Supreme Heir Son-in-law

"Old President, you don’t know. Lately the whole company has been made miserable by Director Zhang from Finance. In just these two days alone, 30 employees have resigned one after another. And that’s only what I’ve just found out; I don’t even know how many more will resign today."

Xu Group has always been a huge listed company, and just here in the capital their branches are already countless.

Not to mention in other places—their branches have practically spread all over the country.

For such a giant, once Headquarters falls into crisis, it will affect any subsidiary under its umbrella.

After listening to Director Li’s report, Old Master Xu’s brows immediately furrowed.

As the old president of the company, he naturally knew what 30 resigning employees meant.

For a company, people leaving and joining is normal, but when so many employees resign one after another over just two days, that’s very off.

Coupled with Director Li and the old employees coming to complain to him, it showed that there was definitely something seriously wrong.

Now Old Master Xu didn’t even need to guess to know that it had to be that Finance Director Zhang playing tricks.

"Xiao Li, it really hasn’t been easy for you these days. Don’t worry, my coming this time is precisely to straighten this out. I will definitely give you all an explanation. I will absolutely not let the company fall into the hands of people like that."

At this moment, Xu Ke suddenly noticed Bai Lan.

Xu Ke had a very deep impression of this girl.

Murong Hai had mentioned her to him more than once and had even shown him photos of the two of them together.

"You must be Bai Lan, right? I’ve heard Murong Hai mention you often."

Xu Ke’s words left Bai Lan a bit at a loss. She hadn’t expected at all that Murong Hai would be connected to this Young President standing before her.

Seeing Bai Lan’s flustered look, Xu Ke knew she’d misunderstood him.

"No need to worry. Murong Hai and I are brothers. If you run into anything in the company, you can come straight to me."

Xu Ke’s words made things very clear, and Bai Lan’s suspended heart instantly settled.

"So that’s how it is. I have to thank you, Young President. Murong Hai and I only just got together, but I already feel he’s a particularly reliable person."

Bai Lan’s words made Xu Ke chuckle inwardly. Although he and Murong had only been sworn brothers for a few days, he already felt he understood Murong very well.

For someone as inarticulate as him to come to the company and immediately hit it off with Bai Lan—looks like the two of them really are fated. It seemed he’d been right to have him come to the company back then.

After they got a rough sense of things from the Design Department, Old Master Xu and Xu Ke turned and headed to HR.

Just now they’d heard from Director Li that HR’s resignation rate had been especially high recently, so they chose it as their second stop.

When they arrived at HR, the first thing Xu Ke saw was an empty office.

In his impression, even if HR was a small department, it shouldn’t be down to so few employees.

As soon as Old Master Xu walked in, he saw Director Xiao of HR sitting there by himself, sighing.

"Old Xiao, what on earth has happened that you’re sitting here sighing like this?"

Director Xiao, who’d been sighing alone, immediately raised his head when he heard Old Master Xu’s voice.

When he saw Old Master Xu, he could hardly believe his eyes.

"Old President, you’ve finally come! You have no idea how serious things have gotten in the company lately. If this goes on, I won’t be able to hold out much longer."

Seeing how pained Director Xiao looked, even Xu Ke, standing off to the side, found it hard to watch.

The company’s situation was even worse than he’d imagined—Director Zhang really had reached the point where he could call all the shots.

"Old Xiao, I already know the general situation. Tell me what your department has specifically found out."

President Xiao glanced back at the empty HR office and let out a helpless sigh.

"Old President, you can see for yourself—there are hardly any people left in my HR Department. These days a lot of people have been coming in one after another to submit resignations. And the reasons they give are all exactly the same; it looks like something premeditated. But I couldn’t find any obvious problem, so I could only let them go. Then yesterday a big wave of people suddenly came over to hand in their resignations, and that’s when I realized it was all that Finance Director Zhang’s doing. That bastard Zhang San cooked up some kind of bidding scheme and has turned everyone in the company into neither man nor ghost. It was never like this when you were around, but the moment you left, he went and stuck his tail up to the sky."

After hearing President Xiao’s words, Xu Ke had basically pieced it together.

It seemed things were pretty much as they had suspected—Director Zhang was indeed running the show in the company now.

And most of the senior management were all seething but afraid to speak out, because behind Director Zhang stood the major shareholder Wang Lishan.

"Director Xiao, don’t get worked up just yet. I came this time precisely to deal with this matter. From now on, I’m the new president of the company. Please have faith in my abilities, and believe that under my leadership the company will only get better. I’ll be relying on veterans like you in the future, so I must ask for your full support."

Only then did Director Xiao notice Xu Ke standing beside Old Master Xu.

Director Xiao wasn’t stupid. Once he heard what Xu Ke said, he immediately understood that this must be Old Master Xu’s grandson.

He’d long heard that Old Master Xu was stepping down and planned to pass the president’s seat to his grandson.

But up to now it had only been rumor; he’d never met the man himself. Today, seeing him with his own eyes, the rumors were confirmed.

When Xu Ke first came to the company, he’d only met with the shareholders.

As for the company’s management, he basically didn’t know anyone yet.

It was only now that Xu Ke learned Director Zhang’s full name was Zhang San. Clearly this old fox had been hiding himself quite well.

"President, hello! I’m Xiao Yang from HR. From now on I’ll fully cooperate with your work and will do everything I can to help the company reach new heights."

Director Xiao expressed his stance on the spot—this was the best time to show where he stood.

After so many years as a director, he’d long since mastered the art of reading people and situations.

Xu Ke was fairly satisfied with Director Xiao’s attitude.

Although you can’t truly know a person from such a brief interaction, at the very least his posture and the respect he showed Old Master Xu proved that he still held the company in his heart.

For people who genuinely cared about the company, Xu Ke had always held a particular appreciation.

"No need to be so polite; from now on we’re all one family. If any problems come up, you can come directly to me. In a bit I’ll be convening a high-level management meeting—about half an hour from now, you can just head to the conference room." After saying this, Xu Ke and Old Master Xu headed off to the next department.