After Bankruptcy, the Billionaire Asked Me to Marry Him!
Chapter 78: The Calm Before the Storm

Chapter 78: Chapter 78: The Calm Before the Storm

"Ye Li, what do I need to do for you to let me go?"

On the other end of the phone, Xu Moran spoke with spite.

Ye Li was confused, "Xu Moran, you’re the one picking fights and making malicious assumptions. It has been you stirring trouble from the start, and now you’re playing the victim?"

If she had known it was her call, she wouldn’t have answered it at all.

Early in the morning, disrupting someone’s peaceful sleep and causing distress.

Ye Li abruptly hung up the phone.

Xu Moran tried to call again, but the phone was always temporarily out of service.

Realizing she had been blocked, Xu Moran, with eyes reddened, grabbed the pillow from her bed and started pounding it furiously.

After leaving the ski resort yesterday, except for Hu Dongxu, who was taken away by an ambulance, the others didn’t even stick around for the second half of their plans but hurried home instead.

Afterward, the group’s WeChat group had not been quiet.

Someone mentioned that a family-owned beauty salon had been raided by business inspection, where a myriad of violations and tax evasion were found, leading to its closure.

To reopen quickly without causing a negative impact, sorting taxes and various other issues would cost at least 20 million.

Another person mentioned that a longtime supplier called their household’s elder, saying tight supplies made further provision impossible unless past debts were paid immediately.

Let alone the amount due, just the suspension of supplies meant the factory could not operate properly, resulting in losses of millions per day.

The chat screen was filled with messages of "What to do?"

The incident was unexpected, and the elders hadn’t even realized what had happened, each speculating if someone had blocked the path of some influential individual and had now faced retaliation.

By the time they figured out what had happened, their fate would be even worse, disaster looming akin to Hu Dongxu’s was only a matter of time.

The Xu Family house was eerily quiet.

When she returned last night, her father was genial and her mother compliant, everything as it had always been.

Especially since she had come home for the Halloween vacation, her parents were particularly nice, urging her to invite some friends for some fun, as it would be Spring Festival before they could gather again when she returned to school.

Cheng Yanhuai was never someone easy to provoke,

let alone Yanci.

The infamously vindictive and ruthless Uncle Fu in the elite circles.

Thinking about the calm before the storm, and the impending upheaval at home, Xu Moran felt an unstoppable chill.

Why was she so negligent?

Why did she have to provoke Ye Li?

While Uncle Fu hadn’t been known to marry or have children, just seeing the little boy’s dependence on him indicated his esteemed status in the Fu Family.

Moreover, Uncle Fu was never known to be pleasant, but with Ye Li, there was a warmth and ease in his expressions.

The Xu Family was in for a disaster, wasn’t it?

She hadn’t dared close her eyes all night, terrified at the thought of the calamity she might have brought upon the Xu Family.

And at this moment, Ye Li wasn’t even willing to give her a chance to make amends.

There were noises downstairs.

Listening, her father got up and the kitchen started preparing breakfast; he would leave for the company after eating.

Her mother’s high heels clacked.

Right, today was Monday, there was a shareholders’ meeting at the company in the morning.

"Ranran..."

Her mother’s voice echoed from downstairs, "Your father and I are heading to the company, we’ll call you later to go out for lunch!"

Footsteps.

The sound of the car starting and then driving away.

The surroundings quieted down, and Xu Moran descended the stairs with a wooden expression.

As if possessed, she turned on the TV and switched to the financial news channel.

At nine sharp, the stock market opened, and financial experts began analyzing today’s market.

She stared unblinkingly at the fluctuating red and green lines, listening as the experts remarked in surprise that the normally stable Xu Family stocks had fallen at opening, with a rough estimate of losses over a hundred million.

Xu Moran slumped lifelessly onto the sofa.

Those few had only jeered at Ye Li in support, and each household faced losses in the tens of millions.

For Hu Dongxu, it was particularly severe; not only had he lost three teeth, but the hand that had grabbed Ye Li was almost broken.

And the Xu Family had paid a price of a billion.

Did Ye Li have that much clout?

She and Yanci... what exactly was their relationship?