Chapter 1804 — Total Loss
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"How should I put this..." An Mingyue seemed to be trying with all his might to talk Gu Pengzhan out of it, yet could not find the words. At last, after hesitating again and again, he said, "Well, then—Brother Pengzhan, you and I are both businessmen, and even brothers keep clear accounts. Write me a letter of authorization: whatever problems arise from the withdrawal, our side bears no responsibility..."
"Fine, no problem." Gu Pengzhan did not think twice about it; with the hypnotist's suggestion working on him, he drew up the authorization without a moment's hesitation.
Once the document was in his hand, An Mingyue did not linger. He took the hypnotist with him and went straight back to the company—though on the way he could barely keep from laughing up at the heavens. What a stroke of fortune this was!
An Mingyue and An Liwen had handled the whole affair with the greatest care, keeping the phone recordings precisely because they feared Gu Mengyao would grow suspicious once she learned the outcome and set Wei Zhao on them. But now the Gu family's only pillar of support, Wei Zhao, had actually been crippled by qi deviation—it was as though Heaven itself were aiding the An family!
That billion, An Mingyue certainly would not return; and not only that billion—not a single cent of the money already sunk would go back to Gu Pengzhan.
Originally, An Liwen and An Mingyue had meant to cook up a fake loss on one of the long or short runs. The only difficulty was this: the financial genius had been making money all along—how could he suddenly lose it all, clean to the bone?
The futures market was capricious, true, but even so it would not quite add up, and people would grow suspicious. Now, however, that problem had vanished. An Mingyue could simply plead that Gu Pengzhan had insisted on withdrawing his capital, forcing the traders to abandon their original plan, so that a blunder occurred—and not only did the money fail to come out, but the whole position was wrecked, and every last cent was lost.
When the news reached him, An Liwen was overjoyed as well. Wei Zhao had actually suffered qi deviation? Heaven had opened its eyes! The greatest obstacle before them was gone; from now on, what could they not do as they pleased?
At that thought, An Liwen and An Mingyue put the scheme into action without the slightest scruple. And when Gu Pengzhan received An Mingyue's reply, it struck him like a thunderbolt from a clear sky. Phone in hand, he sat frozen in his office, unable to speak a word...
Lost? All of it? How could that be? Simply because he wanted to withdraw his capital early, the entire plan had been thrown into disarray, and everything was gone? Gu Pengzhan's expression was dazed; staring at the familiar office, he felt a bitter ache twist through him...
All the striving of how many years—gone in an instant? Yet for all his grief, Gu Pengzhan did not forget what mattered most. After An Mingyue gave him the news, he forced down his sorrow and said, "Brother Mingyue, could you lend me a billion first? This money means everything to me—I swear I'll repay you double in the future!"
"Brother Pengzhan, it's not a question of my lending you a billion now. Most of the money you lost was put up by our An family in the first place. Right now my elder brother and the old master are both pressing me to take over the Gu Group..." An Mingyue said with a bitter smile. "Brother Pengzhan, you know as well as I do that our family poured most of its funds into lending to you. Where would we find money now?"
"What?" Gu Pengzhan was dumbstruck. The company too—was that gone as well? When he had pledged the company's shares and his industrial properties as collateral, he had never once imagined he might lose; yet under the hypnotist's suggestion he had gambled everything in a frenzy.
Even now he could scarcely believe that he had lost it all. How was that possible? The thing was supposed to make money!