Chapter 446: The Soaring Secretary
Sun Liancheng rushed to Magic City on May 4th.
Tan Palace Villa was bustling with people, and the big boss always appeared very mild-mannered.
He was unhurried, unflustered, humble, and polite, whether dealing with children at home or newcomers in the company.
He made no airs about him.
To think of him as someone without means would be utterly foolish.
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At least, Sun Liancheng was clear that the development of Tengying Group to its current state,
depended entirely on the big boss alone.
They were merely there to assist and manage smaller details.
Sun Liancheng might act like a king in Guangzhou, but once in Magic City, he became utterly honest.
"Big Boss."
"Oh... Sun, you arrived quite quickly."
Chen Pingsheng left Chen An'an and the rest to play while he met with Sun Liancheng in this back garden.
Without being told to sit, Sun Liancheng could only stand there.
"About Huang Meiyu, do you owe me an explanation?"
"Big Boss, I was wrong."
"Wrong about what?"
Chen Pingsheng interrogated, "Were you wrong in not controlling your desires, or wrong in playing with a young girl and sending her to prison?"
"I…" Sun Liancheng broke into a cold sweat, knowing that this trip to Magic City wouldn't be easy.
But he didn't expect the big boss to start with such an accusatory tone—it meant he couldn't escape this time.
Ignoring his nervousness, Chen Pingsheng shook his head and said, "Perhaps you think I am merely questioning your personal life, but have you ever considered the impact on Tengyou Media's stock price if one day an opponent reveals such news when Tengyou Media is about to go public?"
Sun Liancheng's sweat increased; he truly hadn't considered this!
The consequences would be unimaginable.
Chen Pingsheng continued calmly, "And about your wife, Zhang Ying, your relationship is in name only and each of you does as you please. Yet, she often goes to Tengyou Headquarters, acting as if she's the lady boss; so tell me, is she the lady boss?
"Up to now, Tengyou Media still suffers massive losses of five to ten billion yearly. Have you contributed a penny?
"Furthermore, the most crucial point, now you hesitate to pay that bit of alimony, but when Tengyou Media wants to go public, how much do you think I would need to spend to settle it if your wife causes trouble?
"If Zhang Ying seeks a divorce then, could my billion-dollar company still go public smoothly?
You haven't considered any of these issues!"
Sun Liancheng, sweating profusely, said, "Big Boss, I will divorce her immediately when I return."
"Too late."
Chen Pingsheng noncommittally said, "Before you came, I called Chang Fu who said you are quite capable and should not be touched before Tengyou goes public; my wife also said you are adept and suggested handling it after the listing.
Yet, the more I think about it, the more I feel you, Sun Liancheng, are simply not qualified to be the president of Tengyou. Their comment about your competence is solely based on the backdrop of Tengying Group.
Before Zhang Yiming founded TikTok in 2016, I had already invested five billion in Tengyou Media.
Subsequently, ignoring losses, I invested tens of billions more, even pouring half the resources of Tengying Entertainment and Xin Teng Live Streaming into it.
It can be said that under these circumstances, even a pig could have managed Tengyou Media well.
And you, Sun Liancheng, are just the pig I selected.
Once you saw Tengyou Media gaining some scale and even succeeding, you began to forget yourself, and your wife even more so, acting as the lady boss of Tengyou."
"So, let me ask, what gives her the right?"
Sun Liancheng knew he was finished, but he didn't expect the big boss to directly compare him to a pig.
Clearly, he was being humiliated.
Because of a few hundred thousand sent to a young lover.
If leaked, Chen Pingsheng's loss would be in the billions.
Because of hesitating over a little alimony and not settling things with Zhang Ying, if Tengyou can't go public because of this in the future, he, Chen Pingsheng, would still be footing the bill.
By then, at the very least, he's projected to lose at least twenty billion.
And this…was not something Sun Liancheng could afford.
So, he could only be dismissed.
Such a person doesn't deserve to lead under his banner.
He could only ever be a slightly higher-level worker.
Sun Liancheng was very clear that once the big boss made a decision, it wouldn't change.
From the moment he was called a pig, the matter was definitively concluded.
He was ousted.
Not because he played with a young girl, but because he was too foolish and short-sighted.
Sun Liancheng's only remaining leverage was a bit of severance pay.
As for his shares, they were to be entirely recollected.
A slip-up leading to total loss perfectly described this man.
Most of it was his own doing, which is also a common flaw among many managers.
That is, they never look three to five years into the future.
They just think about how to secure their current position.
Clearly, he was eliminated because of this.
No one knows where the future lies, and staying at Tengying Group is simply impossible.
As for Huang Meiyu, Chen Pingsheng had no intention of helping her, and he did not even mention it.
Because she made the same taboo, which might just be paying for her own youthful ignorance.
Sun Liancheng returned to Guangzhou in despair, while Zhang Ying ran out and cursed loudly.
She even rushed to the Tengyou headquarters and made a scene downstairs, sitting on the ground and cursing the boss for crossing the river and demolishing the bridge.
Her family's Sun had brought up Teng You Media with hard work, and now they were planning to kick him out.
This was even more ruthless than Liu Bang.
Was she crying injustice for Sun Liancheng?
It was just that she couldn't bear to let go of that small share in Teng You Media, and the supreme glory the large company brought her.
She might have forgotten that Chen Pingsheng was the real decision-maker.
Just two hours after she made a scene.
Zhang Ying was taken away, charged with selling counterfeit products.
She had used her identity to force Sun Liancheng to sell several substandard products.
With the left hand to the right hand trick, Zhang Ying made a fortune.
The only loss was the company's reputation.
She even forced two male internet celebrities on the platform to have a threesome with her.
Some things cannot be spelled out in detail; in short, making money becomes too easy once power is obtained.
If she had honestly left with Sun Liancheng, Chen Pingsheng wouldn't have dug up her past.
Thinking she possessed Teng You Media because her family started it is ludicrously stupid.
Should such a person be left outside wasting resources?
Chen Pingsheng retaliated by getting her thrown into jail, just as Zhang Ying viewed Huang Meiyu as an insignificant ant.
In the Magic City headquarters, she was no different than an ant.
She just didn't realize it.
Trying to leverage Sun Liancheng's limited abilities to seize control of Teng You Media was her overly optimistic fantasy.
She didn't even know that to allow unrestricted development of Teng You Media, Chen Pingsheng had already invested five billion in Douyin Group.
And he planned to invest even more.
This is the biggest difference between those in power and those who work for others.
When Zhang Jingjing saw Zhang Ying being taken away, she thought Huang Meiyu would soon be next.
But there was no movement on her end.
Whereas Sun Liancheng was simply dismissed by a document.
The cold two words meant that the Teng You Media's emperor had no return.
The headquarters' document didn't even include one extra line of explanation.
Sun Liancheng was just dismissed like that.
The entire Baiyun Headquarters in Guangdong was deathly silent, no one dared to ask why.
Even when they whispered about the matter, they were terrified.
That's when people realized, no matter your contributions or capabilities on this side,
Magic City headquarters holds absolute power.
There, a single word could drive you away.
And you can't take anything with you; no one would foolishly give up the protection of the entire Tengying Group to follow Sun Liancheng.
May 7th.
Tengying Group officially announced that the secretary Zhang Wanyi would temporarily take over as the CEO of Teng You Media.
The secretary's instant rise shocked the entire internet celebrity circle.
One question was why Sun Liancheng was dismissed?
Another was Zhang Wanyi, who had graduated from college less than three years ago.
How could she take over the largest online celebrity economy Teng You Media?
Actually, there's no reason.
Just because Chen Pingsheng thinks she can, she definitely can.
When Zhang Wanyi received this notice, she was utterly dumbfounded!
No matter what, Tengyou is a huge economic body with contracts with over fifty thousand online hosts.
Can she manage it?