Chen Jingsong was taken aback, then said irritably, "Alright, alright! Why bring up the past? Now that we have the goods, let's proceed with the plan and take action against the Ning family!"
Cha Meiling walked to the window with the telephone in her arms, gazing at the brightly lit Ning Group building in the distance.
A cold glint flashed in her eyes: "Of course we'll take action, but you need to plan how you can leave the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)."
Mentioning this, Chen Jingsong's voice immediately filled with irritability and resentment—
"Damn it! It's all because of that bastard Zhou Yan! I don't know what methods he used, but someone in the Independent Commission Against Corruption is actually holding me back from bail! That scoundrel, once I get out, I'll definitely find someone to take him down! Tear him to pieces!"
Upon hearing this, Cha Meiling showed no surprise, only a faint smile: "Then let's kill him."
Her smile looked particularly eerie and chilling in the night.
Chen Jingsong was taken aback, then sneered: "Oh? You're willing to give it up? I thought you were bewitched by that kid, willing to betray your own father for a country bumpkin!"
Cha Meiling turned around, her back to the myriad lights outside the window, and coldly lit a cigarette.
"I've just come to my senses. Men are nothing but stepping stones. Whoever blocks my way deserves to die. There's no such thing as being willing or unwilling to let go."
Chen Jingsong sneered: "Heh, it seems you couldn't gain Zhou Yan's favor or obtain greater benefits, so you decided to betray him and his bunch of country bumpkins!"
Just like when he didn't intend to hand over the Cha family to Cha Meiling, Cha Meiling betrayed him!
Cha Meiling scoffed, her tone carrying an almost twisted sense of self-righteousness—
"If I weren't your biological daughter, how could I have been targeted by Zhou Yan and those country bumpkins behind him? Daddy shouldn't blame me! Actually, I haven't betrayed anyone. I've always been loyal only to the Cha family! All the choices I've made have been to help the Cha family return to its former glory!"
On the other end of the phone, Chen Jingsong—or rather, Cha Shenlou—let out a chilling, eerie laugh.
"Ha, you're quite good at defending yourself, you've got a silver tongue! Well, even as her own father, I can't see through my daughter's thoughts!"
He also remarked on how coincidental it was.
Just after he was discharged from the hospital, Cha Meiling appeared in the UK and even got involved with Evan.
Then, he contacted the person in charge, gained his trust, and accompanied him back to the Hong Kong government after plastic surgery and a new identity, assisting him in carrying out the adults' "destruction" plan.
It was only because she was his own daughter that he believed all her stories and trusted her so much.
This gave her the opportunity to bring that bastard Zhou Yan into the heart of the adults' "destruction" plan!
Even if Evan, that brainless idiot, hadn't given his final approval, he wouldn't have been able to get Zhou Yan into the plan.
Who knew that this brat had betrayed him by joining forces with those country bumpkins in the mainland all those years ago!
That little bitch became a double agent and even sent her mother to the mainland!
A ferocious and dangerous glint flashed in Chen Jingsong's eyes.
Cha Meiling didn't care what Chen Jingsong's mood was on the other end of the phone; she spoke slowly and deliberately—
"My thoughts are easy to see through. All I want is for the Cha family to prosper again, and for me, as the heir to the Cha family, to live a life worthy of my status and respect!"
"So, a few days ago I told Daddy everything about Zhou Yan and his people's plans, which counts as you doing a favor in front of the adults, doesn't it?"
Chen Jingsong's expression shifted rapidly on the other end of the phone:
"The Cha family doesn't necessarily have to develop within the Hong Kong government. They can make a comeback anywhere, overseas, as long as they have money."
"Father, as long as you understand that I betrayed you back then to obtain the opportunity and funds for the Cha family's resurgence, and now I'm 'betraying' Zhou Yan for the same reason, that's enough!"
A chilling smile appeared on Chen Jingsong's bloated face: "Heh..."
That little bitch dares to use the excuse of the Cha family to shut him up!
If Anne weren't his own daughter, and he didn't think this little bitch was still useful, he would definitely make her suffer a terrible death!
Cha Meiling slowly played with her curly hair: "Alright, let's not discuss irrelevant topics. 'Godfather,' it's good that you're in prison now, as it allows you to stay out of it."
Her voice was filled with a chilling pleasure—
"No one outside would guess that the biggest force behind the short selling of Jialin, which caused Jialin's stock price to collapse, was actually you, the chairman of Jialin yourself. You are the biggest short seller who shorted your own company and destroyed your own company!"
Who would have thought?
Mr. Chen Jingsong, the powerful chairman of Jialin Group, appeared to be sparing no expense to prop up the company's stock price in an effort to save it.
They held press conferences, found people to endorse them, and even got the Ning family to launch the Huangpu Garden project ahead of schedule.
He was so busy he was overwhelmed, but he managed to drive up Jialin's stock price significantly, which moved countless small shareholders.
But what is the reality?
While playing the savior, her father was also colluding with international short sellers to short-sell Jialin Group.
With this in-and-out strategy, they took advantage of the stock price crash to frantically reap profits from those investors who followed the trend!
In any case, Jialin Group has been playing the role of a "sacrifice" ever since it appeared; both its emergence and destruction can make them a lot of money!
Chen Jingsong laughed smugly on the other end of the phone—
"Heh, besides the money we made from short selling, we also have those huge loans we swindled from major banks. Can we take advantage of this stock market turmoil and launder them clean through underground banks, turning them into legitimate money in our accounts? That's the financial game!"
Those foolish peasants from the mainland, who don't even earn a hundred yuan a month, would they even know how to play this game?
Moreover, can a bunch of penniless people who barely manage to earn foreign exchange reserves by doing manual labor, selling shirts, and handicrafts afford to play this game that costs hundreds of millions of US dollars?
To think you can defeat the foreigners and fight them for this land is just wishful thinking!
Hearing her father's smug laughter, Cha Meiling's eyes flashed with only a cold, calculating glint.
"As for the Ning family, I have already followed the plan, sowing discord between Ning Man'an and Ning Bing'an, and also given Ning Bing'an the 'suggestion' to short the Ning family. Now, let's see if he dares to follow through."
Chen Jingsong's laughter stopped abruptly, and his tone turned sinister—
"Whether he agrees or not, the Ning family ship must be sunk! Annie, keep a close eye on things over there!"
Cha Meiling's fingers gently traced the cold glass window, as if sketching the scene of the Ning's Building collapsing.
She replied calmly, "Don't worry, Godfather, I know what to do. The Ning family's good days are over. Just you wait."
On the other end of the phone, Chen Jingsong gave a satisfied "hmm" and hung up.
Cha Meiling put down the phone and stood alone in the empty living room, her face expressionless.
She walked to the dressing table and looked at the woman in the mirror whose makeup was a little smudged, but whose eyes burned with fire.
The woman in the mirror slowly curled a cold and twisted smile at the corners of her mouth, like a poisonous flower quietly blooming in the dark night.
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