CEO is Picky but Handsome - Chapter 47

The next day, Papa Ye and Papa Huo appeared in front of the children with panda-like dark circles under their eyes.
This is normal. Last night, after the two of them put the brakes on their passionate kiss with superhuman will, and went back to their rooms and slept in their own beds, they sadly realized that they could not sleep at all. Whether lying on their backs, sides, or spirals, the God of Sleep just delayed coming to look at their door, and instead, was simply unable to restrain their thoughts.
As for what to think, this is too restricted to say.
In any case, they each had their own thoughts all night, and only at dawn were they able to sleep. If they had known that the other was tossing and turning all night, they probably would have gotten up and made some of the thoughts in their heads come true.
Thank God they didn’t. So the next day, the kids only saw the dark circles under their dad’s eyes, but nothing they shouldn’t have seen.
Ye Ling woke up slightly earlier than Huo Zhun, and after he tidied up a little, he tied on his apron and made breakfast for the kids in the kitchen. By the time Huo Jun comes downstairs, Ye Ling has already made a full nutritious breakfast and set it on the table. He stares at Ye Ling’s figure and has the intention to greet him and ask how he slept, but just as he’s about to speak, the two kids, Huo Xiaoming and Ye Rui, come thumping down from upstairs.
Compared to their dads, the kids slept really well last night. Huo Xiaoming, in particular, didn’t take his paws off Ye Rui for the entire night. Ye Rui was avoiding it at first, but then he let it go after a deep sleep. So when he woke up in the morning, he found that Huo Xiaoming was holding his head in his arms like a stuffed animal, and both of his legs were almost riding on him.
Huo Xiaoming sleeps too poorly.
Ye Rui firmly recognized this and refused to share a bed with Huo Ming for a long time to come.
After dinner, the two children went off to school. The dining table that had been swept by the children was like a windfall, and Ye Ling silently looked at it before diving into the kitchen to fry two more eggs.
“The matter of the betting agreement, you already knew about it, right?” After putting the fried eggs on the dining table, Ye Ling suddenly asks.
Huo Zhun is staring at him intensely, coldly surprised by such a question, he can’t help but freeze for a moment, “You guessed?”
“You’re acting too calm.” Ye Ling pulled out the chair and sat down, “What’s going on?”
“As you can see, the Rain Name Consortium took the group’s shares as a bid and signed two betting agreements with investment banks.” Huo Jun took a sip of coffee and spoke from the beginning, “About two years ago, the Rain Name Consortium purchased 4.92% of the group’s shares on the open market, and since the shares were dispersed and totaled less than 5%, there was no need to report it to the SEC, and no one noticed. Shortly after that, Rain Name signed betting agreements with two investment banks one after the other, with the subject being Phoenix Group’s stock, totaling 27.6% in value. They bet on whether or not at a certain point in time, Phoenix Group’s stock price would rise sharply and reach the price that Rain Name had estimated; if it did, Rain Name Consortium would receive the shares, and if it failed to do so, Rain Name Group would pay the investment banks in cash according to the agreement, five hundred million dollars. Because this kind of bet is very dishonorable, so everything is done in secret. I got the news, but it was only this week. Before I could react, yesterday, the first betting agreement came to fruition, and Rainname Consortium won big.”
“They guessed beforehand that the group’s stock price would rise sharply due to obtaining the total sponsorship rights?” How else would they have dared to make a huge bet with half a billion dollars?
“It’s just a bet, the bigger the bet the bigger the win, there’s no such thing as guessing or not guessing.” Huo Jun laughed twice, “If we really go after it, maybe it’s because they believe that with my ability, I’ll definitely be able to bring the group to take the total sponsorship rights, that’s why they dared to place such a bet.”
This kind of trust is very uncomfortable, Ye Ling pulled out a hard three-point smile and continued, “So when will the second betting agreement expire?”
“I don’t know, but it should be just recently. The Rain Name Consortium won’t let the interval between the expiration of the two agreements be more than a month, they are afraid that I’ll bounce back after a long time. In fact, I’ve heard that recently they’re privately contacting our directors, hoping to purchase the shares in their hands at a high price, and together with all the shares that come to hand, form an absolute hold on the group. This also proves on one side that even with the two betting agreements in hand, they’re not sure that they can completely suppress me, so they’re hoping to buy more shares, just in case.” Huo Jun said.
“Will the directors sell to him?” Ye Ling asked.
“It’s hard to say,” Huo Jun shrugged, “To be honest, it’s not my main concern at this stage. Phoenix’s funding gap isn’t hard to plug, I’ve already arranged for someone to do it. I’ve been fighting with the directors for so many years, I more or less hold some of those unseen handles of theirs, if they dare to betray the group, I can make them lose their reputation. What I am concerned about, is another issue.”
Ye Ling looked at him, “What?”
“Do you know why the seat on my left hand side is always empty every time we have a board meeting?” Huo Zhun suddenly asks.
Ye Ling frowned gently, “You told me before, that seat is reserved for the second largest shareholder of the group. However, he lives abroad in seclusion for many years and doesn’t participate in the company’s operations at all, only distributing dividends at the end of the year. To show respect, a chair is reserved for him at every meeting to symbolize where he should sit.”
Huo Zhun smiles slightly, even he himself doesn’t remember when he told Ye Ling about this, but on the contrary, Ye Ling remembers it firmly. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he had been really discerning in looking at Ye Ling.
“However, do you know how many shares he owns in the company?” Huo Zhun asked.
“I remember it’s 28.7%.” Ye Ling replied.
“Right, the shares in both of our hands add up to more than 60%, which happens to be able to form an absolute holding on Phoenix Group.” Huo Zhun sprinkled some pepper on the fried egg in front of him, and didn’t bother to cut it with a knife, directly taking a fork and spearing it up to take a bite, “These 60% of the shares originally all belonged to my father-in-law, but when he was seriously ill, he made a will to split the shares in his hands. The more half to me, so that I can have decision making power in the board of directors, the less half to a Mr. Mo, to …… compensate.”
“Compensation?” Ye Ling was puzzled, “Compensation for what?”
“I don’t know, and it’s not written in my father-in-law’s will. In fact, I haven’t even seen this Mr. Mo’s face.” Huo Zhun slowly says, “When the will was announced, it was Mr. Mo’s lawyer who was present to sign the document. For so many years, he never showed up at a board meeting, and if it wasn’t for the dividends that were distributed to him every year, I would have thought that he was no longer alive.”
Ye Ling keenly captures another layer of meaning in Huo Jun’s words, “This Mr. Mo is very old?”
Huo Jun nodded, “He is a friend of my father-in-law.”
Such an old gentleman who had never been involved in the company’s operations would not logically pose any threat to Huo Jun at all, but Huo Jun was treating him like an enemy ……
“The Rain Name Consortium wants to acquire the shares in Mr. Mo’s hands?” Ye Ling fiercely aggravated his tone.
“You’re half right.” Huo Zhun smiled, “It’s true that someone wants to acquire the shares in Mr. Mo’s hands, but that person isn’t the Rain Name Consortium, it’s Rong Sheng.”
Ye Ling was slightly puzzled, however, after a moment of meditation, he figured out the joints, “Rong Sheng wants to acquire the shares in Mr. Mo’s hands, on the one hand, to directly take up shares in Phoenix Group, and on the other hand, through the control of Rain Name Consortium’s shares, to take up shares in Phoenix Group. He wants to benefit from both sides and control both sides.”
“That’s right, Rong Sheng doesn’t intend to work well with the Rainname Consortium at all, he just wants to utilize this consortium to ultimately control the Phoenix Group.” Huo Jun snorted.
“He’s got a good calculator, and the Rainname Consortium isn’t a fool, so they’re still willing to cooperate with him?” Ye Ling sarcastically said.
Huo Zhun just laughed. He lowered his head and touched the handle of his coffee cup, and after a long time, he softly said, “Rong Sheng is now looking for Mr. Mo’s whereabouts. I was one step ahead of him and have already learned where Mr. Mo is currently living and have sent Du Xing to look for him. But his attitude was very bad and directly made Du Xing eat the closed door.”
Speaking here, he raised his head and exchanged a glance with Ye Ling. Immediately, he smiled.
“Well, it’s worse than a closed door. He directly called the police, and Du Xing was almost arrested by the police. I tried many kinds of methods, soft and hard, even those tricks on TV to move people with love, but to no avail, the old man was greasy and refused to sell his shares to me, saying anything.” Huo Jun sighed, “To be honest, if it wasn’t for Rong Sheng’s eye on the tiger, I would be very reluctant to force an old gentleman. I always felt that that word ‘compensation’ had a heavy weight to it, and wasn’t something that could be measured in terms of money.”
Huo Zhun hung his head, his unkempt frontal hair swinging between his eyebrows, and from Ye Ling’s perspective, it actually looked like he had never been more frustrated and bitter.
“So you understand what’s bothering me.” Huo Zhun smiles bitterly, “Betting agreement or not, funding gap or not, I have ways to deal with all these. But the only thing is this old Mr. Mo, the shares in his hands are what holds the key to winning or losing this battle. If Rongsheng takes a step ahead and purchases the shares from Mr. Mo, then he will win.My personal victory or defeat is a small matter, but the group is going to fall into his hands, even ……”
Huo Zhun didn’t finish his sentence, but Ye Ling understood that he was worried about not being able to protect himself anymore.
But Huo Jun how stupid you are, Ye Ling is not armless, weak and incompetent, how does he need your protection?
What he wants is clearly to stand by your side and fight alongside you ah.
“Otherwise, I’ll try.” Ye Ling suddenly spoke.
Huo Zhun was stunned for a moment, as if he didn’t understand, “What did you say?”
“I said, why don’t you let me go and try to see if I can convince this old Mr. Mo.” Ye Ling said.
“Don’t joke,” Huo Zhun kindly laughed, “Du Xing’s mouth is so tongue-tied that he still suffered from Mr. Mo’s loss, so why would you need to send yourself to the door?”
Moreover, you also think about me, this old Mr. Mo humiliated Du Xing has already made me a bellyful of fire, if he humiliated you ……
Huo Zhun angrily grinding his teeth, thinking, if he dares to let you eat the door, I’ll carry a rocket launcher to blast the door of his house to go.
“How will you know if you don’t try? Everyone does things differently, maybe what Du Xing can’t do, I can.” Ye Ling pauses and suddenly folds his two hands on the table, leaning forward and looking dangerously at Huo Jun, “Are you doubting my ability?”
Huo Jun thought to himself how dare I doubt your ability yo, I’m just ……
“I’m just worried about you.” Huo Zhun gritted his teeth, “Ye Ling, Mr. Mo doesn’t live in the country right now, if you want to find him, you have to go to E country. I don’t feel at ease, I’m now scared if I don’t see you every day, letting you go to E country alone, I don’t agree.”
“You’re worried that Rong Sheng will catch me?” Ye Ling frowned, “We can conceal the news and not let outsiders know that I went to Country E.”
“What if the news leaks out?” Just thinking about that what-if possibility makes Huo Jun feel unbearable, “You’re abroad, even if I have the intention to save you, I can’t reach it.”
“Then I can only stay by your side for the rest of my life, I can’t go anywhere?” Ye Ling sneered.
“If you are willing to stay by my side for the rest of your life, I would naturally be more than happy to do so.” Huo Zhun said.
“Heh,” Ye Ling tilted her head and let out a laugh, her tone full of undisguised sarcasm, “Then Rong Sheng succeeded. Even if he didn’t catch me back, he has restricted my personal freedom for the rest of my life.”
“No, Ye Ling, that’s not what I meant.” Huo Jun hurriedly explained, but when he saw Ye Ling’s expression, he suddenly couldn’t say a word.
He understood what Ye Ling was thinking, yet he couldn’t take the risk.
Every time he fought with Rong Sheng, he understood one more point of Rong Sheng’s obsession with Ye Ling. Nowadays, this war without smoke seems to be a fight between Rong Clan and Phoenix Group, but in the end, outside of Rong Sheng’s hatred towards Huo Zhun, it’s more because if he doesn’t bring down Huo Zhun, Rong Sheng will never be able to feel at ease with Ye Ling confined in his hands.
Therefore, at this juncture, telling Ye Ling to go to a foreign country alone, what is the difference between sending Ye Ling to Rong Sheng’s eyes?
Even if the news is blocked, there is no impermeable wall in the world, in case Rong Sheng hears a hint of wind, maybe today, is the last time he and Ye Ling see each other!
Huo Zhun clenches his fists, a voice in his heart tells him firmly, no, absolutely not, never let Ye Ling take the risk!
He’s going to run that far alone, this is absolutely not-
“Alright.” Huo Zhun let out a long sigh and stood up, “I admit defeat, you go.”
Ye Ling’s gaze turned and he asked softly, “You’re letting me go?”
“Yes, I’ll let you go.” Huo Zhun said.
It was true that he was blocking Ye Ling out of the intention to protect him. However in this way, what difference was there between himself and Rong Sheng. It was the same as confining Ye Ling to his side in reckless disregard of his will, so just because he was doing it for his own good, was he noble to any extent?
Huo Zhun thought that there were many ways to do him good, and confining him might not be the best one.
“Later, I’ll have Du Xing send you all of Mr. Mo’s information, after reading it, I’ll give you a night’s time to draw up a few proposals out, and first thing tomorrow morning, tell me how you plan to convince him.” Huo Zhun said, “If your methods satisfy me, then the day after tomorrow, I’ll arrange for a plane to send you to Country E.”
“I suggest you arrange for a flight early tomorrow morning.” Ye Ling says, “Because I can’t use it for that long.”