Offer To The CEO

Friday, continued …

Yang Lin, from when his parents left kept arguing with him to the point he eventually gave in and told her he would protect the old man. That meant that the old man was worried, so he decided to have his insurance with him.

When he entered the police station he was shown into an interview with two different police officers that on his last visit. being here was monotonous. Other than two doctors visits he attended with Yang Lin, the only other time he left their home was to come here.

Unlike him, Yang Lin had multiple "doctors" appointments only one of which she allowed him to attend. But their medical evidence was that given how stressed she was, she needed treatments to relax and minimize stress from impacting her pregnancy. She seemed to be out most days for those treatments.

Quickly, Lu Jinhu after the usual pleasantries realised that it was not a normal interview. Damn the old man. Yes he reacted with that damn joint venture that came from Hou Enterprises and XF International as a means of getting to them and undermine Lu Corporation, but it was a predictable move from Hou Yi, that the old man should have known was coming.

Hou Yi in the few years he had been at the helm of Hou Enterprises had already become well known for being ruthless in his actions particularly if he felt you had slighted him or his family in some way, they will react, but it always would be through legal means. He had been on the end of that with the press conference.

Anna, that b*tch was like him. She used the court proceedings to set him up legally. He should have remembered her skill, but between Yang LIn and the old man he had gotten distracted. However, when it comes to it he had some control, the old man seems to have none.

After taking in what the police had to say, Lu Jinhu paused. It was crunch time. Did he play his card today, or wait to play it once he had figured out the next moves by Hou Yi? He wondered if those moves were related to the third-hand rumours he had heard about the buying up of the forty percent of shares not in the Lu or Yang families control.

Nothing he had heard let him know who was purchasing the shares, but he had his suspicions. At the moment the old man controlled through the Lu Families shares and those controlled by Yang Lin's parents forty-fie percent. The Yang Group controlled fifteen percent, but like most of the Lu family they were self-centered and saw Yang Lin as a brat who they would have no issue in throwing her under a bus, despite her being the ultimate heiress of the company, if it achieved their aims.

Could Hou Yi be backing a move? Could he be looking to have the old man removed as the CEO and someone he felt would not harm them put in place. After a few seconds he dismissed that, as it would be counter productive. That type of revenge would not work well.

After tossing up the options he decided that this was not the time to play the card, but he could not save the old man, despite what eh wanted.

"Sirs, the prison authorities allow my parents and my in-laws to visit us twice per week. I see my parents on Thursday and Sundays, and my in-laws on Wednesdays and Saturdays. After the last time I was here each visit I remind my father not use the photographs and films that he has, which like any child who was overseas I had sent him to share my life with him and my mother. I also make sure to reminded him to respect the order of protection."

"All I can do is speculate a little, based on the newspapers that I have been allowed to read. He reacted when he felt that the family company was threatened. He and my mother could not have another child, so he sees Lu Corporation like his second child and reacted to protect it. I can understand that, but in feeling his second child was threatened he forgot the warnings I had given.

No fault of my wife or me, but I think understandable in the circumstances."

"My guess is he said what he did without really meaning it, trying to protect his second child. An over-reaction yes, but without being an expert I would say it also came from being over-stressed. I am only basing that on how I see my wife who is so over-stressed that her pregnancy is constantly at risk and everything is being done to minimise those risks. I did not ask him to seek revenge for me."

"Can I ask that you go lightly on him, my wife and he get along well, and the last thing with any charges that you might be looking at is to cause added stress to her. It will risk her miscarrying."

Lu Jinhu knew that he was backing them into a corner. The courts had accepted Yang Lin had a high risk pregnancy and that stress increases the risks to it. Doing something that increased her stress levels would go against what the courts had actually recognised. This was the safest card to play today for everyone. Dismiss charges coming against him and Yang Lin, but minimising what the police would to to the old man.