The Apple of My Eye novel Chapter 143

Autumn did not show any sign of happiness instead she looked a little worried. She grabbed Charles by his arm and took him aside to a quiet corner. She then whispered to Charles in hushed tone, "I can't possibly take this company."

"Why?" asked Charles in confusion. Charles couldn't understand what was happening. 'This company is my gift to her. If it were Rachel, she would embrace me and thank me. But here I am, and Autumn is refusing to take it.'

"Charles, you don't understand. I..." Autumn didn't know how to explain what she felt to Charles. 'If I accepted this company, I would be ill at ease with Charles, ' she thought to herself.

Isla walked up to Autumn with determination and said, "Dear, just take it." Charles couldn't comprehend Autumn's thoughts, but Isla could. A few days back they had a conversation about this. When she saw Autumn and Charles walk to a corner, she followed them as she knew that Autumn would refuse Charles's proposal.

With a little frown, Autumn responded, "Isla, you know me very well."

Isla nodded with approval, "Of course I do." "But this is not the time to consider your pride. Mr. Lu is your husband. It is not a big deal for him to let you take over Cloud Advertising Company. Don't overthink this and accept his generous and considerate proposal."

"You know that I don't want..."

"I know and understand your concern well. In the past, I would have supported you and your decision. But now things have changed."

Perhaps as Isla was a bystander, so was able to think through this situation rather rationally when compared to Autumn. She proceeded, "Have you forgotten all that has happened? Now, not a single company will employ you owing to those negative rumors about you. I also offered to open a company together if you couldn't find a job. Now, your husband is presenting you with such a good opportunity. Why don't you just take it?"

"But..."

"Don't hesitate any further." Isla continued advising her, "You're his wife. He has earned so much money and it is all for his family. If you don't spend his money, who else has the right to do so? Am I right, Mr. Lu?"

"Yes absolutely..." Once Charles heard their conversation, he began to understand Autumn's thoughts. Not to cause stress to Autumn, he added with a comforting and calm look, "Shining Company's public relations business has been outsourced to several other companies in the past few years. Although we have our own PR department, it has no practical function in reality. Cloud Advertising Company isn't a big company yet but it does receive excellent feedback. I have my reasons to acquire it. I already have a lot of work and responsibility which come with handling and managing Shining Company. If I manage Cloud Advertising Company too, I might be left with no time to even sleep."

"He is right." Isla joined his line of dialogue and added, "If you take over this company and handle its functions, you will be doing your husband a favor. If you still feel uncomfortable, then you can try your best to manage Cloud Advertising Company well, and bring him actual benefit and profits by the end of this financial year."

"But..." Autumn's determination and conviction were shaken slightly, but she still had some concerns.

'Charles has spent a huge sum of money acquiring this company. What if I ruin the functioning of Cloud Advertising Company and lead it to suffer a loss?' thought Autumn to herself.

Charles encouraged, "There is nothing to worry. All you need to concentrate on is doing your job as well as you possibly can." He then turned to Isla and said, "Isla, I heard that you lost your job because of Autumn. Are you interested in working in the Cloud Advertising Company to help her run this company?"

"Isla, I need your help. Please don't think twice, just come and work with me." If Charles hadn't reminded her, in that moment, she would have forgotten that Isla lost her job because of her. 'Now, I have to take over Cloud Advertising Company especially for Isla's sake.'

Isla looked at Autumn with a content and pleased look in her eyes. She said to Autumn, "If you want to hire me, you need to pay me a generous salary."

Charles responded with a warm smile, "Of course we will."

Isla said with an appreciate little nod, "Okay, Manager Ye, nice to meet you!"

Autumn couldn't help laughing once she heard her flattering words. She replied, "Screw you!"

Charles had finally succeeded in his endeavor to convince Autumn to take over Cloud Advertising Company. However, Ryan and other employees were waiting anxiously. 'Paula spread those rumors to frame Ye, but I had given her my permission to do so. Now Ye is the general manager of Cloud Advertising Company, and I will work for her. Perhaps she might give me a hard time, ' Ryan pondered.

After some discussion, Autumn walked towards Ryan. While standing right across from him, she said to him, "Mr. Zhou, I hope to get on well with you in the coming days."

"Please don't call me Mr. Zhou. Now you're the general manger of this company, so just call me Ryan." With an anxious stance Ryan stared at Autumn. He proceeded, "What happened before was simply a mistake. I know you're an open-minded woman. Please don't blame me for that ordeal."

"Don't worry about it. I have forgotten and moved past what happened in the past. I just hope that it won't happen again." Then she walked forward and turned to Ryan in one swift movement, and said, "Mr. Zhou, please stay here to collect all the files after work. I need to check them tomorrow."

"As for my office..." continued Autumn, as she caught a glimpse of her former cabin. After she left the company, Ryan had given her cubicle to Paula. Everything inside had changed. Paula even had changed the position of the furniture including the desk. After glancing at her former office, she said, "Please tidy up my office. By the tomorrow morning I hope that everything inside will be restored to the way it looked when I worked here."

Autumn wanted to punish him a little for what he had done to her.

Ryan said, "Ye, what about moving into my office? There..."

"There is no need." Ryan's office was the best one in the company, but Autumn was used to her old section and just wanted that. She didn't care much about this, so she said, "I am accustomed to working from there. You don't need to move out."

Autumn called out, "Isla." "Are you happy with your new designation as the Planning Director?"

To get this post, Paula had made great effort to vie against Autumn. She had just become the planning director for few months, so she just wouldn't allow Autumn to give her post to Isla.

She said, "Ye, I know you're the general manager of the company, and I'm really happy for you. But don't be in a hurry and forget that I'm the planning director of Cloud Advertising Company now. Isla has no right to take my position that I made for myself."

Tilting her head, Autumn said "I'm the general manager of this company now. And that simply means it is my call to decide who gets to work within which space and capacity."

Paula stammered as her face turned pale with anger, "You... I see. You're exploiting your new position to take revenge on me. It was your own decision to leave the Cloud Advertising Company. I had nothing to do with it. How can you treat me like this?"

"I remember that Mr. Lu fired you just now. Did you forget it?" Autumn said, "Even if I use the power of my position to take revenge, what can you even do?"

With a stern look Ryan called out, "Paula." "Do you know who are you talking to? Have you lost your mind?"