Chapter 72

Chapter 72: These Youngsters Nowadays

The others, seeing Lābāhuā acting all cozy with the president, furrowed their brows.

Could it be true as Lābāhuā said, that she would soon become the editor-in-chief?

But the president’s expression didn’t seem quite right.

“President?” Lābāhuā, noticing Mèng Bó had been staring at her all along, couldn’t help but remind him.

Mèng Bó suddenly raised his hand and with a “slap,” delivered a heavy slap across Lābāhuā’s face.

Lābāhuā was stunned.

Everyone in the office froze in place.

The president actually slapped Lābāhuā… wasn’t he always very indulgent with her?

Since joining the company over a year ago, she almost got whatever she wanted. This time, she was actually slapped by the president…

Regaining her senses, tears began streaming down her face.

“President, why?” Lābāhuā’s face was filled with grievances, “What did I do wrong?”

Him slapping her like this in public, wasn’t that making her lose face completely?

“Do you even know? You’re going to ruin me!” Mèng Bó was so angry his whole body trembled.

Lābāhuā covered her face, tears welling up in her eyes, “President, I’ve always worked hard as an editor. How could I have ruined you? Could there be some misunderstanding?”

In these past two days, the editors were busy checking if the authors under them violated any rules, leaving no time to surf the web, thus not knowing about Brother Lin Xuan’s situation.

The male frequency editors all showed puzzled expressions.

Ruined? What ruined?

“It wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for you! I wouldn’t have banned Lin Xuan’s novel, and he wouldn’t have targeted our website!” Mèng Bó’s face turned extremely grim.

He always thought that Lin Xuan’s popular novel was just due to luck, but after reading some of Lin Xuan’s works on the Palm Treasure Novel APP, every single one of those novels could potentially explode in popularity and adapt well into films or TV series.

Only then did he realize what a huge treasure they lost from their website!

If Lin Xuan had stayed on their website, it would have directly brought them several billion in profits and attracted many readers.

Now everything is ruined, and instead, they’ve gained a formidable rival.

He has lost utterly.

“President, he’s just a novelist.” Lābāhuā sneered, “Even if he targets our website, what can he do? Are we afraid of him?”

“Just a novelist? Do you know who he really is? He’s backed by the Suzhou Group! He’s already set up a site specifically to compete against our Soaring website! We can’t suppress him! In three days, that site reached 1.3 billion views!”

Lābāhuā paled.

How could this be? How could Lin Xuan be so powerful?

Suzhou Group is the strongest company nationwide! Lin Xuan’s backing turns out to be Suzhou Group!

She thought he was just an ordinary novelist, which is why she dared to treat him that way. If she had known about his background and capabilities, she would have definitely tried to flatter him…

“President…” Lābāhuā clutched Mèng Bó’s hand, tears streaming down her face, sobbing like a lily drenched in rain, “I didn’t know he was this powerful, President, please give me another chance, just one more chance, alright?”

Mèng Bó roughly shoved Lābāhuā away.

“You, get out of the company!” Mèng Bó’s expression was cold as ice, “And return all the gold, jewels, and money I gave you!”

Lābāhuā shivered all over.

Over the past year, she had earned millions from Mèng Bó through her body, but since she earned a lot, she also spent a lot.

Now, she only had a few ten thousand left; Mèng Bó had given her two million.

She simply didn’t have the money to pay him back!

“President, you can’t treat me like this. We’ve been together for so long, how can you treat me like this?” Lābāhuā cried.

“If you don’t return it, I’ll sue you. You have twenty minutes to pack your things, otherwise, the security will escort you out.” Mèng Bó didn’t look at Lābāhuā again and went straight back to his office.

Lābāhuā fell onto the chair, her face pale.

It’s over, everything is over.

Xūnyīcǎo shook her head.

Karma’s a b*tch.

—

Seeing how popular the Palm Treasure website was now, many novelists started submitting their works to the website.

A few days ago, Brother Lin Xuan had entrusted Gǒu Wěibācǎo to form an editorial team.

He discovered that Gǒu Wěibācǎo used to be a high-level executive at a company, very capable, but was deliberately targeted and blacklisted, forcing her to work as an editor.

Brother Lin Xuan let her take charge of everything related to the station.

Lin Xuan’s station followed a premium route, with fewer novels on the website currently, but most of the ones signed could make a killing.

Brother Lin Xuan’s dozens of novels earned him over a billion in just three days, and he spent some of it renting an entire floor of an office building for the editors to work in.

Lin Xuan entered the office building.

An editor asked, “Excuse me, sir, are you…”

Just as Lin Xuan was about to answer, Gǒu Wěibācǎo happened to come out of the office, saw Lin Xuan, and his eyes lit up, “Boss.”

B-boss?!

Almost all the editors widened their eyes.

This was their boss, Lin Xuan?

Holy cr*p! So young, looking only in his early twenties! They thought he was at least forty-something!

“Boss, why are you here?” Gǒu Wěibācǎo asked, remembering that their boss was still a college student who had classes.

“I’m just dropping by casually.” Lin Xuan replied. As the boss, he hadn’t once visited since starting the novel company, and he felt it wasn’t quite right.

“Boss, actually, I need to talk to you about something.”

Inside the office, Gǒu Wěibācǎo poured Lin Xuan a cup of tea.

“Today, someone from Starlight Entertainment contacted me, wanting to buy the film and television rights to our novels. There are five or six of them. Should we sell the rights to them?”

“These are the novels they want to buy, and the prices are listed here. They offered quite a high price.”

Gǒu Wěibācǎo pushed a file toward Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan didn’t even look at it, setting it aside.

“No, we won’t sell any rights to the novels, no matter how much they offer.” Lin Xuan said.

“Boss, selling the rights to the novels will bring us a large sum of income.” Gǒu Wěibācǎo reminded him.

“We’ll keep these. My entertainment company will use them for future dramas.” Lin Xuan said. His goal in opening the station was to develop film and television rights. He posted the novels on this platform mainly to earn reader subscription fees and expand the novels’ fame.

How could he possibly hand over these film and television rights?

Gǒu Wěibācǎo’s eyes widened.

Filming dramas? Starting an entertainment company?

Holy cr*p! So pro!

“So, Dog Bro, focus on promoting novels suitable for film and television adaptations.” Lin Xuan said.

“Got it.” Gǒu Wěibācǎo nodded, unable to resist taking a few extra looks at Lin Xuan. He felt Lin Xuan’s ambitions went far beyond just starting an entertainment company.

Are today’s youngsters this overwhelmingly awesome?