"Mom, Mom, what’s wrong with you?!"
"Sis, hurry and get Mom to the hospital!"
Seeing Zhang ili collapse, Su Gang panicked.
Su ngqing let out a cry and quickly knelt, struggling to cradle Zhang ili in her arms. She called out to her for a mont, but her mother didn’t wake up.
The siblings looked at each other, helpless and despairing. They both hung their heads, utterly dejected.
"Director Shen, Director Shen, please, help us! Take my mom to the hospital!"
Just then, Director Shen and his n strode out of the alley, looking extrely pleased.
Like a drowning person grasping at the last straw, Su ngqing imdiately looked up and pleaded, "Director Shen, I was wrong! I deserve to be punished. Just please, I’m begging you, save my mom!"
SLAP!
Su Gang gritted his teeth, raised his hand, and slapped himself harshly across the face. "Please," he begged, his voice low and submissive.
"This..."
Seeing this, Director Shen and the others exchanged uncertain glances, hesitating.
"Director Shen, don’t get involved," Old Song, who had followed them, warned coldly. "The Su family is a pile of filth. Anyone who touches them gets sared with bad luck!"
"Master Song, you worked at the factory for four years! How can you just stand by and watch soone die?" Su Gang shouted, shocked and furious.
"Master Song, our Su family treated you well! Why are you doing this? Why?!" Su ngqing broke down, questioning him through her sobs.
"Why? You have the nerve to ask why?" Old Song was so angry he laughed, shaking his head. "Su ngqing, when Su Gang was the factory director, he forced us to work overti every day, then deliberately found fault with us to dock our pay!
"I told you about it, but your mother accused of snitching and nearly cut my salary! And you? What did you do? You just kept pushing to develop new drugs and cut costs! You didn’t care about anything else!"
BOOM!
His resonant words echoed on the spot.
Su Gang’s face flushed red, choked into silence.
Su ngqing trembled, her mind going blank.
So this is the impression I made on everyone? This awful? I was wrong. Everything was wrong. All my past confidence, my achievents, and my pride... I see it now. It was all just one big joke!
"Su ngqing, you deserve everything that’s happening to you," Director Shen said, his expression complex. He shook his head with a sigh, led his n to their cars, and sped away, leaving them in a cloud of dust.
"Sis, don’t cry! If worse cos to worst, we’ll start over from scratch!" Watching the cars roar away, Su Gang’s eyes turned red as he shouted fiercely, "Grandpa started from nothing, too! I believe you can do it!"
"...Stop talking. We need to figure out how to get Mom to the hospital," Su ngqing said, wiping her tears. She struggled to heave Zhang ili’s heavy body onto her back. Clenching her teeth, she staggered forward.
One step, two steps, three steps... Every step was an exhausting, arduous effort, as if she were carrying a mountain on her shoulders.
Finally, on a street far from the alley, the siblings managed to hail a taxi and took Zhang ili to a nearby hospital.
"The patient shows signs of a stroke. She must be admitted imdiately. Please go pay the admission fees."
After a brief examination, Zhang ili was moved to the inpatient ward. The nurse handed a paynt slip to Su ngqing.
"Sis, don’t look at . I don’t have any money..." Su Gang avoided her gaze, looking away guiltily.
"...At a ti like this, you’re still unwilling to pay?" Su ngqing clenched the paynt slip, her body trembling.
After a mont of silence, a thought struck her. She hurriedly opened her small shoulder bag and pulled out an ordinary bank card. It was Lin Fan’s salary card from the factory, which she had always kept. There wasn’t much money on it, maybe a few tens of thousands.
Sourness, bitterness, resentnt... The feelings flooded her as she gripped the card so tightly it threatened to snap. If she had any other choice, she would never use this money. It felt like taking a humiliating handout from Lin Fan. Who could have imagined that in this mont of utter destitution, she would need Lin Fan’s money to save her own mother’s life?
"Sis, isn’t that Lin Fan’s salary card? What are you waiting for? Hurry up and pay the hospital deposit!" Su Gang blurted out, recognizing the card. "Does it bother you? What are you afraid of? Lin Fan left with nothing, so the money on this card has been yours for a long ti!"
He’s right. Lin Fan owes this. Why shouldn’t I use it?
Coming to her senses, Su ngqing gritted her teeth and nodded firmly. Tapping her high heels, she imdiately trotted downstairs to pay the fees.
After paying for the admission and the deposit, the card was nearly empty.
Su ngqing returned to the ward with a heavy heart and stared blankly at her mother. She then took out her phone and dialed Yang Tingting’s number.
"Sorry, the number you have dialed is busy. Please try again later..."
The sa cold, chanical response ca three tis in a row.
"Damn it! That bitch must have seen that our family was in trouble and took off with the car!" Su Gang roared, pounding the armrests of his wheelchair in a rage.
"Forget it. People make their own choices... Su Gang, you stay here. I have to go ho and check on things." Su ngqing took a deep breath, stood up, and left the ward.
The white BMW was a new replacent from last year, a top-of-the-line model. Even on the secondhand market, it would be worth several hundred thousand. Yang Tingting had deliberately blocked her number. She clearly had no intention of returning.
Silently, she tried to comfort herself. Luckily, there’s still plenty of gold and jewelry at ho. Mom also has so personal savings. At least, even without Su Pharmaceutical, we can still live a prosperous life.
With that thought, Su ngqing took a taxi back to the Su family villa.
She was stunned. The villa’s front gate was gone, leaving only a bare, gaping doorfra. Her heart plumted as she rushed inside frantically, and her vision went dark.
It was all gone. Everything was gone.
The entire villa had been stripped bare. Even appliances like the air conditioners and refrigerators had been pried away. The wooden floors were torn up, and the mirrors in the bathrooms were gone. The expensive, high-end decor, which had cost millions, had been smashed to smithereens. It was a ghastly sight.
THUD!
Su ngqing collapsed to the floor. A mont later, she jolted as if waking from a nightmare and scrambled to her feet.
She ran to Zhang ili’s bedroom, intending to find her mother’s bankbooks.
"This... this... Mom! How could you be so foolish?!"
The bedroom was just as empty, with nothing but debris scattered across the floor. Su ngqing snatched up a wealth managent fund slip from the bank, and her pupils dilated.
She began to cry, her sobs tearing through her as her face filled with despair. Her mother had secretly, without telling her, invested all of their money into a large-scale wealth managent fund. But that very fund had collapsed at the end of last year; the founder had already absconded overseas with all the funds.
In the past, their family could have absorbed such a loss. But now, it was the final straw that broke Su ngqing’s back.
"Director Su, this villa, and the two cars in the garage, are all registered under the na of Su Pharmaceutical."
Just then, a sharp knock echoed from the entryway behind her.
Su ngqing turned her head stiffly and t Yuan Youwei’s eyes, which held a mocking smile.
"What are you doing here? Get out! All of you, get out! This is my ho!" Su ngqing shrieked, scrambling to her feet in a frenzy.
"Heh. From now on, it isn’t," Yuan Youwei said, holding up a folder for Su ngqing to see. "Clever of the Su family, I’ll give you that, using the company’s accounts to buy the house and cars, putting all your personal assets under the company’s na." Her red lips curled into a smirk, as if she were looking at an idiot. "But now, Director Lin owns the company. Naturally, these assets must be reclaid. They have nothing to do with the Su family anymore."
BOOM!
Su ngqing’s pupils trembled violently, and her face went as white as a sheet.
She rembered now. When they bought the house and car, they had followed Yang Tingting’s advice to do exactly this. She and her mother had even praised her for being so clever!
But now, it has turned into a ti bomb planted long ago! Gone. Everything is completely and utterly gone. The company, the house, the cars, the savings... The Su family has truly collapsed. Utterly and completely ruined!
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