ding Ruola sat in the front row. She didn't think she was that capable.
The way those people looked at her was like they were looking at a monkey in the zoo. They were all waiting for Ding Ruola to make a mistake.
"If today's meeting is about cooperating with the Gu family, I can only say it's out of the question."
None of those people were willing to speak first. Ding Ruola couldn't hold back, so she spoke up.
She blocked their mouths from the start.
"We need a reason!"
The man who took the lead in speaking was Yin Siyuan. "The decision - making power for major company matters is determined by a shareholders' vote. You can't decide this alone."
Ding Ruola had no choice but to ask those people to raise their hands and vote.
To Ding Ruola's surprise, the old shareholders who had previously supported Fang Siyan suddenly changed sides.
Just as Ding Ruola was about to ask why those people had switched their votes, an old man stood up.
"We didn't expect Xiao Fang to do such a thing."
The girl carefully recalled that the thing this man was referring to was Fang Siyan's cooperation with Bai Lijingming.
The old shareholders said that one was like pulling teeth from a tiger and the other was like dancing on the tip of a knife. Both were risky, and they were willing to choose the one with higher controllability.
Ding Ruola laughed.
What these people meant was that Gu Tingjun was more controllable!
These people couldn't even figure out Gu Tingjun's thoughts, yet they still thought he was controllable. The information these people could get was just what Gu Tingjun wanted them to know.
In terms of controllability, Bai Lijingming was actually higher. This man only cared about money. As long as you gave him money, he would do anything.
Didn't he know that tax evasion was illegal? But he still did it.
In the end, all he wanted was money.
Gu Tingjun? At least after Ding Ruola had been in contact with him for so long, she still didn't know what this man wanted.
Seeing that the meeting was about to fall apart, Ding Ruola still refused to give up.
"You'd rather believe a so - called speculator than a shareholder who has led Fangyuan Group for so many years."