"The company... something has happened to the company." Father Qin's words fell like a thunderbolt, shattering the warm atmosphere. The teacup in Mother Qin's hand nearly slipped from her grip, and her face instantly turned pale.
"What on earth is going on? The company was doing fine, how could something happen?" Mother Qin's voice trembled, her eyes filled with worry and confusion. The Qin Group was the lifelong effort of the couple, the pillar they had erected to support the Qin Family. Now that this pillar was suddenly cracking, how could they not panic?
Father Qin took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and recounted what he had heard over the phone. Several subsidiaries under the Qin Group had been hit to varying degrees almost simultaneously. In the stock market, someone had maliciously shorted their shares, causing a price crash; in collaborative projects, partners were pulling out under various pretexts and even demanding breach-of-contract penalties; on the banking side, maturing loans were denied extensions, with immediate repayment demanded...
Chapter 101