Chapter 272 — Just Before Death
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That was precisely why Gu Pengzhan had instructed Wei Zhao to watch and wait - not to alert the snake by beating the grass, to play at knowing nothing of Jin Gubang's conspiracy.
But Wei Zhao had turned the scheme against its master, and blown the whole affair wide open!
The amusement park was one of the very properties under Jin Gubang's charge. Ordinarily, an accident there could be made big or small as one pleased. But the accident Gu Pengzhan had been waiting for was exactly this kind of middling incident!
The victim was Shen Yushu - the Chen family's precious darling! An accident at the amusement park under Jin Gubang's supervision: if he chose to seize on it at the board meeting to strip Jin Gubang of power, he was confident no one would object.
In itself, it was a trifling matter. But once the Chen family became involved, it was no trifling matter at all. Every shareholder knew the Chen family's clout. If the Chens learned that Shen Yushu had been hurt and the board had yet to hold the responsible party to account, things would clearly blow up.
So no one would stand up for Jin Gubang in a mess like this. Who asked him, of all people, to be the one in charge of the amusement park? Whether he bore responsibility or not, he was the directly accountable executive.
Jin Gubang could only swallow the grievance in silence. Wei Zhao had played his hand beautifully - to the very end, Jin Gubang still had no inkling that Wei Zhao had seen through their scheme!
With such hope still alive in his breast, Jin Gubang would not dare to turn hostile, for he was already fantasizing about taking another shot at Gu Mengyao the next time around.
This time, using this incident, Gu Pengzhan could claw back every last of the entertainment holdings Jin Gubang oversaw - the hotels, nightclubs, KTVs, and amusement park carnails under the company were all money-printing machines. God only knew how much Jin Gubang had already siphoned off through them over the years!
Wait, let me fix: "amusement park carnails" should be "amusement park carnivals."
Once control of these properties was wrested back at the first step, auditing the books at the next would be far easier. Slow-cooking a frog over a low flame - Gu Pengzhan meant to bleed Jin Gubang's power away little by little, striking him again and again while always leaving him a sliver of room to keep the dream of turning things around alive. Only in this way could he purge this scum without harming the company's interests.
Uncle Qing relayed Gu Pengzhan's meaning to Gu Mengyao. Though she did not much understand corporate politics, Uncle Qing explained it plainly enough: Wei Zhao had done her daddy a great favor this time.
The man himself, Wei Zhao, had no idea that Gu Pengzhan was in such a state of excitement. He had merely thought on the spur of the moment that an accident at the amusement park might bring Gu Pengzhan some benefit - never imagining that Gu Pengzhan would already have the entire follow-up campaign mapped out.
On the second descent, the cord snapped clean through, and Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu dropped straight into the churning sea.
Shen Yushu had finally dared to open her eyes, wanting to feel the thrill of bungee jumping, when she watched the cord break - and saw the seaw below rushing closer and closer to her head...
Wait: "自己的腦袋離下面的海水越來越過" - I think this should be "越來越近" (closer and closer). Let me render it as "closer and closer to the sea below."
"Ah, Brother Arrow!" Shen Yushu had never expected the cord to break - if she fell like this, wouldn't it be all over? Watching herself plunge headfirst toward the sea, every scattered moment of her eighteen years of life flashed across her mind like scenes in a film.
"Am I going to die?" The threat of death pressed in on Shen Yushu, and she instinctively clung tight to Wei Zhao. "Brother Arrow, I don't want to die! I haven't lived long enough! I've never been in love, never had a boyfriend, never even kissed anyone!"