Chapter 68 Qiao Family Bankruptcy
"Joshua was released by the police."
"So soon?"
Qu Ge was not surprised that Qiao Xuan was released.
After all, he is different from Qiao Wanwan.
He had no life on his hands.
The Qiao family's legal team is very eloquent and can turn black into white with just a few words.
The crime of harboring a criminal, which is a minor charge, can do nothing to him.
However, out of selfishness, Qu Ge certainly hoped that Qiao Xuan would suffer more in the police station.
And now he's out...
Qu Ge frowned again.
Qiao Xuan will definitely find a way to rescue Qiao Wanwan next.
We must not let him succeed!
Qu Ge was about to speak.
Rong Zhoubai once again predicted the future.
He reached out and wiped her brows, and said with a smile: "Don't think too much, leave everything to me."
"But……"
"Don't say but. You're injured like this, what else can you do?"
“…”
Qu Ge was speechless for a moment.
Rong Zhoubai is right.
Now she has trouble even getting out of bed and is of no help at all.
Moreover, everything is ready now. As long as we can delay until the trial, no matter how capable Qiao Xuan is, he will not be able to turn the situation around.
Qu Ge tried hard to calm himself down.
Rong Zhoubai comforted her: "Take good care of her. I have already arranged everything for Jiangzhou City. The Qiao family is in a mess right now, and Qiao Xu'an is too busy to save Qiao Wanwan."
…
At the same time, Jiangzhou City.
Everything is as Rong Zhoubai said.
The building is about to collapse.
The day after the wedding ended in a hasty manner, the Qiao Group's sky collapsed.
The stock price plummeted at the opening, triggering circuit breakers within fifteen minutes. Major funds issued emergency risk warnings, and partner banks convened risk control meetings overnight.
That night, several major creditor institutions jointly applied for asset freezing, and all partners collectively suspended orders.
Public opinion was completely boiling.
The financial headlines calculated the evaporated market value, while the social headlines dug deep into the power-for-money scandal.
The video that Qu Ge posted before the incident had been forwarded millions of times in just two days!
The top ten trending searches were filled with the word "Qiao", and there were hundreds of thousands of questions in the comment section of Qiao's official account.
Regulators set up an investigation team overnight, and the exchange issued inquiry letters at record speed...
In less than three days, the Qiao Group, once the king that could call the shots in Jiangzhou City, began to crumble.
Core assets were taken over one after another, several projects under construction were suspended due to broken capital chains, and overseas subsidiaries announced independent operations one after another.
The huge waves that once dominated the business world are now just a pile of bubbles!
No choice...
Qiao Group can only accept bankruptcy liquidation!
The Qiao Group building, which used to be bustling with people, now has only the sound of bailiffs counting assets echoing in the empty corridors.
In the top-floor office, Qiao Xuan's face was as dark as if someone had splashed ink on it.
He stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the reporters and debt collectors gathered downstairs, the cigarette at his fingertips had burned to the end.
The numbers on the financial report continued to fluctuate and fall, and every time the page was refreshed, hundreds of millions of assets evaporated.
My phone keeps vibrating, all with those annoying debt collection calls!
Qiao Xian suddenly recalled the past——
At that time, the person sitting in this office was still Qiao Jingren.
Every time he made a mistake or did something that made Qiao Jingren unhappy, he would punish him by making him kneel here for two or three hours!
The people on the board of directors came and went, and everyone saw how embarrassed he was!
From that time on, Qiao Xuan made up his mind that he must overthrow Qiao Jingren and take this position himself!
now……
He managed to do it with great difficulty.
But at this moment, he had to watch helplessly as everything he had worked so hard to obtain turned into nothing!
In a rage, Qiao Xuan punched the glass.
The thick bulletproof glass remained intact, but his right hand, which had just recovered a little, suffered a lot.
A tingling sensation ran up from the fingertips, causing the entire arm to ache.
“Knock knock knock—”
Baichuan knocked on the door and walked into the office.
"Chairman, the court has seized all of your assets. This includes the mansion and Xichuan Yue's apartment. Your collection of calligraphy and antiques, as well as all the cars in the basement garage... have all been taken away."
Seeing the increasingly cold look in Qiao Xuan's eyes, Bai Chuan's voice became softer and softer.
He stood there trembling with fear, holding the documents, feeling mixed emotions.
He has followed Qiao Xuan since graduation and never thought that the Qiao family, the richest family in Jiangzhou City, would come to such a point.
Right now, he didn't even know where to go next, but he had to be prepared to face Qiao Xuan's endless wrath at any time...
Qiao Xu'an saw the worry on Baichuan's face.
It was a rare moment when he didn't get mad at him.
He doesn't care at all about the antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and luxury cars he just mentioned.
He spoke calmly and only asked, "Have you found Qu Ge?"
“Not yet…”
Bai Chuan really didn't know how to tell Qiao Xuan - now that the Qiao family has gone bankrupt, they simply don't have any extra money to hire a professional team to salvage the bodies from the sea.
Besides, it had been several days since the incident.
Qu Ge's body must have been gnawed to pieces by the sharks in the sea...
Hearing Baichuan's negative answer, Qiao Xuan laughed instead of getting angry.
An ambiguous arc appeared on his lips, as if he was secretly happy, or as if he was mocking himself.
He should have thought of it earlier -
Everything that happened during this period was a trap that Qu Ge had deliberately set up to kill him!
That video she recorded in advance...
The police officers who arrived at the scene on time on the wedding day...
The surveillance video that should have been destroyed still appeared in the hands of the police...
Everything was carefully planned by her!
Except for her, no one knew about the secret door in the basement of Weiyuan Villa.
She had long guessed that he would lock Qiao Wanwan in that basement, so she asked Captain Chen to apply for a search warrant to go to Weiyuan to arrest her!
As expected, she was the woman he had his eyes on...
Smart enough!
So cruel!
Even faking death can be acted so realistically!
He slammed his fist on the table, causing a few drops of cold coffee to spill out of the cup.
But the dull pain from his knuckles couldn't suppress the rage boiling in his chest.
When he thought that Qu Ge was still alive, he suddenly laughed again.
A strange curve appeared on his lips, and the depression in his chest seemed to ease a little.
"No need to look for her anymore." He said to Bai Chuan in a deep voice, "I think I know where she is now."
Since she is so good at acting, he must of course accompany her to play this scene to the end.
After all, living prey is more worth chasing!
…
At night.
Lu Yunzheng's home.
The rain hit the floor-to-ceiling windows violently, the world outside the window was distorted, and the street lights became blurred balls of light.
All the properties under his name have been seized, and Qiao Xuan can only live with Lu Yunzheng temporarily.
At this point, Lu Yunzheng is the only person around him who is willing to take him in.
Those friends who used to fawn over him had long since stayed away, fearing that they would be implicated by him.
Thinking that he had fallen to this point because of a woman's scheme, Qiao Xuan felt it was extremely ironic!
The whiskey in the glass shook, and the sound of ice cubes colliding was crisp and harsh.
Qiao Xuan stared at the amber liquid in the cup, pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled bitterly.
"She's been plotting against me from the beginning!"
He tilted his head back and took a big gulp. The alcohol burned his throat, but it couldn't cover up the dull pain in his chest.
Lu Yunzheng on the opposite side didn't say anything, but just silently poured him another glass.
The wine glowed coldly under the light, just like the sneer that had flashed across her eyes when she looked at him before.
"Qiao's... is all gone."
Qiao Xuan chuckled and took another sip.
"I was a fucking fool, I actually thought..."
Before he could finish his words, he suddenly closed his eyes and swallowed the rest of the sentence.
It's no use saying anything now.
I drank one glass of wine after another, but the more I drank, the clearer my mind became.
Looking back now, all those lies she had carefully woven had become the sharpest knives, cutting him to pieces one by one!
Lu Yunzheng looked at his half-human, half-ghost appearance and finally said, "So what are you going to do now?"
"What should I do?" Qiao Xu'an slowly raised his eyes, a sinister look in his eyes. "Of course I'll go find her! Ask her to pay me back everything she owes me!"
"Do you know where she is?"
"Where else could she be?"
Qiao Xuan stared at the empty wine glass and forced a cold smile.
He knew very well that Qu Ge alone could not create such a perfect plan.
He couldn't think of anyone else who helped her behind her back except Rong Zhoubai!
So, now Qu Ge must have been taken away by Rong Zhoubai.
"Canada," he said firmly. "I have to go to Canada."
"Canada? So far away?" Lu Yunzheng raised his eyebrows.
Although he didn't know why Qiao Xuan was so sure, seeing his expression, he didn't dare to ask more questions.
He poured him another glass: "When are you leaving?"
"Don't worry, there's still one thing left to do."
"What's up?"
"Qiao Wanwan..."
Qiao Xuan was about to answer when the cell phone beside him suddenly rang.
Seeing the lawyer's name on the screen, he immediately picked up the phone: "Lawyer Li, how's the bail application for Qiao Wanwan going?"
"Mr. Qiao, I'm afraid..."
"What's the problem? Didn't you say it wasn't difficult?"
"Mr. Qiao, because you previously said Miss Qiao was pregnant, I was able to promise you that I could bail her out. But... I just received a call from the police. They arranged for Miss Qiao to undergo a checkup, and she's not pregnant at all!"
"What did you say?!"
Hearing the lawyer's words, Qiao Xunan immediately frowned.
He thought he was drunk and had heard it wrongly.
But on the other end of the phone, the lawyer repeated it clearly again -
"Mr. Qiao, the police's inspection results cannot be wrong."
"Miss Qiao, she is indeed not pregnant!"
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