Chapter 338 — It Came True
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Besides, even if the evidence were dug up, there was no telling how much of it would actually be useful, and how long a lawsuit might drag on was anyone's guess. The second road was far cleaner. Jin Gubang, unless he was a fool, would surely take the second road.
Sure enough, Jin Gubang did not disappoint Gu Pengzhan.
"Fine, eighty million it is—done!" Jin Gubang no longer had the stomach for haggling with Gu Pengzhan; he had far more pressing matters to handle. With eighty million, he could open a smaller real estate company and hand it to Young Master Bing as compensation. By then, Li Cihua surely would not come after him again, would he?
Jin Gubang felt he had lost both the wife and the troops—not only had he failed to take the chairman's seat, he had slunk away from the company in disgrace. His shares were gone, traded for a mere eighty million, and even that eighty million might not be his to keep; it would pass straight into Young Master Bing's hands.
If Li Cihua were still backing Jin Gubang, then Jin Gubang would not have minded going head-to-head with Gu Pengzhan. With Li Cihua at his back, he had never feared Gu Pengzhan. But now Li Cihua was not merely withholding support—he was nursing the thought of finishing Jin Gubang off. How could Jin Gubang still find the means to fight Gu Pengzhan in an internal war? Better to take the money and slip quietly away.
That very afternoon, Jin Gubang completed his resignation procedures and duly transferred his shares to Gu Pengzhan. Clutching his eighty-million retirement fund, he walked out of the Gu Group beneath the astonished and mocking gazes of the other shareholders.
Vice Chairman Jin became a piece of the group's history. From then on, there would be no such man on the board.
Those spectators—the directors and shareholders who had once thought of siding with Jin Gubang—were secretly aghast. Thank heavens they had not tangled themselves up with Jin Gubang, or they would have gone down with him today!
Back then they had watched Jin Gubang look so formidable, so ascendant, joining forces with Xie Guangbo, the third-largest shareholder, to prepare the "Operation Topple Chu"—and what had come of it? Xie Guangbo's shares had somehow landed in the hands of Gu Pengzhan's son-in-law, and Jin Gubang's shares had been taken back by Gu Pengzhan!
The Gu Group was now unmistakably Gu Pengzhan's one-man show; the vast majority of the company's shares were controlled in his hands!
With Wei Zhao away from home, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were living it up...
"Oh, at last I can walk around the house with nothing on!" Shen Yushu, wearing not a stitch, curled up on the sofa watching television...
Shen Yushu habitually stripped off all her clothes the moment she got home. In her words, wearing clothes hindered the body's development...
"Ahem, Xiaoshu, you might want to mind the impression you make. Even if Wei Zhao isn't home, what if Uncle Qing comes by?" Gu Mengyao looked at Shen Yushu with some exasperation.
"Uncle Qing knocks every time he comes; he won't just walk in." Shen Yushu was utterly unconcerned, and went on displaying her body to Gu Mengyao on the sofa: "Yao Yao, how's my figure lately?"
"Stop showing off your big chest to me. Show it off again and I'll cut it off for you!" Gu Mengyao glared at Shen Yushu. So a good figure meant you could flaunt it whenever you liked? And why didn't you mention that you're not as tall as I am?
All your nutrition went to your chest, while mine went into promoting bone development...
"Oh, I wasn't showing off..." Shen Yushu sat back on the sofa, disgruntled. Why would no one praise her fine figure? Honestly—she could not show it to just anyone, and the only person who got to see it, Gu Mengyao, would not spare a few words of appreciation or praise. Shen Yushu was most put out.