Seeing a Ghost

At that moment, inside the chairman's office.

Beep, beep, beep...

The phone rang. Qi Zhenxing glanced at the number on the screen and saw that it was the number he had used to call Lin Chen earlier. He immediately answered it in a hurry.

However, not long after the call connected, a fierce confrontation could be heard from the other end.

Qi Zhenxing's heart sank. From the confrontation he had just heard over the phone, he had already roughly understood what was going on.

That was precisely why he was so anxious.

"That Deng Wenji, is he fucking trying to rebel?"

With that, Qi Zhenxing slammed his phone onto the desk, rose to his feet, and strode toward the door.

As he walked out, he roared at the secretary beside him.

"Quick! Call every manager in the group and tell them to get to the Marketing Department immediately! Whoever is even one step late can pack up and get the fuck out!"

"Yes."

It was the first time the secretary had seen the chairman this furious. She did not dare delay and immediately used the internal line to notify them one by one.

Outside the Marketing Department.

After Lin Chen said that anyone who did not want to work could get the hell out, Deng Wenji's expression immediately turned extremely ugly.

His eyes bulged with rage as he stared at Lin Chen with a savage expression. "You want me, Deng Wenji, to get lost? Who the hell do you think you are? Since you insist on courting death today, don't blame me."

"Impersonating the group's major shareholder to commit fraud and disrupting the group's normal operations—those two charges alone are enough to put you behind bars for a while."

With that, Deng Wenji took out his phone and prepared to call the police.

However, just as he finished entering the emergency number and was about to place the call, the light above the elevator suddenly came on.

Then, with a ding, the elevator doors opened.

Tap, tap, tap—

A series of footsteps instantly filled the entire Marketing Department as the elevator doors opened.

The arrivals were the managers from every department of the group, who had come after receiving the secretary's notice. At this moment, none of them even dared breathe too loudly.

From what the secretary had told them, they knew that the group's major shareholder had arrived—and that it was the young man standing before them.

Gulp—

The sound of people swallowing spread through the crowd of managers.

Naturally, Deng Wenji, the manager of the Marketing Department, was not among them.

When he saw the managers from all the group's departments gathered in the Marketing Department, he also realized something.

This is bad. All the department managers are here in the Marketing Department. That means the major shareholder is coming.

The thought made Deng Wenji's face change drastically. He immediately barked at the employees behind him:

"What are you all standing around for? Hurry up and get someone to throw this bastard out! Don't let him disturb the major shareholder!"

Clearly, even now, he still did not believe that Lin Chen was the major shareholder.

"Yes."

Several of the sturdier employees from the Marketing Department answered and marched straight toward Lin Chen, intending to throw him out before the major shareholder arrived.

At the sight of this, every department manager other than those from Marketing felt their hearts skip a beat.

What the fuck is this supposed to be? Has the Marketing Department lost its mind?

However, just as they were about to step forward to stop them and explain, another elevator lit up.

The instant its doors opened, the people inside hurried out.

By sheer coincidence, the moment they rushed out, they saw the Marketing Department preparing to throw someone out.

"What the hell are you trying to do?"

"Every last one of you, stop right there!"

The furious shout rang through the entire Marketing Department, startling everyone.

They all turned their heads at once and saw that the newcomer was none other than their chairman, Qi Zhenxing.

His face was red with rage as he glared darkly at the middle-aged man standing furthest inside.

"Deng Wenji, give me a fucking explanation! What the fuck are you trying to do? Huh?!"

Deng Wenji's face alternated between red and green. He was furious but did not dare say a word, and he hated Lin Chen—the kid impersonating the group's major shareholder—to the bone.

Just wait until I get through this. I'll make you pay.

As he thought this, he was about to step forward and apologize to Qi Zhenxing while explaining the situation.

However, what happened next nearly scared the soul out of him.

Qi Zhenxing bent at the waist and said to Lin Chen with a flattering smile, "Mr. Lin, I am truly sorry. You have suffered because of this."

"Don't worry. I, Qi Zhenxing, will definitely give you a satisfactory explanation."

The moment those words were spoken, it was as though time itself had frozen.

A second later, everyone in the Marketing Department collectively sucked in a breath.

Clearly, Chairman Qi Zhenxing's words had completely stunned them.

"Did... did Chairman Qi just call him Mr. Lin?!"

"Could what he said before—that he was a shareholder of the group—actually be true? This... this... this..."

"We're done for! We were all cursing him just now. I wonder if this major shareholder Lin heard us. If he heard us talking trash about him, we're really finished."

"Yeah, what are we supposed to do now..."

The male employees who had secretly mocked Lin Chen and been waiting to watch him make a fool of himself all felt their scalps go numb at the sight.

They swallowed hard in unison.

One could easily imagine the shock and terror in their hearts at that moment.

It was not only the male employees who were stunned, but the female employees beside them as well.

When they heard Qi Zhenxing respectfully address Lin Chen as Mr. Lin, their mouths fell so wide open that they looked as though they could swallow an ostrich egg.

"H-he, he, he... Is he really that Mr. Lin Chen? The largest shareholder in our group?!"

"If Chairman Qi says so, then it must be true. I just never expected Mr. Lin to be so low-key..."

"Yeah. Earlier, I thought he was poor and wanted to keep him. Turns out he's the largest shareholder of our group, with a fortune beyond measure."

"I have to say, he's absolutely perfect. Handsome and rich—I really want to be his woman. I'd even be willing to be his mistress."

"Mistress? Who do you think you are? Do you deserve it? Forget being his mistress. If he wanted me to be anything at all, I'd do it. I'd even be willing to be his bitch."

"Lin Chen... is the largest shareholder in our group? How... how is that possible?!"

Shang Zhiyi looked as though she had seen a ghost. Even now, she still could not bring herself to believe it.

But the facts were right in front of her, leaving her no choice but to believe.

Because of that, a tidal wave of emotions surged through Shang Zhiyi's heart.

As his old high school classmate, she naturally knew Lin Chen's family background. He had truly been a welfare recipient, someone at the very bottom of society.

Yet Shang Zhiyi had never imagined that, after only seven years apart, Lin Chen had leapt from society's lowest rung to become one of the most prominent figures in Zhonghai's upper class.

It was simply too shocking.

So his surprise downstairs wasn't because I worked at Shilin Guomao Group. He was surprised because I was his employee...

And I even bragged to him earlier. Thinking about it now, it's so embarrassing.

Remembering everything she had done downstairs, Shang Zhiyi's face changed from shock to embarrassment, then flushed red.

What she could not understand was why her heart kept pounding wildly in her chest at that moment.