Sweet Chief Secretary - Chapter 562

Shen Yan was on the way to the airport when he received a call from Old Madame who asked him to attend the meeting in headquarters. He was surprised when he heard Old Madame’s voice as she finally woke up and could still hold a meeting, which meant that she was in good health.

While would it be okay for her to work so hard after just leaving the hospital? Shen Yan was deeply worried.

He opened the door of the meeting room, and saw that the directors stood up to greet him warmly.

Shen Yan had never been treated like this, so he was really flattered. However, he was not in the mood for that. He looked at Old Madame, only to see that she was talking and laughing with Yang Weiye and President Ning, not like someone who had just woken up from a coma at all.

As Shen Yan wondered, Shen Mo also came in. Seeing Shen Yan standing at the door, he asked, “Didn’t you go to T city?”

He was really well informed. Shen Yan smiled slightly, “I was called here halfway.”

Shen Mo was also called here on his way to consult with Zeng Mina after he was told that Old Madame would chair the meeting personally.

It was really a good time for her to wake up. She would see her chosen successor make a mess of the company. Shen Mo nodded stiffly at Shen Yan and sat down then.

“Am I late?” Shen Qiang walked in with a smile on his face.

“No. You just come in time!” Old Madame waved at him with a smile, “Come here! Sit with grandma.”

“Okay!” Shen Qiang sat down beside Old Madame.

“Everyone is here now. Let’s have a meeting!” Old Madame said to Yang Weiye.

“Yes!” Yang Weiye replied, and then said to everyone, “It’s a big announcement to bring everyone in such a hurry.” Speaking of it, Yang Weiye paused for a while and looked around, and then continued, “As we all know, Shen Mo and Shen Yan have been competing for the position of President for almost a year. Everyone knows that both of them are very competent, so we set up a competition for them without telling them and their mothers, and we’ve known the result already except them. So let me announce the result now.”

Speaking of it, Yang Weiye looked at Shen Mo and Shen Yan.

They set up a competition for them without telling them? Shen Yan and Shen Mo glanced at each other, and then Shen Yan looked at Shen Qiang, who then smiled and said, “My brothers, everything I said to you before was discussed by everyone here. They asked me to do that, so just blame them if you’re annoyed.”

What Shen Qiang said before was just part of the competition, so their aunt’s intervention was also designed, so was Old Madame’s coma! If so, then….

Shen Mo didn’t dare to think anymore. A smart person like him naturally knew what the result would be.

“Shen Yan, congratulations. You’ll be the next President.” Yang Weiye continued.

There was a round of applause after his words, while First Madame and Shen Mo’s faces were drained of colour.

“It’s unfair. It is clear that the company performance of Shen Mo is better.” First Madame stood up. She refused to accept Shen Yan as President.

Yang Weiye handed out the performance charts of both companies to everyone, and it was obvious that Tengfei’s performance was better than Sheng Da’s.

“There are still two months to go. As long as the contract is signed this time, Shen Mo may not lose.” First Madame knew that Shen Mo was running a big project, so she hoped that the result could be announced at the originally agreed time.

“Forget that. Congratulations, Shen Yan!” Shen Mo stood up and stretched out his hand to Shen Yan. It was obviously President Ning’s idea.

He wanted to choose a President who owned both ability and integrity and also cared about his family. Obviously, Shen Yan met their requirements. At this point, Shen Mo had no doubt about the result.

This time he lost, but he wouldn’t just give up. He still had Zeng Group, so it was not certain who would win the prize finally.

“Thank you, brother!” It turned out that their aunt’s intervention was designed, so Shen Mo might not be reconciled to his defeat.

But this time even his staunch supporters had not leaked it to him. If he refused to accept the result, he would lose popularity. Even though he gave in at this time, he would probably fight with Shen Yan again after some time. Therefore, Shen Yan did not dare to take it lightly.

“Little Mo, I want to tell you something. Zeng Mina came back this time not for Xiao Man. Actually, Xiao Man and Chen Wenxuan are both Zeng Mina’s pawns. In fact, she designed the kidnapping of Xiao Yu and the incident on the construction site. She meant to cause strife in our Shen Family so that she could have the opportunity to get her Zeng Group back.”

Seeing that Shen Mo was going to leave, Shen Yang gave him a stack of papers. If she guessed right, Shen Mo must be going for Zeng Mina to let her make trouble with Shen Yan on the pretext of looking for Xiao Man.

“That’s impossible!” Xiao Man treated Zeng Family quite well, so Zeng Mina would not have ordered someone to rape her benefactor no matter how crazy she was.

“I have found Xiao Man and Zeng Quan, and Zeng Mina has confessed everything to the police. Zeng Mina will be prosecuted in a few days probably.” No matter whether Shen Mo believed it or not, it was the truth.

Zeng Mina should have had the guts to do that! She was worthy of being Zeng Ziqiang’s daughter. While unfortunately, she was not as shrewd as her father. Shen Mo turned around without saying a word. At this time, he could rename Zeng Group justifiably.

He would merge Zeng Group with several of his original companies, and then set up a new company to contend with Shen Group. He didn’t believe that he was inferior to Shen Yan.

Xia Yu looked at the baggage, frowning. It was a good thing that Old Madame woke up, while since the meeting was held at this time, should she go to the airport or not then?

After thinking for a while, Xia Yu changed the ticket, because she really didn’t know how long the meeting would take.

She browsed the web as she felt bored, just to see a piece of news whose headline was “The Movie Star Zeng Mina Bites the Hand That Feeds Her for Property”. Xia Yu then read the entire article without missing a word.

God. She should have committed such a shocking crime after coming back. Zeng Quan was her brother, and Xiao Man was her benefactor. In order to make the plan more realistic, she took them as her pawns.

Xia Yu felt that her body was shaking. She failed to hear the phone ringing until it rang the third time.

“Hello?” Xia Yu’s voice sounded unnatural.

“Xia Yu, what’s the matter with you?” It was Liu Sijie who called her. Feeling that Xia Yu’s voice was somewhat strange, he immediately asked with concern.

“I’m fine. I just suddenly saw the news about Zeng Mina and felt somewhat uncomfortable.” Xia Yu said to Liu Sijie bluntly.

“Zeng Mina went crazy when she knew that Zeng Group was overtaken by Shen Mo and she got disfigured after she woke up. She had locked herself in the room for three days, and then she designed the revenge plan. She used to muck about with Li Tianci. After Li Tianci was caught by police, his men parted. Zeng Mina chose Brother Hu then, and she wanted him to make trouble with Shen Mo at first. But they met Chen Wenxuan when they had dinner at the mountain villa one day, so they let him join them by the way. And they tried to use him to disturb the situation….” Liu Sijie told Xia Yu the whole story.

Only then did she know why Chen Wenxuan could rent such an island in such a short time and why there could be a helicopter at any time. It turned out that Zeng Mina was the person behind the scenes.

Chen Wenxuan was so greedy, so he deserved what he got. Brother Hu and his men also deserved the retribution for the bad things they had done. Xia Yu then thought of the sincere young man who delivered supplies to the victims in the disaster area with her.

He was so honest and kind. When Zeng Family rose to power and position, he didn’t take advantage of it. Thus, he should be the last one to get retribution.

And Xiao Man was not a wicked person as well, what’s more, she was pregnant. Had Zeng Mina never thought about her baby when she chose Xiao Man to be her pawn?

“Xia Yu. Xia Yu?” Liu Sijie called her name several times as he hadn’t heard her voice for a long time.

“I’m fine. I just lost my mind. Why you call me this time?” Liu Sijie must have something to tell her since he called her at this time. Xia Yu collected herself immediately.

“Young Master Yan is waiting for you in the hall of Spring of the Century.” Liu Sijie did not tell her the reason. He thought that it would be better if Shen Yan told her such an important thing in person.

“Old Madame and her men were too treacherous. That was unfair to you obviously.” After listening to Shen Yan and making the whole story clear, Xia Yu sighed with emotion for a long time. Old Madame should have started their plan when Shen Mo forced Shen Yan to apologize at home.

At that time, all Shen Yan wanted was to find Xia Yu, so he completely lost control of his emotions. Thus, it was reasonable even if he went too far, but they just started the plan at that time.

“How can there be absolute fairness in this world?” Shen Yan took a breath, “My elder brother would not have congratulated me unreservedly but for that. But my aunt must have had so many grievances. She must have been feeling bad these days.”

“And Xiao Qiang. He lobbied me to support his mother and lobbied your elder brother then. He really has the talent to be an actor.” Xia Yu ground her teeth when thinking of Shen Qiang, “I have to find him. He screwed me over.”

“He has hidden himself already. You can’t find him.” Shen Yan grabbed Xia Yu, and his eyes were full of smiles, “Let’s talk about something serious.”

“Something serious?” Xia Yu looked at him with confusion.

“You know the result of the competition now. As a supporting role, I do not disappoint you and succeed in implementing a counter-attack. Shouldn’t you give me some rewards?” Shen Yan leaned over, acing cute.

“Oh, I can give you a lollipop as a reward!” Xia Yu remembered that there was a lollipop in her bag which she bought for Cheng Xi.

But when her hand just reached into the bag, a big and glittering ring was put on her finger, “I picked out the ring for a long time. It fits you well.”

“President Shen. Are you going to get engaged to me?” Xia Yu looked at the ring, thinking that he really had good taste.

“It’s not for engagement. It’s a proposal ring. You have to marry me when you put it on.” Indeed, they hadn’t been engaged yet. But if they got engaged first, it would take at least a few months then to hold the wedding. Shen Yan could not wait any longer. He wanted to marry her at once.

“Why are you so anxious? You just take office, and there are still a lot of work to deal with. How about putting it off?” Seeing he was so anxious, Xia Yu helped him analyze the actual situation. It was so hasty to get married at this time.

“Miss Xia, do you know why he is so eager to get married? He is afraid that after I give our child to him, you will not be willing to marry him then.” Qingqing walked over with a faint smile.

“Wu Qing, what are you talking about?” Shen Yan’s face turned sullen immediately.

“You really don’t know what I’m talking about?” Wu Qing confronted him.

“What? Child?” Xia Yu’s eyes moved between them.

Shen Yan was really nervous. He took a step forward and held Xia Yu’s hand to explain eagerly, “Xia Yu, you must believe me. I really have nothing to do with this woman.”

Shen Yan felt so aggrieved. Since her uncle and aunt got reconciled, he had never heard of her again. Shen Yan almost forgot her, but she just appeared at such a critical time.

“Young Master Yan, I don’t mind whether you remember me, but the child is innocent.” Qingqing was on the verge of tears.

“You….” Shen Yan was so angry that he wanted to throw her out.

“Shen Yan, it is your fault then.” Xia Yu said after her eyes moved between Qingqing and Shen Yan. Seeing Shen Yan was about to speak, she stopped him and continued, “Everyone makes mistakes. Even if you didn’t love each other now, you couldn’t disown your child.”

“But I really never have a child with her!” Since Xia Yu wronged him and Qingqing beside him looked so complacent, Shen Yan almost wanted to kill himself!

“Would Qingqing have said so if you didn’t have a child with her?” Xia Yu gave Shen Yan an angry stare and turned to Qingqing, “He doesn’t want the child, but I do. Give me the child and I will treat him well as my own child.”

“What? What are you talking about?” Not only Shen Yan but Qingqing was shocked this time.

“Why are you so surprised? Old Madame always complains that she doesn’t have a large family. Since you already have a child for Shen Family and I don’t need to give birth to a child then, isn’t that so great?” Xia Yu’s eyes were full of expectation, and she couldn’t wait to own the child.

Shen Yan looked at Xia Yu for a while, and suddenly smiled, “Honey, you’re so thoughtful. Since so, Qingqing, just give us the child.”

This time it was Qingqing who felt anxious as Xia Yu’s reaction was different from what she had previously imagined, “I gave birth to my child. Why should I give you? I regret it!” Qingqing said as she stepped back. She really hoped that she had already had a child, while she didn’t have one.

Shen Yan and Xia Yu stopped her way tacitly, “You can’t say that. The child belongs to Shen Family, so naturally you should give him to Shen Family. Qingqing, you’re a smart woman, but do you want to be the enemy of the whole Shen Family?”

“I also want to give him to Shen Family, but I don’t have a child at all!” Qingqing turned anxious completely. How could she have the guts to fight against the whole Shen Family? Since she couldn’t run away, she closed her eyes and shouted, “Shen Qiang, it’s all because of your bad idea. Come out!”

Not long after Qingqing’s words, Shen Qiang came out from behind a pillar not far away with a smile, “Second brother, look, my sister is so virtuous and generous! How can you be so lucky?”

It turned out that it was Shen Qiang’s idea. Shen Yan beckoned him over with a faint smile, “You wanna know? Come here. I’ll tell you.”

Seeing that Shen Yan fixed all his attention on Shen Qiang, Qingqing ran away quickly.

Shen Qiang was not stupid, so after laughing twice, he turned around and ran. When he arrived at the door and thought he was safe then, he turned back and said, “I’ll be the groomsman. That’s a deal!” After finishing his words, he ran away.

Poor boy. Shen Yan and Xia Yu smiled at each other, interlocking their fingers, and walked out together.