Chapter 378
Chapter 378
"Barney, you're not new. What do you mean by that?" Jacob was familiar with the situation in the
company and interrupted Barney first, afraid that Arya would think too much.
"I don't mean anything by it. I just want to know the truth."
"The police didn't find the body either, so the answer they gave was just out of speculation, it wasn't
accurate." When Arya came, she was prepared for this situation.
Even if she was heartbroken, she responded calmly. Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.
If she was in a mess, they would be even more uneasy, and today's meeting would be even
unconvincing.
"Did you hear that? So please be at ease. In the future, she will replace Mr. Jones. Temporarily."
Jacob couldn't convince himself when he said this. Was this really temporary?
He wasn't sure. He wasn't as confident as Arya.
"We believe in Miss Harrison." Barney took the lead and stood up. "Miss Harrison didn't come to the
company often. The last time the company was in turmoil, Miss Harrison came out to take charge. We
believe in Miss Harrison's ability."
Following Barney's words, a few senior workers stood up and echoed.
A lot of people below had been contacted by Jacob. They would definitely support Arya's work at the
meeting in case someone took the opportunity to make trouble taking advantage of Xavier's absence.
Arya stood up and gave them a deep bow. "Thank you for supporting me."
After the meeting, Arya sat in the conference room, and Jacob stood aside.
With diversified business, WS Group was involved in many industries.
It would take a lot of time for Arya to understand every business at once.
"If you have anything to do, just leave it to me."
He had a firm grasp of every kind of business. The only thing that Arya needed to do was stay in the
company to improve the morale. Jacob was actually quite worried about her current situation.
He was afraid that she would deliberately place pressure on herself with this work.
Arya knew what he was worried about and rubbed her forehead. "Don't worry about me. I'm fine."
If she didn't know, she couldn't make the right decision. She couldn't just work as a mascot.
Jacob had already reduced the number of documents presented to her, afraid that she would be under
pressure.
Arya only learned the tip of the iceberg among all businesses in a day.
If Arya didn't understand something, she would just ask for Jacob's help.
"Our company's involved in real estate, catering, new media, and other industries, but why are all the
data in the electronic sector not transparent?"
There were clear reports of profits from factories to sales in all businesses, but those on the electronic
part were not explicit.
No one had understood this business, except Xavier and he.
"Do you remember what I told you about our other company?"
Arya remembered that he seemed to have said it once last time, but she didn't think much about it at
that time. She just thought of it as an ordinary branch company.
"At first, Xavier secretly created S&Y Group just to make it easier to do something that is not allowed in
WS Group. Later, Xavier developed the core business of WS Group in this company and invested
heavily. He recruited a lot of talents in this area to research and develop and achieved some success.
Now, the most advanced radiation protection products on the market are all from S&Y Group and are
sold to dozens of countries. Our products are widely used. We have become suppliers of many
renowned and large companies in terms of medical equipment, mechanical equipment, and electronic
equipment, so there is no detailed record of this business. These implicit records are just fake detective
fields."
Xavier didn't want to make S&Y Group public. Many people knew that, but they all thought the boss of
S&Y Group kept a low profile and didn't show up in public.
Jacob went to the office and took out the last year's reports of the two companies from the safe.
"You can tell by looking at it."
The WS Group was well known for its extensive business and good results in the industry. Last year,
the revenue of various businesses reached 38 billion dollars with a net profit of 13.8 billion dollars, but
S&Y Group reached 100 billion dollars with a net profit of up to 40% of comprehensive revenue, of
which net income was higher than the annual income of the WS Group.
Everyone knew that Xavier was rich, but no one knew how rich he was.
Only now did Arya realize that Xavier was so rich.
It wasn't that Xavier was hiding it from her on purpose, but that he didn't like to talk to her about work.
Perhaps no one in the family knew what a big fortune Xavier made.
Mr. Jones was in the army all year round. Xavier didn't listen to him to join the army. The two of them
had always been estranged and he never asked about Xavier. He only knew that Xavier managed the
WS Group well.
A few years ago, Xavier built a villa in the city center for Daisy and Mr. Jones's restful retirement. Mr.
Jones didn't agree and thought it too ostentatious. After all, he was still in power at that time, so he was
afraid that someone would gossip and make trouble.
Xavier had a bad relationship with Mr. Jones at that time, so he just sold it.
Later, Mr. Jones grew older and became nice, so their tension eased.
Arya cocked her head and looked at Jacob. "Is there any other secret that I don't know?"
Jacob shook his head decisively. "No."
Arya raised her eyebrows and did not ask further.
At night, she went to pick up Ryan. The family didn't talk to Ryan about Xavier. They only said that he
was on a business trip. He was still young and would be hurt if he knew.
Since Ramona was born, Arya and Ryan had less time together. She had ignored Ryan for a long time
because of Xavier's incident.
Arya took Ryan to a restaurant that he liked to eat in.
Ryan grew taller and looked more and more like Xavier.
Ryan complained, "Since my little sister was born, mommy doesn't have time to care about me
anymore. I'm not used to you being so nice to me all of a sudden today."
Arya combed his hair. "That's not gonna happen anymore. Mommy will spend a lot of time with you in
the future."
Ryan didn't believe her and looked up. "Really?"
"Of course, I'm a woman of my word." Arya picked up food for Ryan.
Ryan pouted. "Well, I believe you for the time being."
"You naughty boy." Arya touched his forehead.
At this moment, a woman passing by their table suddenly fell down. Arya looked down and saw that the
woman was about to get up from the ground. Arya reached out to help her. Just as the woman looked
up, Arya frowned. "You..."
The woman shook her head at her, indicating Arya not to speak. She grabbed her hand and stuffed a
USB drive into her hand.
"Madam, are you okay?" At this moment, two burly bodyguards chased after her, seemingly protecting
her but monitoring her.
The woman shook her head, saying that she just fell down accidentally. She looked at Arya and said,
"Thank you for helping me just now."
Arya withdrew her hand under the table without a trace and said calmly, "You're welcome."
"Madam, shall we leave?" The bodyguards accompanied her from her sides.
The woman was used to it. She straightened her back and strode forward in her high heels after putting
herself back together after her falling down.
When they left the restaurant, Arya opened her hand. A USB drive was wrapped in a piece of paper,
and there were two words written on it with an eyebrow pencil...