We moved to Golden Courtyard

The meeting proceeded quickly, as if everyone tacitly agreed to speed up the process.

Finally, when Liu Yizhi stood up, everyone couldn't help but glance at the department head who was about to speak, and at the same time... they also glanced at Director Yang, who was sitting calmly like a fisherman.

He was a middle-aged man who was nearly 50 years old, and everyone knew that his shareholding in ETStudio was second only to Walter and Bronya.

He is the company's third largest shareholder.

In other words... this is a contest between the third shareholder and the second shareholder.

Judging from the situation, Bronya is undoubtedly at a significant disadvantage.

The music company, which was responsible for Alahatto Seed, suddenly appeared, and they even risked paying breach of contract penalties to terminate the contract...

In the animation industry, unless you've seriously offended someone, this kind of thing rarely happens.

Upon further investigation, it turned out that the offense was far more than just a serious one... The big boss's most popular female celebrity was publicly humiliated by the head of the Seed project team and then asked to leave.

To end up like this is simply because I didn't handle things well.

"Distinguished board members, I am Liu Yizhi, the supervisor in charge of the Idolmaster anime project. I will now give a brief report on the recent work on Idolmaster."

No one spoke; everyone sat quietly in the room.

Following that, Liu Yizhi's report was indeed very brief, and he ended with a very short reason for why the final episode of Idolmaster was postponed.

And so, even Bronya did not raise any objections.

After all, a meeting had already been held on this matter before.

Moreover, everyone knows where the focus of Supervisor Liu's report will be...

"The postponement of the final episode of The Idolmaster was something that no one in our studio wanted to see. Fortunately, all departments in the company cooperated very well."

But the only issue is with the concept artists. It was originally agreed that Seed Studio would provide support, but as far as I know… it seems they haven't received much help.”

……

coming……

Everyone immediately sat up straight, even Walter couldn't help but glance at Bronya.

After all, it was Bronya, the director, who represented Studio Seed today, not President Bronya.

"What do you mean by 'not much help'?"

A cool, clear voice echoed in the conference room. Anyone could tell that this young and beautiful female CEO was not in a particularly high mood at the moment.

"Director Bronya, playing word games is..."

"What do you mean by 'not much help'?"

Bronya repeated the same words twice, looking indifferently at the supervisor, as if she wouldn't say anything else until the question was answered clearly.

……

“Alright…” Manager Liu made a tough decision – he was going all out! “It was originally agreed that Seed Studio would send about 15 people to participate in the key animation for the final episode of Idolmaster!”

But so far, only eight people have arrived... barely half! And when our production manager went to borrow more people, you guys just said—nobody's here! No way!

What is this? Disregarding the board's orders?! I heard that this order comes from Xu Qi, the current head of Seed Studio.

What is he trying to do? The company has already been very kind to him by not pursuing the losses he caused! And now! He even dares to defy the board's orders!? Who gave him that right!?

Manager Liu's last words made everyone instinctively want to look at Bronya, but they forced themselves to hold back.

Wow, that's really bold... Who gave you that right? Besides President Bronya, who else could it be?

If the previous words were only attacking Xu Qi, now... the spearhead is aimed at Bronya!

But thinking about it, it makes sense. Who promoted Xu Qi and made an exception for him? It was Bronya! Getting rid of Xu Qi would naturally be a heavy blow to Bronya!

Director Yang is a step ahead...

Bronya narrowed her eyes. This must be the double-edged sword effect of identity.

There are many things that are not convenient for her to say.

Should we have had Rita attend this meeting from the start? That would have been even more inappropriate…

Xu Qi... I didn't usually feel it, but I didn't expect it to be just as Delta said. When you're not around, even I feel constrained in many things.

He was just a nobody I promoted.

On the other side, Manager Liu, who hadn't heard Bronya's reply for a long time, couldn't help but smile. Of course, he knew it wasn't because his profound argument was so perfect.

It's just that... given Bronya's status, it's inconvenient for her to personally confront him.

We won! This feeling of impending victory even made Manager Liu's gaze begin to rise arrogantly.

Meanwhile, among the board members, Director Yang couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth into a smile.

Blame it on your completely unreasonable personnel appointments...President Bronya.

It seems... she has no choice but to step in, otherwise... the next step will be personnel changes regarding Xu Qi, right? And Bronya must protect Xu Qi!

His gaze suddenly hardened—forget about face and image!

"Buzz!~~Buzz!~~"

Ok?

In this enormous conference room, any sound, due to the echo, would be clearly heard by everyone, and this was no exception at this moment.

Everyone turned to look at Bronya's phone, which was vibrating in front of her.

Bronya frowned, picked up her phone and looked at it—it was a text message…

Xu Qi's text message!

"Although there are still 10 days left, I'll just consider this an early birthday present for you. Happy birthday, Bronya."

Ok?

"boom!"

The conference room door was violently opened.

Xu Qi walked into the conference room first, and behind him, Ms. Rita followed slowly, carrying a stack of documents and a computer.

Some people were unfamiliar with Xu Qi and were about to ask questions, but when they saw the directors sitting upright and Manager Liu's wide eyes, everyone realized who this person was...

Xu Qi...

"It's laughable. I just walked into the conference room and heard someone barking and raving, questioning things that had absolutely no basis, and saying things that would make all the worthless people in the world applaud."

If this company is full of people like you, holding the same views as you, Liu Yizhi, then they might as well just die a violent death like Alahato ZZ did back then.

……

As the words fell, the entire conference room fell into a deathly silence, except for Liu Yizhi's heavy breathing, a sound born of his anger.

who is he!?

Sitting next to Bronya, Xu Qi reached out and took Bronya's hands, which were resting on the table. This bold move made Bronya's eyes widen in surprise!

Fortunately... everyone was still immersed in Xu Qi's astonishing words and did not notice this scene.

"you!……"

"Sorry I'm late, could you wait a moment? I'll take care of these bastards for you right away!"

293. In Bronya's eyes, only one person remained.

Sorry I'm late...

With just that one simple sentence, all the panic that Bronya had felt earlier seemed to be soothed away. At this moment, the young and beautiful female CEO only had one person in her eyes.

That's Xu Qi, the one who dared to openly hold my hand and flirt with me at such an important company handover meeting...

But it doesn't matter anymore...

A familiar smile reappeared on Bronya's face.

She leaned close to Xu Qi's ear and whispered, "Really? Then go and smash them to pieces. If you can't, I'll fire you!"

"As ordered."

Meanwhile, Liu Yizhi suddenly slammed his hand on the table and said, "Hey!... Xu... what did you just say? The board of directors was already being lenient by not making you kneel down and apologize! And you still dare to spout nonsense here!?"

Releasing Bronya's hands, Xu Qi stood up, and at that moment, he was like the protagonist in this conference room, attracting everyone's attention.

It was an innate aura, as if she was the center of attention wherever she went... Qian Chen, the public relations manager, smiled as he sipped his tea at Xu Qi.

Those present in this conference room at this moment include not only the leaders of various departments, but also all the company's executive directors, and... the supreme chairman, Mr. Walter.

Just being able to remain calm under the gaze of so many people is already quite remarkable for a new employee, let alone being able to speak fluently and even... utter such astonishing remarks?

Qian Chen made his decision.

If this kid can weather this crisis, he'll stand his ground against the enemy no matter what!

Ignoring Liu Yizhi's barking dog, Xu Qi took a document from Rita behind him and held it up.

"What I have in my hand now is the company's remedial plan for the postponement of the final episode of The Idolmaster. I'll get straight to the point."

If we only discuss this proposal prepared by Liu Yizhi and stamped by Director Yang, then we can only draw one conclusion—what you find in the trash can is naturally just trash.

These words caused another uproar!

Director Yang was sitting to Walter's right at that moment. His face was gloomy and his eyes were fixed on Xu Qi. Liu Yizhi was so angry that his veins were bulging as he spoke.

"How dare you call our proposal garbage?!"

“I didn’t call him trash…” Xu Qi paused, then suddenly raised his voice and said frankly, “I said he is trash!”

"It's not trash at all!"

Liu Yizhi gritted his teeth, his face filled with undisguised resentment!

"It's called a remedial plan, but basically the entire production of the final episode of Idolmaster relied on the assistance of other departments. So I'm really curious... what about the workload of your own department?"

Liu Yizhi paused, glanced around for a moment, and then spoke loudly.

"What...what are you saying! The Idolmaster is the company's most important IP project at this stage! It's normal that the company needs to pour resources into it when problems arise!"

"Your Alahatto project is now so poor it can't even generate revenue... let alone manage to produce new music! All of this is the result of your autocratic rule!"

Xu Qi remained unmoved by Supervisor Liu's impassioned speech.

He simply gave his evaluation.

"That's why I say that you can only find trash in a trash can, and a useless leader can only spout such useless remarks. The principle is the same."

"You bastard! Who do you think you're talking to!"

Xu Qi sneered. At this moment, Rita had already connected the computer to the projector in the conference room, and a document was projected onto the screen.

Some people, out of curiosity, glanced at it a few times, but their expressions changed drastically!

"The data listed on this PPT is the manpower that Idolmaster borrowed from various animation studios in this remedial plan."

Although the secondment of personnel was quite chaotic, seemingly a case of "spreading the torch" with everyone receiving only a small share, if we categorize the secondments to Idolmaster Studio according to their positions…

When the next slide appeared, the entire room erupted in uproar!

Because the people they borrowed actually covered every position except for supervisor! And there were just enough to fill an entire studio!

"Manager Liu, this remedial plan came from you, which means you know best how much production capacity you actually borrowed from the company!"

Excuse me, what are you planning to do by borrowing the manpower required for an entire episode of animation?

Liu Yizhi's expression began to tense. His gaze subconsciously turned to Director Yang, only to find that... the other party was actually closing his eyes to rest, just like Bronya had done before!

"So what...so what?"

"Considering it as ETStudio's most important IP project right now, when the final episode had a flaw and needed to be delayed, all I could think of was getting the company to pour all its resources into you!"

Is this company yours alone?! When problems arise, all you do is turn to the company and the board for help. What about your own abilities? Where are they demonstrated? Are you just complaining about being poor?!

One more thing, Manager Liu… just like I asked earlier, where are the Idolmaster Studio's own employees? What about your own production capacity?

Liu Yizhi swallowed hard, his eyes darting around, and his body began to tremble.

"I...I don't know..."

"I really admire you for being able to say something like this at this point—you've probably taken all of the Idolmaster Studio's original production capacity and outsourced it!"