The King of Urban Mercenaries
Chapter 560 - 560 560 Lin Fei = Pressure Reducer

560: Chapter 560: Lin Fei = Pressure Reducer 560: Chapter 560: Lin Fei = Pressure Reducer Near the end of the workday, at the Moongaze Building, where Mu Group was located.

Floor twenty-six.

The CEO’s office of Mu Shanshan.

After listening to a host of secretaries and assistants’ individual suggestions on expanding the international market, Mu Shanshan waved her hand to signal the secretaries and assistants to leave.

“Shen Xuan, you stay.”

Just as the secretaries and assistants were getting up and leaving the CEO’s office, the ice queen CEO, Mu Shanshan, suddenly spoke out to signal her top secretary, Shen Xuan, to stay behind.

After the other secretaries and assistants of Mu Shanshan had all left, Shen Xuan made her way back to the ice queen CEO’s desk with deliberate steps, her gaze focused and her voice soft, “President Mu, forgive my directness, but you didn’t ask me to stay for work-related matters, did you?”

No sooner had the words left her mouth that Shen Xuan regretted them, considering her own position as well as Mu Shanshan’s usually cold and unusual demeanor.

“President Mu, I—”

“Why would you think that?” Sitting behind the desk, Mu Shanshan, with eyes clear as water, showed no signs of displeasure or dissatisfaction.

The woman simply asked back.

Seeing that the ice queen CEO had not shown any displeasure at her preemptive questioning, Shen Xuan breathed a sigh of relief inwardly and quickly said, “I, I just felt that during the previous discussion on expanding the international market, you seemed somewhat absent-minded, President Mu.

I wondered if it might have something to do with Vice Minister Lin’s matter—”

By the end of her statement, Shen Xuan’s voice was nearly inaudible.

Clearly, for Shen Xuan, who was aware of Mu Shanshan’s marital relationship with Lin Fei, it was somewhat taboo to casually discuss the ice queen CEO’s “family matters.”

Moreover, had it not been for President Mu taking the initiative to ask, Shen Xuan, the CEO’s secretary, would most likely have refrained from joining in with the idle talk among the other secretaries and assistants regarding Mu Shanshan’s dismissal of Lin Fei.

One should not discuss the CEO’s family matters.

If Shen Xuan had not been heedful of the reminder she received from the ice queen CEO at the Purple Garden Pavilion, not to reveal her marital relationship with Lin Fei to anyone,

She might have already been unable to resist warning her colleagues about their idle talk concerning Mu Shanshan’s dismissal of Lin Fei at the CEO’s secretarial office.

Speculating about the CEO’s family matters amongst oneself is risky; if Mu Shanshan, the ice queen CEO, were to hear of it, it could very well mean a complete turnover of staff in the CEO’s secretarial office.

“This matter, it must have spread throughout the company by now.

What are the other employees saying?”

As Shen Xuan was privately worrying about her colleagues who were casually discussing the CEO’s dismissal of her own husband within the secretarial office, Mu Shanshan’s impassive, world-class beauty showed a fleeting hint of melancholy in her water-clear eyes.

“Actually, right after you announced the end of the meeting earlier, rumors about you wanting to dismiss Vice Minister Lin began to spread within the company.

But, due to the differing versions as it was passed on, the details varied.

However, generally speaking, the news that you’re going to dismiss Vice Minister Lin is now common knowledge among the company’s staff.”

“When did you learn to sidestep the important details?” Shen Xuan’s timely response didn’t win Mu Shanshan’s satisfaction but instead, drew the ice queen CEO’s somewhat frosty gaze directly onto her.

“President Mu, I, I—”

“Do I need to ask you a second time?”

Discerning a hint of dissatisfaction in the ice queen CEO’s tone, Shen Xuan’s heart flinched, and she bit her lip lightly before speaking, her voice hesitant, “I, I was just worried that hearing those comments would upset you, President Mu.”

“Speak!”

Hearing Mu Shanshan’s unquestionably cold command, Shen Xuan no longer dared to hesitate.

“There are indeed some within the company who believe that Vice Minister Lin’s work attitude wasn’t proper, and that being dismissed by you was justified.

However, there are also some who feel that you should not have dismissed him.” Having reached this point and seeing no sign of displeasure from Mu Shanshan, Shen Xuan, after sneaking a glance at the woman, clenched her teeth and continued, “Those within the company who think you shouldn’t dismiss Vice Minister Lin are mainly from the Security Department, the General Affairs Department, and the Marketing Department, with the sentiment being particularly intense among the second security team of the Security Department.

Additionally, Meng Xue’er from the reception and two employees from the Marketing Department are suspected of wanting to leave the company with Vice Minister Lin, although it seems like Vice Minister Lin managed to persuade them otherwise in the end.”

As the CEO’s secretary, it was one of Shen Xuan’s duties to pay attention to the internal staff’s comments and report to Mu Shanshan, the ice queen CEO.

Still, due to her nature, Shen Xuan rarely acted as she did today, reporting to the ice queen CEO almost like a whistleblower.

Moreover, in the past, Mu Shanshan, the ice queen CEO, had hardly, if ever, inquired about this.

Thus, having spoken her mind, Shen Xuan couldn’t help but feel a bit uneasy and even guilty.

After such an inner conflict of over ten seconds, seeing that the ice queen CEO had not given any response or shown any tolerance,

Shen Xuan mustered the courage, bit the bullet, and said to Mu Shanshan, the ice queen CEO, “President Mu, actually, I think…

Perhaps, perhaps you don’t need to dismiss Vice Minister Lin.”

“Do you also think that I shouldn’t dismiss him?”

“I, I didn’t mean that.” As soon as she finished her sentence, as if worried that Mu Shanshan, the ice queen CEO, would blame her, Shen Xuan quickly explained to Mu Shanshan, “I, I didn’t say this because of the marital—personal relationship between you and Vice Minister Lin.

You might not be aware, President Mu, but although Vice Minister Lin may not always have the best work attitude in the company, he is actually well-liked.

And, I don’t know if it’s intentional on his part, but ever since he was promoted to Vice Minister of the Security Department, whenever he walks around the company—inspecting the work, whenever an employee has chatted with Vice Minister Lin, most feel much more relaxed afterward.

It’s precisely because of this that many employees in the company have taken to secretly calling Vice Minister Lin a ‘stress reliever.'”

Addressing her honest thoughts to Mu Shanshan, Shen Xuan didn’t see that during her speech, a different emotion flickered through Mu Shanshan’s usually cold eyes.

That emotion seemed like irritation, yet also seemed like pleasure…