Being ganged up on by everyone was only to be expected.
As a major shareholder of Penguin, Yi Anguo had tried to talk so sense into Ma Huaten more than once.
For example, he’d advised him before not to get involved in the Weibo war, not to launch Penguin Weibo, but Ma Huaten just wouldn’t listen!
And Ma Huaten was great at cloning and imitating—once he spotted sothing with potential, he’d just copy it wholesale without scruples.
Especially when it ca to Super Anjing—whatever Anjing Group launched, he’d follow with his own version.
Anjing launched Anjing Video, and not long after, Penguin followed with Penguin Video; Anjing launched Anjing Literature, Penguin followed with Penguin Literature.
Anjing launched Anjing Music, and Penguin followed with Penguin Music. Ma Huaten even told Yi Anguo: "You’re a major shareholder of Penguin anyway. If Penguin makes money, it’s the sa as you making money. I’m basically just working for you."
Yi Anguo was pretty helpless. What could he do? What else could he say?
The internet world is just like that: you copy , I copy you, everyone copies each other. Whoever copies successfully, that’s their skill.
Several tis, Yi Anguo had thought about cutting off Penguin’s VChat halfway, but in the end he gave up each ti.
Just like Ma Huaten said, he himself was a major shareholder of Penguin anyway; if Penguin made money, it was the sa as him making money.
Taking Penguin down didn’t seem to bring him much benefit either, so he just let it be.
It was like ituan too. Even though Yi Anguo knew it would beco the biggest competitor to his own Fantuan in the future, he still invested in it.
After all, whether he invested or not, ituan would stand out sooner or later; and if he didn’t invest, soone else would.
By investing early, then in the future, even if his Fantuan went under, at least he’d still be a major shareholder of ituan. One way or another, he wouldn’t take a big loss.
All he needed to do was sit back and watch the storm rise and let them fight it out; no matter who won, he’d be the biggest winner.
It was pretty much like those people who raise gu: they throw all the poisonous insects together and let them tear each other apart; the winner is king, and no matter which poisonous bug wins, the ultimate winner is the one raising them.
The next morning, right after a eting at Hualong Investnt Company where he announced that Chen Xuejiao would be taking a temporary leave for a while and that the two vice presidents would mainly be in charge of the upcoming work, and that he would personally handle the work that used to be done by Chen Xuejiao—
After he got back to his office, his phone suddenly rang. He glanced at the caller ID: it was the landline from ho.
When Yi Anguo picked up, he heard his eldest, Yi Xinyi, on the other end.
Yi Xinyi was already ten this year and would be starting fourth grade in the new sester after the sumr break.
"Dad! How co you never co ho these days?" Yi Xinyi said over the phone.
"Daddy’s been really busy with work lately, so I haven’t had ti to co back," Yi Anguo said to his daughter with a wry smile.
"Daddy’s lying! No matter how busy you are, you still have to co ho to sleep, don’t you?" Yi Xinyi said, unconvinced.
"You promised that if I got into the top three in my class, you’d take out to play over sumr vacation."
"Teacher said we can’t lie or cheat people. Is Daddy planning to lie and cheat ?"
"Daddy didn’t lie to you. Sumr vacation isn’t over yet, is it?" Yi Anguo said, starting to get a headache.
"But now you say you’re busy and have no ti. By the ti you’re done and have ti, I’ll be back in school, and then you’ll say school is more important," Yi Xinyi said.
"Anyway, if you don’t take out to play, you’re lying, you’re a cheater."
"When school starts, I won’t study hard either. I’ll just bring ho a big fat zero on my test."
Hearing his daughter say that, Yi Anguo got such a fright he hurried to beg for rcy: "Okay, okay! Daddy will make ti to co back and take you out to play, alright? You think about where you want to go."
He really was afraid of his eldest daughter; if he didn’t take her out, she’d deliberately score a zero on her exams next term.
Kids these days are sothing else; they’d even co up with this kind of tactic to threaten their own dad.
At that mont at ho, Hu Jing looked at Yi Xinyi and could only let out a wry smile.
"Mom, do you want to talk to my dad?" After getting what she wanted, Yi Xinyi grinned and asked Hu Jing.
Helplessly, Hu Jing took the phone from Yi Xinyi’s hand and said to Yi Anguo,
"Xin Yi is still young; she doesn’t understand things yet. Don’t take it to heart. If you really don’t have ti to co back, then forget it. I’ll take them out to play."
"She’s already ten, about to be in fourth grade. She does understand," Yi Anguo said with a bitter smile.
"I just promised her that if I still don’t take her out to play, she’ll say her dad doesn’t keep his word again."
"If she really throws a tantrum later and stops studying seriously, and brings ho a goose egg, I’ll regret it to death."
Hu Jing thought for a mont and said, "Then just co back. Take the kids out for a bit. We already have so many companies and such a big business empire; there’s no need to be so obsessed with work and making money anymore."
"With the wealth we have now, the kids couldn’t spend it all in several lifetis. But if you miss their childhood and don’t give them your company, that’s gone for good."
"You can never finish making money, but the kids will grow up very fast. When they’re grown and we want to spend ti with them, we probably won’t get the chance—they won’t want us around."
"If they start to harbor resentnt in their hearts, beco rebellious, and end up doing sothing bad, we’ll be too late to regret it then. No amount of money can buy that back."
Yi Anguo nodded and said, "I know all that. The reason I set up the seven major groups was to try to reduce the number of things I have to worry about myself, so I’ll have more ti to be with you and be there while the kids grow up."
"This ti was a bit of an accident. In the future we’ll train more talent and make them our professional managers to help us run the companies well."
"That way we’ll have more ti later. Wherever we want to go, it’ll be easy, and we’ll have all the ti in the world."
The two of them chatted for a while before hanging up.
Yi Anguo imdiately started making advance plans and arrangents. He called his son Guo Sian and said he was going abroad on a business trip to discuss so deals, and that he might need to be away for quite a while.
After everything was arranged, Yi Anguo took the car ho and was imdiately greeted with an enthusiastic welco from the kids.
Led by Yi Xinyi, a whole pack of younger brothers and sisters sward him, all yelling "Daddy, Daddy," each one wanting him to pick them up.
But how could he manage with just two hands? Even if you gave him two extra, it still wouldn’t be enough.
And no one could win against their eldest sister Yi Xin anyway. Age is a hard gap to beat; Yi Xinyi was much older than they were.
"Oh my, my big girl, you’re already this big and you still want Daddy to carry you? Daddy’s arms can barely handle you now," said Yi Anguo, picking up his eldest daughter with a wry smile.
"I just want you to hold . Serves you right for staying away so long," Yi Xinyi said in a spoiled, bossy tone.
"Sis, I want Daddy to hold too!" Yi Chenglong said, hugging one of Yi Anguo’s legs.
"Sis, I want Daddy to hold too!" Yi Jinfeng chid in on the other side.
"Sis! Daddy, hug hug!" The others refused to be outdone and started shouting loudly as well.
"Daddy, put down, you should hold my little brothers and sisters instead." Yi Xinyi surrendered in the end; she was too embarrassed to keep hogging her dad.
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