Chapter 1807 — Troubled, Part Two

Whatever you have, they have too. You hold no absolute advantage. Even if you sell the same goods at the same price, you still cannot match the Kang Divine Physician's time-honored brand and old reputation!

"That is true. And right now Lai Fatty seems to have no money at all. Without start-up capital, having the formulas alone is useless..." Tang Yun sighed. Deep down, what she favored most was borrowing money from Bingtang, but how could she get in touch with Bingtang?

In Songshan City, Gu Pengzhan sat in despair. He had transferred both his shares and his business holdings into the An family's name. He was unwilling, but the An family had shown him all the account books of the futures investment operations, and he had even hired several financial experts to examine them. Every conclusion came back the same: the original strategy had been excellent, but the sudden withdrawal of funds had disrupted everything, and the result was a total loss.

Of course, these were fake accounts that An Jianwen had deliberately had the Fire Wolf Gang help arrange, prepared by analysts using market conditions. Few people could accurately predict futures trends, but fabricating a loss-making set of books based on past market behavior was something most traders and analysts could do flawlessly.

Gu Pengzhan thought of his father, retired at home and enjoying his twilight years; he thought of his daughter, Gu Mengyao; he thought of Wei Zhao... His expression grew dazed and dejected. All his enterprises were gone, including the cars and properties under his name. Even Yaoyao's villa and car had been transferred to the An family. Gu Pengzhan felt he had nowhere left to turn...

He had no face to meet his father, his daughter, or Wei Zhao. Although the An family had given him some face and had not immediately taken over Gu Mengyao's villa, they had made it clear that once Gu Mengyao returned and packed up her things, they would take possession. Shen Yushu's villa, also under Gu Pengzhan's name, had been seized outright.

Now the only thing left belonging to the Gu family was his father's single-story house in the countryside, and that was not worth much.

"Mr. Gu, money can be earned again once it is lost. You cannot let yourself fall apart like this!" Qing Bo had witnessed Gu Pengzhan's dramatic rise and fall with his own eyes. But when it came to Gu Pengzhan's investments, Qing Bo did not understand them and would not interfere. This time, although Qing Bo found something suspicious about the affair, he could find no flaw in it.

"Li Fu... with your skills, go find a new employer. Here... I no longer have the money to pay your salary..." Gu Pengzhan glanced at Qing Bo and said with a bitter smile.

"Mr. Gu, what kind of talk is that? I, Li Fu, did not stay here for money. I have long since come to regard you and Yaoyao as family!" Qing Bo said. "Besides, I owe Wei Zhao a great debt of gratitude. For whose sake could I possibly leave now..."

"Good!" Gu Pengzhan patted Li Fu on the shoulder and nodded heavily. "Li Fu, go to Xiaoshu's villa and move the things back to Yaoyao's villa first..."

"Mr. Gu, and what about you?" Qing Bo asked, startled.

"I want to be alone for a while. Do not disturb me..." Gu Pengzhan waved his hand and said.

"This... all right then!" Qing Bo could see that Gu Pengzhan was truly in a bad state of mind. Persuading him now would do no good; better to let him calm down on his own.

Gu Pengzhan sat alone on a bench by the roadside, while Qing Bo strode quickly toward the Seaview Bay villa district. The Bentley no longer belonged to them, so Qing Bo could only walk home. Fortunately, he was a **, and a walk like this was nothing to him.

An Jiande had not expected An Jianwen to be so ruthless, seizing all of Gu Pengzhan's businesses and funds for the An family in one stroke. Rather than admiring him, An Jiande felt even more envy, jealousy, and resentment! Yet even with all that envy, jealousy, and resentment, An Jiande still had to smile broadly and heap praise on him in front of his father, An Mingyue, and An Jianwen...

"Jiande, did you not say you had a grudge against Gu Pengzhan? Now that Gu Pengzhan is utterly worthless, you can make your move," An Mingri said to An Jiande. A father knows his son best; he could tell that although An Jiande was all smiles, he must be deeply stifled inside, with anger he could not vent. Gu Pengzhan would make a perfect punching bag, a target for his wrath.

"Oh? Big Brother, you have a grudge against Gu Pengzhan? Why do you want to go after him?" An Jianwen asked in surprise. In his heart, though, he was weighing the pros and cons. If Gu Pengzhan were dealt with now, no one would suspect him, because Gu Pengzhan no longer had any value!

If this had happened earlier, back when Gu Pengzhan had handed his money over to the An family to manage, and something had befallen Gu Pengzhan then, people would certainly have suspected the An family.

"Heh heh, your big brother's business is nowhere near as big as yours. Just small dealings. I had a bit of a run-in with him before..." An Jiande said with a smile that was not quite a smile. "I wanted to move against him earlier, but when I heard you were swindling money for our An family, little brother, I let him off for the time being..."

"So that is how it was... Then, Big Brother, do you need my help?" A new scheme suddenly formed in An Jianwen's mind. If something were to happen to Gu Pengzhan now, would Gu Mengyao not be left even more alone and helpless? And Wei Zhao had suffered qi deviation and was neither dead nor alive. When that time came, he, An Jianwen, would be Gu Mengyao's only support!

Otherwise, how was Gu Mengyao, all alone, supposed to go on living? So at this thought, he felt a little eager to help An Jiande do away with Gu Pengzhan.

"If you can help, that would be best..." An Jiande had meant to refuse, but then he suddenly thought of that capable hypnotist at An Jianwen's side, and said, "I was planning to arrange a car accident for Gu Pengzhan. I have even found someone to take the blame. But if that hypnotist could plant a suggestion in Gu Pengzhan's mind, make him seek his own death and walk into the car himself, then we would not have to bear much responsibility on our side..."

"No problem!" An Jianwen agreed readily. "I will arrange for him to go with you right now!"

Gu Pengzhan sat alone on the bench by the roadside. Several times he could not resist the urge to contact his father and pour out his current difficulties to him, but he feared the old man could not bear it! A vast corporation had become someone else's in the blink of an eye. Anyone would feel miserable at such a turn.

And as for his daughter, she urgently needed money to seek medicine for Wei Zhao. How was he supposed to explain this to her? Gu Pengzhan cursed himself bitterly. Why had he been so possessed? An Mingyue had already advised him to quit while he was ahead. Why had he still been so greedy for wealth?

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