Counteract

At the President's office.

Jazmine was going through the profiles of her employees.

"Osbert Williams..." After whispering the name, she laughed.

'Of course, I remember that hypocrite from my last life. He was the one who brought the most damage to my company. Not only did he sell pivotal intelligence to Anderson Enterprise, taking advantage of his high post and seniority, he even disrupted the natural flow of things by causing chaos in the company.'

After going through the list, Jazmine circled more than a dozen names with a red marker.

Emily had been silently standing by her side in case Jazmine required any assistance, wondering 'What is the President doing with this list? She is probably memorizing her employees' names.'

After being done, with a satisfied smile, Jasmine handed the file over to Emily.

Emily took the file in her hands, even more confused. "President Jazamine, this is...?"

"I want these people removed from their office by tomorrow."

Emily was perplexed. "President...?" Chairman's words emerged in emily's head. 'So this is the erratic behaviour Chairman talked about?' Emily felt a surge of disappointment. She had almost thought this President... was a gem.

But in the end...

"Emily, are you perhaps assuming I randomly selected these people?" Jasmine glanced into Emily's eyes with calm confidence. She knew what was going through Emily's mind.

Being pierced through that confidence, Emily was in a dilemma of whether to trust this new President or not.

"President, their stats might have shown you low progress but firing such a number of people at once..."

"You are wrong. I didn't select them on the basis of their low stats. I selected them because all of them have sold sensitive info to other companies and betrayed us."

Emily was shocked.

"You might have been wondering just where I got the information. Prior to coming to the company, I had run an investigation on the most suspicious employees."

Emily's still looked unconvinced. Since Jazmine couldn't take a big step in the company without gaining Emily's approval, she added to gain her confidence.

"Project Code TY7X; The residential lots our company invested in. Prior to taking the lands under over property, the adjacent area was bought by another real estate company, Northstars. We had invested in the streets and built the landscape. But since the company offered lesser residential lots prices, people were drawn towards them. In the end, we had to lower our prices too. We ended up suffering a twenty-three percent loss.

It was John Willismd who had a private meeting with the President of that Northstars three days prior to the proposal of the original project. Not soon after, he received financial benefits in the form of foreign property."

"Project TY7O; Setting up the holiday villa in the countryside. Since we had diplomatic problems with the Skyline contractors, the top construction company in that area, we sought out for the second-best option Diamond Ridge Construction company and hoped for a reasonable price.

However, somehow they learned that we had a problem with Skyline contractors and raised their prized to an unreasonable amount. We had to agree since we had no alternative. In that project, we suffered a fifteen percent loss.

Damon Grey; did you know that he had family ties with the Diamond Ridge Construction company's manager?"

Emily was too shocked to say anything. She didn't know what to feel anymore.

A moment ago she had felt sheer disappointment at the person before her.

But right now, she felt like the person before her was a fierce tigress having her claws ready and sharpened...

If she knew everything with such detail, she must have worked and learned each detail meticulously.

"President Jasmine, I trust in your judgment but these are all top senior officials. If we fired them, especially Osbert, they won't settle without a fight. They might create a ruckus and disrupt the company's normal function. Since these people also have connections..."

"So what? They should know the new President of Tang Enterprise puts loyalty over everything. Have you ever wondered why the Tang enterprise has fallen out of the top five? It is all because of countless moles in our ranks. If they want to revolt, let them."

"But we are approaching deadlines for several new projects."

"Emily... Are you worried we won't be able to find replacements in time? You must be assuming that I'd been wasting all my time before coming to the company."

As she expected, a look of guilt flashed past Emily's face,

Jazmine felt no shame at her lie. 'Of course, I had been wasting all her time before! It is my knowledge from my last life that I'm exploiting right now! But I have to make Emily feel guilty to bring her to trust me completely.'

"But I have been idling away my days. I have been meticulously looking for new talents to hire. I have prepared a list that I want you to send for direct contracts. Interviews are not necessary. Conduct them as formality if you deem necessary."

"President Jasmine... I am sorry if I had misunderstandings about you. You are really hard-working. But please don't be so hard on yourself. After all... you have just gotten married."

Listening to that Jasmine's smile dropped slightly. 'Why are you bringing this up, Emily? You were the one who knew beforehand that out of the five failed projects, the three I didn't mention had Davidi behind their failure. Do you still think I can find happiness in that relationship?'