But just as they were discussing, the office door suddenly knocked. Ye Yingcai was taken aback. Did Zhuang Chengren arrive so soon? He wasn’t prepared yet.
Then a middle-aged man walked in and flattered Ye Yingcai, “Mr. Ye, please take a look at my project. Shouldn’t it be approved? Mr. Zhuang agreed to it before.”
Ye Yingcai frowned, “Alright, I approve your project. Now please leave, I have other matters to attend to.”
He didn’t want Zhuang Chengren to have any contact with the shareholders here. To him, these things were small matters.
The shareholder was stunned. He didn’t expect Ye Yingcai to agree so easily. He had just submitted the proposal an hour ago. It was a large investment involving several billion yuan, even for a wealthy family like Ye’s, they would need to be cautious.
As for the earlier claim that Zhuang Hongcai had already given approval, it was completely groundless. Anyway, Zhuang Hongcai had already passed away, and there was no one to verify. He could say whatever he wanted.
“Mr. Ye is truly talented and ambitious. Your courage is much stronger than our former CEO, Mr. Zhuang.”
Ye Yingcai was flattered by the praise, but it was not the time for such compliments. If this person ran into Zhuang Chengren, the situation could turn into chaos.
Suddenly, the office door was pushed open.
“Mr. Song, I don’t remember when you submitted a proposal to my father, and as an outsider, what makes you think you can use my family’s company funds?” Zhuang Chengren and Allen walked in at this moment, with an unfriendly tone.
It was understandable that Zhuang Chengren would be unhappy to hear that his enemy could freely access his family’s funds.
The person referred to as Mr. Song was astonished, “Zhuang, I heard you died, how could you be here?”
There were a few insiders in Zhuang Hongcai’s company, but Mr. Song clearly wasn’t one of them. When he saw Zhuang Chengren, he could hardly believe his own eyes.
Zhuang Chengren snorted coldly at Mr. Song’s words and ignored him, walking straight to Ye Yingcai, “This is my father’s company, so get out.”
Ye Yingcai also sneered, “My uncle, aunt and cousin are all dead, as well as my poor nephew who was only twenty years old. You’re pretending to be him, but don’t think a cosmetic surgery can fool me.”
Seeing the puzzled expression on Mr. Song’s face, Ye Yingcai felt uneasy and forced himself to remain calm, “I… how would I know? My nephew is dead, and I personally buried him. Get out of here, you impostor.”
Zhuang Chengren nonchalantly sat down on the nearby couch, “Ye Yingcai, even if I am an impostor, you have no right to inherit this company. After all, my father left behind a will, stating that after his death, he would give me only one billion and donate the rest of the wealth to society. Do you want me to show it to you?”
He wasn’t making it up, and Zhuang Hongcai had always believed that Zhuang Chengren wasn’t suited for business. This large family fortune would eventually be squandered by him, so he’d better leave enough wealth to let Zhuang Chengren live as a wealthy man.
But later, he saw Zhuang Chengren change, and so he didn’t bring up the will again.
Zhuang Chengren used to hate this will, as he was still young and couldn’t understand Zhuang Hongcai’s intentions. But now…
As Ye Yingcai glanced at Zhuang Chengren on the couch, he was startled. He really didn’t know about the will.
“It’s impossible, it’s all fake. Get out of here, or I’ll call security.”
The most important thing now was to drive Zhuang Chengren away. If he really pulled out the will in front of everyone, then all the work he had done to sabotage Zhuang Chengren would have been wasted.
He had even planned it out, waiting for Zhuang Chengren to leave so he could approach his uncle and get rid of this little bastard once and for all. That would be true safety.
Allen knew it was his time to intervene.
“Ye Yingcai, I want to ask, even if Zhuang Hongcai is an impostor, what right do you have to inherit this company?”
Upon hearing Allen’s question, Ye Yingcai felt relieved. Compared to Zhuang Chengren’s words, he was more willing to face Allen’s question.
“This company belongs to my uncle. They don’t have any relatives on their side, so it’s natural for me to inherit it.”
It was because of this very reason that they killed Zhuang Hongcai in the first place. After all, the company was jointly owned by the husband and wife, and Zhuang Hongcai didn’t have any relatives to inherit it, so naturally it would go to the Ye family.
Allen smiled, “But I remember at Ye Lao’s birthday banquet, you all denied Zhuang Hongcai as your daughter’s husband and Zhuang Hongcai himself in front of everyone. Have you forgotten?”
Of course, Ye Yingcai couldn’t forget such a thing. But what could he do about it?
“We are family, what my grandfather said back then was just his anger. Shortly after, we reconciled and my grandfather accepted them again. It’s normal for an outsider like you not to know about this kind of thing,” Ye Yingcai explained, trying to justify their actions.
As Allen listened to Ye Yingcai’s excuses, he was taken aback. He didn’t expect that a prominent family from the provincial capital would stoop to such lows and say such things.
At that moment, the previously ignored shareholder, Song, spoke up.
“Who do you think you are? One imposter pretending to be Zhuang Shao and an outsider. What right do you have to meddle in our affairs? I think the deaths of the Zhuang family are related to you. You killed the whole family and then found someone to pretend to be Zhuang Shao. Hmph!”
His words stunned everyone, but the most surprised person was Ye Yingcai. He didn’t expect that Song, who appeared to be unremarkable, would say such things. He felt inferior as he realized that even he couldn’t pull off something like that.
However, Song didn’t really think that way. When he saw Zhuang Chengren, he had already recognized him.
After all, Zhuang Chengren had been working in the company, so he naturally recognized the young master. But what difference did it make?
Zhuang Hongcai was already dead, and no one could prove Zhuang Chengren’s identity. The main reason he spoke like this was that Ye Yingcai had just approved his plan, which had a lot of profit potential that could increase his assets by more than 100 million.
Therefore, he was willing to say what Ye Yingcai wanted to hear.