𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 | Liskook Adaptation

Ch 12 Standing Firm

It was nearly two o’clock in the afternoon. Lisa had documents for the meeting prepared and carried them into Jungkook ’s office. When she opened the door, she saw him standing in front of the window, lost in thought.

Lisa put the documents on his desk and was about to leave, when she heard his clear and cool voice. “You join me in the meeting.”

Surprised at first, she soon became inwardly delighted. She remained calm and said, “Alright.”

He was allowing her to participate in such an important and confidential strategic meeting. Lisa thought it meant that he trusted her. Well, young and inexperienced as he is, the boss knows how to judge people and use them.

In the well-lit meeting room, eight people sat around a long, auburn-colored meeting table made of oak. These were Jungkook, Mingyu, the vice CEO in charge of production and technology, the vice CEO in charge of functional divisions, the marketing director, the production director, the finance director, and the purchasing director.

Currently, they constituted the core management team of Phoenix.

Jungkook sat in the middle. And Lisa had, of course, no place at the table but sat behind him on a seat by the wall.

The meeting was hosted by Mingyu. His attitude was still free and easy despite the critical topic they were going to discuss. He looked around and said steadily, “Okay, let’s begin. I’ll say a few words first.

“The meeting today is for discussing the future development of Aida. I believe you all know our current situation better than Mr. Jeon and I. Mr. Jeon just took over our company a short time ago. So the objectives and rules for today’s meeting are: practical and realistic attitudes, full and thorough discussions, a consensus on the direction of future development, and strict implementation of future development. Okay, Finance Director, you go first.”

The meeting room was then silent. Lisa was impressed by Mingyu ’s speech. What bureaucratese he’s speaking! But on second thought, he really did use every word purposefully!

She glanced at Jungkook and found him appearing calm and focused. Amongst the group of middle-aged people, he appeared extraordinarily young and handsome.

At that moment, the finance director turned on the projector. After a brief overview, he went straight to the point and dropped a bombshell: “We’ve checked and found that after we have paid off the Carcinogen Incident, with both accounts receivable and accounts payable included in the calculation, the capital that the entire group can mobilize in the short-term is roughly…” He paused for a second and then continued, “Two to five million dollars.”

Silence fell on the meeting room again. People looked at each other, speechless. Lisa felt her heart skip a beat. On her lap was a notebook, on the top left of which she had written “10 million.” She then crossed it out and instead inserted “2 million.”

It turned out that the situation was even worse than what her brother had estimated.

Two million dollars! What can a company do with two million dollars nowadays, especially a company of thousands of employees like Phoenix?

She couldn’t help but glance at Jungkook again, only to see him sitting straight and looking up calmly at the finance director, one hand resting on the table.