194: Chapter 194 Uninvited Guest

After hearing the call disconnect, Chen Ling was first stunned, then let out a burst of pleasant laughter and said:

"Shen Yan, I didn't expect you to have a day where your composure breaks..."

On the other end, Shen Yan had no idea that Chen Ling thought he was losing his composure over the Research Team being snatched away and her getting remarried.

The only reason he hung up was because he didn't want to listen to Chen Ling continue spouting nonsense.

Time passed second by second.

Soon, it was Friday night.

"Knock, knock, knock."

"Come in."

The person who entered was Wu Ya. She said to Shen Yan, who was still working, "Brother Shen, it's almost time, we should head out."

Shen Yan nodded, closed his computer, stood up, and walked out of the office with Wu Ya.

Today was the first team-building event for their company. He hoped that through this event, he could unite all the Employees into one cohesive force to face the challenges ahead.

"Bang!"

Closing the car door, Shen Yan glanced at Chen Guangke, who was sitting in the driver's seat, and asked curiously, "Yo, you're in a good mood today, even wearing a new suit?"

Chen Guangke glanced back at him and replied, "What do you know? This is called battle armor! With so many people here for team building today, maybe I can meet my true love."

True love?

Had he given up on Wu Ya?

Shen Yan thought to himself while saying with a laugh, "Then I wish you success. I certainly don't oppose office romances."

Wu Ya also chimed in at the right moment, "I wish you success too, but let me give you a friendly reminder: eighty percent of our company are men, and ten percent are married women."

Chen Guangke turned and snorted, "So what? Aren't there still ten percent left?"

Wu Ya shrugged.

"That's why I said I wish you success..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Chen Guangke fell silent.

Seeing his reaction, Shen Yan knew that Chen Guangke was just saying that for show; he hadn't given up on Wu Ya at all.

Soon, the three of them arrived at the hotel's banquet hall.

As soon as they entered, they ran into several Employees.

Those Employees, upon seeing them, bowed in alarm and greeted the three of them.

Shen Yan didn't think much of it; he nodded and walked past these Employees.

After those Employees walked further behind them, Chen Guangke caught up to Shen Yan and whispered in his ear, "It seems your image among them isn't very good right now."

Shen Yan frowned, not understanding why Chen Guangke would say that.

"Am I not dressed formally enough today?"

Chen Guangke rolled his eyes.

"That's not what I meant. I mean, you laid off a large number of people right after you came to the company. Now, in the minds of these Employees, your image must be one of an iron-fisted style."

"To put it another way, they all think you're not to be trifled with and can't wait to steer clear of you."

As he finished speaking.

Shen Yan stopped in his tracks.

He turned and looked at Chen Guangke expressionlessly, saying, "Spending so much effort guessing what these Employees are thinking, it seems you're quite idle. Have you finished the work I assigned you before?"

Chen Guangke raised both hands, making a gesture of surrender.

"No, no, please don't assign me any more extra work. If you give me more extra work, I truly won't even have time to sleep."

Shen Yan couldn't be bothered to banter with Chen Guangke. He shook his head and continued walking forward.

The three had just sat down.

The Host walked onto the stage.

"Hello everyone, I am tonight's Host. Everyone coming here today..."

Before the Host on stage could even finish speaking, his words were interrupted by three shareholders who had arrived uninvited.

"CEO Shen, regardless of anything, we were partners for several years. How could you not invite us to such an important banquet?"

Seeing the three shameless shareholders who invited themselves, Chen Guangke's expression changed. He stood up and quietly called over a Waitress nearby, "Please go call the security guards outside to come in and have them drag these three people out."

The Waitress nodded, turned around, and ran out of the banquet hall to call the security guards.

During this time, the three shareholders were still shamelessly recounting the stories of when they partnered with Shen Yan to run the company.

"Back in the day, when I cooperated with your CEO Shen, he had just graduated. He was almost screwed over by a supplier back then. If I hadn't turned the tide and found him another supplier, there probably wouldn't be a CEO Shen today."

When the words fell, the entire hall was silent.

All the Employees present didn't dare to breathe, for fear of accidentally bringing trouble upon themselves.

With no one to chime in or support them, the three shareholders didn't seem embarrassed.

After recounting the past, they walked over to a table, poured themselves a glass of wine.

"CEO Shen, we admit that we did have some unpleasantness with you before, but that's all in the past. As the saying goes, merits and faults cancel each other out. There were times we treated you well, and times we didn't."

"Regardless of how things were before, I hope we can all let go of everything now, start anew, and let all past unpleasantness drift away like clouds."

As he spoke, the three of them stepped forward and clinked their wine glasses against the one Shen Yan had placed on the table.

"Clink! Clink! Clink!"

Three crisp sounds of clinking glasses echoed.

The three shareholders stood beside him, holding their glasses, and said to him with serious expressions, "After drinking this glass of wine, everything in our past is settled. We will be just like before: we invest shares, do not interfere in anything, and you remain the boss, making all the decisions."

As soon as the words fell.

Chen Guangke couldn't hold back. He kicked his chair away with his foot and reached out, grabbing the shareholder standing in the middle.

"Are you guys insane? How can you be so shameless? Have you forgotten what happened before? We haven't forgotten!"

"If it weren't for you guys back then, would Old Shen have had to go work as a construction laborer? Now that you're down on your luck and can't make it anymore, you think about sucking up to Old Shen again. Are you even human?!"

Seeing that Chen Guangke was about to start a fight, Shen Yan quickly spoke up to stop him, "Old Chen! Let go!"

Hearing this, the shareholder quickly said to Chen Guangke, "Did you hear that? Your boss told you to let go!"

Chen Guangke didn't want to defy Shen Yan's order in front of so many people.

So he lowered his raised hand, snorted, and let go of the shareholder.

Seeing that Shen Yan was unwilling to let Chen Guangke resort to violence, the shareholder assumed Shen Yan had taken their words to heart.

He straightened his collar, smoothed his hair, and then confidently approached Shen Yan again with his wine glass to flatter him:

"I knew CEO Shen was magnanimous and wouldn't turn down money. Don't worry, to prevent a repeat of past events, this time we will sign a contract with you stating that we absolutely will not interfere in any company matters!"