Chapter 43

Su Yan and his companions sat in the dining room as Yang Cuizhi recounted the day's events to Nie Jianxin. Nie Jianxin sat with a grave expression, his eyes fixed on Su Yan with a look of intense scrutiny. An hour ago, the bank had called to reject his recent loan application. At the same time, they claimed that Xinrun Supermarket no longer had any growth prospects, and demanded the immediate repayment of a ten-million-yuan loan. When Nie Jianxin first heard this, he was completely bewildered. His relationship with the bank had always been cordial, and borrowing money had never been difficult. Over the past three years, they had built a very friendly partnership. There was no logical reason for the bank to suddenly demand repayment; there had to be an underlying cause. He had called a friend at the bank to sound things out. It turned out that twenty minutes earlier, members of the Nie family had offended the Xie, Zhou, Deng, and Mo families all at once. Since those families were connected to the Shen family, offending them was equivalent to offending the Shen family itself. Who would dare loan money to the Nie family under such circumstances? With such massive risk involved, the bank naturally moved to cut its losses immediately.