As he predicted, the following week saw negative news first causing the stock price to fall, followed by the failure to win the bid for the science and technology city.
Then, the factory bombing case from the end of last year was dug up again and made a big fuss about it, keeping the public relations department busy but unable to control the direction of public opinion.
He truly underestimated Li Rui. He originally thought that Li Rui's schemes were things he had already discovered, but he didn't expect that Li Rui had already laid out plans on social media platforms, turning what was originally a one-point mistake into a ten-point one by marketing accounts.
We live in a digital society where the influence of social media is constantly expanding, and its speed of dissemination is so fast that public relations departments simply cannot stop it in time and can only launch a campaign of guidance and response. However, people tend to be more enthusiastic about spreading negative news, while positive news is rarely heeded.
However, some partners, seeing the unfavorable situation, surprisingly proposed to terminate the cooperation at this time.
“Mr. Xu, the funds for our project with Meihualian should arrive by the end of the month at the latest. The bank hasn’t approved the funds yet. Mr. Zhou has already had dinner with Vice President Sun privately, and it seems…” Assistant Xu frowned and shook his head.
Xu Tingchuan naturally understood the meaning behind this, but he couldn't understand why, even if his company was temporarily in a bad situation, it wasn't on the verge of collapse. Given so many years of cooperation, shouldn't they be showing him no respect?
Li Rui simply doesn't have that kind of power, and neither does Tang Guodong. Who exactly is their new backer? Is he trying to bring down his father?
"I understand. Have General Manager Zhou meet with their bank president again, and call all the finance department staff above the section chief level to the conference room. I need to call a meeting," Xu Tingchuan said to Assistant Xu, his expression solemn.
Throughout the afternoon and evening, several departments held meetings, but Xu Tingchuan remained in the meeting room the entire time.
As dusk settled, Xu Jiayue was reading Daily Finance in the living room of Pei Yang's villa.
“If you’re so worried, why don’t you call your brother and ask him? What’s the point of staring at the TV every day?” Pei Yang said, leaning against the door frame while biting into an apple.
Xu Jiayue turned off the TV and went upstairs without saying a word.
Pei Yang couldn't stand it anymore and followed behind, saying, "Xu Jiayue, your brother is in big trouble this time. How can you be such a sister? No matter how big the conflict was before, isn't this the time to unite? You're family."
Xu Jiayue stopped in her tracks, biting her lip. They were hardly a family.
The more she thought about it these past few days, the clearer it became for her.
When she entered the Xu family, Xu Tingchuan was already a teenager, and he knew everything. He must have known that she wasn't his biological sister at all. For so many years, he had kept it from her, never thinking of telling her. He must have known that Jin Rulan had indirectly caused the deaths of her parents.
Even if Jin Rulan didn't do it intentionally in that lab explosion, so what? The end result was that her parents died. The woman she had called "Mom" for so many years turned out to be the woman who killed her own parents. How could she face her so-called family?
"Before you lecture me, take a look at your own family first," Xu Jiayue said to Pei Yang, turning her head to say before quickly walking upstairs.
Pei Yang's face darkened. He had countless family members, not to mention his many stepmothers and half-siblings. Yet she dared to lump her family together with his bunch of monsters and demons.
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