Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
All that was left was a shadow of the car and fear among the employees.
They could not guarantee that they wouldn’t end up like this one day.
At this moment, when the car drove away, everyone thought that the tension would dissipate and they could catch a breath. However, no such thing happened. Even if President Su was not present to supervise the work, he was such a deterrent force that no one dared to slack off even after he left.
At that moment, a female employee on the left side of the row looked at the female employee who was still crying outside the door. She instantly frowned and said with a trembling voice, “Luckily, I didn’t have the courage to do that. Even if I had any inappropriate thoughts in my heart, I had to cut them off. Otherwise, that would be how I will end up…”
When a male employee heard this, he instantly laughed. “It’s not only you. There are so many girls in the company who have inappropriate thoughts, including Sister Ai Li. So now you know what you should do. The president is a person who won’t listen to others, who is resistant to women’s charms, unreasonable and ruthless. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be the owner of such a big building and the Su Corporation, whose existence even causes those in the same industry to tremble in fear.”
In the back seat of the car, Su Chen looked at the magazine in his hand expressionlessly. When he flipped to a certain page, he suddenly frowned.
The moment he frowned, Ai Li, who was beside her, trembled. She swallowed her saliva and stuttered, “What’s wrong? President, is there a problem with our magazine?”
Su Chen’s pair of deep and cold eyes that were hidden under the gold-framed glasses casually withdrew his gaze from the magazine and glanced at Ai Li at the side. His voice was low. “Fire this designer.”
Ai Li glanced at the page in the magazine and looked at the name of the designer on the top right corner of the page.
Her eyes widened instantly! She looked at the president in disbelief and lowered her eyes as if she was scared out of her wits. She did not know if she should retort.
This designer was not an ordinary designer. He was the Master Li Ning whom they had spent a lot of money to hire from overseas! Just any one of his disciples was a well-known designer in the country. Furthermore, Li Ning had not paid much attention to local companies back then. He wanted to focus on developing in America.
But at that time, the Su Corporation was extremely determined and spent a huge sum of money overseas before they managed to hire him.
Such a master, yet Su Chen actually casually took a look at the magazine and said he wanted to fire him?
How could this be? If he was removed, the Su Corporation’s pillar of support would be gone! This famous Li Ning was the company’s living signboard. Without him, the sales of the entire company would definitely drop drastically!
At the thought of this, Ai Li mustered her courage and said hesitantly, “President, this is a living signboard that we spent a lot of money to hire previously. Without him, the company’s performance will definitely…”
When Su Chen heard this, he slowly turned his head and coldly glanced at Ai Li. Shortly after, he threw the magazine into her hands and raised his eyebrows. “Is that so? So it’s this guy, who thinks that just because he has a great reputation, he can just make outfits without putting in any effort? He doesn’t even work during mealtimes. Ai Li, what use do we have for such a person?”
Ai Li quickly looked down at the outfits Li Ning had designed in the magazine, and a trace of surprise flashed across her eyes.
Such shoddy craft and design could be produced even by an ordinary designer. There was nothing new about it at all. But even so, the company did not have any publicity gimmicks. Even if Li Ning did not perform well, his reputation was great. The people who came because of his reputation would not care about shoddy outfits. After all, how could they be proficient in this area? As long as they knew that it was Li Ning’s work, they would be fighting to buy it.
However, the company would still be making a lot of profits even after removing unnecessary expenditures and the hiring fees of Li Ning. Among the company’s expenditures that can be removed, Li Ning’s hiring fees took up two-thirds of it…
Ai Li pulled out a rather unnatural smile and said, “This design is indeed… but president, our customers can’t tell if the outfit design is good or bad. Most of them are only concerned about who designed it, and even if we continue like this, our company would still be profitable. If we were to fire him, who can replace such a big shot? Maybe we won’t even be able to make a profit, and our losses will outweigh our gains.”
When Su Chen heard this, he smirked and coldly said, “Fire him.”
“But…”
Su Chen then said in a low voice, “I have a better candidate.”
When Ai Li heard this, she could not react for a moment. Who in the country had a reputation comparable to Li Ning’s? There were only a handful of them. If there were, they would already have been quite old.
How could they still be willing to serve the company? Who else could it be but Li Ning?
At the thought of this, the scene from earlier in the afternoon and the president’s ambiguous expression suddenly flashed across Ai Li’s mind.. She instantly came to a realization and impatiently shouted, “President! Could it be that you are…?!”