The Kang family had never treated them unfairly, but they grew ambitious and even had the idea of stealing the power.

Although the company had no power to force shareholders to return their shares, if they didn’t want to stay, they could leave. In other words, if they chose to stay, they had to work for the benefits of the company. However, if they dared to do anything to harm the company, they would be put in jail.

Once Kang Shaojie said that aloud, the several directors who supported Kang Yuannan didn’t dare to say another word. The company had no power to force them to return their shares, but they had to know where to stop after Kang Shaojie made it clear.

It was impossible for them to return the shares, because the Kang family’s business was developing very well and was extremely profitable. They were offered a generous dividend. They weren’t dumb so they wouldn’t be willing to give back their shares!

Kang Yuannan, however, was angered by Kang Shaojie’s words. He abruptly stood up from the chair and glared at Kang Shaojie. “Kang Shaojie, what did you say? All of us have worked for the Kang family’s business for over a dozen years. We’ve done a lot for it. How could you tell us to return our shares? Do you want to kick us out after making full use of us? I don’t think you have the power to do that!” Kang Yuannan angrily criticized.

Upon hearing that, the shareholders who supported him and stayed quiet for a while now joined the argument again.

“Right, we’ve worked for the Kang family’s business for over a dozen years. We’ve done a lot and sacrificed for it. We’ve done nothing wrong. How could you ask us to give back our shares?”

“Right, you simply want to kick us out!”

“…”

“Enough!” Kang Shaojie snapped at them and looked extremely mad. “Did I force you to return your shares? I just said if you don’t want to stay here, you can leave. Don’t misunderstand me. I have no power to force you to give back your shares, but if you dare to harm the company, I’m afraid you need to do more than just return your shares. Don’t argue with me over this. We all know some unpleasant things have happened. And it might happen in private. If I have to investigate it, it might cause great damage.”

The unpleasant things weren’t harmful to the Kang family’s business, but it was to colleagues. To be frank, they schemed against each other for credit.

Because it didn’t cause a great loss, nobody was blamed for it. Besides, some of them even asked for reimbursement when they actually traveled with their families.

It wasn’t really unacceptable, so the company didn’t bother to blame them. The company simply stopped them from doing it again.

However, although it wasn’t completely unacceptable, it wasn’t right. And the amount of the public money they had been reimbursed was large enough to be sued for.

Hearing that, two shareholders among Kang Yuannan’s supporters panicked a little. They didn’t dare to meet Kang Shaojie’s eyes at this moment. Both of them had done the previously mentioned unpleasant things.

Kang Yuannan had done the same things, so he didn’t know what to do when Kang Shaojie brought it up.

All in all, after the first round, Kang Shaojie was at an advantage.

Back in his office after the meeting was over, Kang Yuannan smashed a cup which was on the table to the ground, but there was a thick carpet, so it didn’t make a loud sound.

If other people heard it, he might become a joke!

Precisely because of that, Kang Yuannan only dared to smash a cup to vent his anger.

“It seems that I took Kang Shaojie too lightly. He surprisingly won this time,” said Kang Yuannan through his teeth.

He still didn’t think that Kang Shaojie was a strong competitor, but he subconsciously stayed on the alert for him.

Once the news that Kang Shaojie cut out four pieces of jade from six raw jade materials went abroad, the Kang family’s business attracted more clients. It was also a threat to Kang Yuannan, but he was too arrogant to admit it.

However, only Kang Yuanbo and Kang Shaojie’s older brother were aware that it was actually Ning who helped Kang Shaojie win the competition.

After the result of the game came out, Kang Shaojie quickly gained a lot of fame in the industry. However, most of the people believed that he just had good luck, so it wouldn’t arouse suspicion even if he couldn’t make that achievement again. After all, no one could have good luck every time.

Even famous stone-gambling experts couldn’t cut out jade every time. They became famous only because they had made records of cutting out many pieces of jade once or twice before. It was hard for them to cut out jade again in the future.

…

Back in the city center, it was time for lunch, so Gu Ning and the others went to have a meal.

Because they were going to have a meal with Kang Shaojie that evening, they went to have a rest after lunch.

Zheng Peng and the others gathered in a room to talk about the mining this time.

Back in the room, Gu Ning said to Leng Shaoting, “Let’s book plane tickets now! We should leave tomorrow after introducing Uncle Zheng to Kang Shaojie.”

“Great, in the morning or afternoon?” asked Leng Shaoting.

“In the morning! The flight will last for hours,” said Gu Ning.

“No problem,” said Leng Shaoting. Then he took out his phone and got ready to book the plane tickets.

Suddenly, Gu Ning said, “Why don’t you use my phone? Zongxue’s information is on my phone, so you don’t need to input it.”

Saying that, Gu Ning handed her phone to Leng Shaoting.

Although Gu Ning could do it on her own, she didn’t want to move at all right now and wanted to rely on Leng Shaoting for a while.

Therefore, after giving her phone to Leng Shaoting, Gu Ning sank onto the sofa seemingly exhausted.

Seeing that, Leng Shaoting asked with concern, “Are you really tired?”

“Not really, I’m just full. I don’t want to move,” said Gu Ning.

Hearing that, Leng Shaoting was relieved, then he began to book the plane tickets.

Afterwards, Leng Shaoting and Gu Ning had a nap for about an hour. They did nothing else. After they woke up, Gu Ning told Leng Shaoting to stay by himself for a while, while she went to see Baili Zongxue. She couldn’t leave Baili Zongxue alone the entire time.

At this time, Baili Zongxue had just woken up from her nap as well. Actually, even if Gu Ning didn’t come to see her, she wouldn’t be bored being alone.