Invincible Young Master in the City
Chapter 276 - 276 272 Stirring Up the Storm

276: Chapter 272 Stirring Up the Storm 276: Chapter 272 Stirring Up the Storm After returning to the office, Ye Fan immediately saw Hu Jing bustling about her work with renewed determination.

“Ye Fan, you’re back.

I have great news, our company has hope again,” Hu Jing said energetically and with high spirits as she worked, “Tongyi Group, who tried to steal our company’s patent, saw their stock plummet for two consecutive days last week, dropping by more than fifteen percent!

Tongyi Group probably won’t have the capacity to develop in the biomedical field any longer, and our chance to recover the ‘Jili Qing Hua Pian’ patent is very high.

So, our group’s stock stopped falling and started to rise this morning!”

This was something Ye Fan had anticipated more than a dozen days ago, and indeed, he had engineered it himself.

However, at this moment, Ye Fan pretended to have just heard the news, exclaiming with “surprise,” “Really?

That’s fantastic!”

“Of course, it’s true.

Is this something to joke about?” Hu Jing smiled.

Ye Fan pretended to breathe a sigh of relief and said gratefully, “In that case, I can continue on as the deputy manager.”

Hu Jing couldn’t help but smile with pursed lips.

After a little while, having finished up her immediate tasks and finding a spare moment, she elegantly picked up her porcelain cup and took small sips of rosebud tea.

“Did you hear?” she looked up at Ye Fan, who had already taken a seat at his office desk, and continued, “Sky Wolf Security Company, who came to our group a couple of months ago to collect ‘protection fees’, was surrounded and shut down by a large squad of armed police yesterday.

I heard they arrested hundreds of people on the spot.”

Ye Fan glanced up and replied, “Yeah, I’ve heard some rumors.

It seems there’s a city-wide crackdown on organized crime.

It sounds pretty serious.”

“More than serious, it’s been like an earthquake,” Hu Jing said with a raised voice, expressing enthusiasm.

“Hua Hai city has long been in need of a crackdown.

I heard that this storm has been stirred up by the Qing Lang Club.

There’s word on the street that the Qing Lang Club has been marked as a key target in this crackdown, that the authorities must uproot them completely and eradicate the negative influence the Qing Lang Club has had over the years.

Anyone connected to the Qing Lang Club is to be interrogated.

Now, even a deputy district head has been arrested.”

Ye Fan smiled faintly and commented, “It sounds pretty good.”

“Of course it’s good.

The whole city is talking about it; everyone is delighted and cheering,” Hu Jing shared gossipyly, “They say that in recent years, so many victims of the Qing Lang Club, who were bullied and harassed, have almost overwhelmed the police stations.”

Ye Fan shook his head in disbelief and remarked, “That sounds a bit exaggerated.

I remember the police station being quite large, not to mention the precinct stations.”

“Hehe, that’s just what I heard.

But the Qing Lang Club has always been brutal and inhumane.

They’ve been causing harm for many years, and their influence is huge.

It probably isn’t far from the truth,” said Hu Jing.

Then, she suddenly lowered her voice and continued mysteriously, “A friend of mine who works at the city government told me that the reason for the harsh crackdown on the Qing Lang Club might be because they offended someone they couldn’t afford to offend, leading the city leaders to quickly unify and completely cleanse the Qing Lang Club.”

A chill went down Ye Fan’s spine as he covertly mulled over having driven the campaign against the Qing Lang Club, but he had been very careful not to leave any trace.

How could Hu Jing know about it?

“Really?” he asked with a frown.

With a giggle, Hu Jing responded, “My friend was just speculating.

She said, the Qing Lang Club had always been unbothered, with no previous winds of an investigation towards them.

But almost within an afternoon and a night, the city leaders unified their will, catching everyone off guard.

So, she suspects the Qing Lang Club must have inadvertently crossed a powerfully-backed and influential person.”

Ye Fan inwardly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself, “The world is full of wise people, and it’s not surprising that some can infer the truth behind certain events from these signs.

Luckily, I am just an unremarkable office worker on the surface, unknown to all, so even their wildest guesses wouldn’t point to me.”

Regaining his composure, he smiled and said, “Oh, then the Qing Lang Club is quite unlucky.”

“Unlucky?

They got what they deserved!” Hu Jing exclaimed hatefully, “I think their retribution came too slowly.”

Ye Fan couldn’t help but remark, “From the way you speak, it seems the Qing Lang Club has also harmed you?”

“That’s not the case.

But my uncle was tricked by the Green Wolf Gang,” Hu Jing said.

“A few years ago, my uncle invested in a KTV, and business was booming.

Unexpectedly, the Green Wolf Gang came directly to him and forced a sale of my uncle’s KTV at a very low price.

Otherwise, my uncle’s family would have been wealthy by now.

I might even have been able to bask in my uncle’s glory just like you bask in Director Li’s.”

“You’re doing quite well now, aren’t you?” Ye Fan said speechlessly.

Hu Jing, holding her pretty face up, said, “If I could be a freeloader, why would I choose to struggle to the death?”

Ye Fan was utterly speechless.

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That afternoon, after Ye Fan had dealt with some work documents that had piled up over the past few days, he went online to check the stock of the Emali Group and indeed, since last week’s lowest point, it had rebounded by 3.7%, which was very good.

On last Thursday, he had already bottom-fished and bought three hundred million worth of Emali Group’s stocks.

Next, he looked at the news about the stocks of Tongyi Group and discovered that Tongyi Group’s stock had indeed plummeted by 14.6% within two days of last week.

Not only that, apart from the already self-exposed bad news of a patent purchase dispute with the Emali Group, Tongyi Group was also simultaneously hit with two pieces of very bad news.

Financial media investigative analysis claimed that Tongyi Group was not only under attack by international short-sellers, but also exposed to scandal; the stockholders at NASDAQ in the United States had turned from positive to negative on Tongyi Group’s stocks, with a general pessimism, and it was expected that Tongyi Group’s stock price would face a significant plunge when the market opened on Monday.

This was clearly a bearish take on Tongyi Group.

Seeing that Tongyi Group was exposed to two very bad pieces of news in a short period of time, Ye Fan immediately sensed that someone had done this deliberately.

“This means, ‘God’s Left Hand’ has also started to make a move,” Ye Fan mused, lightly tapping his fingers on the desktop.

At the same time, in the Chairman and President’s office, Li Zhao Jun was receiving an angry call from Xiao Yichen.

“Li Zhaojun, is it you attacking Tongyi Group?” Xiao Yichen asked angrily.

Li Zhaojun let out a cold snort and said, “Are you questioning me?”

Xiao Yichen had no choice but to soften his tone and said, “Last week, on Thursday and Friday, U.S.

time, our Tongyi Group’s stocks were under a fierce attack, and over the weekend, some traitor leaked information, leading to the exposure of two scandals.

Li Zhaojun, was this your doing?

We can talk things over.

If you want the ‘Jifei Qinghua Tablet’ patent back, we can negotiate.

There’s no need to fight to the death; it does no good to either of us.”

“I can tell you clearly, it wasn’t me who did it.

Also, I advise you to persuade your father to return the ‘Jifei Qinghua Tablet’ patent to Emali Group as soon as possible,” Li Zhaojun said.

“Otherwise, Emali Group is determined to take the lawsuit to the end!”

After hanging up the phone, Li Zhaojun thought, “From various signs, it’s clear that there is a pair of hands behind the scenes targeting Tongyi Group with a fierce attack.

It can’t be the Li family, so it must be the Ye family with such capability.”

“So it seems, Ye Fan really did get involved.”

She really wanted to call Ye Fan up to ask him face to face, but considering she had already proposed divorce to Ye Fan, she held back.

Her pride and self-respect wouldn’t allow her to lower her head to Ye Fan, whom she despised as “superficial, naive, lazy, shameless, vulgar, and lustful.”

If it had been before, she would have been touched, even happy, but now she just felt embarrassed.