Can't Take My Eyes Off You

C 224-225

"Let's go to the hospital." It was quite awkward for someone older than her to address her so formally, but she did not stop the driver either.

The car stopped at the hospital entrance. As soon as Jiang Yao got off the car, she heard Chen Zhibin calling out for her.

"Jiang Yao!" Chen Zhibin sprinted toward her and said, "I heard that there will be a shareholders' meeting, are you alone?"

"Yeah, should I bring a group of people to fight instead?" Jiang Yao chuckled in amusement.

"I'll go with you then!" Chen Zhibin was shocked that Jiang Yao had the mood to joke with him. "I'm more at ease if you let me be there with you. The sergeant is not around, I have to protect you!"

Chen Zhibin was relatively well-informed while he was at the hospital. Throughout the day, the doctors and nurses were talking about the bizarre thing that had happened in the director's office. Several minority shareholders were sitting inside the office, shouting and cursing as they damaged the things in the office. Knowing that Jiang Yao would be here for a meeting, Chen Zhibin had been waiting for her outside the hospital in case she was bullied.

Jiang Yao pondered upon the circumstances and decided to let Chen Zhibin go with her.

Xiao Fang escorted Jiang Yao and Chen Zhibin to the meeting room and left. Jiang Yao walked in, all the seats in the room had been taken except one.

The meeting room was filled with chatter, but once Jiang Yao entered the room, everyone shut their mouths instantly and looked at her in unison.

Jiang Yao stood by the door and looked at the forty-something obese man sitting in the head seat of the conference table.

"Miss Jiang," the director quickly greeted her and wiped his sweat anxiously as her disgruntled eyes kept looking at Mr. Qin.

Mr. Qin owned the most shares among the remaining shareholders. When they entered the room, he went and sat at the seat matter-of-factly, and did not budge at all even when the director reminded him gently.

"Miss Jiang, so nice to have you here~" Mr. Qin turned the chair slightly and looked at Jiang Yao with his legs crossed. He assumed that she was a very powerful and charismatic woman, but to his surprise, she was nothing but a fragile and bleak young girl. Hence, Mr. Qin became even more pompous and cocky.

Jiang Yao glared at him coldly for a few seconds, then walked toward Mr. Qin and rapped the table in front of him. "I don't care who you are, but for an old man, you don't need me to remind you that this is not where you're supposed to sit, do you?"

Jiang Yao did not know any of these shareholders, but she did know one thing—other than the majority shares that were in her hands, the remaining part of the equity was divided among the six or seven people in this room.

Frankly speaking, when she first laid eyes on the people who were in the meeting room, she felt a surge of agitation that was most probably going to end up as a headache.

She spoke in a cold and emotionless tone, her face was solemn and gloomy. "I'll give you two choices. One, get up and give me back my seat. Two, the meeting ends here. We'll have another meeting when all of you learn how to respect me, who is younger than everyone in the room but has the majority share."

Then, Jiang Yao took a step back to stand next to Chen Zhibin. She lifted her arm and looked at her watch, and raised three fingers with the other hand at the man who was glaring at her, one finger was retracted for every second passed.

Her action was obvious—she only gave three seconds for Mr. Qin to consider his options.

With all the cunning plots in his mind, Mr. Qin would never have thought that a girl in her late teens would have such a tough and resilient attitude, she was stern in conveying her words too.

"I can't believe that Nanjiang Medical University has a student like you with no respect for elders!" Mr. Qin's face darkened, but he still chose to stand up at the very last second. He was not certain whether Jiang Yao would really turn away and leave when three seconds were up. If that really were to happen, the rest of the shareholders might blame him for screwing up their meeting.

"How should I address this man?" Jiang Yao looked at the director and asked.

"This is Mr. Qin and he holds a tenth of our shares." The director explained immediately.

Jiang Yao gave Mr. Qin a side glance. She thought to herself, 'There's only forty percent of the shares left and Mr. Qin alone owns ten percent. No wonder he is so full of himself.'

However, a mere shareholder with a tenth of the shares dared to sit on the seat that belonged to the biggest shareholder who owned sixty percent of the shares. Was that man not too full of himself?

"Oh, so you're Mr. Qin." Jiang Yao chuckled. "I got into Nanjiang Medical University with my actual capabilities and my good manners are well-known to the lecturers in my school."

Jiang Yao called Mr. Qin and tapped on the surface of the table with her index finger. She looked at the man in disdain. "This is the conference room for the shareholders' meeting. As for our identities for now, we are neither doctors nor students and teachers. We're businessmen now. Obviously, I'm not your student and you're not my teacher. We are not even related and you're lecturing me about respecting my elders? Are you sure that there's no need for you to run a check on your brain at the Department of Neurology?"

"Miss Jiang is right. Age doesn't play an important role in the business field." Mr. Feng was the first to chime in. Compared to Mr. Qin's arrogance, Mr. Feng was better at reading people's minds. He was able to tell that the young lady who was standing in front of him was not a person who would go easy on others.

Therefore, he believed that there was no need to fight over such an insignificant matter at the start of the meeting. It would only be a waste of time.

"Mr. Feng is indeed a wise man. Let us all forget about 'respecting the elders' in the business field, we will only become a laughing stock if we mention it and people will think that we have no common sense." Jiang Yao spoke while walking confidently toward the place where Mr. Qin was sitting just now.

However, she did not sit down when she was at her seat. Instead, she pushed the chair which Mr. Qin had sat away in disgust. She towered over them and glanced at the shareholders who were sitting in their respective seats. Everyone in the room was older than her but she mentioned that a person's age had nothing to do with the business field. She was the largest shareholder and she wanted the highest privilege to speak before anyone else and give her commands as the highest executive.

Nobody had ever tried to bully her in such a way throughout her entire life! The Zhang family who once bullied her had 'vanished' from the world.

"Mr. Qin, don't just stand there. Let us proceed with our meeting while being seated or else you will complain about me not respecting my elders again for letting you stand throughout our meeting." Jiang Yao pointed to the empty seat on her right and ushered Mr. Qin. Once Mr. Qin was seated, she spoke again, "That's right, everyone has their respective seats. We can't just mess around or else things will go out of order."

"Hmph! Order! Aren't you ashamed of mentioning order to us?" Mr. Qin's face darkened due to anger. He had never imagined that there would be someone so disrespectful, mocking and taunting others.

Mr. Qin believed that if Jiang Yao knew her place, she should sit on the seat he reserved for her once she had walked into the door. However, this woman embarrassed him and mocked him in front of everyone, calling him a moron. Despite being older, he could still understand what Jiang Yao meant by asking him to get a check-up in the Department of Neurology!

Mr. Feng pulled Mr. Qin gently. He wanted him to calm down and proceed with their meeting instead of making useless attempts.