InvincibleConnoisseur

Chapter 46 Suffered a Betrayal

In Changling Group, Li Ruoxi gathered all the senior executives in the shortest time. There were sixteen senior executives in total in this group company. They were all capable people hired by Li Ruoxi with high salaries or promoted by her from the bottom when she established this group company. Even four of them accumulated their good work abilities through continuous learning by her side.

In the past two years, Li Ruoxi had never treated them shabbily. Therefore, she was confident that these people would follow her to leave Changling Group.

"Today, I call you here to ask for your opinions. I am going to leave this company. As you all know, although I used to take charge of this company, almost all the shares belong to other members of my family. Now I want to know. If I leave this company, will you go with me?" Asked Li Ruoxi seriously with her gaze passing over everyone's face.

It was beyond Li Ruoxi's expectation that the sixteen senior executives she trusted most looked at each other, and none of them said a word. Instead, they lowered their heads and kept silent.

Li Ruoxi was stunned. She had never dreamed that those formerly loyal subordinates all kept silent at that moment.

She was extremely clever, so she immediately realized that all her subordinates, those senior executives she cultivated, betrayed her. Judging from their reactions, it was obvious that they had been bribed by the people of her family.

Her eyes were glistening with incredibility. This piercing pain drained all the colors on her face, and two lines of tears sliddown her delicate face.

She had left herself a last ditch. She still had the opportunity to make a comeback. As long as these loyal subordinates followed her to leave, before long, she would be able to create a company not much worse than Changling Group and lead everyone to make a fortune.

However, without them, even if she had a lot of money, what could she do? Even if she could make a comeback, the hard work that needed to be done would at least be more than tenfold. After all, her subordinates were all elites, all her right-hand men. If she established a new group company together with them, they did not need a break-in period at all and could quickly put the group company on track.

"Why? Did I treat you shabbily in the past two years? What made you all betray me at this moment? Is it only because those people have promised you some benefits?" Li Ruoxi's thin body trembled slightly. She looked at the sixteen senior executives in tears, pointing at those family elders following in with sneers with her fair-skinned finger.

Those sixteen senior executives of Changling Group bent their heads lower and dared not to look at Li Ruoxi. Hearing Li Ruoxi questioning them almost in tears, they showed great shame on their faces.

However, thinking about the benefits which the people behind the general manager Li Ruoxi had promised them, those people immediately no longer felt ashamed.

"Why don't you say something? Are you all dumb? You tell me with your true consciences, have I ever treated you shabbily since I founded this company? In the past two years, I treated you as my brothers and sisters and have never put on airs as the general manager. Even when you made some mistakes, I always turned a blind eye to them. But what are you doing now? Sister Mo Yan, you tell me, did I punish you as you have caused the company to lose millions of yuan because of your fault with your work? Have I berated you fiercely? Who was comforting you when you were crying sadly? Who told you that as failure is the mother of success, it'll be OK if you could draw lessons from this and never make that fault again?"

"Deputy general manager Chen Jiaming, when you were most down and out, who took you back from the talent market and let you become a department manager as soon as you joined the company? It is undeniable that you are an excellent person. But without me, you would not have had such a decent job, would you? Would you have had such a high salary? Would you have got frequent promotions? Even your wedding house was given by me when you married your wife. This is what you give me in return? Has your conscience been eaten by a dog?"

"Manager Chen, Chen Min. You are an elder sister in our company, and you are a respectable person in our hearts. But what are you doing now? When you suffered a miscarriage due to an accident, who gave you a paid vacation for recovery and even sent you to the hospital in the night? Your bad husband is a compulsive gambler who has scammed you out of your money. It was me who gave you the money for your treatment in the hospital and stayed there for two days and three nights to take care of you. Without me, you would have died at home, wouldn't you?"

"Xing Ke, you have been with me for nearly two years. I passed on my management experience to you without any reservation. I taught you the sales promotion strategies patiently to help you keep improving and made you a department manager of the home appliance department at a young age. Count on your fingers to see how old are you now? You are only twenty-two. You can go outside and have a look. How many young people of twenty-two can earn nearly one million every year, have a car and a house given by the company, and gain both fame and wealth?"

"..."

Li Ruoxi looked at all the senior executives of the company she was familiar with. She said something about each of them with great familiarity. Her original bright eyes were now filled with melancholy. She whimpered and questioned them in tears. Every time she talked about one of them, she felt as if a knife were piercing her heart.

"Where are your consciences? What did they promise you? Is money as well as other material wealth more important than our feelings after being together for two years? Tell me, it that I did something that hurt you or you don't agree with the things I did? Am I wrong to be nice to you and even treat you as my relatives and friends? Oh..."

Speaking of which, Li Ruoxi seemed to be taken away all the strength in her body. The sense of powerlessness and the painful feeling of being betrayed made her a little dizzy in her mind. She gave a stagger and was about to fall to the ground.

Wang Ke, who had been standing behind Li Ruoxi and looking on indifferently, was also in a towering rage. When Li Ruoxi was about to fall, he took a quick step and supported her with his hands. He glowered at the sixteen senior executives who were ashamed and bowed their heads silently with his eyes which seemed to breathe flames. With strong sarcasm and mockery, he said in a cold voice, "Since I was young, my parents, teachers, or those respectable people have told me that a drop of water in need shall be returned with a spring in deed. Don't you know that the difference between humans and animals is that a person has a conscience while an animal returns evil for good? She was right. Do you dare to touch your heart with your hands now?"

"Think about it. What miserable end will this girl who regards you as relatives and friends have as being betrayed by you? Won't you experience the remorse of consciences for the rest of your life? Won't you regret the decision you make today? If your relatives and friends as well as your parents, your lovers, and even your children know your today's choice, how will they look at you? Can you sleep well at night when all is still?"

"I can tell you that you can't. Unless you are truly inhuman, you will be branded as ungrateful people for the rest of your life. This shameful behavior will be carved in your bones, flow in your blood, and let your children and grandchildren all feel ashamed of you in the future."

Wang Ke clenched his fists tightly. If he had not restrained himself, he would have raised his hand to someone.

Finally, he turned his gaze away from those sixteen ashamed senior executives who almost wanted to dig a hole on the ground and vanish from it. He lowered his head slowly and saw Li Ruoxi whose tears kept pouring out. This made him take pity on her.

This only twenty-year-old girl was so pitiful as her relatives wanted to use her as a tool to marry a notorious playboy so as to earn huge benefits for the family without giving any thought to the family affectionbetween them, and her capable assistants betrayed her in full view, making her feel great pain.

It was like spreading a handful of salt ruthlessly to a b****y wound. He could feel this traumatic feeling even though he was not the involver.

The indifference on Wang Ke's face slowly collapsed. With a touch of softness, he gently held Li Ruoxi in his arms with one hand in an attempt to bring her a little warmth while stroked her flowing long hair with the other hand to soothe her who had suffered a lot.

"Ruoxi, I've thought you're a strong-minded girl all along. Now, I hope you can also be strong. Even if heaven should collapse, I would strive against it for you. Even if your family abandons you, the subordinates you trust betray you, I will never turn my back on you, my boss." Wang Ke said gently.

Li Ruoxi looked at Wang Ke with misty eyes. She felt warmth as well as his heart from this solid chest she was leaning on. It was like a waif who had nowhere to go found a shelter for her in stormy weather, which made her cold heart regain a little warmth.

Those five middle-aged people of the Li family who had come to Changji all looked extremely bad.

With a gloomy face, Li Ziqiang stroke to Wang Ke and asked sharply, "Who are you? What qualifications do you have for saying that here? There is no need for you, an outsider, to intervene in the affairs of our Li family. We have taken over this place. Hand over Ruoxi to me. Otherwise, I'm sure that you'll have a miserable end."

Wang Ke raised his head and looked at Li Ziqiang indifferently. He said in a deep voice, "I do want to see how you can let me have a miserable end. Humph, if you're sensible enough, you'd better get out of here. Go back to where you came from. Otherwise, I'll give the words you've said to me back to you."

"You reckless son of a b*tch. Today I'll let you know what kind of miserable end you will have if you're nosy but do not have any strength." Li Ziqiang burst into anger. Amidst the scolding, he took a swift step forward and smashed his casserole-sized fist at Wang Ke's face without hesitation. As for Li Ruoxi in Wang Ke's arms, Li Ziqiang chose to ignore her directly.

Wang Ke held Li Ruoxi tightly in his arms. Staggeringly, he stepped back while avoided Li Ziqiang's attacks.

When they quickly backed against the wall, Wang Ke pulled Li Ruoxi behind him with a backhand and shouted, "You stand here. Do not move. Even though they are your family members, I'll teach them a lesson as they are heartless wretches. Do not stop me. Maybe my fight can 'help' them regain their consciences eaten by the dog."

Then his legs bend slightly, and the spirit energy in his body circulated madly under his control. With a surging sense of strength in his heart, he suddenly rushed towards Li Ziqiang like a tiger out of the cage.

He did not know how powerful the opponent was. The opponent did not use a lot of strength to give that fist against his face just now, but if this fist hit an ordinary person's face, it might be able to break that person's nose.

Therefore, great anger rose in his heart.