Within half a year, to increase the Phoenix Group's revenue by twenty percent - this bold statement sounded like a huge joke to everyone.
"Qin Qinghan, you truly live up to your reputation as someone who came from a small company. It seems that the new calf isn't afraid of the tiger. Do you even know how much revenue the Phoenix Group generates in a year? A twenty percent increase means I should praise your enthusiasm, or should I say you're being arrogant?" Liang Xingguo swirled the wine glass in his hand, wearing a mocking smile on his face.
Qin Qinghan looked at Liang Xingguo calmly and said, "Three years ago, the Phoenix Group's overall profit was 105% of the previous year. Two years ago, it was 106% of the previous year. However, last year, the profit dropped to 92% compared to previous years, a decrease of nearly ten percentage points."
"From what I've gathered, the reason for the Phoenix Group's profit decline last year was due to two poor decisions made by Mr. Liang, which resulted in the company's losses. Mr. Liang, what I said is a fact."
Although Qin Qinghan had just started working on her first day, she had taken the time to review a lot of the company's information. Among them, the two business deals that caused losses last year caught her attention.
If the person in charge at that time had been more cautious, those unexpected losses could have been avoided.
Qin Qinghan may not have managed such a large company before, but she could see at a glance that the person in charge at the time didn't put in enough effort, which is a major mistake in business.
Qin Qinghan wasn't someone who pursued blame after the fact, nor was she someone who enjoyed humiliating others by pointing out their mistakes.
But Liang Xingguo and these people had already crossed her bottom line. They could doubt their own abilities, but they shouldn't use her past experiences to humiliate her.
For a moment, Liang Xingguo's face turned extremely ugly. If it hadn't been for Luo Yihuang's benevolence last year, he would have been fired on the spot. He never expected Qin Qinghan to discover such information from the company's records.
Unable to help himself, a coldness gradually appeared in Liang Xingguo's eyes. Since you want to play, then I'll accompany you to the end.
Thus, Liang Xingguo lifted his gaze to Qin Qinghan and sneered, "Since Mr. Qin promised to increase the company's profit by twenty percent within six months, then... all the senior executives of the company will testify. I hope Mr. Qin won't break your word."
Everyone cast mocking glances at Qin Qinghan.
Qin Qinghan's confidence and pride remained strong in her eyes as she said, "It's a deal."
Clap... clap... clap...
Luo Yihuang slowly began to applaud, as if encouraging Qin Qinghan's bold statement.
However, the room remained silent, without a single person joining in the applause. Liang Xingguo's mocking expression grew even more pronounced. The entire group of senior executives belonged to him. With only Luo Yihuang's trust, how much influence could Qin Qinghan really wield?
Clap, clap... clap, clap...
At this moment, a burst of applause suddenly erupted from the back of the crowd, followed by continuous applause.
Everyone turned their heads, their eyes widening in an instant.
Because, behind the crowd, there were more than twenty figures standing. The one leading them was none other than Jiang Hao, the Dragon King of the East. Next to him was a slender figure with an extremely sharp gaze, as if hiding a chilling aura within.
Just a single glance at him made people's hair stand on end.
Involuntarily, everyone made way for them.
Jiang Hao, accompanied by over twenty subordinates, slowly walked towards Qin Qinghan.
The onlookers were puzzled and watched this scene with curiosity.
When Liang Xingguo saw Jiang Hao, he hurriedly smiled and said, "Brother Hao, this is our new CEO, a young girl who came from a small company, and she also has a tarnished reputation."
Liang Xingguo's words were casual, seemingly intentionally telling Qin Qinghan and Luo Yihuang, "I know Brother Hao, we are good friends."
Therefore, he believed that with Jiang Hao backing him up, he could speak without restraint even in front of Luo Yihuang.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, a bone-chilling coldness burst out from Jiang Hao's body.
His eyes, filled with a murderous intent, stared coldly at Liang Xingguo.
In an instant, Liang Xingguo felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. His face turned pale, and he was filled with confusion. What was wrong with Brother Hao?
"You're fucking asking for it."
Jiang Hao cursed angrily and slapped Liang Xingguo's face with a resounding slap.
Smack!
The force behind this slap was tremendous, directly slapping Liang Xingguo three meters away. Before he even hit the ground, a mouthful of thick, bloody saliva mixed with several teeth sprayed out.
Ow... ow...
Liang Xingguo let out a miserable cry, clutching his swollen half-face. He couldn't even speak.
He was dumbfounded, not knowing why Brother Hao suddenly flew into a rage.
For a moment, everyone around was shocked and pale. Wasn't Mr. Liang and the Dragon King good friends? Why would he suddenly attack someone?
This made everyone think of a saying: "Keeping company with a tiger is like living with a time bomb. If you befriend people from these underground organizations, a slight negligence could cost you your life."
Liang Xingguo wanted to stand up and explain, but he saw the henchman next to Jiang Hao glancing at him. With an icy voice, he said, "Stay down."
The henchman's gaze was filled with a terrifying aura, and in an instant, Liang Xingguo was scared into kneeling down again.
At this moment, in front of all the company executives, he was kneeling on the ground like a dog. The arrogance he had just shown while mocking Qin Qinghan had completely vanished. He couldn't even understand how he had offended Brother Hao.
At this moment, Jiang Hao and his group of over twenty subordinates finally stopped in front of Qin Qinghan.
"Congratulations to Sister-in-law on becoming the CEO. May your work go smoothly..."
With Jiang Hao leading the way, everyone shouted in unison, their imposing manner intimidating.
"May you live as long as the South Mountain..."
Just as the well wishes from Jiang Hao and his group fell, another voice followed closely.
In an instant, Jiang Hao's face turned dark. He turned to look at the person in the middle of his subordinates, who had his head lowered, appearing as if he had done something wrong.
Jiang Hao scolded, "Can't you even remember a fucking dozen words? Get the hell out of here."
After being scolded, the young man's face was filled with extreme embarrassment. He scratched his head and cursed himself for having a poor memory. He had originally planned to get by with a few generic well-wishes, but he had underestimated the number of words required.
The awkward situation of being exposed as an imposter should have been a cause for uproarious laughter, but now no one dared to laugh because they were completely stunned. Sister-in-law, who was the sister-in-law? Qin Qinghan, the CEO of Haihua City.
Oh my heavens, what had they done? Even the mighty Jiang Hao, the Dragon Overlord who controlled half of Haihua City, had to respectfully address Qin Qinghan as sister-in-law. Did this not prove the existence of someone even more powerful than Jiang Hao himself?
And that someone was Qin Qinghan's husband.
In the crowd, a sleazy-looking bespectacled man began trembling, his gaze shifting, as if he wanted to escape. This was the person who had just revealed that Qin Qinghan had been violated at the age of sixteen.
Liang Xingguo felt as if his heart had turned to ashes. At this moment, he finally understood why Jiang Hao had slapped him in the face. He didn't know who the terrifying person referred to as "Brother" by Jiang Hao was, but he was certain of one thing: Qin Qinghan... was a formidable presence, someone whom even Jiang Hao had to address as sister-in-law.
"It's over... it's all over," Liang Xingguo regretted in his heart, wanting to give himself a few big slaps. Offending Qin Qinghan meant offending Jiang Hao. As long as Qin Qinghan said a word, he could become fish food in the Haihua River tomorrow.
Even his plea for Jiang Hao to save his son was likely to be in vain.
In front of Jiang Hao, Qin Qinghan was also stunned by his sudden action. She looked at Luo Yihuang beside her in a daze, but Luo Yihuang didn't seem the least bit displeased by Jiang Hao hitting Liang Xingguo. Instead, she calmly looked at Qin Qinghan.
At this moment, Luo Yihuang was also somewhat surprised. Originally, she had some concerns about hosting a celebration banquet on Jiang Hao's turf, as he was young and hot-headed, and might cause her trouble.
However, now that Qin Qinghan was here, with the intimidating presence of Yefengwu, Jiang Hao would not dare to act out of line.
Therefore, Luo Yihuang was already considering whether she should take advantage of this Dragon Overlord and have him help resolve some troubles for the Phoenix Group.
"What... what are you doing?" Qin Qinghan felt extremely bitter in her heart as she spoke to Jiang Hao. Although Yefengwu was present, she still felt a great deal of fear towards someone like Jiang Hao.
In a corner of the hall, Yefengwu frowned and snorted, "This kid is really reckless."
But Luo Bingque gave Yefengwu a disdainful look and said unkindly, "He's elevating your wife to the heavens. I bet you're ecstatic that no one will dare to bully your wife anymore."
Yefengwu's eyes couldn't hide his amusement. He hadn't expected Jiang Hao to pull off such a move, but it was for the best. With this, Qin Qinghan would be even more comfortable in the Phoenix Group.
Then, Yefengwu slowly stood up and said, "Intimidation has already been established. The next step is punishment."
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
