To keep the awkwardness from dragging on, Ye Yizhou chose to speak first.
Unsure how much they had heard, Ye Yizhou ventured:
"It's none of your business."
Everyone was speechless: ...
He could have made up an excuse, but did he really think they were all idiots, telling such a blatant lie?
"We heard everything," Lu Yuanqing reminded Ye Yizhou.
Ye Yizhou frowned. "Everything? All of it?"
"Yes, from around the part where you called them morons!"
Lu Yuanqing nodded, glancing out of the corner of his eye at Xu Yifeng's sour expression as he spoke.
Ye Yizhou couldn't help laughing. He really had nothing to say!
But after carefully thinking back, he realized there had been nothing wrong with what he had said, and he immediately straightened up.
"Since you heard everything, I'll lay my cards on the table and stop pretending."
With one hand in his pocket, Ye Yizhou stood straight and looked at them, his entire presence transformed. "Think it over!"
Even Ye Chongli's mouth fell slightly open in astonishment. Was he opening with his strongest move?
"As long as you hold shares in our company, you'll face these problems sooner or later. There's no avoiding them."
"So while we can still sit down and talk things through, consider how you can secure the greatest benefit for yourselves."
"Chairman Ye, does your son's position reflect yours?"
Liu Dawei's brows drew tightly together as he sought confirmation from Ye Chongli.
He didn't believe Ye Chongli would simply let Ye Yizhou act so recklessly and disregard everything.
"Isn't this just tossing us aside now that we've served our purpose?"
Xu Yifeng was nowhere near as tactful as Liu Dawei and voiced his anger directly.
"Well..."
Ye Chongli had just started to speak when Ye Yizhou cut him off.
"Honestly,