indianbanksassociation Chapter 202 Breach of Contract Fee? Lin Zhou directly threw money at their faces until they hurt.
Chapter 202 Breach of Contract Fee? Lin Zhou directly threw money at their faces until they hurt.
Su Qingge looked at the glaring termination contract on the table and trembled with anger.
She took a deep breath, trying to suppress the anger surging in her chest.
These three individuals were discovered and nurtured by her, with countless hours of effort poured into their development. In this cutthroat industry, Starry Sky Media offered them the most lenient contracts and the best resources.
Now, however, it has become the sharpest knife piercing Starry Sky Media.
"President Su, please hurry."
Li Tian tapped the table impatiently, his face full of arrogance.
"Young Master Zhou is waiting for us to have a celebration party. Time is precious, and I still need to try out the makeup for an S-class male lead later."
Wang Mengmeng echoed, her sweet, delicate voice sounding incredibly grating at that moment.
"That's right, everyone should be more straightforward. Signing it is better for everyone. You can't force things. President Su is a smart man."
At this tense moment, when the air pressure was so low it was suffocating.
"Bang."
The heavy solid wood door of the office was pushed open from the outside.
The voice wasn't loud, but it carried a chilling intensity that sent shivers down one's spine.
Everyone instinctively turned their heads.
Lin Zhou, dressed in a simple black trench coat, slowly stepped across the threshold with one hand in his pocket.
He was also casually carrying a black leather suitcase in his hand.
He had just locked the evidence about the dynasty that the system had collected downstairs into a safe and was about to come up to have lunch with his wife.
As soon as I stepped out of the elevator, I heard Sister Hong roaring in the hallway.
At this moment, Lin Zhou's face completely lost its usual joking and lazy demeanor.
Those beautiful peach blossom eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of ice that would never melt.
It was bitterly cold.
He didn't even glance at the three flamboyantly dressed "top celebrities." It was as if they were three clumps of garbage polluting the office air, and he felt it was an eyesore to look at them even once.
Lin Zhou walked straight past them and went to the executive chair.
He reached out and naturally placed his hand on the back of Su Qingge's hand, which was trembling slightly with anger, and gently patted it.
"Honey, it's not worth ruining your health over a few ungrateful wretches."
The man's voice was deep and gentle, instantly calming most of Su Qingge's anxiety.
Seeing Lin Zhou's arrogant attitude, Li Tian was instantly furious.
He was about to say something sarcastic when Lin Zhou suddenly turned his head and looked at Sister Hong standing to the side.
"Sister Hong."
Lin Zhou's tone was flat, without the slightest emotional fluctuation.
"What is the total amount of the breach of contract penalties for these three individuals, according to the contract?"
Sister Hong paused for a moment, then quickly opened the document in her hand.
"All three of them signed the highest-level S-type contracts at the time. If they unilaterally terminate the contracts, considering the marketing and promotional costs the company has invested over the years and the penalty clauses for breach of contract..."
Sister Hong gritted her teeth and announced an astronomical figure.
"That adds up to a full two hundred million!"
Upon hearing this number, Li Tian let out a smug, cold laugh.
He pulled a pre-prepared cash check from his suit pocket, held it between two fingers, and waved it in the air.
"Did you hear that? Two hundred million."
"Director Lin, I know you're pretty arrogant now that you've won the singing competition. But I'm afraid even if Starry Sky Media sold everything it owns, you couldn't scrape together two hundred million in cash, could you?"
Zhao Xu chimed in sarcastically from the side, displaying an arrogant and domineering attitude.
"Young Master Zhou said this money is considered severance pay for Starry Sky. Take the money and quickly terminate the contract."
The faces of the three men were filled with the arrogance of petty people who had achieved their goals.
In their envisioned script.
Faced with the current predicament of Starry Sky Media being empty and lacking successors, and with the tour next month just around the corner, Su Qingge will definitely try to persuade them to stay with tears in her eyes.
Sister Hong will definitely play the emotional card, recounting how good the company has been to them over the years, and begging them to stay and weather the storm together.
Even Lin Zhou, the newly crowned King of Singers, would humbly persuade them for the sake of the bigger picture.
Humans always have a perverse vanity.
They desperately wanted to see their once high and mighty boss groveling before them.
however.
Reality, however, slapped them hard across the face.
Lin Zhou released Su Qingge's hand and turned around.
He didn't even glance at Li Tian's arrogant face. He simply reached out and, with two fingers, snatched the two-hundred-million-dollar check as if he were crushing a fly.
He glanced casually at the numbers and seals on it.
then.
"Snapped!"
Lin Zhou threw the check worth 200 million yuan onto his desk like trash.
It made a crisp sound.
The gesture was casual, disdainful, and even carried a hint of condescension.
It was as if he hadn't thrown away two hundred million, but rather a piece of waste paper that had been used to wipe his nose.
"Sister Hong, verify the funds and process the transaction."
Lin Zhou's tone was cold, without the slightest hint of trying to persuade him to stay.
"Once the money is received, have the legal department stamp and sign it immediately. Complete the process within five minutes."
These words were spoken.
The entire office fell into a deathly silence.
The smile on Li Tian's face froze instantly, and his hand, which was raised in mid-air, remained awkwardly still.
Wang Mengmeng and Zhao Xu also stared wide-eyed, as if they had heard something unbelievable.
"What...what did you say?"
Li Tian stammered, his face full of disbelief.
Are you deaf or have you lost your mind?
Lin Zhou finally looked at him properly, but his gaze was like that of someone looking at a stray dog on the street.
"I said, take the money."
"Then, get out of here."
Lin Zhou placed the black leather suitcase he was carrying on the table.
It opened with a "click".
Inside wasn't some bargaining chip to retain him, but a whole box full of top-notch music demos and script plans that he had just sorted out, ready to pave the way for Starry Sky Media's future development.
But he couldn't even be bothered to explain to these three people.
"I originally thought that since you've been in the starry sky for so long, you'd at least have some humanity."
Lin Zhou braced himself on the table with both hands, leaning forward, and his overwhelming aura instantly enveloped the three of them.
"Now it seems that I overestimated your bottom line."
"Lin Zhou! What are you pretending to be so high and mighty for!"
Li Tian was thoroughly enraged by Lin Zhou's condescending contempt.
The sense of loss from not being persuaded to stay, even being thrown out like trash, drove him almost to madness. He felt that his most prized asset was worthless in this man's eyes.
"Without the three of us, Starry Sky Media's artist department is just an empty shell!"
"Let's see how you plan to do your tour next month! Let's see how you explain this to the investors!"
"You don't need to worry about that."
Lin Zhou straightened up and took out three coins from his trench coat pocket.
"Clang!"
Three one-yuan coins rolled down the polished marble floor and came to rest at the feet of Li Tian and his two companions.
"Take the money and get out of here."
"Consider this three yuan as a bus fare for you three ungrateful wretches. If you leave too slowly, I'm afraid you'll get the company carpet dirty."
"you!"
Zhao Xu was so angry that his face turned ashen, and his finger pointing at Lin Zhou was trembling.
Wang Mengmeng was so angry that she stomped her feet. She thought she would enjoy the thrill of being fawned over and entouraged, but instead she was trampled into the mud.
"Fine! Lin Zhou, you asked for this!"
Li Tian gritted his teeth, staring fiercely at Lin Zhou, his eyes seeming to spit fire.
"We'll see! I want to see if Starry Sky Media can survive this month without us!"
"Mengmeng, Zhao Xu, let's go!"
The three of them turned around in a disheveled state, their arrogant demeanor from when they came in completely gone.
Their current silhouettes resemble three skinned, helpless dogs with nowhere to hide, unable to do anything but writhe in impotent rage.
Just as they were about to step out of the office door.
"stop."
Lin Zhou's icy, chilling voice came from behind him again.
The three of them suddenly stopped in their tracks.
A ridiculously absurd expectation suddenly rose in my mind.
Did he change his mind?
Has he finally realized he can't do without us and is ready to back down?
A smug, cold smile returned to Li Tian's lips as he slowly turned around.
"What? Director Lin, are you having second thoughts...?"
Before he could finish speaking, his words were abruptly stuck in his throat, and the expression on his face instantly turned as ugly as if he had swallowed a fly.
Because he saw it.
Lin Zhou was holding a disinfectant wipe, wiping the edge of the desk that they had just touched with a look of disgust.
After wiping, Lin Zhou accurately threw the wet wipe into the trash can.
He raised his head.
His eyes were sharp as knives as he pointed at the office door.
He coldly uttered a sentence that sent chills down the spines of the three of them.
"Once you step out of this door, don't even think about calling yourself a star."
"I'm ashamed."