Yida Shopping Mall's Nationwide Shares

Wang Meiqi's cheeks reddened slightly. "I'm not afraid," she said softly, "because I trust your character."

Lu Yuan said nothing more. He took Wang Meiqi back to his place and told her, "You can have the master bedroom!"

The next day, Lu Yuan returned to work at Yida Shopping Mall as usual.

As Lu Yuan pulled open the mall doors, he silently used Tycoon Critical Hit.

[The host touched Yida Shopping Mall's doors, triggering a Tycoon Critical Hit reward.]

[Reward: 100% ownership of every Yida Shopping Mall nationwide.]

Uh! Didn't this system reward just snatch away Young Master Cong's family business?

But I can't be blamed for that. The system gave it to me, so what did it have to do with me, Lu Yuan?

Lu Yuan clocked in as usual and returned to his desk.

Lu Yuan had barely warmed his seat when a greasy, potbellied middle-aged man strode toward him with a hostile look on his face.

"Lu Yuan, so you still know how to show up for work? Do you have any idea how much your absence these past few days has cost the company?" the middle-aged man bellowed.

Lu Yuan rubbed his nose and looked at the greasy man in annoyance. "Manager! My younger female cousin had a banquet to celebrate her admission to school. I remember asking you for leave, didn't I?"

The greasy man's expression froze for a moment before he roared, "When did you ever ask me for leave? Did you even say a word to me? Did anyone here see Lu Yuan ask for leave?"

"No, I didn't see Lu Yuan ask for leave."

"I didn't see it either!"

Lu Yuan chuckled. He understood now: even if these people at work had seen it, they wouldn't back him up. They all had to keep working under the sales manager, after all, so who would be foolish enough to offend the manager for his sake?

That was the workplace. There was no human warmth here, only interests that concerned each person.

Just then, the sound of high heels rang out. His ex-girlfriend Wang Yan walked toward her desk, and the greasy manager, Zhang Jinlong, grabbed her by the slender waist and slipped a hand inside her clothes. As if showing off his spoils of war to Lu Yuan, he said lecherously, "Yanyan, you're here!"

On any other day, Wang Yan would have welcomed it, but after seeing Lu Yuan's lavish ways, she now found Zhang Jinlong's fat hand repulsive. She yanked it out and slapped him hard across the face. "Manager, this is the office. Please have some self-respect!"

"Lu Yuan, I'm sorry about what happened before," Wang Yan said dejectedly.

Zhang Jinlong frowned. "Yanyan, did that good-for-nothing Lu Yuan bully you? Just wait, I'll deal with him for you right now."

Wang Yan was already racking her brains over how to get things back to the way they had been with Lu Yuan, yet this greasy, off-putting man kept provoking him. She was furious. "Are you a fucking idiot? Stay away from me from now on. Your face makes me fucking sick. I'd rather let a pig mount me than choose you. And you'd better stop provoking Lu Yuan. The man he is now is someone you can't afford to offend!"

Zhang Jinlong thought nothing of it. Seeing Wang Yan defend Lu Yuan and show such disgust for him, he became furious. "Pfft! I can't afford to offend Lu Yuan? He's just a dog under me in my sales department. Today I'll see for myself whether I can afford to offend him."

"Lu Yuan, you've been at the bottom of the sales rankings for the past month or two, dead last in performance every month. That fifty-thousand salary was for the sales champion. Now that you're not the champion, your monthly salary is being cut to ten thousand. Your leave these past few days affected the company's development, so I'm docking another eight thousand from your pay. You'll get two thousand this month." Zhang Jinlong put on a fierce front, though he was inwardly weak.

With Lu Yuan's current net worth, he had no need for the company's meager scraps.

But Zhang Jinlong's actions infuriated him. Lu Yuan snorted coldly. "You don't know why I'm not the sales champion anymore? These past two months, every time I was about to close a deal, you sent me off to do something else, then handed my deal to one of the female salespeople to sign."

"You used my sales results to build yourself a harem at the company and sleep your way through the young women in sales, and you've still got the nerve to question my performance? With you messing with me like that, how the fuck could my performance be any good?" Lu Yuan had been at the company for so long. How could he not know what Zhang Jinlong had been up to?

As Lu Yuan finished speaking, some of the women in sales began to blush. Seeing Lu Yuan expose his business, Zhang Jinlong flew into a rage out of humiliation. "Stop stirring up trouble and slandering me out of thin air!"

"Lu Yuan! You skipped work without reason, caused the company financial losses, and ranked last in sales every month. You're dead weight to the company, yet you don't have a shred of shame. Instead of looking for the cause in yourself, you make up rumors for no reason and slander your superior. That makes your offense even worse!"

"Today, I'm firing you on the chairman's behalf!"

Lu Yuan acted as though he hadn't heard. Sitting at his desk with his legs crossed and propped up on the tabletop, his hands in his trouser pockets, he looked at the man as if he were an idiot. "Oh? You're that capable? You can even make decisions for the chairman now? Who gave you the courage to put on that superior act with me? Fish Leong?"

Just then, the office door opened, and a middle-aged man walked in carrying a file. As soon as he entered, he slapped Zhang Jinlong across the face. "You've got some nerve, haven't you? You're just a little sales manager, and now you dare make decisions for me?"

"Chairman, you-you have to let me explain. Lu Yuan neglected his duties and hasn't made any sales for months. And he neglected his duties, didn't ask for leave, and skipped work without reason, causing the company losses. He even slandered me personally. I wanted to fire him for the sake of the company's future development, Chairman. I did this so the company could develop better, to show my loyalty!"

When the other employees saw the middle-aged man, they all greeted him. "Hello, Chairman!"

Lu Yuan remained where he was, legs crossed, without moving. Zhang Jinlong seized the opportunity to tattle again. "Chairman, look at Lu Yuan. You're here, and he still has his legs crossed and propped up on the desk. The company hired him to bring it value, not to support him like some lord. Look at him-does he have any respect for you?"

Lu Yuan also studied the man before him. As Young Master Cong's father, he had a powerful presence. He looked coldly at Zhang Jinlong. "Starting today, even if he wants to light a fire and cook here, that's fine. And Lu Yuan doesn't need to have any respect for me."

"Because starting today, he is the chairman of the entire Yida Group nationwide. He has acquired Yida Group, and from now on he is your new chairman."

What? Lu Yuan is the new chairman?

It's over. It's all over. Zhang Jinlong collapsed onto the floor.

Lu Yuan sat in his seat and looked down at Zhang Jinlong. "Signing high-value sales orders, misreporting the company's actual revenue to your superiors, taking company kickbacks with the female employees, fleecing the company, and coercing new employees into sex-all of those were things you did, weren't they?" he said coldly.

"I hereby announce that, effective today, you, Zhang Jinlong, are fired. At the same time, I, Lu Yuan, will recover every loss you caused my company, with interest. Wait for your court summons!"