Chapter 945: Chapter 744: Boss Wang’s Approach to Handling Loss of Control (Part 2)

"Fangfang..." Chen Lizhou quietly murmured his wife’s name.

Soon after, those suppressed memories surged back uncontrollably.

The tingling sensation in his fingertips reappeared.

By now, Chen Lizhou understood this state was a precursor to dissociation, a subconscious attempt by his body to protect itself.

"Am I... really this fragile? Just thinking about those past events..."

Chen Lizhou’s mouth curled downward, as if he were speaking to himself or perhaps to someone unknown: "I can’t do it alone. I can’t recall those things by myself..."

He needed Teacher Nan now.

It was just then that a sound came from his office door.

Knock, knock, knock—

There was still no response the first time.

The person outside waited patiently and knocked again.

It wasn’t until the third time that Chen Lizhou snapped back to reality.

"Come in."

"Hello, Director Chen~"

The person poking their head in was not anyone Chen Lizhou expected, but rather an unexpected—

Xia Tian gave Chen Lizhou a perfectly timed shy smile.

"Director Chen, our director sent me to find you."

"Actually, it’s not really our director. It’s the boss." Xia Tian corrected himself, "The boss contacted our director, who then reached out to you, but got no response, so our director instructed me to come find you."

Chen Lizhou was stunned for a moment. He took out his cellphone and realized there were indeed numerous missed calls and messages.

"Did the boss mention what it was about?" Chen Lizhou asked.

"Seems like something really important." Xia Tian whispered, "Besides our director and you, he also contacted the director of HR and the EAP project leader..."

...

Chen Lizhou stood at the doorway of the office, raising his hand.

Before he could knock, there was a loud "bang" followed by a smaller "plop" from the wooden panel.

It sounded like something was thrown at the panel and then bounced to the floor.

Other than that, there were faint roars in the background. But the sound insulation of the panel and walls was too effective, making it impossible to accurately gauge the situation inside from outside.

Chen Lizhou hesitated for a moment, confirming it was indeed Boss Wang’s office.

Why did it sound like there was a fight inside?

Thinking of what the legal department intern said when they found him, Chen Lizhou knew he was already late. After a brief hesitation, he still raised his hand to knock.

Knock, knock, knock—

"Who’s there?!"

"Chen Lizhou."

"...Come in!!"

Upon opening the door, the first thing Chen Lizhou felt was a sharp gaze scraping over him.

It was the look from Boss Wang.

This was expected as he was late.

Having been in the workplace for so long, Chen Lizhou had learned not to let his emotions be swayed by his leader’s mood. Unless the leader really got physical, there’s no need to mind.

As the latecomer, he quickly glanced around the room to assess the situation—there was a cellphone lying less than three steps in front of him, the model looked like the one the boss usually used and its screen was shattered like a spider web.

The loud noise earlier seemed to have been caused by this.

Chen Lizhou ground his foot, feeling some crystalline powder under his shoe. It seemed the boss had exerted a lot of force, he was really angry.

Chen Lizhou then lifted his gaze and began to examine the people in the room. Just like the new intern at the legal department mentioned, there were two men and a woman sitting on the office sofa—a legal director, an HR director, and the EAP project leader.

Adding himself as the tech sales director, Chen Lizhou could roughly guess why the boss had called him today. It was about a matter that the legal director had consulted him on not long ago.

"Old Chen is here." The boss took a deep breath. "Sit. We just got started not long ago."

After saying that, he no longer paid attention to Chen Lizhou and turned to the legal director: "Old Fu, it’s been four days, haven’t thought of a solution yet?"

Though late, it was still "just got started not long ago," it seemed the earlier time was spent venting emotions, questioning specific individuals.

"Folks, everyone present, four days have passed, nearly a week gone by—why is there no progress at all?"

Indeed it was about that issue, Chen Lizhou sighed inwardly.

Four days ago, the legal director first came to him to understand the situation, saying that several projects had their clients suddenly raise concerns, call for halts, inspections, and in extreme cases even ask for withdrawal of funds.

The boss immediately asked the legal department to step in and stabilize those partners; the sales department being the most in contact with clients had Director Chen Lizhou naturally brought in to understand the situation as well.

A certain task was also entrusted to him.

Up till now, despite Chen Lizhou being not quite himself, he still cooperated somewhat to handle some matters, but...

"Four days," Boss Wang seemed never to have sat down, constantly overlooking his subordinates, "Four days ago, Jingcheng Manufacturing, a 480,000 deal—gone!

"Three days ago, Huatong Electronics, 350,000—gone too."

"The day before yesterday, Xinrui Technology, an intended contract worth 820,000—was agreed upon nicely, then suddenly said they wouldn’t sign it, gone!

"And yesterday—"

Boss Wang’s Adam’s apple rolled twice as if he wanted to fling something away: "Yesterday, Guangda Group called, stating that next year’s strategic partnership needs ’reevaluation’..."

"That’s 2.3 million!"

...

When Chen Lizhou first came in, Nan Zhubin winked at him to greet him. Due to the current environment, it was indeed inconvenient to wave hello.

Boss Wang’s face was flushed red, his neck thickening. Judging by his expression, he was truly angry.

So much that it was a heartbreaking pain.

"395,000!"

Boss Wang roared loudly. With nothing in his hand, he slammed the table hard, making his palm as red as his neck.

Nan Zhubin thought the color was just shy of bleeding.

"In these four days, gone was 395,000!"

"Not 395 yuan, but 395,000!" Boss Wang tirelessly repeated, "Not four months, not four weeks, but four days."

"Four days, and gone are 395,000!"

Nan Zhubin held his expression in check, bowing his head.

As Boss Wang indulged in his emotions, Nan Zhubin stole glances to the sides, noticing the three directors next to him adopted similar stances, though their eyes lacked his liveliness.

They evidently had also grown accustomed in the workplace, no one was getting infected by Boss Wang’s emotions or thus reflecting on work matters.

"What exactly happened, who knows what happened?!"

Boss Wang took a deep breath, mustered strength, then exploded: "When the first project ran into trouble four days ago, I asked you to think of a solution. Yet, the first problem hasn’t been solved, now issues are piling up—where are your solutions?"

"Where’s the solution?"

Finally having scolded to a point of fatigue, Boss Wang’s emotions diminished slightly, yet remained oppressed: "You all know our company is currently at a critical point..."

Nan Zhubin blinked, what’s the critical point, an IPO?

But theoretically he’s not supposed to know, it was something gleaned indirectly from others’ mouths.

Was Boss Wang tacitly acknowledging him as his employee?

"The brokerage sponsor phoned yesterday." Boss Wang slowly, forcefully said, "Said our core customer’s renewal rate fluctuates greatly." 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

"How do I explain this? Tell me, how do I explain it?"

How to explain it is supposed to be the boss’s problem to think about.

Boss Wang abruptly looked at Director Fu, shifting his body forward, hands propping the table, knuckles white: "Old Fu, what have you found? Is someone sabotaging us? Definitely someone is sabotaging us, we have to sue them until they’re ruined!"