Chapter 83 - Owing just a few million in debt was already something fortunate
Edited by xiin and Noks
The manager in charge of the company’s Weibo was stunned, and his first reaction was to refresh the interface.
But no matter how many times he refreshed it, the name on that Weibo account remained unchanged, and that certified status statement remained unchanged… That Weibo account’s first post hadn’t changed either.
Every single job seeker knew the name ‘Yida Group’. Many people wanted to join the Yida Group, even if it meant that they could only join a branch company, as being a part of it would still look good when they talked about it.
Feng Xiong was old and didn’t know much about young people. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have needed to find other people to manage and clean up the official blog. “What does that mean?” he asked.
“President Feng… This is Yida ah.” The manager looked alarmed. “The person I just replied to is the boss of Yida.”
“Yida?” Feng Xiong naturally understood the meaning and weight behind that name. He frowned and said, “I told you not to use the official Weibo account blindly. It wasn’t a big deal when you were just running it for gossip sites before, but now we’re doing proper business, and you’re still using it to blindly cause trouble?!”
“I didn’t blindly go and cause trouble ah.” The Weibo manager said with a long face, “Then what do we do now ah, President Feng? Do I still reply?”
“Reply to what?” Feng Xiong said, “So what if it’s really Yida? This issue has nothing to do with them, so what is he trying to get involved in? Ignore him.”
The Weibo manager thought about it, and although this argument seemed reasonable, he was still nervous and felt like something was wrong.
After a while, he opened Baidu and with a few quick swipes, ran a search.
After seeing the words on the web page, his face immediately turned pale, and even stuttered once he spoke.
“President Feng…. This…”
“What are you doing, stammering so much?!” Feng Xiong had just received a call for debt collection and so had come back in a bad mood. “Did Yu Yan reply?”
“President Feng, you shouldn’t worry about that for now.” The Weibo manager panicked and said, “StarTV… It’s a livestream platform belonging to Yida!”
“How could that be… Is that true or not?” Feng Xiong stared at him and asked, “They acquired it?”
“It’s true! Really, come and have a look…” The Weibo manager pointed to the information on Baidu as he explained, “It has always been under Yida’s banner, but Yida has also been relatively low-key in this respect, and Star TV never blared out Yida’s big name…”
The Weibo manager was so nervous that he felt numb. “President Feng, then what do you think President Yi means to say through that Weibo post?”
Realizing the seriousness of the incident, Feng Xiong stepped forward. “Hurry… hurry and talk with him in private.”
“What should we chat about ah, President Feng?”
Feng Xiong licked his lips and couldn’t help swearing. He just wanted to quietly scam someone, so how had he managed to provoke some kind of immortal?! He said, “I’ll tell you a sentence, you type it!”
Yi Chen was on his way to the company.
He refreshed the microblog interface and realized that he still hadn’t received a message from Zhou Mi Entertainment.
He had actually never seen such a company like this before. The several employee Weibos under the company’s official Weibo were all dead accounts. The company’s registered phone number had been left blank, and even the company’s address was wrong. He had sent someone to investigate, and they said that the company had already moved away in the past few months.
He was afraid that using the word “company” with regards to them was already a compliment.
This was the first time that he had used Weibo to deal with things at work. He usually didn’t use Weibo at all. He had actually just created one right before Yu Yan had.
“President Yi.” The assistant sitting in the front passenger seat suddenly turned around. “Zhou Mi’s boss’ information has been obtained. His name is Feng Xiong, 43 years old, and his phone number has also already been sent over. Do you need me to call now to inquire about the situation? Also, on Mr. Yu’s side… Do you need me to inform him in advance?”
The assistant’s expression was serious, but he couldn’t conceal the trace of gossiping intent that was present in his tone.
When he had heard his boss ask him to deal with the matter of authenticating his Weibo, he had thought that his ears were malfunctioning. What’s more, he hadn’t expected that his boss had wanted to get his Weibo account certified just to deal with a small three-room company.
Yi Chen didn’t lift his eyes. “Feng Xiong’s other matters?”
The assistant said simply, “He’s in debt, a few small millions.”
Yi Chen was about to say something when his cellphone suddenly vibrated.
A small “2” had appeared next to his unread private messages.
In order to wait for Zhou Mi Entertainment’s reply, he had specially followed the little shabby account, just so that he could receive any messages as soon as possible.
[Zhou Mi Entertainment: Hello, President Yi!]
[Zhou Mi Entertainment: President Yi, are you there?]
[Yi Chen: Send over a copy of your contract with Yu Yan, and the rest of it will be handled by our platform. Don’t disturb our anchor any more.]
“It’s over ya.” The Weibo manager was now frantic. “Does this mean that President Yi really wants to see us in court ah?!”
Feng Xiong’s forehead was sweating. “Why are you nervous? Weren’t you the one who replied to his comment?! Let me tell you, if something goes wrong with this, you’re also responsible!”
[Zhou Mi Entertainment: President Yi, Yu Yan signed the contract before joining StarTV. We know that he didn’t inform your side about this contract in advance, and in this way, the responsibility is all on Yu Yan. You don’t need to worry at all. [cute]]
Yi Chen didn’t like to type on the phone keyboard. He normally didn’t chat with anyone except Yu Yan, and usually handled his many matters with voice messages or direct phone calls.
After seeing this emoticon, all of his patience disappeared.
Feng Xiong moved a small stool to sit next to the computer. His lips had turned white with anxiety. Going after Yu Yan had originally been his very last strategy; if he still didn’t find a way to get some money, it wouldn’t be long before he would be killed by his creditors!
“No reply ah?”
The Weibo manager replied, “Not yet…”
“Is there something wrong with the network? We were chatting so well, how could he not reply now?” Feng Xiong clapped him on the shoulder. “Send another message, ask him if he’s there or not…”
Just as he said that, the telephone rang sharply, and Feng Xiong was given a start.
He’d been forced into debt several months ago, and recently, every time he heard something ring, he got scared.
As soon as he saw that it was an unfamiliar number, he decided not to answer it. Even though he didn’t pick the call up, who knew that the other side would keep working away, as they called two more times.
He picked up the phone. “Who is it ah? Life or death matter ah?”
Silence reigned for a few seconds before a deep male voice rang out, “Pretty much.”
“……” Feng Xiong thought he had heard wrong. “What is this?”
“Are you Feng Xiong?”
“It’s me, who are you?”
“I am Yi Chen from Yida Group.” Yi Chen put his hand on his leg, and his index finger unconsciously started to lightly tap against it. “We can chat here.”
His assistant bravely took a look at his boss through the rearview mirror. Even through the cellphone, he could sense the panic at the other end of the phone.
He said internally—if you can ask our big boss to call you in person, even if your company goes bankrupt, it will have been worth it.
Feng Xiong was stunned, and the underling at his side instinctively held up his cellphone and prevented it from falling. “President Yi! Hello, hello…”
He stared at the person in front of the computer, turned around and walked into the corridor. “President Yi, I don’t know if you saw my reply just now? Misunderstanding, it’s all a misunderstanding. This matter has nothing to do with your company. Youdon’t need to worry…”
Yi Chen asked, “Who says it has nothing to do with us?”
“Um that, you should be able to understand that by consulting your company’s lawyers,” Feng Xiong said.
“I knew about the contract between you guys before I signed him.”
Feng Xiong was shocked. “Ah?”
“So, even if it counts as a breach of contract, I’ll help him pay for it.” When it came to this, Yi Chen lightly paused, and his words carried a hint of irony. “However much the court decides, that will be how much I give.”
Even though he had been the first one to mention a lawsuit, when he heard the word ‘court’ come from this person’s mouth, Feng Xiong only felt numb and uneasy.
But he couldn’t back off.
What’s ahead was unknown, but behind him was clearly a cliff. If he couldn’t collect the money, then those debt collection companies….
Thinking of this, Feng Xiong took a deep breath before he managed to say, “So that’s how it is; then we will have to take care of this matter differently. President Yi, you should know that the breach of contract fees in this respect aren’t low ba? You have probably also heard about those cases some time ago, the ones regarding anchors who quit.”
Yi Chen’s eyebrows rose, but he didn’t answer.
“President Yi, you may not believe what I’m saying, but although I’m older than you, you’re my idol… Who is willing to go to court against their idols? How bad it will look… I also feel terrible about this situation from the bottom of my heart.” Feng Xiong continued, “But since you have said so, the nature of this matter has now become one of poaching, which isn’t so serious. In terms of damages caused—we can discuss that. We don’t need to go through the process of a lawsuit at all… After all, it will have an impact on your company.”
Yi Chen looked out of the window and upon hearing these words, narrowed his eyes slightly. The displeasure in his tone was evident as he said, “Poaching?”
Without waiting for Feng Xiong’s reaction, Yi Chen coolly stressed, “He has always been my man and has nothing to do with that word.”
“The damages can be discussed, but they should be discussed in the court. I’m contacting you this time just to ask you, are you going to sue, or am I going to have to sue?”
Feng Xiong’s scalp went numb. “It’s unnecessary, it’s really unnecessary, President Yi, President Yi, how’s this ba, three million! If you give me three million yuan, the matter will be over, why make such a big fuss…”
“I’ll sue ba,” Yi Chen interrupted him, “That way I won’t have to arrange for another lawsuit after this case is over.”
Feng Xiong had gone into a daze. “President Yi, what do you mean ah?”
“Your contract is full of loopholes, aren’t you clear on that?”
“How… No, you said you would arrange for another lawsuit… What do you mean ah?”
Yi Chen looked out of the window at the foggy sky and asked, “When you defaulted on the salary a few years ago, did you think at that time that this matter would just be over like that?”
Feng Xiong said, “That was also because we had no other way ya, President Yi. Your company has always sailed smoothly and has never experienced turbulence, how can you understand the suffering us small companies have to bear with? At that time, let alone the salary, even the living expenses were paid by me. Besides, when something happened to Xiao Yan’s family at that time, didn’t I also squeeze out a few hundred yuan to give him?”
If he hadn’t mentioned this, it might have been okay.
As soon as he heard Feng Xiong’s words, a smoldering fire suddenly appeared in Yi Chen’s heart.
“A few hundred yuan?”
“Don’t look down upon a few hundred yuan. At that time, professional teams weren’t standardized, and it was already very generous of me to give him a few hundred yuan…”
“Feng Xiong.” Yi Chen interrupted him, and the indifference in his tone disappeared, now instead replaced with a deep anger. “Fortunately, you still remembered this contract, or I may have had to spend some time.”
Without waiting for Feng Xiong to ask, Yi Chen continued.
“There’s something wrong with your company’s registration, and I’ve been looking for you for a long time. Yet, I didn’t expect you to jump out first.”
“My lawyers will sort out the evidence gathered during this period of time, contact the staff who have been cheated by you before, and will formally sue you in the near future. Of course, the accusation will not be about you defaulting on wages alone. Your company is small, but it has also done a lot of shady things, such as creating false accounts, evading taxes …illegally raising capital.”
“All the suffering you gave my employee all those years ago, be prepared to pay it back a hundred times over. At that time, you will understand that owing just a few million in debt was already something fortunate.”
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