Spring lovers: We who are inseperable

"Who am I? The new owner of the First Hospital. I don't think we need any more introductions. Now, my secretary here will give a brief about the contract," Ethan said, and as he stopped speaking, a bodyguard came towards Zhen Dong's seat, on which he wasn't sitting right now. 

The bodyguard shifted the seat and kept in behind Ethan, who didn't bait an eye before sitting on it. 

Zhen Dong on seeing this was dumbfounded, it was disrespectful for him! Too disrespectful! He gritted his teeth, but then didn't do anything. 

With a deep breath, he remained silent. 

Whereas for the board of directors, they were enraged, in their minds they had cursed the person in front of them a thousand times. 

"This can't be happening! You are not telling us who you are! How can we just listen to you!"

"Yes! Mr. Zhen! We only want you as a leader! We will boycott this gentleman here!" 

"Indeed! Mr. Zhen just say the word. We are all waiting for your word and then we all can do it."

"Mr. Zhen, say something!"

"Stop everyone," Zhen Dong's voice echoed in the room, as everyone who was speaking stopped. 

"I know that you are all supportive of me, and I am thankful for that. But I also suggest listening to this gentleman's words. At least we can do this, right?" Zhen Dong said with a gentle voice. 

"Mr. Zhen is the only sensible person here, I think. Good. I like you," Ethan said as he had a sarcastic smile on his face. 

"Just look at this person! He doesn't even have the etiquettes to talk to us," a person said as he stomped his hand on the table. 

"Just because he has the shares, he is crossing the line," another person said. 

"Listen, you Old Hags. I am not interested in all this bullshit, so let's move to the topic," said Ethan who had an irritated expression on his face, as he massaged his temples and then asked Micheal to speak. 

Micheal came in front, standing just behind Ethan's seat, he started, "This is a loyalty contract. The terms in these contracts ask every person present here to promise their loyalty to GlobalMed Healthcare, by giving up the shares of the competing hospitals. If you are not interested in this, you will be giving up your shares to us at the cost of the nominal value of the shares. " 

On hearing GlobalMed Healthcare, the people along with Zhen Dong were shocked. Of course, they knew about GlobalMed. 

GlobalMed Healthcare is a company of unknown origin that had been targeting hospitals and taking them under them. Many influential hospitals have been made under it, till now. This corporation was going at the speed of lightning. They didn't expect that this company would come to First hospital like this. 

They also had not expected it because the First Hospital was under Wen Pharmaceuticals, even if they were not looking at its progress so closely, they were still keeping an eye on it. It was so shocking that they just sold it so easily, first to Li Corporations and then from where it went to GlobalMed Healthcare. 

No one present here had the courage to face Li Corporations, especially Li Wei, thus they couldn't find someone to answer them how this had happened. 

To add it all, the conditions kept in front of them were ridiculous. 

Of Course, all the shareholders had shares of the hospitals that were the competitors of the First Hospitals. It was not like they were clean. 

They could not rely on only First Hospital for their income, they had to invest their money somewhere else as well. 

At the time when they were invited to be the shareholder of the First hospital, they hadn't expected that it will make back to its top positions so fast, and thus they had bought the shares of the other hospitals that were at the top, but when the first hospital made it's returning to its positions, they didn't bother to sell the shares of the competitor hospitals because it would be a profit to them like this. 

They just couldn't sacrifice the shares of the other hospitals for this one, and if they went for the second option, it would be a loss to them, because the nominal value of the shares was very less than the market value of the shares. 

The shares of the first hospital were valuable as well, but the other shares also made a greater income for them. 

All the shareholders were in a hellacious situation.

As for Zhen Dong who had heard those words knew that it would be impossible for the shareholders to hold on to the shares at this rate. 

He secretly eyed to his left, and as soon as he did, one of the people sitting at that side, got up and said, "And what if we don't want to do any of them? You can't force us!"

"Yes! You can't force us. We won't sign any kind of contract."

"Yes!"

"I won't!"

"I won't too."

Suddenly, as if the others have got the courage to speak, all of them stormed with their opinions. 

A heavy sound was heard from Ethan, and then a chuckle, that almost silenced most of the people there. 

Ethan got up from his seat and then proceeded towards the seat of the chairman, which was empty and which was opposite Zhen Dong's seat. 

As he slowly walked towards the seat, everyone's eyes were on him. 

"Start," Ethan shouted and within a second, on the presentation screen, was the photo of the man who spoke earlier and some things written about him. 

It was enough for all the people to read them carefully. One by one slides like this, with every person's photo kept on coming, with something written under them. 

It was everyone's except Zhen Dong, but he looked shocked like everyone else. 

The slideshow was for five minutes, and after it was over, the room was silenced. 

Gulp 

Everyone felt that their throats had gone dry. 

SHIT!

They cursed in their minds. How did this happen? 

All of you must have guessed, right? What made these shareholders so shocked? Yes, Yes, you are right!

It was again the whole history of their bad deeds. Isn't it ironic, for these people, whose expression looked like they were seeing the death of any of their loved ones, nothing is more shocking than their bad deeds being exposed? 

Only one word for them: Pathetic. 

And this was what Ethan had in his mind for all the faces that he was seeing. 

He said, "So, I don't think there is any more explanation needed. You all know what the consequences will be. 

"Also, Mr. Zhen, I have seen the progress that you have had the first hospital make. It was very surprising for me. I can't let a precious person like you go, so you will be made the vice president of the first hospital," Ethan said as he looked at Micheal who then came towards the Zhen Dong and took the file that was kept in front of him. 

As for the others, they had no choice but to sign the contracts. 

Most of them sat in their places and then opened the file and made their signatures, they knew they had no other choice. 

Seeing that the plan is working alright, Ethan nodded to Micheal, who then started to take all the files that had been signed. 

"All those people who had chosen to leave, the door is that way," Ethan said as he turned towards the door. 

The people who had signed the contracts for not giving their loyalty, got up with rage in their eyes and one by one started to leave. 

"You will pay for it!" One of them even said as he stormed out of the room in anger. 

The remaining were four of the shareholders, who had the least shares. 

"Now, all those who have chosen to stay here will give up the shares of the other hospitals. And let's start making introductions," Ethan said. 

"I am Ethan Song, the representative of GlobalMed Healthcare," Ethan said, as he sat on the chair that belonged to the chairman. 

"I am Zhen Dong, nice to meet-,"

As Zhen Dong was speaking, he was interrupted by Ethan who said, "There is no need for our introduction, Mr. Zhen. I already know about you. I have heard a lot about you."

Zhen Dong was irritated, but soon he came back to his usual expression, and said, "Thank you for the praise, Mr. Ethan."

"Well then, now that all the business here is done, I will take my leave," Ethan said as he got up from his seat. 

"But, Mr. Ethan, what about the shares of the hospital? Only four won't be enough to reform the board of directors," Zhen Dong said. 

Ethan chuckled, as he turned towards him and spoke.