My Co-renting Lady Boss
Chapter 540 - 0540: Big Trouble

Chapter 540: Chapter 0540: Big Trouble

"Bastard, you knew about these side effects and you still dared to let us produce and sell?"

Upon hearing this, Qin Aotian trembled with rage.

"What’s the problem with that? I am from the Poison Sect. Our Sect specializes in crafting poisons. You asked me to research Detoxification Liquid, so I developed something akin to the Detoxification Liquid, that’s just poison. Everyone got what they needed, right?"

Long Duba laughed shamelessly, "Besides, you paid me to come over. I couldn’t possibly turn down the money. I’ve made several hundred million from you all together. Where else could I find such a good deal?"

At these words, Qin Aotian nearly passed out from anger.

"If there’s nothing else, don’t bother me. I’m using the money I made from you to enjoy my vacation. It feels so good!"

After Long Duba finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

"We, we’ve been conned."

After putting down the phone, Qin Aotian said with a deathly pale face.

Everyone heard Long Duba’s words and realized his sole purpose for showing up was to swindle money, and they had been naïvely conned out of several hundred million.

"What should we do now?" Jack gritted his teeth and said:

"We haven’t even recovered our initial investment, and now we’ve run into this. If we don’t handle this properly, my Yang Family would have lost more than a dozen billion in succession!"

"Who hasn’t?"

Qin Aotian was so dejected he was on the verge of tears, slumping helplessly into his chair.

Although the Yang Family had lost a lot, they had gained Tang Ming’s company for nothing and, despite subsequent investments, it wouldn’t hurt the Yang Family’s overseas Primordial Energy.

But it was different for the Qin Family. They had staked everything on the New Minghuang Group. Even the Aotian Group had been absorbed by the Minghuang Group. If New Minghuang Group went under, the Qin Family would be completely ruined.

"Don’t just think about your own losses," Sun Zhuangjia slammed the table fiercely and yelled angrily:

"All the national agents are under attack. Every single agent who has sold the New Detoxification Liquid has become a target for media criticism and victim’s complaints and retribution. These were resources accumulated by my Sun Family over many years. If you can’t give an explanation, my Sun Family will be the first to not let you off."

"What good suggestion do you have now that it has come to this?" Qin Aotian asked wearily.

"Compensation."

Sun Zhuangjia shouted through gritted teeth:

"This is the will of all the victims. Everyone who has been harmed by taking the Detoxification Liquid is demanding compensation. We agents have contracts with you. If the people below us want compensation, we must get it from you."

At these words, Qin Aotian nearly cried, and Jack also wore a miserable face. New Minghuang Group was a money pit, constantly losing money—where would they get the funds to compensate the victims?

"No money!" Jack asserted forcefully, coldly saying:

"No money, but a life is available. If you’ve got the guts, take it."

"This is shameless," Seeing Jack’s demeanor, Sun Zhuangjia sneered:

"If you won’t compensate, then see you in court. If you think you can solve this with force, my Sun Family is ready to the end. But the tens of thousands of victims, they can’t be dealt with by force. This issue has gotten too big, it’s alarmed the authorities. If you don’t take action, be careful that the state doesn’t destroy you."

"Young Master Sun, it’s not that we don’t want to pay, we genuinely can’t afford it!"

Qin Aotian said with a sob in his voice, his Qin Family had already sold off their assets to cover the holes, now where could they find the money to compensate.

"Even if I had money, I wouldn’t pay. I hold foreign citizenship—I could just leave and be done with it."

Jack grinned without mirth, posing as an unreasonable man. With the foundation of the Yang Family abroad, he really wasn’t afraid of these threats, but the thought of the huge losses they had sustained made his heart ache...

"We have money." Just then, Qin Hao, the chief finance officer, suddenly raised his hand and exclaimed.

"Where’s the money?"

Everyone turned to look at Qin Hao.

"You see, according to the law, once a company faces a major crisis, we can file for bankruptcy and use all of the company’s assets to pay off debts."

Qin Hao sat up straight and said earnestly, "The thirty billion we made during Double Eleven, although locked by the company’s account, can be used for compensation if we file for bankruptcy. However, it requires legal procedures, and only with judicial intervention can we use that money without Tang Ming."

"Is that even possible?" Jack’s eyes lit up, and he excitedly thought:

"As long as we can get our hands on that thirty billion, I wouldn’t bother paying anyone back—I’d just take the money and run. Not only would I get back our previous investments, but I could also make a profit of a dozen billion!"

"That’s fantastic, really fantastic."

Qin Aotian also nodded repeatedly, mulling over in his heart that if they could get that thirty billion, he and Jack could split it, and the Qin Family would also gain a dozen billion, thus recovering all their previous investments.

"What are we waiting for then? Let’s start this process immediately and start with compensating us agents; only then can we compensate the victims."

Sun Zhuangjia shouted impatiently. The Sun Family was a prominent clan with its roots in the country, so his thoughts were different from Qin Aotian’s and Jack’s. He genuinely wanted to make amends for the previous impact; otherwise, the Sun Family wouldn’t be able to continue its foothold domestically.

"I’ll check the company account balance first and then prepare the bankruptcy application immediately," said Qin Hao as he quickly took out his laptop and started to work, explaining as he went.

For a moment, everyone watched Qin Hao with eager anticipation, each harboring their own schemes.

"No good!" As everyone watched, Qin Hao suddenly shouted in alarm, his face turning pale.

"What’s wrong?"

Qin Aotian and the others quickly asked, fraught with tension.

"There’s not a single cent left in the account opened in Tang Ming’s name; all the money has been transferred out," Qin Hao said, his face ashen as he looked up at everyone.

"What?"

For a moment, everyone was shocked.

"How, how could this happen?" Jack shot to his feet, slammed his hands on the table, and gritted his teeth:

"How could so much money just disappear all of a sudden?"

"Exactly. Didn’t you say that only Tang Ming himself could access that account?" Qin Aotian also shouted, agitated, as it was the Qin Family’s last hope to turn their fortunes, and now it seemed to be dashed.

"Indeed that’s what I said! Only Tang Ming himself could access the money in that account, but now that the money is indeed gone, there’s only one possibility..." Qin Hao explained with a tremble in his voice before abruptly stopping.

"Tang Ming is back!"

Qin Aotian, Jack, and Sun Zhuangjia all exclaimed in unison, their faces turning exceptionally grim.

Following the outbreak of side effects from the New Minghuang Detoxification Liquid, a nationwide backlash against the New Minghuang Group arose. Meanwhile, the Qin Family, Yang Family, and Sun Family, as the largest beneficiaries of the Minghuang Group, now found themselves bearing the greatest responsibility.