Chapter 1457 Stealing His Thunder

Chapter 1457 Stealing His Thunder

Watching the cooperative dialogue between his half-brother and half-sister, Long Hui scowled even harder. He was having a difficult time controlling his expression.

He didn't believe that his half-siblings didn't coordinate this proposal together beforehand. He suspected that they did this today to undermine him.

In fact, Long Hui's suspicion was completely wrong. Iris and Long Jian didn't coordinate today's proposal at all.

Iris had no idea that Long Jian would make this proposal beforehand. He was the one who went ahead and created the proposal by himself. He got the idea after hearing Iris' actions of providing the Marketing Department with nice lunches and drawing the envy of other departments including his own.

Of course, he only submitted the idea after asking the opinion of his immediate superior, the COO, who gave him the go-ahead.

Iris stepping up today was just an impromptu reaction to the series of events. Although they didn't practice it beforehand, the two had a tacit understanding to cooperate in order to mutually strengthen both their influence in the company while at the same time weakening Long Hui's prestige.

"As you've already noticed, I'm in favour of Deputy COO Long Jian's proposal," Iris said.

Long Hui interrupted, "Well, I am NOT in favour of this proposal at all. As the deputy of the Finance Department, I know that we don't have the budget for this. Other more important projects need funding more than a cafeteria!"

Most of the executives nodded at his words.

The company budget had already been allocated at the beginning of the year. It was not convenient to allocate another budget to a cafeteria. They didn't think that it was as important as what Long Jian and Iris were trying to claim.

As executives, they could always ask their assistants to order food from their favourite high-class restaurants whenever they wanted if they didn't want to eat at the company cafeteria. They didn't care much about what the employees ate.

"Understood, President," Long Jian responded.

Iris smiled and nodded.

The two followed Long Tengfei out. Long Hui watched them with a dark expression. His hands curled into tight fists.

Their father called his half-siblings but not him. What did this mean? Was their father starting to exclude him now?

"Young Master, we must do something," one of his allies whispered to him. "They'll surely use this cafeteria project to gain more supporters to their side. This is clearly a bribe!"

"What if we sabotage the cafeteria and cause it to be delayed for a long time?" another ally suggested.

"That might work. Then we can spread bad rumours about Long Jian and Iris Long—"

"Enough," Long Hui interrupted them in a bad mood. "We'll talk another time. I need to hurry for another important appointment."

His allies watched him rush out of the conference room.

Long Hui walked away fast. He didn't know where to go. Rushing to another important appointment was a lie he told his allies. He didn't know what was wrong with himself.

Usually, he would plot with his allies and do everything to reach his goals. Earlier, however, he felt extremely uncomfortable listening to his allies plotting against his half-siblings. This was so unlike his usual self.

He stopped right in the middle of a hallway. The employees stopped to greet him but he didn't respond to them. He was in a daze.

They looked at each other and thought that their Deputy CFO was becoming weirder and weirder.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om