chapter 10.1

Qiao Yang had a dream ‒ he dreamed about his childhood classmate who had a piano at home. He was envious, very envious.

He would go to his classmate’s house everyday afterschool, and would also diligently explain the school assignment to his classmate.

It was because he could watch his classmate play the piano when the school assignment was done. After his classmate was done practicing, he would lend it to him to play.

Back then, he still couldn’t read the overly complicated music scores, just pressing for the tone of each black and white key, and etching them into his memory.

Over time, the tones of the 88 keys could be automatically sequenced in the brain and form a wonderful melody.

Until his big brother came to pick him up, then the two brothers would step into the faint light of the night and went home with the starlight draped over their shoulders.

On the day of his eighth birthday, Qiao Sheng gave him an electronic piano. He was ecstatic, excitedly and happily played all night long.

Back then, Qiao Sheng[1] was fifteen years old. To save money for the electronic piano, he had secretly been washing the dishes at a family restaurant for half a year after school. It was also the best gift he(QY) could have received.

‒ The phone’s alarm went off, waking up the person sleeping on the couch.

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Qiao Yang sat up in a daze and grabbed his phone to look at the time: [7:00 A.M.]

It was the daily alarm set up by the original owner: [Monday, first day of work.]

Going to work?

He could meet Qiao Zhen![2]

Qiao Yang immediately became full of energy.

He randomly picked a set of suits from the clothes that Ah Xing had sent over last night and put it on. Then he quickly washed up and left in a rush then left his house. He drove in his car and finally arrived at Qiao Est. general headquarters building.

This entire grand building, from top to bottom, belonged to Qiao Est. headquarters. At the topmost floor was Qiao Est.’s logo. It could be seen by half of S City, and had become one of the city’s landmarks. Read this novel only on Foxaholic

Inside the grand building were signs of meticulous care with its white walls, silver elevators, ash-gray carpets, and the shiny glass windows. Everywhere gave off a sense of ice-cold and high-class sophistication.

Wherever Qiao Yang walked by‒one after another‒the high-spirited employees would nod at him in greeting.

“Greetings, Young Mater Qiao.”

“Hello, Supervisor Qiao.”

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Qiao Yang was very uncomfortable with such a complimentary courtesy etiquette. But in order not to reveal the flaw, he pursed his lips and put on a cold face, slightly raised his chin, trying hard to hold up the cold and arrogant persona of the original owner.

He finally made it pass the numerous employees and entered his own office. Just as he was about to heave a sigh of relief, his assistant Liu Wen knocked on the door and entered.

Looking at his complexion, he(LW) tentatively asked, “Young Master Qiao did not drink too much last night, right? How about I bring you a glass of hangover tonic,[3] or maybe stomach medicine.”

Facing Liu Wen, Qiao Yang also didn’t need to pretend. He comfortably leaned back in his office chair and smiled, “No need, I didn’t drink last night.”

“Then that’s good, you’ve got a tough battle to fight today.”

Liu Wen breathed a sigh of relief, and gave him the A4 paper, “This is the work schedule for today, you confirm it first.”

“En.” Qiao Yang took it and looked down.

‒9:00AM – Board of Directors meeting.

Meeting agenda: First half, the Supervisor in charge of each department would provide their performance index completion report; second half would be about performance goals; finally, the President would conclude the meeting with a speech.

‒11:30AM – Meeting with Yunfeng Group’s Head of Sales Department.

Meeting agenda: Discussing collaboration projects with the Vice Head of the Sales Department of Yunfeng Group, negotiating terms and conditions, then finalizing contracts etc. [4]

‒02:00PM – Meeting with the Department of Human Resources.

Meeting agenda: Report on new personnel changes.

‒03:30PM – Meeting with the Planning Department.

Meeting agenda: Discussing and decision-making regarding Qifengtai development project.

Qiao Yang: ？？？ Read this novel only on Foxaholic

What is this all about ah!

He was so intent on coming to the company to see Qiao Zhen that he forgot the original owner’s position was the Head Supervisor of Qiao Est.’s Planning Department.

And he, on the other hand, was only a music major student who dropped out half-way of university‒an ordinary person who passed a few years of his life relying on the family’s bar.

At the moment, he had to manage nearly a thousand employees at Qiao Group’s planning department, attending high-level meetings to give speeches, and conducting business negotiations with the vice president of other companies?

How was he supposed to deal with that?

Qiao Yang was secretly apprehensive.

Liu Wen also handed him another information report.

“Furthermore, these are the speech manuscripts and documents you’ll be using at the nine o’clock Board of Directors meeting. You look it over, do you still have any questions?”

‘Board of Directors meetings’ 一 sounds so awesome.

Qiao Yang took it bitterly; however, his complexion immediately changed after a few glances.

This was a speech manuscript to remove the Vice President of Qiao Est. 一 Qiao Zhen.

No wonder Liu Wen said he had a tough battle to fight. It turned out to be a battle with big brother.

Qiao Yang remembered this part of the plot in the novel very distinctly.

Qiao Zhen 一 the original owner’s elder brother, the eldest son of the Qiao family.

He was perspicacious, competent, experienced and assertive.

He was publicly acknowledged as the crown prince of Qiao Est., the future successor.

The original owner was very envious of his big brother’s position and tried ‘a thousand and hundred ways’[5] to force him to resign.

He spent nearly half a year collecting and even falsifying market data to prove Qiao Zhen’s flawed decision-making and mismanagement.

And with these data in today’s board meeting, he passionately criticized Qiao Zhen for his dereliction of duty and fault as a vice president.

Staging a brilliant and realistic rich family version of ‘Why so urgent to fry each other(?)’[6]

The data attacking Qiao Zhen was obtained by the original owner through an analytical method. Coupled with the eloquence of his speech, he even persuaded several members of the Board of Directors. Read this novel only on Foxaholic

Although the main operating management right of Qiao’s group was in the hands of Qiao’s family, the board of directors still had several factions of power strife.

So according to the novel’s plot, after today’s meeting ended, the Board of Directors issued a decision: temporarily remove Qiao Zhen from his duty as the vice president.

This result was equivalent to cutting off one of the arms of the Qiao family’s right to control Qiao Est.. Greatly weakened Qiao family’s position in Qiao Est..

No wonder Qiao Zhen was so mean to him last night, if he had such a stupid and poisonous youngher brother, he would have strangled him to death long ago.

Qiao Yang snorted, “We are not using this today.”

He lowered his head, turned on the paper shredder, then he shoved in the information in his hand. The machine made the hissing sound as it started to shred the papers.

Liu Wen looked at him in astonishment, “Qiao-, Young Master Qiao, you- this is…… this is the result of your preparation for several months ah.”

Qiao Yang lifted his gaze and asked him, “If Qiao Zhen steps down, then can I become the vice president?”