Supreme Heir Son-in-law

Chapter 1266 - 1265: Taking On Everyone—Even the Reporters

The reporter’s question was already loaded with emotion, and everyone turned to look at Xu Ke with anticipation. Even the Finance Department Director at this moment could only cast his gaze on Xu Ke, but Xu Ke’s reaction ended up disappointing him.

"Since everyone knows he’s been in Xiao Group for so many years, Xiao Group must have treated him pretty well. So why did he still do something like this? He’s let down the trust Xiao Group placed in him. Do you think someone like that can stay in Xiao Group?"

When the reporter heard this, he was instantly choked. He’d only meant to toss a question at Xu Ke, but hadn’t expected Xu Ke to just throw it straight back at him, and he didn’t have any suitable words to refute it.

The reporter could only pull out a smile uglier than crying. "But Mr. Xu Ke, this isn’t my company. I have even less say in it, that’s exactly why I came to ask you. I really can’t answer that question."

"And this isn’t even our company’s business, so it’s even less my place to interfere."

After the reporter finished, Xu Ke glanced at him. "Since you can’t manage it, why are you sticking your nose into other people’s business? I think you just don’t have enough to do, that’s why you’re this free."

The reporter suddenly... in all his seven or eight years on the job, he’d never been dragged like this by anyone. But helplessly, he couldn’t snap back.

Everyone else was stunned too. They hadn’t expected Xu Ke to play completely off-script. Even if others didn’t like the reporter’s tone, they would still endure it, because this reporter was the legendary "poison tongue" of the circle—anyone who dared provoke him would never meet a good end, and might get randomly exposed by him in the news. But Xu Ke just wasn’t like other people.

The other reporters, seeing Xu Ke like this, didn’t dare step forward anymore, afraid they’d get roasted by Xu Ke on the spot.

At this moment Zhang Shuai couldn’t care about anything else. He hurriedly knelt in front of Xu Ke and grabbed Xu Ke’s trouser leg. "President, I’m begging you, please give me another chance. I will definitely cherish it this time. You’ve seen it yourself, this really isn’t my fault. My old mother at home is uneducated, that’s why she did such a stupid thing."

When she heard her son say this, although the old lady beside him was sad, the most important thing now was to keep her son’s job, so the old lady also knelt down.

With snot and tears flowing, she said, "Just take pity on me, I’m already in my seventies or eighties, forgive my son, all right? I’m begging you."

The onlookers—who among them wasn’t moved? They even felt Xu Ke was going too far at this point. The old lady was already on her knees, and everyone says you should respect the elderly. Xu Ke couldn’t be this heartless, could he?

"Yeah, that old lady is old enough to be his grandma, already half a foot in the coffin, how can he have not even a shred of sympathy? If it were me, I definitely wouldn’t even ask for that two million back."

"Exactly, a big company like that, isn’t it just two million? Besides, the Finance Department Director has worked there for so many years—if they can’t even tolerate two million, this company is really stingy. And that old lady looks pitiful as hell to me."

Even the employees currently working at Xiao Group’s branch couldn’t stand watching anymore.

"The president is being way too ruthless. Sure, the Finance Department Director made a mistake, but it’s not to the point of taking his job away and letting his mother be humiliated like this."

Xu Ke let out a cold laugh when he heard all this, looking at this group of people playing "Saint Mary."

"You’re saying we should let him off, right? Then do you know that the salaries of the basic-level employees in Xiao Group’s branch still haven’t been paid, all because of the Finance Department Director? If even you employees think he should be forgiven, that’s fine. Your wages will just keep being delayed, and we’ll use your salaries to show him sympathy, how about that?"

After hearing Xu Ke’s words, everyone instantly fell silent. Even the grassroots employees of Xiao Group’s branch lowered their heads one by one. They sure didn’t want their wages withheld; they’d only hoped the company would be magnanimous. But they hadn’t expected it to involve their own pay. The outsiders who heard this were all stunned as well.

"Right now you think you’re saving a family, but have you ever thought that the grassroots employees also desperately need that money to support their families? Because of this money, how many grassroots employees are constantly worried about household expenses, some even waiting on that money to save a life? His family are people, but other people’s families aren’t?"

After hearing Xu Ke’s words, everyone fell silent. True, the grassroots employees also have to live. Who has the bandwidth to sympathize with others? And besides, wasn’t all of this caused by the Finance Department Director in the first place?

The Finance Department Director at this moment opened his mouth after hearing that, but couldn’t find a single word to refute.

Because he knew that no matter how he argued now, he couldn’t come up with any excuse to exonerate himself.

The old lady kneeling on the ground was truly anxious now. She couldn’t let everyone side with this president, or she’d have to cough up that huge amount of money.

"I’ve got high blood pressure, I’ve got heart disease, I’ve even got cancer. What am I supposed to do? Are you really going to just stand there and watch me die?"

Xu Ke gave a cold snort. This old lady sure knew how to put on a show, but his place wasn’t a charity.

Xu Ke bent down slightly, staring at the old lady’s evasive eyes, and enunciated each word: "Since you have all these illnesses, maybe think about whether you’ve done guilty things in your life. Do too many bad deeds and Heaven will come collect you."

Everyone: "..."

Why did it feel like even if they had ten million mouths, they still couldn’t outtalk Xu Ke?

The old lady’s mouth was practically twisted with rage at this point. She hadn’t expected a young man to dare talk to her like that, but she couldn’t fight back. She just twitched her lips in anger and then fainted on the spot. Zhang Shuai, seeing his mother pass out, hurriedly held her in his arms and glared fiercely at Xu Ke.

"Sure, I do owe the company money, but you didn’t have to go this far and make my mom faint from anger. If anything happens to my mother, you’re going to have to take responsibility."

Xu Ke took one look at Zhang Shuai and let out a cold laugh. "You want me to take responsibility? Let me make this clear first: you’re the one who brought your mother into the company. The company is a workplace, not a place for your mother to throw tantrums. We don’t play the emotional card here. As the Finance Department Director, you should know that better than anyone."

After speaking, Xu Ke took the lead and went inside. The crowd, seeing that the show was over, finally dispersed one by one. Those reporters holding cameras had originally planned to write Xu Ke up as worse than a beast.

But after seeing Xu Ke’s "cussing out the sky, the earth, and the air itself" aura, they were all scared off. Who would dare write that piece now? If they did, Xu Ke might drag them so hard they’d lose their careers.

At this moment, Zhu Ya glanced at the mother and son on the ground and revealed a smile. It seemed she’d really picked the right place to come job-hunting.