vstars Chapter 530 Where did this stray dog come from, barking and howling?
Chapter 530 Where did this stray dog come from, barking and howling?
A dozen minutes later, the once solemn corridor of the top-floor office area was completely torn apart by a sharp, out-of-control argument.
"Get out of my way! You bunch of watchdogs! Are you blind? Don't you know who I am?"
An Cai's meticulously made-up face was contorted with rage. She tried to push aside Cheng Qi and the others blocking the door to the president's office, but Cheng Qi's iron-like arms held her back firmly, leaving her only able to scream in vain.
"An Qi! Get out here! Stop hiding in there like a coward! You're ruining Jiangning, what are you pretending to be dead for?"
The heavy, dark red mahogany door opened silently and steadily inward amidst a suffocating scream.
An Qi crossed her arms over her chest, adopting the posture of a queen surveying her territory, and walked out with a frosty expression.
Her gaze swept past the security guard's sturdy shoulders, carrying an undisguised, condescending contempt, and landed precisely on An Cai's face, flushed with anger:
"I thought it was some stray dog barking wildly in front of Jiangning Pharmaceutical early in the morning, disturbing the peace and quiet."
Her voice wasn't loud, but every word was clear, especially the word "wild dog," which she enunciated with extreme force, like a poisoned needle piercing precisely into An Cai's lungs and the lungs of her "mistress-turned-family."
"An Qi, you—!!!"
An Cai reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, instantly bristling with fur, her fingers, painted with bright red nail polish, almost poking An Qi's nose.
"Stop putting on your arrogant airs as the young lady of the An family! Look at the mess you've made! You've caused a huge medical accident at Jiangning Pharmaceuticals, and the stock price has plummeted! Dad is already furious at the Pacific headquarters!"
Upon hearing this, An Qi not only did not get angry, but instead took a step forward.
In that instant, the chilling pressure emanating from her, a power she had long held in, swept out like a tangible tsunami, forcing the arrogant An Cai to instinctively and awkwardly take a half-step back.
"An Cai," An Qi's voice was as cold as an ice blade scraping against glass, carrying a deep-seated contempt:
"You better remember this clearly—Pacific Capital Group is an empire that my father and my biological mother built from scratch, through sheer hard work and dedication! It's built on my mother's blood and sweat! You, who were born from your mother's bed-climbing tricks, besides squandering the family's money on those empty-looking rags and tattered clothes, what right do you have to stand here and shamelessly talk to me about 'inheritance rights'?"
An Cai was initially trembling with rage at this merciless humiliation.
Then, as if she had suddenly grasped at some lifeline, an exaggerated and distorted smile suddenly bloomed on her face.
She even deliberately shook the expensive limited-edition handbag in her hand, the sound sharp and piercing:
"Oh my, my dear sister~ So what if you're noble? No matter how unwilling you are, the law is the law! I really have to thank your mother; her unwillingness has allowed me to rightfully own 20% of Jiangning Pharmaceutical's shares! Now the company is half-dead because of you."
She took a step closer, her eyes gleaming with malice: "My losses... I'll make you pay them back, with interest, many times over!"
Upon hearing "20% of the shares," An Qi's eyes suddenly turned into a deep, cold pool, sharp and surging with an almost tangible ruthlessness.
She stared at An Cai's smug face, and spoke each word with extreme sarcasm: "Shares? Ha... You think you can rest easy just by holding onto this 20%? Since you value this worthless piece of paper so much..."
An Qi's voice suddenly rose in pitch:
"Then I might as well destroy this company myself! Jiang Ning is gone, but I still hold real power over the shares of the group's other core subsidiaries, and I'll still be the undisputed heiress of the An family. And you..."
An Qi's gaze, like a cold probe, swept over An Cai from head to toe with utter humiliation, as if assessing a cheap commodity:
"Besides this 20% that's about to become worthless, what else do you have? Are you going to live off your mother's meager savings and become a homeless socialite on the streets?"
"You...you're a lunatic!!" An Cai was completely overwhelmed by this blatant threat and humiliation. Her face turned from red to white, and her finger pointing at An Qi trembled violently. She could no longer utter any powerful words and could only scream hysterically.
As An Qi said, this 20% stake in Jiangning Pharmaceutical (plus the 6% held privately by her mother, Lin Wanru) is almost their entire reliance and lifeline within the massive Pacific Capital Group!
If Jiangning Pharmaceutical really goes bankrupt and is liquidated, the mother and daughter will completely lose their voice in Anjia and become marginalized!
"Fine! Fine! An Qi! You just wait! Let's see who has the last laugh!"
Knowing she was completely outmatched in both words and momentum, An Cai knew that staying any longer would only bring her further humiliation. She glared venomously at An Qi, then stomped her foot angrily, the high heels of her shoes making a piercing sound as they struck the ground. She and her bodyguards turned and fled in a disheveled manner, like defeated roosters.
An Qi stood there, watching An Cai's hurried disappearance at the elevator entrance, her eyes filled with only cold mockery and disdain.
She didn't know that the reason An Cai dared to come and shout so confidently was because this fool had been terrified on his way here by the overwhelming negative news and the constantly falling stock price.
Driven by extreme panic, An Cai had already privately instructed his traders to hastily sell nearly one-third of their circulating shares on the way to the Jiangning headquarters!
Anhui Conch Cement thought it was a "stop-loss at a high price" before the stock price went to zero, and tried to save some pitiful cash.
She could never have imagined that at the same time her ostentatious Ferrari was heading towards the Jiangning headquarters building,
The shares she had just painfully sold off, which she considered a hot potato, were being effortlessly snapped up by a young man named Ye Fan in the trading room of the Red Bean Building, across half of Nanjing City via electronic signals.
And after the experimental data was released and the stock market rebounded, some people at Anhui Conch Cement regretted their sell-off!
This self-proclaimed clever "good sister" will be tricked by her own conceited intelligence!
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An Qi remained standing in front of the cold floor-to-ceiling window, her fingertips unconsciously tracing the smooth glass, leaving faint traces of mist.
The contempt that had flickered in those deep eyes was no longer that of when facing An Cai, but a colder, more precise calculation.
She seemed to have pierced through the urban jungle before her, and could see the moment when the storm subsided and the truth came to light—that moment would be the moment she wielded her scythe.
She wanted to ruthlessly and precisely seize the shares held by An Cai and her daughter, completely eradicating these parasites from the core of Jiangning Pharmaceutical's power, so that they would never again be able to touch the territory she was about to completely control.