Chapter 147 - A Piece of Unexpected Fortune (2/2)

“Hello, you two.” In a surprise, Hao Ning and Liu Shuai hadn’t uttered a word when Nezha took their hands and winked at them. Thus, Hao Ning and Liu Shuai reserved their words.

“This is President Hai, Hai Shenglong from Qihe Group. And this is Manager Wen, Wen Zhixin.” The CEO lost no time in his presentation, and his face still wreathed in a smile.

“President Hai? Manager Wen?” Hao Ning beamed at the CEO, “And… Qihe Group?”

“Oh, you see, I’m overexcited.” CEO made a gesture to invite everyone to have a seat and made them the tea he had been proud of, “Qihe Group is a group well-known across the country. Eh — Manager Wen, if you’d like to bother with another brief introduction?”

“Okay.” Manager Wen seemed quite professional. He somehow tidied his suit and said in a smile, “Our Qihe Group is originally a group of mining. Now our businesses of operations of the mineral vein, mineral production and distribution scan different countries around the world — Certainly, under our Qihe Group, we have subsidiaries exclusively for speculation. The President Hai here is in charge of the global speculation activities in the south of China. You’re the first Internet project we’ve ever invested, meanwhile the first corporation and team we’ve ever held a positive view on.”

“Erm, erm, well, thanks.” Hao Ning didn’t know how to pick up Manager Wen’s words watching him speak a surge of words in a passion of self-introduction. He glimpsed at the CEO and saw his awkward smile. Liu Shuai, who had never been subjected to such a situation, imitated a similar stiff smile, not knowing what to say.

Hao Ning had heard before that the company he worked with was looking for investment. It was nothing but normal for Internet companies nowadays to search for the fund. But what confused Hao Ning was that why such affairs concerning corporate investment would need such two ordinary employees as he and Liu Shuai here to listen to the presentation? In the first place, he wasn’t a member of the board. In the second place, he was not in the initiative team, either. There was no way that he should be involved in all these things. Thinking about that, he couldn’t help with his bewildered eyesight towards the CEO.

“Well, Erm, the point is that,” the CEO, who was also conscious of the weird situation, pushed forward the explanation, “Qihe Group invests us with a specific request that we develop another software system independent of our own operation. When President Hai proposed such a request, the most advisable people occurred in my mind for such a task was you two…”

Then Manager Wen smiled promptly and said, “Exactly. The project here is run by our President Hai himself. We’re surely in need of further communication later on. President Hai spares his time from his full schedule to attend to the project particularly. I do admire him as a subordinate. Hahaha.”

That was it! Hao Ning, peering at Nezha, thought that he had got himself a meaningful name: Hai Shenglong, which meant beating the dragon in the ocean. The guy here had once messed up the ocean, even stripped the tendon of the dragon. He was virtually a “Beating the Dragon in the Ocean”. Fancy Nezha took great pains in coming up with such an idea to approach him, Liu Shuai and their other mates. Hao Ning was conquered.

Hao Ning got anxious at that thought. Nezha took him as Master Hongjun for no particular reason. Hao Ning presumed that Nezha was just an insignificant little boy, while no one supposed that he was in charge of the speculation business of such a huge company in reality and offered investment to their company at such an ease. Hao Ning thought that he couldn’t slip through this time. If Nezha knew that he was a fraud who couldn’t even cultivate any spells, heaven knew how mad Nezha would be. And if Nezha withdrew the investment at his temper, the CEO would surely blame everything on him. Then not only would he lose his job, but also his reputation in the field would get stained. Therefore…

Having experienced so much, Hao Ning’s thought got more and more complex. Having taken so many factors into account, then he got to realize that it wasn’t a one-time meeting. It was a deep trap! But at the moment, appointed by the investor and called by the CEO, he felt like he was riding a tiger and could dismount easily. No wonder such a great spirit as Avalokitesvara also tried to avoid causalities as much as possible. Who could foresee that after he had fainted, Liu Shuai’s momentary flip would bring about so many troubles?

Reaching that thought, Hao Ning’s whole face changed, and he glared at Liu Shuai sharply. His mind was steeped with a grudge against the bald programmer who poked his nose into everything. Liu Shuai, though had undergone an improvement of emotional quotient recently, failed to consider as much as Hao Ning did. All in his head was the possibility of a pay rise and more pretty new clothes for Wen after that. He got a glare from Hao Ning for no reason and felt confused.

Nezha kept silent in his grin. He noticed the sudden change on Hao Ning’s face and nimbly glanced at Manager Wen. Manager Wen, who was a good face-reader, got it instantly and said to the CEO, “We can tell at the first sight that the two elites here are quite rare. Thus, as for the amount of investment we discussed just now, based on the fact of no changes in shares, we will augment the sum from 20 million dollars to 40 million dollars!”

40 million dollars? Hearing that, Hao Ning was about to faint. How much was that if converted to RMB? One day if Nezha got mad and withdrew his fund, Hao Ning thought the CEO would surely wring his head off his body. Hao Ning felt like quitting his job as the conversation went so far. He’d rather look for a new job now than give away later and carry the can. At that thought, he felt more upset and his whole face was down and grey.

“Sorry, I made a mistake.” Manager Wen was about to cry. What the hell was it? The task President Hai assigned to him was that he had to get the company at any expense and the two here were supposed to be the heads of the project. Thinking about that, he made up his mind. Anyway, it wasn’t his money, and President Hai would take all the blame, “I mean, 50 million dollars!”

“50 million! Dollars!” The CEO’s eyes got blank in astonishment. He’d been drifting his company and there hadn’t been an investor in the past half-year. But today an investment of millions of yuan came to his door with such a tiny demand in shares. That wasn’t an investment. That was literally Sudhana! He had to take it anyway. But what happened to Hao Ning? His face looked so down. The CEO reconsidered it and said to Hao Ning with a grin, “Hao Ning, take it easy. As far as you get done with the project, no, as far as you undertake the project, you’ll get a threefold pay rise and be promoted to general managers of the project. And in addition, you will be offered with an option of the company!”