Fire Me? Watch Your Company Go Bankrupt

Chen Ran sells charging stations and brings in more than half his company's revenue, working off technical knowledge and a reputation clients trust. Management promised him a bonus of one million if he landed the thirty million contract. He lands it. In the same month the payout is due, Manager Wang, brought in from outside, and President Li run him through a performance review rigged to fail and fire him for cause, which cancels the bonus. The day he clears his desk his phone starts ringing. The long-term clients hear he is gone, freeze their agreements, and tell his old employer they will deal with Chen Ran or with nobody. Lin Xi, the son of a rival firm's owner, comes to him with money and a proposal to start something together. His family backs him too. The new company takes contract after contract on the strength of relationships he spent years building. His former employer, losing its core people and its customers at the same time, runs into cash flow trouble and slides toward collapse, and the men who signed his dismissal start looking for underhanded ways to break what he is building.