As soon as the secretary left the office, Aleigha smiled. "Just look at these people Adrian surrounded himself with, a pack of vultures, even the secretary''s no exception." "I''ve done everything I can do. Aleigha, time to talk about what I''m interested in."


    "I kindly handed Corbin over to you, but you, on the other hand, put her in in the blink of an eye.


    "Now, why don''t you enlighten me how this is gonna go down, ah?"


    "How this is going down? The fact that you being in cahoots with that sneaky old b*stard?"


    "Don''t make more trouble than neither you nor I need, alright? Suing you for bribing a government official could happen in a second for me and you know it''s true, Jaidyn, okay?"


    Jaidyn squinted his eyes and gritted his teeth. He waved his hands annoyedly and said with a sigh, "How this world has spiraled down the slope, eh?"


    "Aleigha, you''re no more than a despicable scoundrel, repaying my favor with a knife in my back!" "Whatever you say, Jaidyn, your a*s''s on the line anyway."


    "You got a problem with that?"


    Jaidyn rolled his eyes and said fiercely, "If it weren''t for Adrian, I would''ve made you t on the ground, begging me to spare you!"


    As soon as Jaidyn left, several small shareholders of thepany came, way faster than Aleigha had expected.


    "What have you done to thepany, you little brat, ah?"


    "Liquidate our shares and pay us in cash. We don''t want anything to do with thispany hanging by a thread. Let''s just call it off!"


    Shouting out their demands, the shareholders seemed not to take Aleigha seriously at all."


    "Have you all thought it over? Then you can file your demands to the Financial Department and your shares will cash in soon enough. I won''t be keeping you." There was a faint smile on Aleigha''s face. Not a trace of displeasure could be seen.


    "Aye, of course, we will."


    These shareholders were the ones who invested when thepany was first established, thus their rather small portions of shares.


    Calcted ording to the current stock price, what they put in at the beginning had already inted ten times. It was a definitely profiting deal forthem.


    Aleigha called the ounts to settle the liquidations, after which the shareholders left with about 3 million dors.


    The cash might not mean much to thepany yet it made Aleigha feel quite distressed.


    In the eyes of outsiders, Adrian''spany was nothing but a hollow shell by now.


    After taking back the shares of several small shareholders, Adrian now held 58% of thepany''s shares.


    Aleigha had 10 percent.


    Thepany''s morale was profoundly affected by the series of things taking ce in a mere day.


    In the afternoon, Aleigha suddenly entered thepany with a team.


    She summoned the whole financial department to her office, where she kept them for the whole day.


    No one came out of it, and it was not until ten o''clock in the evening that the finance department director came out dejectedly.


    No one knew what had happened. All they knew was that in just a few days, three directors were fired.


    The news, real or fake, quickly spread throughout the whole City A.


    The news the next day was all about what Aleigha had done. Her little deeds had reached each and every headline in the city.


    Thepany''s various departments each held a press conference yet none of them mentioned a word about the personnel changes.


    What was announced at one of the most crucial conferences was the fact that Aleigha''spany was being merged into Adrian''s business empire.All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org.


    As soon as the news came out, thepany''s stocks increased rapidly, and the shareholders who sold shares regretted and went straight back. Aleigha, on the other hand, kept the door of her office tightly shut and snuck out.


    Three days after Adrian left, the entire City A was in an uproar. Everyone had finally realized how brilliant Aleigha''s business mind was. A new semester began.


    Aleigha went to report early in the morning and met Freddie who was leaving the campus for his internship.


    "Where are you going, reporting for your internship?"


    Freddie shook his head and said with a bitter smile, "How could it be? My grandpa wants me in the army. I''m leaving tonight."


    "For where?"


    "The middle of nowhere, some remote mountain vige, I''m thinking."


    "That''s something, huh? Take care of yourself, alright?"


    Freddie nodded, took out a watch from his pocket, and handed it to Aleigha. "This used to be my mom''s. Take it." "No, you keep it."


    Without saying a word, Freddie stuffed the watch into Aleigha''s hand, turned around, and ran away.


    However, he suddenly stopped after a few steps, looking affectionately at Aleigha, waving his hand.


    "Aleigha, take care of yourself. You''ll be surprised when we meet again."


    "Okay, I''ll wait for you toe back."


    Freddie would never forget Aleigha, who was standing in front of him when he left that day, narrowing her eyes.


    With a faint smile on her face, she was like a spring breeze, gentle and warm to the heart.


    The dorm had been vacant for quite some time ever since Aleigha no longer lived there.


    The whole ss was abnormally enthusiastic about hering back to school.


    As for Phoebe, she seemed to have been expelled and went abroad.


    She had only half a day of sessions and after that, she went back to thepany, only to run into the secretary''s ingratiating smile. "How old are you?"


    Aleigha looked at the secretary who was pouring coffee and suddenly asked.


    "26."


    The secretary was personally hand-picked by Adrian when she just graduated from school.


    Since she had always been obedient and hardworking, she got to maintain that position.


    "How many years have you been by Mr. Xiao''s side?"


    "A little bit over three years now."


    Aleigha looked at her a little bit more pensively and there was a touch of yfulness in her eyes. "Howe Adrian has kept you by his side for so long? He seems to trust you very much, doesn''t he?" NovelDrama.Org


    "What are you trying to say, madam?"


    "Word has it that you are on pretty good terms with Maximo Morris, the CEO of Oseanshade Company Correct me if I''m wrong, but they do run the exact same business as we do, don''t they?"


    "When Adrian released his new productst time, their sales dropped about eighty percent, right?"


    "The wholepany was almost bankrupt before it got right back on its foot."


    "They got quite a few surprisinglyrge contracts from a lot of new partners."


    "Partners who used to be ours and valued our technology very much."


    "It''s rather strange that Adrian never found it curious yet I did."


    The secretary was stunned, and the coffee cup in her hand fell on the stall.


    "What''s with the panic, I''m just saying, okay?"


    "I''m sorry, I''ll have this cleaned up right away."


    Aleigha watched as she ran out of the room in a panic and called the cleaner over. During the whole process, she didn''t show a tinge of gloom on her face.


    What she wanted to do was to probe the secretary''s intentions and since she already knew what the secretary had done, she only was interested how she would choose.


    After waiting for a long time, the secretary still didn''te in, which made her make up her mind.


    By the time she was about to get off work, she called in the secretary."


    "Why don''t you go collect yourst sry and leave?"


    "Miss, you have no right to fire me."


    Aleigha raised her eyebrows and looked at the secretary. "The directors I''ve fired might disagree with you, don''t you think?"