Qiao Yan was anxiously pacing outside the emergency room, biting his fingertips constantly. His mother was sitting on the bench crying. Qiao Yan was actually a little annoyed, but it was obviously inappropriate to get angry at this time, especially since she was his own mother.
Qiao Yun walked forward and pulled him aside. "What should we do? The news will surely spread quickly. I'm afraid the situation tomorrow will be difficult to control."
"How did it happen? The bank is here to collect the debt?" Qiao Yan now regretted that he had handed over all his assets in Qiaojiang out of spite. Now, everything is over.
Qiao Yun was a little helpless. "Our stocks are mortgaged on the black market, and some are private equity funds. Because they are short-term, people came to us. We still have loans from the bank for our new project. Our funding gap is about 700 to 800 million yuan. I'm afraid that even if we sell all the stocks we have now, they won't be worth half of it. There is really no way this time." He was a little frustrated.
Qiao Yan patted his forehead and took a deep breath. He turned around to look at his mother. Their eyes met and Qiao's mother lowered her head guiltily.
"Let's take it one step at a time. What else can we do? First, pay off the loan sharks, then the private placements, and then the bank loans."
"But where can we get so much money?" Qiao Yun frowned.
Qiao Yan looked up at him and said, "Now that things have come to this, do you still want to keep Qiaojiang? Give up the management rights, or even sell all the Qiaojiang shares, and we'll deal with the rest later."
"Sell Qiaojiang?" Qiao's mother came forward, "What should we do if we sell Qiaojiang? We can't sell it, then your Qiao family's business has been going on for generations." She held her eldest son's hand, "Can't Tongtong's family help us? What about the He family? Isn't Ye Mi the daughter of He Peining?"
Qiao Yan glanced at her with a look of disdain, "Mom, do you think this is just a small amount of money, how can others help you? You have created a huge hole of nearly 10 billion for us, all of which are non-performing assets. Can't you discuss it with us before making a decision? Ye Mi, Ye Mi, have you forgotten how you treated Ye Mi in the first place?"
Qiao Yan felt sad and disappointed. He walked to the side alone, holding the phone and thinking. Finally, he just sent a short message to Ye Mi: Something happened at home. I'm sorry I can't see you.
Ye Mi hid in her room alone, and she ignored her family members who asked her to go downstairs for dinner. At night, Jiang Mingming entered Ye Mi's room and saw her sitting on the bed in a daze. She felt distressed, "Can mommy sleep with you tonight?" She touched Ye Mi's hair, which had grown longer, and long hair still looked better.
Ye Mi pouted, "Forget it, I don't want my dad to hate me."
"Your father and Qingwen are both going to work overtime at the company tonight. You know Feiyang is going to expand soon, and the approval document from the Securities Regulatory Commission has come down. We may increase capital and issue new shares next month. Your father has been working a lot because of you recently. When he first heard you say that he is not your biological father, he was heartbroken."
Ye Mi smiled and felt a little comforted as she hugged her mother. "Mom, why did you meet such a good person like Dad, who loves you so much and insists on you, but why do I have such a bad life?" She forced a smile and acted coquettishly in her mother's arms.
Jiang Mingming certainly understood her hard work, "Silly child, if everything was so smooth, you wouldn't have suffered so much alone out there." Every love that is beautiful in the eyes of others may have some unspeakable bitterness for the person involved, but love is so beautiful that it is all worth it.
Ye Mi hadn't replied to the message, which made Qiao Yan feel indescribably bitter. He flipped his phone and looked up at the operating room, where the lights were still on. His father had a sudden heart attack and was undergoing surgery. He closed his eyes and leaned against the wall, feeling like he was going to collapse. Qiao Jiang might not be able to be saved, and his family and love were also in jeopardy.
He lowered his head and rubbed his face fiercely. He had always been self-important, but how could he have gotten to this point? This night was particularly difficult. He sat alone in a corner, not wanting anyone to disturb him. He suddenly felt extremely desolate.
As soon as the stock market opened the next day, Qiao Jiang's shares hit the limit down. In less than half an hour, reporters gathered outside Qiao Zhenting's ward, and all the embarrassing questions were thrown at them. Qiao Yun's situation in the company was even more miserable. In the morning, the shareholders convened an interim board meeting. Of course, they would be criticized for arbitrarily mortgaging company shares, which seriously violated the charter and harmed the interests of the company. Qiao Jiang suddenly stood on the edge of a cliff, and the century-old foundation was in jeopardy in just a moment.
What can be stable for a hundred years? The answer is nothing. Things change over time. No one has the right to laugh at others. There is nothing more unworthy than the rich laughing at the poor. Qiao's mother can only sit by the bed and take care of her unconscious husband. In fact, she doesn't even know how to take care of someone.
In the morning, the doctor came to give Ye Mi an injection. As soon as the doctor left, He Qingwen hurried back. He had worked overtime all night, and there were many bloodshot eyes. Ye Mi felt distressed when she saw him. After all, he was her brother. He was good to her, and she loved him too. "You must be tired. Let Aunt Zhang make you a cup of ginseng tea." She picked up the milk on the table. This was her daily homework, which was said to supplement calcium.
"Sister, something happened to the Qiao family. Qiao Zhenting went into surgery last night, and Qiao Jiang is now facing bankruptcy."
Ye Mi's hand trembled, and the hot milk spilled onto the back of her hand. She took a breath and quickly put down the cup, "What did you say? How is it possible? Qiaojiang is not a store, how can it be poured out just like that?"
"Qiao Yan's mother secretly mortgaged her two sons' shares and borrowed a lot of money from the black market and private equity funds. As a result, her speculative business failed, and she kept it a secret. Now people are coming to collect the debt. I'm afraid she will have to sell Qiao Jiang's shares. The old man couldn't catch his breath and had a heart attack." He finished the ginseng tea in one breath, "I have something else to do. I'll go upstairs to get my things and leave right away."
Ye Mi sat down on the sofa. This news made her feel a little numb. She couldn't believe it was true. She took out her cell phone and saw the text message from Qiao Yan. She was so anxious that tears welled up in her eyes. She called him immediately without thinking, but the call was transferred to voicemail. Qiao Yan was already busy and exhausted.
At night, the anesthetic for Qiao Zhenting finally wore off, and he slowly woke up. He held Qiao Yan's hand tightly and said, "Qiaojiang is our family business, we can't lose it."
Qiao Yan was unable to utter a word. Seeing his father's weak appearance but still earnest eyes, he had no way to retreat. He held his father's hand tightly and said, "Dad, you have to have a good rest. We will do our best." He said this very against his will. No matter how hard he tried, a skilled cook could not cook without rice. This was a gamble that would cost him his entire fortune. What else could he do but pay the bill
That night, He Jianming called Ye Mi to his study room alone, which made her a little nervous. It was not that her grandfather was not kind to her, but the situation this time seemed different from the past.
He Jianming still had a smiling face, "Ye Zi, you are the daughter of the He family now, isn't it time to change your name? I also think the name Ye Zi is very cute, you can continue to call me that, but can you change your full name?"
Such a polite discussion made Ye Mi a little nervous, "Grandpa, please give me a name. I'll listen to you."
"I discussed it with your parents. Your brother's name is He Qingwen. How about you be called He Jingwen?"
Ye Mi glared for a moment, then immediately smiled, still with that silly look. He Jingwen, what a silly name, so rustic, not as good as the name given by her grandmother who made a living in the alley. "Thank you, Grandpa, this name is really nice."
He Jianming saw something. "A name is just a label. No matter what you are called, you are now my granddaughter, He Jianming, and the daughter of the Feiyang family. This is what is most important. Your parents asked a fortune teller to calculate this name for you. It is very good. Let's leave it as it is."
Ye Mi suppressed her smile and nodded seriously. She just breathed a sigh of relief when He Jianming spoke again, "Ye Zi, I think you have heard about Qiao Jiang's situation. Feiyang is now at a turning point in its development. This capital increase will make Feiyang's scale among the top in the world, so you may have to make some sacrifices."
Ye Mi's body froze. She looked at her grandfather in horror and swallowed nervously, "Grandpa, I don't understand."
"You and Qiao Yan are husband and wife. This will make Fei Yang be influenced by Qiao Jiang. You can choose to either secretly become Fei Yang's daughter or cut ties with Qiao Yan."
Ye Mi was speechless for a moment. She lowered her head and twisted her fingers, then looked up at He Jianming, "Grandpa, let me think about it." I don't want to get divorced, but she couldn't say this. This was a choice between family and lover.
When she came out, Jiang Mingming was waiting at the door. "Grandpa said when will you return to your roots?" Her earnest gaze hurt Ye Mi deeply. She pursed her lips and said, "Grandpa said to give me the name He Jingwen." Then she hid back in her room. Jiang Mingming didn't know what happened and stood there in a daze.
He Xiaoning was lying on the hospital bed holding a copy of today's financial newspaper. The front page was about Qiao Jiang's news. She didn't know why, but she suddenly felt very happy. She thought about how Qiao's mother had been so arrogant in front of her and how she had thrown a check in her face. The ugly words she had said and the excessive things she had done were all deeply engraved in her mind. If she hadn't threatened to investigate her past, she wouldn't have been swayed by Lin Pei's words and escaped from that relationship so embarrassingly.
It is true that good is rewarded with good and evil is punished with evil!
He Xiaoning left the ward and planned to take a walk in the garden. When she reached the nurses' station, she heard a few young nurses gossiping. When she heard Ye Mi's name, she couldn't help but stop.
"Who on earth is that Ye Mi? She actually asked Feiyang's boss Jiang Mingming to come and accompany her to see the doctor in person."
"And the day she fainted during pregnancy, all the people from the He family came, even our dean went."
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He Xiaoning's heart skipped a beat, and Qiao Yan's words immediately flashed through her mind, "The relationship between them is not what you think, you will find out soon." She thought of the He family's search for a missing daughter, but she couldn't believe it was true. She turned back to the ward, her heart suddenly blocked again, she bit her lip tightly, why are some people so lucky, they get the person they love the most, and they can also get such a prominent family.
She felt extremely unbalanced.
Yin Yining took the earliest flight, but it was two days later when he came to Qiao Yan's side. Seeing the man with bloodshot eyes, he frowned and said, "Qiao Yan, it's useless. Find a way to make a comeback."
Qiao Yan was somewhat helpless. He rubbed his temples and asked with his eyes closed, "How much money can I withdraw from our company?"
Yin Yining turned away and was a little annoyed. "Qiao Yan, why are you so irrational? I'm not afraid that you will take the money. I have no problem giving you my share now. Money is enough for me to spend. But if you take out 2 billion, it can at most fill this hole. But by then you won't even have the capital to start over. At that time, Qiao Jiang will really have nothing to do with you."
"Then what do you think we should do? I will sell Qiaojiang now, which will pay off the loan sharks and private equity funds. We also have a large loan from the bank."
Yin Yining frowned and looked at him, "Don't panic, just owe the bank the money. The bank has plenty of non-performing assets anyway, and it doesn't need your tens or hundreds of billions. Qiao Yan, the most important thing for you now is how to find someone to help you take over Qiao Jiang, and how to keep the capital for your own business. Don't forget, your property is..."
"Shut up!" Qiao Yan stopped him from saying, "No matter what, I can't hurt Ye Zi anymore. I'm already very sorry for her, I can't make the same mistake again. I absolutely can't divorce her."
Yin Yining was stunned there, and after a moment he came over, "Did you have a fight? Why? You have already bowed down to her, how come..."
"Because of He Xiaoning's matter, I am a bastard..." He took out a cigarette from the drawer and lit it for himself, squinting his eyes with a gloomy face.
Yin Yining was startled. He stared at Qiao Yan and asked, "Did you smoke?"
Qiao Yan snorted and laughed, somewhat helplessly, "My father is in the intensive care unit of the hospital now, his condition is still unstable, my mother has dug a big hole for the whole family, my wife ran away because of me, I am almost overwhelmed, I can't take care of Ye Mi at all, Fei Yang is also at a development point now, I am afraid he doesn't want me to show up..." In his heart, there is also a deep worry, their marriage is in jeopardy.
Thinking of this, Qiao Yan's hand holding the cigarette began to tremble a little.
"Tomorrow I will go to Canada to find Shi Yeyan. He owes me a favor. I hope he can help me." He took a deep puff of cigarette. "Please help my brother. I'm afraid I can't afford the lawyer fees if I hire someone else. I will be back soon." He extinguished the cigarette fiercely, with a lonely look on his face. This time he was really not joking. He was already a pauper.
Ye Mi did not sleep well that night. The next day, she took a taxi and secretly came to the downstairs of Qiao Jiang. Because she couldn't get through on the phone, she could only come to find Qiao Yan. Now was not the time to be angry. It concerned other people. She could not let her temper run wild anymore. They needed to make things clear.
Ye Mi waited in the reception room, but after a long time it was Yin Yining who showed up.