Gu's office, vice president's office.
Documents were scattered haphazardly on the floor, coffee was spilled all over the ground, leaving a brown stain, and the coffee cup was smashed to pieces.
Gu Xiuzhe sat blankly in the chair. He seemed to have neglected his appearance for several days, with a stubble beard and bloodshot eyes.
There was a knock on the office door, and the secretary said cautiously, "Mr. Gu, Mr. Su has arrived."
Gu Xiuzhe thought it was Su Fubai, and his numb eyes lit up slightly. He quickly got up and straightened his clothes.
As he tidied up, he said, "Please ask him to wait in the reception room for a moment, I'll be right there."
Secretary: "Okay."
Gu Xiuzhe rushed into the bathroom of the lounge, intending to tidy himself up.
But when he saw his disheveled and haggard reflection in the mirror, Gu Xiuzhe immediately abandoned the idea. He even raised his hand to mess up his hair, trying to make himself look even more颓废 (颓废 is a difficult word to translate directly, but it implies a state of being listless,颓废, or颓废).
Fu Bai must have heard about the difficulties the Gu family was facing, which is why he came to see them.
The time had come for him to use the self-inflicted injury ruse.
After glancing at himself in the mirror again, Gu Xiuzhe was quite satisfied with his current state. He then made a listless expression in the mirror before dragging his feet toward the reception room.
However, the person waiting in the reception room was not the one Gu Xiuzhe longed for, but Su Qinghua.
What are you doing here?
The moment he saw the person who had arrived, the light in Gu Xiuzhe's eyes completely disappeared, his brows furrowed, and he made no attempt to hide his impatience.
Su Qinghua was also surprised to see Gu Xiuzhe's appearance: "Xiuzhe, what's wrong?"
Gu Xiuzhe: "Didn't you read the news before you came to see me?"
The current situation of the Gu family has been reported on the news for several days, and Gu Xiuzhe does not believe that Su Qinghua has not heard anything about it.
Su Qinghua really didn't know anything. He had been overwhelmed with his own company's affairs for the past two weeks, so he had no time to care about other people's companies.
Su Qinghua immediately took out his phone, and without him even having to search, news about the Gu family appeared on the front page of the news website.
A little over a month ago, the Gu family won a major project in the western suburbs of Beijing. This project is a key project for the Gu family this year, and the Gu family has invested a lot of money in it.
As a result, just a week ago, the project encountered problems and had to be suspended.
At the same time, various scandals at the Gu Group headquarters were exposed one after another, the most explosive of which was the sexual harassment of female employees by the company's chairman, Gu Yuanli.
Most importantly, these revelations are not baseless accusations, but rather accusations based on solid evidence.
Some victims even went directly to the media, revealing the scars they had previously refused to show.
Gu Yuanli persecuted female employees of the company for more than 20 years, with as many as 100 victims.
Some were forced by him to maintain improper relationships, while others refused to yield and were blacklisted by Gu Yuanli, unable to work in related industries after leaving Gu's company.
With the evidence irrefutable, Gu Yuanli had no chance to defend himself, and the police came to his door and took him away yesterday.
Yesterday the police came to the door, and today the tax authorities came. Without even conducting an investigation, they took away Gu Boyong, the president of Gu's Group, who is also Gu Xiuzhe's father.
Someone reported Gu's tax issues to the tax authorities and provided detailed evidence.
After obtaining the evidence, the authorities did not make a fuss. Instead, they quietly verified the evidence and only arrested the person after confirming that it was correct.
Within two days, the chairman and president of Gu's Group were taken away for questioning, causing widespread panic within the company.
Gu Xiuzhe wanted to keep the news of his grandfather and father being taken away a secret, but reporters were already waiting at the Gu family's gate in the morning and took photos of Gu Boyong getting into a police car.
Gu's Group was already in the eye of the storm, and now this situation has caused shareholders to sell off their shares.
Gu's stock price continued to fall, and in just a few days, its market value had evaporated by tens of billions.
In addition, the project in the western suburbs tied up a large amount of Gu's funds, leaving Gu in dire financial straits.
Gu Xiuzhe has been treating the company like his home these past few days, sleeping less than three hours a day. However, the Gu Group is on the verge of collapse, and he can only watch helplessly as no matter how much effort he puts in, it is all in vain.
Just before Su Qinghua came to see Gu Xiuzhe, the secretary handed him a document applying for bankruptcy protection.
Gu Xiuzhe then realized that the problems of the Gu family had become so serious that they were on the verge of bankruptcy.
The company was in a state of panic. Gu Xiuzhe had heard rumors that Gu's Group was unable to pay salaries. If he didn't step in to appease the situation, even bigger problems would arise before this day even came.
Having no other option, Gu Xiuzhe could only contact people to sell his shares in Zhuole Entertainment, pay the employees' salaries, and appease them first.
To be honest, Gu Xiuzhe has been very tired these past few days.
One problem after another plagued the company, leaving Gu Xiuzhe overwhelmed.
The Gu family may have seemed like a behemoth before, but it was already rotten inside. With just a little external force, the Gu family would collapse completely.
During his most tiring and helpless moments, when Gu Xiuzhe was resting, he thought of Su Fubai.
Perhaps, if Su Fubai comes to see him and comforts him, he will gain the strength to keep moving forward.
Instead of Su Fubai, Su Qinghua appeared instead.
Seeing that Su Qinghua was still browsing the news, Gu Xiuzhe said impatiently, "What are you doing here today? If you're here for Jinhan, there's nothing I can do about his current situation."
He had already bought shares in Zhuole Entertainment and completely lost his voice in the entertainment industry. He couldn't help Su Jinhan at all, nor did he have the will to.
Su Qinghua wanted to borrow money from Gu Xiuzhe.
But given the current situation, he should be thanking his lucky stars that Gu Xiuzhe isn't asking him for money.
He immediately went along with it, saying, "I understand. I'll think of something about Jinhan's matter."
He got up and walked to Gu Xiuzhe's side, patted him on the shoulder, and said somewhat insincerely, "Everything will be alright."
After Su Qinghua finished speaking, he turned and walked away without looking back, as if a debt collector was chasing him.
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Country A, late at night.
Fu Bai and Gu Jixing finished a sweaty workout.
Both of them were physically satisfied, but mentally refreshed, and neither wanted to sleep.
Fu Bai reached for his phone from beside his pillow and started reading domestic news.
Recently, scandals involving the Gu family have dominated the headlines of major platforms. When Fu Bai opened Weibo, she saw that another victim had come forward to accuse Gu Yuanli of abusing her for five years.
Fu Bai glanced at it only once before exiting Weibo.
He suspected that Gu Jixing harbored hatred for the Gu family and that his actions in bringing down the Gu family were related to these events.
Therefore, Fu Bai never discussed this topic in front of Gu Jixing.
"Not playing anymore?" Gu Jixing saw Fu Bai turn on his phone and then immediately put it away, so he reached out and pulled him into his arms, then kissed the top of his head.
Fu Bai mumbled, "I'm sleepy, I'm going to sleep."
He squeezed himself into Gu Jixing's arms, possessively taking over Gu Jixing's entire embrace.
Gu Jixing gently patted Fu Bai's back, his dark eyes staring at the ceiling.
After a long while, he slowly said, "My mother joined Gu's Group right after graduating from university and became Gu Yuanli's secretary."
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