To spare himself from feeling more nauseous, Alvin chose to ignore Fanny and spoke loudly to Bruno, “Bruno, there are only two paths before you now. Either reinstate Sophia as the general manager, and the agency cooperation continues, or terminate the partnership! If you’re a smart person, you should know how to choose. Goodbye!”
After Alvin spoke, he turned and left.
Bruno felt extremely dizzy, as if a small boat in the vast sea had capsized in a raging storm, battered and torn by enormous waves.
Alvin’s arrival and departure once again caused an uproar among the Henley family members in the meeting room.
“What the hell is going on today? First, it’s the credit manager from Hengfeng Bank, and then the factory manager of Herbal Magic Cosmetics. It feels like they deliberately came to cause trouble!”
“I think this matter should not be a coincidence. Whether it’s Hengfeng Bank or Herbal Magic Cosmetics factory, both are related to that useless Leo. Do you think today’s events might have been orchestrated by Leo?”
“Regardless of whether it’s Leo’s plan or not, it seems that Sophia’s position as the general manager cannot be touched. If Herbal Magic Cosmetics terminates the partnership, we won’t be able to repay the one billion loans with the other subsidiaries.”
“It’s fortunate that Sophia’s position is only temporarily suspended, not directly dismissed. As long as Sophia resumes her duties normally, Herbal Magic Cosmetics factory should continue to cooperate.”
“It’s easy to say, but last time at the family meeting, the way we treated Sophia… do you think she’ll resume her duties normally?”
“Why wouldn’t she? Sophia Cosmetics is her creation, her hard work. I don’t believe she would willingly give it up!”
“Slap!”
Bruno slammed his hand hard on the meeting table. The heated debate among the Henley family members suddenly stopped, and the entire meeting room fell silent.
“Shut up, all of you!” Bruno roared, “I called you here for a meeting to solve problems, not to listen to your idle chatter!”
The Henley family members looked at each other. It was the first time they had seen Bruno lose his temper like this, and for a moment, they dared not even take a breath.
“Bruno, calm down. You are now the helmsman of both the Henley family and the Henley’s Corp. In the face of storms, we can only rely on you to navigate us through.”
Fanny, thinking she had a good relationship with Bruno, plucked up the courage to say what she thought was flattering.
Bruno’s mood was already extremely irritable, and Fanny’s words further stimulated his sensitive nerves. He directly shouted at Fanny, “Helmsman my ass, Fanny! Since you took over the management of Breeze Cosmetics, it has been losing money every quarter. If you can’t turn the losses into profits by the end of the year, you won’t have a job next year!”
“Adjourn the meeting!” Bruno slammed the table again and left the meeting room in anger.
Although Fanny felt wronged after being scolded, she still followed Bruno out.
“Bruno, I admit that I didn’t do well with Breeze Cosmetics. You can scold me for that. But today’s matter concerns the life and death of the Henley’s Corp. You must stabilize the situation.”
“I carefully thought about it. Logan and Alvin’s appearances are definitely related to that deadbeat Leo and Sophia. Maybe the two of them are scheming behind the scenes!”
Based on the principle that everything could be shifted onto Leo, Fanny expressed her thoughts.
Bruno walked into the living room in a gloomy mood, plopped down on the sofa, took out a cigarette, lit it, took a deep drag, and exhaled a thick plume of smoke.
After three consecutive puffs, Bruno glanced at Fanny and said, “If it’s Leo and Sophia causing trouble behind the scenes, then come up with a solution.”
Fanny had already figured out a plan in her mind and replied, “Bruno, to achieve great things, you must first learn to bend. You’ve just become the chairman of the group and the helmsman of the Henley family. Before the foundation is solid, you might consider compromising with Sophia.”
“Compromise?” Bruno’s eyes widened, showing signs of losing his temper again.
Fanny hurriedly said, “Bruno, it’s a strategic compromise, a temporary concession. Just now in the meeting room, you heard Alvin’s words. For some reason, he has sided with Sophia.”
“If that’s the case, you might as well reinstate Sophia as the general manager. Once we get through the current crisis, we can slowly deal with Sophia and her useless freeloading husband.”
Bruno took another deep drag of the cigarette, calming down. He found Fanny’s words not entirely unreasonable.
Compromising was indeed an unavoidable solution.
“That scheming woman Sophia, I’ll make her leave the family with her freeloading husband sooner or later!” Bruno cursed fiercely, extinguishing the remaining half of his cigarette in the ashtray.
On the other side, as Leo took Sophia to Karen’s residence, intending to go to the airport together to pick up Amaya, Karen called.
“Karen, I’m on my way to your place. Get ready; we’ll go to the airport together to pick up Amaya,” Sophia said first.
Karen on the other end of the phone first exclaimed, “Ah,” then quickly said, “You’re too fast. I was just about to call you. Due to a ticket change, Amaya has arrived early in Langstel. Amaya asked me to tell you that we’ll meet at the big fountain in Park 1913.”
“Okay, we won’t come to pick you up. We’ll meet directly at Park 1913 later,” Sophia said, signaling Leo to change direction.
“We…” Karen on the other end paused for a moment, “Did you bring Leo with you?”
“Yes, any problem?” Sophia asked, puzzled.
“Hey, we’re having a girlfriend gathering. You brought a man as a third wheel. Aren’t you afraid Leo will feel awkward?” Karen teased.
Sophia stole a glance at Leo and replied, “What’s the problem? Leo said he enjoys being a third wheel.”
“Haha, in that case, see you later. Bye…” Karen hung up the phone.
“Leo.”
“Yeah?”
“Will you feel awkward later?”
“With a beauty around, not at all.”
Leo’s mischievous smile turned into a painful yelp as Sophia’s hand reached over.
Half an hour later, the two arrived at Park 1913. After parking the car in the parking lot, Leo and Sophia walked hand in hand into the elevator, heading straight to the third floor.