Before Elder Lin could recover from his confused state, the phone rang again.
The bewildered elder looked at the phone screen to see the name of another very important business partner—more significant than the previous one.
The previous partner was only a president with assets in the billions, but the person now calling had assets exceeding ten billion!
More importantly, this person was backed by one of Jinling's prestigious families, the Su Family!
He was the Su Family's front man!
Thus, although Elder Lin's mind was in disarray and he had a bad feeling about this call, he dared not delay and quickly answered it.
"Old Dog Lin! Of all people to provoke, you had to provoke him, damn it..."
As soon as the call connected, the caller began furiously berating Elder Lin, spewing all manner of curses!
After finishing his tirade, feeling somewhat relieved, the caller announced the cancellation of their cooperation with the Lin Family and his intent to hold them accountable for the severe financial damages resulting from Elder Lin's whims, "See you in court!"
Then he hung up the phone!
"What in the world is going on?!"
Listening to the busy tone, Elder Lin was stunned for a moment, then thinking about the caller's colorful language, he became so angry that he yelled out in fury!
After venting his anger, he remembered the caller's threat to seek compensation for their significant losses due to his own responsibility.
Elder Lin became so infuriated that smoke seemed to rise from his head.
"Who exactly have I offended?"
Elder Lin thought darkly, then glanced at his phone screen lit up with a message interface, where a glaring reminder from Lin Qingxue pointed to Jinyu Group's involvement!
"Could it be President Lin of Jinyu Group? Impossible! How could a general manager of a branch company make the Su Family's front man listen to her?"
Elder Lin felt it unlikely!
But just then.
The phones of everyone from the Lin Family present started to ring.
"Ding Ling Ling!"
"Doo doo doo!!"
All kinds of ringtones sounded, creating chaos at the scene.
The members of the Lin Family looked at the names on their phones, their faces drastically changing.
Without saying anything, upon answering, they too were welcomed by the caller's verbal abuse.
"It's bad! It's really bad!"
At that moment, Elder Lin's assistant, pale and panicked, rushed into the conference room and shouted loudly to Elder Lin:
"Chairman, it's bad! Our Lin Group's stocks are drastically plummeting, seemingly under malicious pressure by some consortium, who prefer to lose money just to drive our stock prices down. According to our staff's estimates, our company has already lost tens of millions and the losses are increasing by the second!"
The assistant had just finished speaking.
Having just dealt with the verbal abuse himself, without allowing time for a mental breakdown, Zhiping also shouted at Elder Lin, "Grandfather, grandfather! It's terrible! Our previously scheduled partners in Lu City are now also canceling their cooperation with us!"
"Grandfather, grandfather! It's bad…"
"Grandfather..."
As soon as Zhiping finished, the other members of the Lin Family, having been similarly abused, panicked and began reporting to Elder Lin about the grave situation facing their family!
"This this this..."
Listening to everyone speaking all at once and seeing their panicked expressions, Elder Lin felt overwhelmed and finally yelled, "Enough!"
Everyone immediately fell silent!
Rubbing his temples, Elder Lin seemed to age decades, his foot almost stepping back into the grave, and said, "Give me a moment of peace."
The others nodded, not daring to speak, wary of upsetting the elder further, but still casting anxious glances at him, waiting for him to make a decision.
They were all parasites of the Lin Family who did nothing but leech off of it. If the Lin Family were to fall, what would they do? How could they continue spending lavishly, living a life of luxury? Would they actually have to go to work?
They couldn't accept the consequences!
Among them all, Lin Zhiping was relatively more willing to use his brain. He faintly guessed that the disaster that befell the Lin Family today was probably... because they had just been planning to invoke family law on Lin Qingxue...
'Impossible! It shouldn't be!'
Lin Zhiping murmured continuously in his heart.
Lin Qiaoxia was merely the general manager of a Jinyu Group subsidiary. Even though she indeed had considerable power, there was no reason for the big families of Jinling to give her face.
Unless it was...
the Chairman of Jinyu Group, more like!
Chairman!
Thinking this, Lin Zhiping quickly took out his phone to search online for the photos of the senior executives of Jinyu Group.
Suddenly.
There it was—Mu Jinyu's photo appeared in the "Chairman" section on Jinyu Group's website.
"Holy shit!"
Lin Zhiping couldn't help but curse aloud.
Fucking hell, the guy who had just been mocking him turned out to be... the Chairman of Jinyu Group?!
Wasn't that just too unbelievable?
No wonder, no wonder Lin Qingxue managed to promptly secure a collaboration with Jinyu Group yesterday.
No wonder when he went to Jinyu Group today, he was left hanging on the side, completely ignored, as if they were merely guarding against him like a thief.
And Lin Qingxue, however, as the president of her small company, had once again secured a collaboration with Jinyu Group!
Damned girl, she probably didn't even know that Mu Jinyu was the Chairman of Jinyu Group, did she?
How could she be so lucky to get acquainted with such an important figure?!
As Lin Zhiping was feeling both jealous and envious of Lin Qingxue and Mu Jinyu, the assistant standing by checked her phone messages, and then shouted with a terrified expression, "Chairman, Chairman, something terrible has happened..."
"Didn't I say not to bother me?!"
Elder Lin shouted angrily.
He was still thinking about contacting that friend who might help the Lin Family weather this crisis, when the assistant disturbed him again, interrupting his train of thought.
He thought that once this crisis was over, he should really change his life assistant.
Just when Elder Lin thought the assistant should have kept quiet,
who would have thought...
The assistant's expression changed, and then she said coldly, "Chairman, you are bankrupt!"
After speaking, she headed out of the conference room without hesitating.
The members of the Lin Family, including Elder Lin, were stupefied upon hearing the assistant's words!
They never expected that within just five minutes...
The Lin Family had gone bankrupt?!
Just as the assistant reached the hallway, she thought to herself that it was too bad her wages hadn't been paid before the Lin Group went bankrupt. No way, she had to figure out a way to recoup something!
Thinking this, she scanned the Lin Family's living room and then took away some valuable antiques as compensation for her wages.
While the assistant mercilessly announced the bankruptcy of the Lin Group and then left, Elder Lin stood there dumbfounded, so angry that he suddenly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.
He then collapsed onto the tabletop.
"Grandfather! Grandfather? Grandfather…"
Seeing this, people started shouting in shock and anger.
Upon checking, they discovered that Elder Lin's old ailment, which had just healed a while ago, seemed to have relapsed!