I Am Gwen's Spider-Man Mentor

Tony Stark's dismissal of Raymond Xu was obviously an expedient measure, but obviously, the capital market did not understand it this way - or, in other words, someone deliberately did not let the capital market understand it this way.

After the relationship between Gwen Stacy and Raymond Xu was exposed, the tabloids first focused their fire on Gwen. After forcing Empire State to temporarily suspend Gwen himself, Stark turned the fire on Raymond - and then Stark fired Raymond.

Just when everyone thought that this matter was over, everyone was relieved, and even Raymond himself had already started to assist Zhao Hailun in launching the first "Falcon" rocket, these people who were afraid of the world being in chaos The media suddenly singled out another incident and hyped it up——

"Stark fires his "Bismarck!"

"Baby Stark lost his Raymond bottle!" 》

"The nanny is fired!" Where does Stark Industries go from here? 》

"When the giant ship Stark Industries was facing the abyss, he asked the old sailor to disembark! 》

A series of headlines like this appeared openly in New York City newspapers, which used many allusions to the 19th century when Wilhelm II deposed the iron chancellor Bismarck - of course, before that, there were a mess of Internet articles and TV The news has already made similar statements:

The general meaning is that Raymond Xu is the only person who can stir up the entire Stark Industry, and neither Tony Stark nor Pepper Potts is actually able to support the crisis——

Stark Industries is still in a critical period of transformation. Raymond personally supervises and controls the whereabouts of the vast majority of its 250,000 employees, deciding what the entire company's upstream and downstream industry chains will transform into - You know that these operations are extremely delicate, and if you are not careful, you may lose everything.

In addition, Stark Industries' current 25-person strategic committee is all confidants personally selected by Raymond Xu, and his "Future Laboratory" is also the only main force in the entire Stark Industries technology research and development besides Stark himself.

With the entire Stark Industries bowing to Raymond Xu's orders, Xu, as the actual controller and uncrowned king of this "dynasty", was easily deposed by Tony Stark. With just a few strokes of exaggeration, he was It’s enough to exaggerate a huge crisis!

In the office of the president of Stark Industries' temporary headquarters in New York, the big TV screen was showing the plummeting Stark Industries stock index - the international speculators that Kingpin asked Sitwell to find had long been shorting Stark Industries. Stocks, in the chaos of Raymond Xu's suspension, no one could notice this operation!

As a result, Pepper Potts watched helplessly as the stock price, which was already falling due to the "teacher-student love affair", even made a show of trying to jump off the cliff in one go.

"Look, what are they saying!" Little Pepper turned off the TV, pointed at the newspaper and complained to Happy next to her:

"Baby Stark can only hold a bottle in his mouth, and now that he has fired the nanny who gave him warm milk, the baby will only have cold milk to drink!"

"I don't know how Mr. Stark would feel when he saw these reports." Happy sighed, "How could the outside world spread like this?"

"And this -" Pepper frowned, "Kaiser Wilhelm II fired his Prime Minister Bismarck and rashly launched the First World War. Then he was driven to the Netherlands by the Germans to become a wealthy man. Damn it – so, where can Stark go in the future?”

"Have they already begun to imagine the outcome after the bankruptcy of Stark Industries?" Pepper was furious. "Does this mean that you, me, and Tony are not human beings? Only he, Raymond, is human?" "

"Please believe me, this is probably not Mr. Xu's original intention." Happy comforted the anxious and impatient Little Pepper, "It should just be the media fanning the flames."

"Even if it wasn't his intention, now we've been put in a position where we can't get off the stage!" Pepper threw the newspaper on the table angrily, "If he is reinstated, it means admitting that neither I nor Tony matter to this company, only He, Raymond Xu, is the real master..."

"And...then the media can call him and that damn...what are they called?"

"Gwen..." Happy added weakly for Pepper, "Gwen Stacey."

"Yes, re-ignite the scandal of the teacher-student relationship between the WASP girl named Gwen and the top professor at ESU, and then question whether the so-called 'social responsibility' promised by Stark Industries is true or false."

"If we don't reinstate him, then Tony and I are blind, harming talents, causing Stark Industries' stock price to turmoil, and shareholders to run away... We are also preparing for the Stark Expo! We can't let this happen at this juncture. !”

"But..." Happy obviously also knows about the Ark Reactor project, "Controllable cold fusion should be enough to stabilize our stock price... or even bring our stock price to a higher level, right?"

Pepper fell silent. She looked at Happy in front of her uncertainly. After thinking for a long time, she sighed: "Sure enough, you really don't understand these things at all, just like Tony."

As Tony Stark's personal assistant and the communication bridge between him and former CEO Obadiah Stan, although Pepper has been holding a position that seems to be just a "life secretary", he has frequent contacts with top business people. , in fact, her own business ability has been greatly underestimated——

"It's true that the Ark Reactor is an epoch-making technology... But if you and Tony are allowed to run the company and you only hold the Ark Reactor, those demons on Wall Street who can eat people but not spit out bones can chew your bones into pieces before feeding them to you. If you give it to dogs, they can break the reactor technology into tens of thousands of patents and sell them secretly——"

Little Chili Pepper, who was extremely angry at Happy, said, "When the time comes, when people sell your patent, you will still have to count the money for them!"

——Little Pepper has seen too much about this kind of thing. There are definitely many technical geniuses who claim to have special skills and have been tricked and bankrupted by Wall Street. This is why she secretly vowed to protect Tony.

Happy was silent for a long time. He swallowed and then asked softly: "Then what should we do?"

"We have to see what Tony thinks first..." Little Pepper sighed. She pushed up the broken hair in front of her forehead, then covered her forehead, put her right hand on her hips, and said helplessly: "Besides Wall Street, what I am most worried about now is Tony. It’s me!”

----Dividing line----

"The Dow Jones Index has proven that Raymond Xu is the only person who can support Stark Industries, but today when he was involved in a teacher-student romance scandal and was dismissed, we have to start thinking about Anthony Stark The possibility of me taking over as CEO..." Stark sat on the sofa, rarely holding a newspaper and reading aloud:

"Tony Stark has been arrogant, arrogant and disrespectful of the rules since the beginning of college. In his eyes, the girl on the cover of Playboy magazine is even more important than the shareholders of Stark Industries. So, We have to wonder where Stark Industries will go in today's difficult transformation and after losing a first-class president like Raymond Xu."

"Ha!" After reading the newspaper, Stark laughed and seemed quite satisfied with the description: "They described me quite accurately!"

"Sir, please believe that this is not my intention." Opposite Stark, Raymond appeared to be grinning and sweating on his back. Being born in the East, he understands the meaning behind the word "great achievements and shocking master".

"Xu, if I am cursed by wisdom, do you think you are cursed by business acumen, huh?" Stark still looked nonchalant, leaving the newspaper on the sofa aside:

"I have never cared about the nonsense of these garbage media." Tony's statement gave Raymond reassurance, but then he became a little unhappy:

"What I'm angry about is that they called Little Pepper..."

Tony, who was optimistic by nature, suddenly became irritable. He stood up, walked back and forth several times, and then continued to Raymond: "If the problem of the palladium in the reactor cannot be solved, I will have to go to God in a few months at most." Let's play cards...then only Pepper will be left..."

Tony Stark suddenly shuddered for some reason. Everything that happened when Obadiah Stane was in office seemed to be inexplicably similar to today. He fully thought that appointing Pepper Potts as rotating CEO would prevent such a situation from happening, but he never expected——

While he was still there, Raymond Xu still had to restrain him... If he were no longer around, could Pepper alone be able to restrain Raymond Xu, who had both brains and skill?

This idea shocked Tony himself - Obadiah Stan, who was as close to his father as he was, could betray him and leave him in a dark cave in Afghanistan for several months... and he himself Can Raymond Xu, who has no friendship with him, be trusted?

Stark looked at Raymond with eyes full of scrutiny - but Stark himself had no authority, but he completely revealed this suspicion in front of Raymond.

When Raymond met Stark's suspicious eyes, his heart suddenly started to feel cold. The professor quickly excused himself: "Sir, do you want me to make a statement to the outside world?"

Tony Stark's doubts are just doubts after all - compared to those suspicious politicians and entrepreneurs, Tony Stark is still just a technical genius and a science man at his core, and he doesn't have that many tricks up his sleeve.

So after just doubting it for a while, Tony didn't do what he thought. He nodded hesitantly: "Maybe it would be better for you to make a statement, but what are you going to say? Are you going to end the relationship with your little girlfriend?"