A bunch of red roses was placed before Mrs. Su's grave. Ou Yunchen and Sister Hong came to visit the unfortunate woman together.
Sister Hong: "You should show more concern for Su Ruiyi."
Ou Yunchen: "She won't even come out of her room and refuses to see anyone."
Sister Hong: "Not even you?"
Ou Yunchen: "Mm, after a difficult meeting, she said I've become the person she hates the most, oh, right after Xu Shuming."
Sister Hong: "Why?"
Ou Yunchen: "Probably because she thinks I've colluded with Xu Shuming."
Sister Hong: "Why didn't you explain that you've been investigating the cause of Mrs. Su's death behind the scenes?"
Ou Yunchen: "The best way to get revenge on Xu Shuming is to help Mrs. Su completely eliminate Xu Shuming's people from the Su Corporation, and then drive Xu Shuming out of the Su Corporation, rather than just talking about things that can't prove his guilt."
Sister Hong: "That's true. Yiyi is just too grief-stricken. You can't take her angry words to heart."
Ou Yunchen: "How could I argue with her? She's still my nominal girlfriend."
Sister Hong smiled, then folded the rag she used to clean the tombstone and put it back in place.
Sister Hong: "My old classmate, can you hear that? You have to rely on your future son-in-law for revenge."
Ou Yunchen lit three sticks of incense and placed them in the censer. He then lit three cigarettes and sprinkled wine on the ground.
However, a gust of wind swept by, and all three cigarettes fell to the ground.
Sister Hong: "She doesn't smoke."
Ou Yunchen also smiled, then extinguished the cigarettes.
Sister Hong: "I didn't expect it to be 49 days so soon."
Ou Yunchen: "Is there any significance to that?"
Sister Hong: "It's the last day the soul lingers in the human world. After midnight tonight, it will completely leave."
Ou Yunchen: "No wonder."
Sister Hong: "What?"
Ou Yunchen: "She kicked all the cigarettes onto the ground."
Sister Hong and Ou Yunchen exchanged a smile. They took one last look at Mrs. Su's tombstone, as if it were all just yesterday.
***
Crystal lived up to expectations and provided Ou Yunchen with very important information.
Crystal: "Although Yang Dawu is Xu Shuming's relative, he only holds a senior management position and actually has no voting rights."
Ou Yunchen: "How many independent directors does Su Corporation have in total?"
Crystal: "52."
Ou Yunchen frowned.
Ou Yunchen: "So many?"
Crystal: "As far as I know, more than half of them are paid to do nothing and don't understand the business at all."
Ou Yunchen: "Are they Xu Shuming's people?"
Crystal: "More or less. Some are just family members given nominal positions due to business dealings, and they all listen to Xu Shuming when it comes to voting."
Ou Yunchen smiled. The existence of independent directors was originally meant to protect small shareholders in listed companies, allowing them to have a voice.
But with how Su Corporation handled it, it not only failed to help small shareholders but instead turned them into Xu Shuming's pawns.
Crystal: "However, it's not impossible to deal with them. Because these people change frequently, some only serve for a year, take their annual dividends, and consider it repayment of debt."
Ou Yunchen: "So, if the person changes, Xu Shuming doesn't know?"
Crystal: "Xu Shuming doesn't bother with these things. Yang Dawu handles it. Although he doesn't understand finance, he's very professional when it comes to drinking, entertaining guests, and embezzling public funds."
Ou Yunchen continued to learn about Yang Dawu from Crystal and seemed to have found a potential weakness.
That is, Yang Dawu is not afraid of Xu Shuming!
Even if he shows Xu Shuming respect in the company and acts like a subordinate, when he gets home, he always brings up how he took care of Xu Shuming's mother back in the day, which makes his whole family dote on him.
Therefore, no matter how much money Yang Dawu took from the company, Xu Shuming had to turn a blind eye and even find ways to clean up his mess.
Crystal: "Perhaps you can approach Yang Dawu's wife."
Ou Yunchen was stunned for a moment.
Crystal: "Don't misunderstand. I know Yang Dawu is actually very obedient to his wife, but Yang Dawu's wife often looks down on him."
Ou Yunchen: "What do you mean?"
Crystal: "Don't let Yang Dawu's position in the company and the money he makes fool you. He's a crude man from the countryside at heart."
"And Yang Dawu's wife is a proper city girl. If it weren't for Yang Dawu's relationship with Xu Shuming, she probably wouldn't have married him."
Crystal: "Oh, right. When I was at the company, his wife even came to make a scene."
Ou Yunchen: "Why?"
Crystal: "Who knows? Maybe she suspected Yang Dawu was always out drinking and didn't come home, and that he wasn't earning as much as Xu Shuming."
Ou Yunchen understood. Yang Dawu's wife must have constantly compared him to Xu Shuming at home. Xu Shuming, on the other hand, acts like a decent person at home. So, Yang Dawu's wife definitely looks down on her husband.
Since Yang Dawu's wife dislikes him for earning less, Yang Dawu must find ways to get more money from the company!
As long as his wife makes a fuss and urgently demands money, Yang Dawu will have to resort to crooked means!
That's exactly what we want. We'll use this opportunity to change the independent directors of the company!