Chapter 1026: The Arrogant Subordinate's Self‑Destructive Scene

Mortal Group's East China regional headquarters, thirtieth-floor conference room.

Today, Ye Jiaying had her long hair tied into a low ponytail, and with a sharply tailored black suit, she fully displayed her capable demeanor.

In front of Lin Dongfan, she was a gentle, intellectual beauty.

Back at the company, she becomes a domineering CEO.

In full force, she doesn't need to speak; just that sharp gaze is enough to intimidate everyone present—the regional executives sitting there dare not even breathe.

Today's showdown, anyone can see it's aimed at Liu Bifu.

Half an hour ago, Ye Jiaying strode into the headquarters and immediately demanded: "Where is Liu Bifu? Get him out here to see me!"

Liu Bifu was asking for trouble, hiding in his office pretending to be a big shot, having his secretary say: "I'm swamped with current projects, no time to dig up old accounts."

This is shaping up to be a head‑on clash with Director Ye!

Without a doubt, Ye Jiaying slammed the table and shouted: "Get him out within three minutes, or pack up and get lost!"

Although Mortal Group is a publicly listed company, Ye Jiaying holds 53% of the shares and controls 85% of the voting rights.

In other words, she has absolute controlling power.

Even though Liu Bifu is the general manager of the East China region, Ye Jiaying could fire him in an instant, and no one on the board could stop her.

"Click!"

The conference room doors were pushed open, and Liu Bifu sauntered in.

In his forties, with a slicked-back oily hairstyle, a big belly proclaiming "pregnant with six", holding a thermos cup of goji berries, he looked just like a government official.

This guy really knows how to put on airs.

As soon as he entered, he put on an impatient face: "Director Ye, you came all this way just for that stalled project you took over two years ago? Really? I've said it eight hundred times—that project has nothing to do with our Mortal Group; the government just forced it on us..."

"Shut up!"

Before he could finish, Ye Jiaying's eyes turned icy: "Liu Bifu, who gave you the guts? Dare you hide and not come out!"

"Director Ye, you've misunderstood."

Liu Bifu set down his thermos, sank into his chair, propped his legs up high, showing no fear.

He drawled: "I'm not just busy making money for the group. In the East China region, this quarter's net profit has already exceeded one billion. When the financial report comes out, it will directly push the stock price up twenty percent. If you don't appreciate that, fine—but harping on the takeover project, isn't that making a mountain out of a molehill?"

As soon as he finished, the nearby executives broke out in a cold sweat—Liu Bifu was getting full of himself; the East China region's performance had just started to improve, yet he dared to speak to Director Ye like that!

"The takeover project?"

Ye Jiaying frowned slightly, gesturing for her assistant to pass the documents: "I ask you, when the Wuzhou No. 1 Landmark project ended up stalled, the original winning contractor was 'Wu County Construction', owned by Bai Qian Shuang—you didn't know that?"

"How could I not know?"

Liu Bifu chuckled dismissively: "That Bai Qian Shuang was, back then, a 'motivational female entrepreneur' heavily backed by Wang Qigang, appearing on TV as often as a household staple."

Unfortunately, her company went bankrupt soon after, causing the Wuzhou No. 1 Landmark building to be left unfinished.

In the end, our Mortal Group was the one the commerce bureau painstakingly brought in to take over the project—everyone in Wuzhou knows that.

Liu Bifu spat out his words, emphasizing the three characters "Wang Qigang" to make it clear: this is the former leadership passing the buck—Director Ye, don't go looking for trouble.

"What everyone in Wuzhou knows is just the surface!"

Ye Jiaying threw a stack of documents at Liu Bifu: "Wu County Construction was founded only three months ago with a registered capital of just ten million—how could it qualify for an 1.8‑billion‑yuan project, and even get a one‑billion‑yuan collateral loan from the bank, using the unfinished landmark building as collateral? Do you think the bank is a charity, or that I can't uncover the truth?"

Upon mentioning the truth of Bai Qian Shuang's fraudulently siphoning government benefits, Liu Bifu's face changed abruptly.

Liu Bifu forced calm: "That's just a government investment‑attraction policy—how would I know the inner workings? We're the takers‑over; we only got involved after Wu County Construction went bankrupt, so the earlier mess has nothing to do with us!"

"Nothing to do with us?"

Ye Jiaying's expression turned stern and her voice rose: "I checked the group's files—after taking over the project, you led the preliminary investigation and asset liquidation!"

The report stated: "Wu County Construction had only completed the foundation work, with no other effective assets!"

But the data I just obtained from the bank shows that the progress report Wu County Construction submitted back then read 'Main structure 80% complete', signed by you, Liu Bifu!

"What?"

Liu Bifu's eyes nearly popped out: "Impossible! I never signed that! When we took over, Wu County Construction was already kaput—I had nothing to do with them!"

"You didn't sign it?"

Ye Jiaying opened her tablet and pulled up a scanned signature.

She snapped:

"Open your dog eyes wide and look—is this your signature?! And there's the 'no‑relation statement' you wrote for the group back then, claiming Mortal Group had no business dealings with Wu County Construction!"

"You claim you never signed the progress report, yet you deliberately wrote that statement to distance yourself."

"Isn't this a classic case of 'hiding silver but shouting there's none'?"

Liu Bifu leaned in to look, his face flushing with extreme embarrassment—the signature on the tablet was unmistakably his, identical to how he signs documents now.

"This… this could be forged!"

Flustered, Liu Bifu knocked over his thermos, scattering goji berries everywhere: "It must be that slut Bai Qian Shuang forging my signature to drag our group down—I really had no idea!"

"Forged?"

Ye Jiaying then pulled a voice recorder from her bag and pressed play.

Immediately, Liu Bifu's voice came out.

With a fawning smile: "Ms. Bai, rest easy—I've already signed the progress report and greeted the group's side; no one will check! You promised me five million, don't forget!"

When the recording stopped, the conference room fell so silent you could hear a pin drop.

Liu Bifu's face went white as paper in an instant; his previously perched legs dropped, his belly deflated—he was like a punctured balloon.

"Liu Bifu!"

Ye Jiaying leaned back in her chair, eyes cold as a midwinter wind: "You've got guts! Wu County Construction siphoned funds, and you actually helped forge the progress report, then split the kickbacks!"

"Chairman… I… I was wrong…"

Liu Bifu truly threw caution to the wind, dropping to his knees with a thud and sobbing: "Back then… I was just muddle‑headed, blinded by money…"

"Don't give me this!" Ye Jiaying angrily asked: "I'm asking you—you gave Meng Qinghe a gas canister; what's the situation?"

"Gas... gas canister? What gas canister? Who sends gas canisters these days?" Liu Bifu acted like an amnesiac pioneer, mainly putting on a dazed act.

Ye Jiaying laughed in anger: "You're not going into acting? That's a waste of talent."

"Director Ye, I really wasn't acting." Liu Bifu again assumed a serious posture.

Ye Jiaying raised her wrist to look at her watch: "I've already called the police; the Criminal Investigation Squad will be here shortly. If you don't want to wear out the bottom of a prison cell, I advise you to straighten your tongue before answering me."

!!!

Liu Bifu wiped a cold sweat in shock, thinking: 'This woman is truly vicious—she says she'll turn face and does.'

He steadied himself for a moment.

Liu Bifu replied: "The gas canister—really wasn't sent by me."

"Whose is it then?" Ye Jiaying pressed.

Liu Bifu lowered his head, trembling, wanting to speak but daring not to.

Back then.

Bai Qianfrost registered a shell company and won the bid for Wuzhou's No. 1 landmark building.

Afterward, she spent a little money to solidify the foundation, then easily obtained a 500 million yuan government subsidy and secured a 1 billion yuan mortgage loan from the bank.

After getting the money, she then used poor management as a pretext, falsified accounts, and declared bankruptcy.

That series of shady maneuvers went unexposed because

it was because she had powerful backing!

Meng Qinghe was a perceptive person who saw through things but didn't speak up; he also wanted to profit from the situation, but dared not ask Bai Qianfrost for money, because Bai Qianfrost was Wang Qigang's person.

Thus, after Mortal Group took over the project, he tried every means to set up obstacles in the approval process.

Later...

Liu Bifu, forced with no choice, secretly sent Bai Qianfrost an anonymous message, telling her to settle Meng Qinghe, otherwise he would expose her relationship with Wang Qigang.

Unexpectedly, that tactic worked; not long after, Meng Qinghe received a gas canister.

That gas canister carried both a conciliatory meaning and a threatening warning! Bai Qianfrost clearly also intended to warn Meng Qinghe that this was a one-time thing, otherwise she'd blow up his whole family!

Fortunately, Meng Qinghe was also a pragmatic person; upon receiving the gas canister, he immediately took action.

Back then, Liu Bifu did those things also to fulfill his work duties, leveraging strength! Strictly speaking, he considered himself a great contributor to Mortal Group, and President Ye shouldn't treat him this way.

But those matters could only be kept in his heart, not spoken aloud.

If Bai Qianfrost found out those threatening texts from back then were sent by him, Liu Bifu, given her vicious nature, she would definitely chop him up and feed him to the dogs.