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Chapter 397: 397: They're All Out of Luck
Chapter 397: 397: They're All Out of Luck
Chapter 397: Chapter 397: They’re All Out of Luck
In the blink of an eye, the winds of change had swept through Rainy City.
The Gu family, once a prominent name in Rainy City, suddenly began to decline. The stocks of Gu Group soared to their highest in two days, only to plummet to the bottom just as abruptly!
The Gu company found itself in dire straits, with internal chaos reigning supreme.
Worse still, all shareholders blamed the plummeting stock prices squarely on Chairman Gu Qiao’an, collectively demanding his resignation and gearing up to hold a general meeting to officially oust him.
On the other hand, the Chi family, related by marriage to the Gus, wasn’t faring any better.
The Chi Group had a major project that was all set to break ground, but it was abruptly halted by the government. Because of this project, Chi Jianguo lost a whopping one billion, and the plan to list the company was nearly derailed.
After venting his rage at a company meeting, Jianguo stormed back home.
In the Villa of the Chi family, Gu Qiaomei was waiting for his return.
Upon seeing him come home, she hurriedly approached him, anxious, “Jianguo, my brother is in trouble. Please, help him.”
Already vexed from the company’s issues, Jianguo felt more irritated upon hearing Qiaomei’s plea and took off his tie in a huff, tossing it onto the sofa, refusing bluntly, “I can’t help.”
Qiaomei had pinned all her hopes on him, and she couldn’t believe his heartlessness when he turned her down, her face soured instantly as she moved in front of him, clutching his wrist and beseeching, “Jianguo, we’ve been husband and wife for so many years. I have never asked you for anything, but this time, I implore you, please help my brother, you’re the only one who can.”
She paused, then added, “When you had nothing back then, my brother helped you too. Can you repay him just this once?”
Her bringing that up was the last straw—his anger bubbled over, and Jianguo roughly shook her hand off and glared at her furiously, “You still have the nerve to mention his ‘help’! Why don’t you say how he humiliated me when he lent me the money?”
Qiaomei bit her lip, persisting, “My brother’s attitude was indeed wrong, but he really did help you.”
“So this time I gave him one billion back, what else do you expect from me? To throw the entire company into the mix?!”
“One billion? What do you mean?”
Jianguo glared at her with a flushed face, his voice dripping with sarcasm, “Didn’t your precious brother tell you what he did?”
“What did my brother do?” Qiaomei also sensed that the company crisis was too sudden and strange, but she hadn’t found out what had happened.
Chi Jianguo clenched his teeth, “He kidnapped Enen!”
“What?!”
How could her brother possibly kidnap Chi Enen?
“How many times have I told you to keep Chi Ya in line. You agree to my face, yet behind my back, you sneakily get her out of the Police Station with your brother’s help. And now, kidnapping Enen…”
Chi Jianguo was not just angry at Gu Qiao’an for kidnapping Enen, but for causing him to lose one billion and delaying the listing of his company yet again.
“And now you have the audacity to ask me to help your brother. Why should I help? I will absolutely not help him, and no one else can save him either. Do you know who he has offended?”
“Who?”
“Young Master Li, Li Beijue!”
He too had just visited the Mayor’s Office, attempting to pull some strings to get the government to greenlight the company’s halted project. Only then did he find out that his daughter, who had never been a priority to him, had actually caught the eye of Young Master Li!
And the ‘old man’ Chi Ya kept claiming was sponsoring Chi Enen turned out to be none other than Young Master Li!