Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 494: Absurd Poisoning Case

【Since 2019, Youzu's revenue has begun to show a sharp downward trend. As of March 2020, the company's profit has dropped by more than 3% year-on-year. At the same time, Linqi's shares, as Youzu's largest shareholder, dropped from 70% to 34%, cashing out more than 24 billion. 】

[At the same time, the Three-Body Universe, which is the most important weight in Youzu's hands, has not been smooth in IP development. CEO Xu Yao has a legal background and has no experience in the adaptation and development of entertainment IPs. Various attempts have been repeatedly frustrated.]

[The decline in revenue and the rush to cash out made Lin Qi increasingly dissatisfied with Xu Yao, and he would often curse at him in front of everyone at company meetings. At the same time, Lin Qi also denied his previous promise, stripped Xu Yao of his control over the Three-Body Universe, and canceled the promised 20 million annual salary plus options.]

[For various reasons, Xu Yao harbored a grudge against Lin Qi and developed a revengeful mentality. As a criminal with a high IQ, he chose to poison. In order to avoid early investigation, he consulted a lot of criminal investigation TV dramas and documentaries, rented a special drug manufacturing site in Qingpu, Shanghu, and established an import and export company. He purchased a large amount of poison through the dark web and overseas channels, and conducted experiments on cats and dogs.]

[As early as half a year ago, Xu Yao had already begun to secretly poison Lin Qi, hoping to kill him through chronic poisoning. The latter also showed symptoms of discomfort many times, but he never took it seriously.]

[This time, Xu Yao gave Lin Qi a bottle of "probiotic" nutrition mixed with compound poison pills, and urged him to take it through his secretary. He hoped to prolong Lin Qi's poisoning time and reduce the degree of suspicion on himself through a situation similar to "Russian roulette".]

[On the day of the incident, Lin Qi developed discomfort a few hours after taking the "probiotics" and then went into shock. After being sent to the hospital for examination, it was confirmed that he was poisoned by pufferfish toxin. After two days of rescue in the ICU, he was transferred to a higher-level hospital, and finally died after ten days of continued rescue. ]

[Like Lin Qi, Youzu Vice President Zhao Ji and Lin Qi's secretary were also poisoned. Both were found to have mercury levels in their bodies that exceeded the standard by nearly ten times. They are currently receiving treatment and are not in danger of death.]

[Xu Yao was summoned by the police as a "major suspect" on the third day after the incident and is currently under detention for investigation...]

Looking at the information on the phone screen, Meng Bai sighed.

The case had just happened and the police were still investigating it, so no information had been released to the public yet. The information in his hand was compiled by Arclight's "External Relations Department" based on "rumors" from the Internet and from Youzu's internal staff.

However, although it is just "rumors", since Li Mu and others dared to send it over, it means that the information is basically accurate, and at most there are some discrepancies in some details.

only……

"How ridiculous! How ridiculous!" Meng Bai couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart.

From his outsider's perspective, the whole thing had a bizarre sense of absurdity.

As for Xu Yao, let's not talk about the fact that he is a legal practitioner with an annual salary of tens of millions. The first thing he thought of when he encountered something was poisoning. The point is, if you poisoned Lin Qi, you can still call it "every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt has its creditor", but what about poisoning another vice president and a colleague?

The same goes for Lin Qi. From the unexpected incident when Meng Bai first met him, it can be seen that he and Xu Yao have almost torn their faces apart. However, even though he knew that there was a major conflict between the two sides, he still took the "pill" sent by the other party without any doubt.

Even though he had been poisoned once before, he still didn't take it seriously and eventually died here.

To be honest, if this kind of plot was written into a script, the audience would definitely call it stupid, but it happened openly in reality.

What script are you writing? Logic no longer exists!
"Ugh--"

"What's wrong, boss?"

Hearing his sigh, Hua Yan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned around and asked.

"Nothing, I just suddenly feel that the whole world is full of absurdity." Meng Bai said: "How long will it take?"

"It's almost there, right in front."

They were now on their way to a funeral home in the suburbs. Today was Lin Qi's memorial service. Meng Bai, as a partner of Youzu, was also invited and flew directly from Tokyo to Shanghai.

Many people came to Lin Qi's memorial service, but most of them were collaborators like Meng Bai, Youzu staff, and his family members.

Hua Yan wrote her name in the registration book at the door, then followed the boss in a black suit into the room and placed the bouquet in her hand on the mourning hall.

Meng Bai looked at the black and white photo in the middle of the mourning hall. Even though he was still complaining in his heart when he came here just now, now he could only sigh.

Good or bad, smart or stupid, all will eventually flow into the sea.

After standing silently for a while, he made way and walked towards the middle-aged woman standing beside him with a sad look on her face.

"Mrs. Lin, I am sorry for your loss."

Meng Bai bowed slightly and said, "Although I don't know her, the only person who can stand here with a child can be Lin Qi's 'widow'."

The woman looked at Meng Bai, with some doubts in her slightly red eyes: "Thank you, I wonder who you are..."

"Meng Bai from Arclight Films has worked with Mr. Lin before."

"Ah!" Mrs. Lin suddenly realized, "It's Mr. Meng. Thank you for taking the time to come. I often heard my husband Lin mention you before. He told me that the best decision he made on "The Three-Body Problem" in recent years was to cooperate with Arc Light."

"Mrs. Lin, you're too polite."

Meng Bai nodded slightly, glanced at the woman in front of him, then looked at the children of different ages surrounding her with confused faces, thought for a moment, took out a business card from his pocket and handed it over.

"Although Mr. Lin and I haven't interacted much, we have a pleasant cooperation. Mrs. Lin, if you need any help in the future, you can contact me."

Mrs. Lin was stunned for a moment, then seemed to have thought of something and solemnly accepted the business card: "Thank you, Mr. Meng!"

As the boss of Youzu, Lin Qi was in his prime and certainly would not have thought that he would die suddenly, so naturally he did not leave a will.

According to the inheritance law, his shares in Youzu will be inherited equally by his three children. Because the children are still minors and do not have full civil capacity, they will be temporarily held by Mrs. Lin, the guardian.

In other words, from the moment Lin Qi died, Mrs. Lin became the new person in charge of Youzu.

This is a huge asset, but it could also be a huge trouble. It depends on her ability.

After a few simple condolences, Meng Bai left the mourning hall with his assistant. Just as he was about to leave, he was stopped by someone.

The person who came was a vice president of Youzu. The boss had passed away and the second-in-command was in the hospital, so he was temporarily in charge of the company's operations.

He didn't have anything else to say, just told me that although his boss was gone, the cooperation between companies was not affected, and the preparations for the "The Three-Body Problem" web drama were proceeding as normal.

Meng Bai naturally had no objection to this, but he felt that the news about the development of "The Three-Body Problem" could be announced to the public after some time, so as to avoid people thinking that it was just taking advantage of the popularity at this time and causing public dissatisfaction.

Leaving the funeral home, Hua Yan said as she walked out, "I never expected that someone who was alive not long ago would be gone in the blink of an eye."

"Death is like this, there is no warning, it comes in an instant. That's why since ancient times, no matter how heroic a person is, they will strive for immortality." Meng Bai said.

"I think Mrs. Lin is quite sad." "You think they are all like your paper husband, changing three wives a month and not feeling sad when one of them dies."

"That's not what I meant." Hua Yan said awkwardly, "I just feel that judging from Mr. Lin's behavior, their relationship as a couple shouldn't be very deep."

Maybe the impression left on her when they first met was too deep, she always felt that Lin Qi was the kind of man who spent his time drinking and caring little about his wife.

"After all, we have lived together for so many years, there will always be feelings."

"Right."

Hua Yan nodded, and after a while she continued, "Boss, when we were discussing the comprehensive development cooperation with Youzu regarding The Three-Body Problem, Mr. Lin was always hesitant. Now that he's gone, do we have a chance..."

She didn't finish her words, but everyone understood what she meant, that is, should we take this opportunity to find a way to take over the "Three-Body Universe".

Meng Bai didn't say anything for a long time before he said in a distant voice: "Huahua, sometimes you don't have to grasp the so-called 'good timing' so accurately. On the contrary, if you wait patiently, you may get an unexpected surprise."

"Well……"

Hua Yan touched her head, feeling that what he said sounded a little confusing.

But she didn't ask any more questions. Anyway, the boss was definitely better than her, so she just did what he said. Why waste her brain cells?
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Lin Qi was killed and the "suspect" Xu Yao was also taken into custody by the police.

This "high IQ murderer" obviously trusted the imagination of those suspense and mystery writers too much and knew nothing about the development of modern criminal investigation technology. Before even 24 hours had passed, he was basically identified as the murderer.

However, Xu Yao seemed to have been prepared for this and had never admitted it. He also prepared a mental diagnosis certificate in advance to prove that he had a mental illness and hired a group of very strong lawyers to defend himself.

Of course, these methods are actually not very useful. For such cases that attract public attention, the official resources are almost unlimited. No matter how much he resists, the best he can do is to make the trial last a little longer.

Neither Youzu nor Lin Qi are well-known names. It's just that this incident is so interesting, and it happened to be New Year's Day, so everyone had nothing to do, so it immediately became a topic of conversation among the general public.

[Fake business war: business mediation, high-end wits battle, macro-control, strategic attack. Real business war: poisoning, stealing official seals, and watering the opponent's fortune tree.]

[Is this Youzu the company that bought the copyright of "The Three-Body Problem"? Boss Lin has been a "wall-facer" who has been hiding "The Three-Body Problem" for so many years, and finally he has waited for his "wall-breaker". ]

[The boss does not know whether the manager is competent, and the manager does not know whether the boss will fulfill his promise. All the results depend on who "pulls the trigger" first. This is the "dark forest" of the capital system.]

[I don’t care whether these capitalists are dead or alive, I just want to know what they would do without The Three-Body Problem?]

[Don't worry, Youzu is relying on The Three-Body Problem to keep up the momentum, they won't give up. Wasn't there news a while ago that they were planning to make a film or TV adaptation? ]

[Let’s not do that. Didn’t they say that the movie of “The Three-Body Problem” was a mess? They are still thinking about making a TV series. ]

[After learning the lesson, they definitely won’t do it on their own again. I heard that they found Arclight to cooperate with them this time. 】

[Oh my god! Is this true? If Arclight is filming this, I'm really looking forward to it!]

[Indeed, with President Meng here, at least the plot is guaranteed. If Guo Fan can be brought in to direct, that would be awesome!]

[Director Guo, forget it, The Wandering Earth 2 hasn’t been finished yet. But it doesn’t matter, as having President Meng is enough. Youzu might as well just give the entire copyright to Arclight for development, since it’s a waste in their own hands anyway.]

【…】

Many fans of The Three-Body Problem still know that Youzu bought the IP copyright. Originally, everyone had little confidence in their development, but when they heard that they were cooperating with ArcLight, they instantly became interested.

As one of the few teams in the domestic entertainment industry with quality assurance and science fiction experience, if you had to choose someone to produce "The Three-Body Problem", ArcLight would definitely be the best choice.

Many fans flocked to the official Weibo accounts of the two companies to ask if the news was true. Some investors of Youzu even sent messages directly to the company's secretary to ask if the news was true.

In order to avoid being caught, Meng Bai and Youzu decided not to announce the news for the time being. But the situation is different now. They didn't say it themselves, but netizens kept asking.

Since the news of Lin Qi's accident broke out, Youzu's stock price fell by nearly 20% in just half a month, and the board of directors was worried about this matter. As a result, when they saw the current situation, they couldn't help but confirm the news through the channel of answering investors' inquiries.

It turns out that the capital market is quite sensitive. As soon as the news was announced, the company's stock price immediately stopped falling.

Seeing this, the Youzu board of directors couldn't help it. After talking to Arc Light, they officially announced the news to the public.

Since the other party said it first, Arc Light naturally couldn't hide it, and also issued an announcement -

[Arc Light Films is saddened by Mr. Lin’s unexpected death. The film and television adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem” was the project that Mr. Lin cared about the most during his lifetime. We will definitely make the greatest efforts to fulfill this last wish.]

"Boss, it seems like we are the one that everyone wants to take over The Three-Body Problem."

At the exit of Beijing North Airport, Hua Yan was looking at the news online on her mobile phone, talking as she walked out.

"Don't take it too seriously. The key is to get the first series done well. Otherwise, if the audience is not satisfied, they will definitely criticize it more harshly than praising it now."

Meng Bai said this, and then took his suitcase from the staff who came to pick him up at the airport: "Huahua, you guys go back first, I have something else to do."

"okay."

Hua Yan responded without saying anything else and left with her luggage.

But she muttered to herself as she walked, no need to ask, the boss must be going to see which girl again.

As a personal assistant for many years, Hua Yan obviously has a deep understanding of her boss, and she was not wrong this time.

"Hey, I'm here, where are you?"

Meng Bai sent a message, then stood there and looked around. The next second, a blue BMW drove over from the corner and stopped in front of him.

The car window glass fell down, revealing Li Qin's pretty little square face.

"Little brother, where are you going? I'll take you there."

(End of this chapter)