130: Chapter 13 The Annexation Plan

Watching the lawyer leave, Chen Ling picked up her phone and dialed the law firm's number.

"Hello? What kind of lawyer did you assign me? How can they have no professional ethics whatsoever?"

"I hadn't even finished speaking, and she just left. Do you guys even want to earn money anymore? If you don't want to earn money, then give me all my money back!"

The person at the law firm was thoroughly scolded the moment they answered the phone.

They didn't know the detailed situation, so they could only try to appease Chen Ling first:

"I'm sorry, Ms. Chen, could you please tell us what happened on your end?"

"What happened?" Chen Ling sneered and said, "What happened is that I was speaking nicely with her, and without a word, she said she wouldn't cooperate with me anymore."

"Is this how your law firm trains its lawyers? Do you believe I won't file a complaint against you!"

The person answering the phone at the law firm felt a massive headache coming on.

He took a deep breath and said to Chen Ling, "Alright, Ms. Chen, after the lawyer returns and I understand the situation, I will call you back, okay?"

Chen Ling rolled her eyes and said, "No need to understand the situation. Just return all my money directly. I'm done cooperating with your law firm!"

After saying that, she directly hung up the phone.

Originally, she had planned to use this period of unemployment to bring her child back and prevent Shen Yan from seeing the child.

She never expected that just as she started making moves, an infuriating lawyer would show up.

Just as she was thinking about which law firm to look for next, her phone rang; it was an unknown number.

She thought for a moment and answered the call.

"Hello, is this Ms. Chen Ling? I'm calling from an Agent. I heard you are interested in office locations, is that correct?"

Hearing this, Chen Ling hummed in acknowledgment and asked, "Which Agent company are you with?"

The other party replied, "Yuan Di Company. You can search online to verify; our company has a legitimate business license."

Chen Ling rubbed her temples.

"Fine, I know. Where are you now? Are you free to take me to see some locations?"

The other party was overjoyed.

"Of course, Ms. Chen. Where are you right now? I'll come find you immediately!"

Chen Ling gave the address of the coffee shop where she was, then waited for the Agent to come find her to view office spaces.

On the other side.

Shen Yan was unaware of Chen Ling's plan to use a lawyer to strip him of his visitation rights. He was currently in a meeting at the company.

"In summary, this is my idea: the Live Streaming function can remain online, but we must remove the Tipping function."

Upon hearing this, Chen Guangke frowned and raised an objection.

"I can accept the decision not to take down the Live Streaming function, but why cancel the Tipping function?"

Shen Yan replied to Chen Guangke, "This is very simple. The reason you all think the Live Streaming function doesn't match the software's nature is usually because, under normal circumstances, Live Streaming earns money primarily through Tipping."

"Since that's the case, then we should remove the Tipping function."

After listening, the Employees exchanged glances.

One Employee slightly raised his hand and said, "Then why should we continue to keep the Live Streaming function? Isn't that hiding our weakness and exposing our strength?"

Shen Yan understood his thought process.

His thought was that since they had already decided to keep the Live Streaming function, they shouldn't worry about the incompatibility between the Live Streaming function and the software's nature.

After thinking for a moment, he replied to his Employee, "Actually, the reason I want to keep the Live Streaming function isn't because it can bring effective profit to our software. It's because I believe this function can help more people find jobs and recruit talent."

"You have all seen the Live Streaming on the software. Isn't it a fact that the Live Streaming function truly helps quite a few people find work?"

Everyone fell silent.

Indeed, the Live Streaming function could help many talented or articulate people find jobs; this was an undeniable fact.

Seeing that no one else had any objections, Shen Yan made the final decision.

"Alright, this matter is settled."

"If there's nothing else, this meeting is adjourned."

When everyone heard this, they nodded and rose to leave the conference room.

As Chen Guangke and Wu Ya were also about to leave the conference room, Shen Yan called out to them.

"You two stay behind. I have something to discuss with you."

Chen Guangke and Wu Ya exchanged a look and walked back to sit down.

When most people had left the conference room, Shen Yan closed the door and began discussing the company's next project with them.

"Prosperous Appointment is almost finished now; it just needs regular maintenance by the Employees. I think our company can start researching the next project."

Chen Guangke opened his computer and said to Shen Yan, "Hearing you say that, it seems you've already decided what the next project will be."

Shen Yan nodded and replied, "I've decided. Our next project will be Artificial Intelligence or Semiconductors."

Chen Guangke's eyes widened, and he stared at Shen Yan in disbelief.

He couldn't believe what he had just heard.

"Semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence?!"

"Shen Yan, are you kidding me?"

Shen Yan looked extremely serious.

"I am not kidding you. I am serious. I think our next direction should be research in this area."

Shen Yan shook his head vigorously, like shaking a rattle drum.

"No, no, no. Our company isn't at a stage where we can research these things yet. I advise you to seriously reconsider."

Wu Ya also persuaded him from the side, "Right. Our company is just getting started. We just finished one software, and now we're going straight to Artificial Intelligence and Semiconductors. Won't that be too fast?"

Shen Yan understood what they meant.

He said to Chen Guangke and Wu Ya, "I understand what you mean. You just feel that the Semiconductor and Artificial Intelligence projects are too difficult for our small company right now, right?"

Chen Guangke closed his computer and sighed.

"What else?"

"Just look at how few people we have in the company. All the companies willing to work on Artificial Intelligence and Semiconductors right now are backed by major players or are already publicly listed companies."

"How could our small, just-starting company possibly handle an Artificial Intelligence or Semiconductor project?"

Shen Yan stood up, walked over to Chen Guangke, and patted his shoulder.

"Yes, yes, yes, everything you said is correct. My thoughts are the same as yours. So, my next plan is to annex Fuchen Enterprise."