Chapter 1432: Chapter 1011: Full-time Mother’s Counterattack 19
After earning 20 million on her own, the share from Xingchen Company reached over 4 million. There wasn’t much use keeping this money in the bank, so she reinvested 20 million into Xingchen, using it to buy Qi Heng’s shares.
Her original 10% was split between two people’s 5% each. Since the company had become more stable and Qi Heng also had a company in Shanghai, he transferred his equity entirely to Qi Qi, after all, Qi Qi is now the company’s biggest brand. Therefore, after the transfer, her equity reached 55%, which is 5% more than Li Xingchen, but she isn’t the legal representative—Li Xingchen is. In the future, she and Li Xingchen will become formal partners.
Qi Qi has been a boss numerous times in Crossed World, so she has the ability to run a company; otherwise, she wouldn’t dare to take on this job, right?
Now that she holds 55% of the company’s shares, and the additional studio is also gaining momentum, Li Xingchen, who contributed the most, ended up as the runner-up. If someone small-minded were in his place, they might not be happy and might even get squeezed out one day.
However, Li Xingchen is very rational. He knows the company’s success was largely thanks to Qi Qi’s prosperous career line, even Qi Heng said, following her is the right decision.
Qi Qi has never treated him unfairly, if he mentioned he was short of money, she would immediately find a way to get some money for him to use as working capital. Therefore, he is very grateful for Qi Qi’s involvement and firmly believes that the two of them can grow the company even further.
But Li Xingchen’s family doesn’t see it that way, especially since sometimes Qi Qi asks Li Xingchen to help take care of the children for a few days. He is an unmarried young man helping a divorced woman take care of her child—what does that look like?
Once the local innate advantage came into play, Qi Qi was summoned for a talk by the senior members of the Li family.
It wasn’t Li Xingchen’s parents who came; his father is a military man and his mother a doctor, both very busy and cannot attend to this matter. His grandparents are local retirees from Beijing, who invited her to a cafe with a sense of superiority, directly asking her to stay away from their grandson.
"My grandson is young and promising, so many young ladies have their eyes on him. You keep hovering around him, even saddling him with your son—what’s your intention?"
"Exactly, there was a girl he was seeing, and she specifically said your relationship with my grandson is ambiguous, that he should clear things up before dating her. Ms. Qi, should you not... uh? Have some self-respect? Being divorced should come with a divorced look, hanging out with a group of unmarried young men all day—what does it look like?"
Honestly, Qi Qi felt quite helpless. From the moment she came in, they didn’t give her a chance to speak, convicting her with their remarks, as if she’d committed a grave sin against their family. She took a deep breath, adjusted her breathing several times before forcing a smile.
"Um... Grandpa Li, Grandma Li, I think there’s been a misunderstanding. We are just ordinary partners, we only talk about work. I’m an outsider, divorced and raising a child, and not particularly attractive—I’m fully aware of myself. Really. If you don’t believe me, I can raise my hand and swear to the sky, I have no intentions toward your grandson—truly, it’s just a cooperative relationship. If you still don’t believe it, you can ask Qi Heng or any employee from the company to prove whether there’s any... um? Such sordidness between Li Xingchen and me?"
She was calm but firm, even though she was smiling, there was not a trace of warmth in her eyes.
She mocked herself first, and before the Old Lady could jump in response to the final words, she stood up directly and bowed.
"I’m sorry, my time is very precious, the company has a lot of matters waiting for me to deal with. If you don’t trust your grandson or me, then let Li Xingchen come to discuss the withdrawal. From breach of contract to follow-up handling, preliminary estimation, at least five thousand required, as long as your family can offer me five thousand, I will immediately take my people and resources to start anew, and won’t delay a single minute in front of your grandson."
Finally, she placed her hands on the table, looking at the old couple with a faint smile.
"Also, don’t look down on anyone. I come from rural areas and am an outsider, but now I have the capability to establish myself and my son in Beijing. I will also become a Beijing resident, so please don’t flaunt your innate advantage. If you trace back several generations, who isn’t a farmer? All your advantages now are thanks to your ancestors’ hard work. I can also become the ancestor of my son’s descendants, so I am working very hard to struggle. We are all humans; no one is nobler than the other. In private, you can criticize me however you want, like what the old man just muttered, ’With that look, she doesn’t even count as a cunning woman.’ I think it’s very true—I win by capability, not looks. Do you think your grandson is all looks and no substance? Or do you only value appearance?"
