Chapter 85 The Little Fox in Rabbit's Clothing

Under everyone's gaze, Ruan Yao calmly walked in, carrying a laptop.

"Dear uncles and elders," she nodded slightly to the elders present, then walked straight to the seat of honor.

"Yaoyao? What brings you here?" Chairman Zhang looked at her in surprise.

"I'm here to show you something."

Ruan Yao connected the computer to the projector, and soon a video was projected onto the huge screen.

The video footage is taken in an office.

Su Mingyuan's face, twisted with greed and madness, was clearly visible to everyone.

The entire process of him signing his name, forcefully stamping the forged official seal, and then collapsing in his chair in ecstasy was recorded in detail.

The video even includes his obsequious and disgusting voice as he makes a phone call to the Zhou family.

"Brother Wang, don't worry! I'll definitely sign the contract today, and the funds will be in my account this afternoon! I guarantee it with my integrity!"

The evidence is irrefutable!

The conference room fell into a deathly silence, which was then followed by a huge uproar.

"That beast!"

"You traitor!"

Ignoring the crowd's anger, Ruan Yao opened another document.

"This is the genuine version of the guarantee contract that Su Mingyuan signed."

She highlighted a key clause in a contract.

It was a "betting agreement" meticulously crafted by a top-notch legal team and riddled with traps.

As long as the Zhou family injects the funds into the overseas account provided by Su Mingyuan, regardless of the final outcome of the bet, this money will trigger the hidden clause in the contract and be classified as a "high-risk investment." As the "guarantor," Ruan will not only not bear any joint liability, but will also have the right to seek recourse from the actual provider of the funds—the Zhou family—for all reputational and commercial losses caused thereby.

"What...what is this?"

Everyone was baffled by this incomprehensible contract.

Ruan Yao's voice rang out again, calm and clear.

"Simply put, the Zhou family thought they were the hunters, Su Mingyuan was the bait, and we Ruan family were the prey."

"But what they didn't know was that I had already obtained evidence from the moment Su Mingyuan signed the contract."

The meeting room was deathly silent.

Everyone was stunned by this sudden and shocking reversal.

The board members, who had just been arguing heatedly, now stared wide-eyed at the screen, as if they couldn't believe what they were seeing.

What... what is this?

This is direct evidence that the Zhou family framed the Ruan family!

Ruan Minghui was so excited that he trembled all over. He suddenly stood up from his chair, grabbed Ruan Yao's arm, and his voice was shaking.

"Yaoyao, where...where did you get this?"

Ruan Yaochong's father smiled reassuringly and then turned off the projector.

She glanced around the conference room at the shocked, speechless faces, her tone calm.

"Uncles and elders, now, can we talk about how to fight back?"

No one spoke.

Everyone's minds were still reeling from the shock, unable to process what had just happened.

As a long-time retainer of the Ruan family, Vice President Liu was the first to react. He slapped his thigh, his face flushed with excitement.

"Fight back! We must fight back! With this, we can sue them until they're bankrupt!"

"That's right! Contact our legal team immediately! Have a meeting tonight!"

"And the media! Send this video to all the media outlets! Let everyone see the true colors of this Zhou family scum!"

The atmosphere in the conference room instantly became electric. The previous dejection and despair vanished, and everyone seemed to be injected with adrenaline, their eyes rekindling their fighting spirit.

Seeing this, Ruan Yao breathed a slight sigh of relief.

It's stable now.

The next step is to maximize profits.

"Everyone, please calm down," Ruan Yao raised her hand, signaling everyone to be quiet. "This video cannot be released yet."

"Why?" someone immediately retorted, "Such good evidence should be released as soon as possible!"

Ruan Yao shook her head, walked to the whiteboard, and picked up a marker.

"The Zhou family is now releasing information to force us to fulfill the guarantee agreement, simply to drive our stock price to rock bottom and then take the opportunity to acquire it."

"If we reveal our hand now, we can certainly prove our innocence, but at most we'll only damage the Zhou family's reputation and get them to compensate us for some of our losses. That's too easy on them."

She drew an arrow on the whiteboard.

“They want us dead, so we’ll make sure they don’t even have a bone left.”

A cold smile curved at the corners of Ruan Yao's lips.

“I forged a risk assessment report and gave it to Su Mingyuan, who then forwarded it to the Zhou family. The report exaggerated the risks of our overseas project, implying that the project was about to fail and that we urgently needed funds to turn over.”

"The Zhou family thought they had gotten a great deal and signed the 'guarantee contract' that Su Mingyuan handed over without hesitation."

"But what they didn't know was that I had switched the contract."

Ruan Yao put down her pen and looked at everyone.

"The real contract was a betting agreement. The funds that the Zhou family promised to invest would be injected into a shell company registered by Su Mingyuan overseas, and that company was actually under my control."

"The agreement stipulates that if Nguyen's project does not 'explode' as they expect within a month, all the funds they have invested will be compensated to Nguyen as liquidated damages."

The meeting room fell silent once again.

Everyone looked at Ruan Yao with an expression as if she were a monster.

This... this intricate, step-by-step scheme, was it really conceived by their delicate little princess?

This mindset is frighteningly meticulous!

Ruan Minghui looked at his daughter, his heart filled with mixed emotions.

There was pride, there was relief, but even more so, there was heartache.

When exactly did his daughter learn these scheming and plotting things that she shouldn't have had to bear?

“So,” Ruan Yao’s voice brought everyone back to reality, “what we need to do now is not to clarify, but to continue to show weakness.”

"We want the Zhou family to think we're desperate, so they'll happily put that money into our pockets."

"Once the money arrives, we'll close the net."

"At that time, they will not only face lawsuits for commercial fraud and malicious schemes, but they will also have to pay us a large sum of money."

"That's what you call killing someone by destroying their spirit."

As soon as he finished speaking, a collective gasp filled the conference room.

ruthless.

That's too ruthless.

This little girl is nothing short of a fox in rabbit's clothing!

With the plan finalized, the entire Nguyen Group began to operate silently, like a sophisticated machine.

The public relations department continued to plead poverty, and the stock price plummeted in response.

The Ministry of Justice secretly prepared all the litigation materials, waiting only for the order.

Everything was developing in the direction Ruan Yao had envisioned.

However, the plan took a slight turn for the worse the day before the operation was to be completed.

During the final review, the Ruan family's legal team discovered a problem.

“Ms. Ruan, although our chain of evidence is quite complete, it is still missing the most crucial link.” The lawyer’s expression was somewhat solemn.

“We can prove that Su Mingyuan had contact with the Zhou family, that the Zhou family had the intention to set up a trap, and that the contract we have is valid.”

"However, we lack direct evidence to prove that the Zhou family knew from the beginning that Su Mingyuan would use illegal means such as 'forging official seals' to sign this guarantee contract."

“Without this evidence, they could shift all the blame onto Su Mingyuan, claiming that they were also deceived by him. Although they would still have to pay compensation, they could escape legal responsibility.”

Simply put, they can make the Zhou family pay money, but they can't send Zhou Tianhao to jail as well.

This is far from Ruan Yao's original intention.

What she wanted was the complete annihilation of the Zhou family.

Ruan Yao frowned deeply.

In her previous life, the Ruan family had no power to resist, so she naturally didn't know about this loophole.

Is this really the only way?

She was unwilling to accept it.