Did My Family Go Bankrupt?

The surrounding crowd scattered as countless bodyguards in black suits surged in like a tide.

Zhuang Xin, along with the man who had beaten him, was surrounded.

The fierce-looking hulks made everyone's scalp tingle and their hearts pound.

"How is he?"

Nie Han'er stepped out of the crowd. Looking at the miserable state of Zhuang Xin on the ground, her expression was chillingly cold.

Following Nie Han'er's voice...

Several medical staff in white carried down various pieces of equipment.

A dozen seconds later...

"Heartbeat normal! Temperature normal! The bones in his lower back are fractured, and there is also a laceration."

The medical staff examined him step by step.

More and more people gathered around.

All kinds of luxury cars filled the street.

"Th-this... who is that? Nie Han'er, the business prodigy Nie Han'er."

"And look at the street corner—that person who just got out of the car..."

"Holy crap! Do you know who I just saw? Zhu Zuo, the most famous real estate tycoon. Why is he here?"

Cries of shock echoed through the street, leaving the earlier onlookers staring wide-eyed.

No one could understand why so many terrifying big shots had suddenly arrived, all surrounding an unfashionably dressed young man. He was the kind of person who would disappear into a crowd—wasn't he supposed to be nothing more than an ordinary office worker?

"Miss Han'er, is my brother all right?" Zhu Zuo arrived with a group of intimidating bodyguards and sealed off the area. His gaze swept over the surroundings, his voice cold and murderous. "Until we get to the bottom of what happened today, no one is leaving!"

The man who had driven into Zhuang Xin was so frightened that his scalp went numb. What had he just seen?

Nie Han'er and Zhu Zuo... these two were figures who could make Juncheng tremble with a mere stomp of their feet.

Either one of them could crush him with a single finger.

Yet people like them had abruptly appeared here, and from the looks of it, they had come for that inconspicuous young man on the ground. How was that possible?

He simply could not believe it was real.

"It was him! He was the one who hit him! It has nothing to do with us."

"Yeah! I even spoke up for this young man earlier, but that guy started swinging at me without bothering to tell right from wrong."

As the crowd pointed fingers at him, the driver's face turned deathly pale.

Not far away, a man wearing gold-rimmed glasses glanced at the BMW's license plate and sent out a message. In barely more than ten seconds, the vehicle owner's information was sent to his phone. He slowly stepped forward and said, "Li Yao, twenty-one years old, son of the vice president of Huarán Medical Company. He holds a managerial position at Huarán Medical Company. Aside from his parents, he has an older sister..."

As the gold-rimmed man recited all his information as though he knew it by heart, Li Yao felt his soul leave his body. He instinctively collapsed to the ground. "Y-you... how could you know so much?"

"It was nothing. I just had someone look him up through the license plate." The gold-rimmed man stepped back and said to Zhu Zuo, "Boss, that is all we have for now. If you want to know anything else, I will have someone investigate it thoroughly."

"No need. No matter who he is, he hit my brother. He will not be walking out of here today." Zhu Zuo gave a sinister smile and tugged at his suit jacket.

"However, Boss, there is one more piece of information you might be interested in." The gold-rimmed man opened a file that had just arrived. "Li Yao is actually Young Master Zhuang's high school classmate."

"Young Master Zhuang?" Li Yao, sprawled limply on the ground, seemed to have grabbed hold of a lifeline. He frantically searched through the names of his high school classmates and finally remembered a student he often bullied.

"Zhuang Xin? Could it be him?"

Li Yao lowered his head in terror and examined him carefully. At last, he found a trace of familiarity in Zhuang Xin's features.

"It really is Zhuang Xin. H-he is actually Zhu Zuo's brother, and he even knows Nie Han'er."

"I... I'm Young Master Zhuang's classmate. This is a misunderstanding, there must be a misunderstanding! Wait... I'll explain it to Young Master Zhuang. Please, give me a chance!" Li Yao crawled over and knelt before them.

"A chance?" Zhu Zuo lowered his head and said heavily, "There is no chance. No matter who you are, if you hit my brother, you will pay the price. But since you are my brother's classmate, I can spare your worthless life."

"Boss Zhu, Miss Han'er, Young Master Zhuang's lower back bones appear to be cracked. The equipment here is insufficient for surgery. We can only take him to a specialized hospital!"

The doctor who had been crouching on the ground removed his mask and spoke.

"Can he be cured? Will there be any lasting effects?" Upon hearing that, Nie Han'er's face grew even colder.

"Please rest assured, Miss Nie Han'er. As long as the equipment is sufficient and I perform the operation myself, there will be no problem."

"Then thank you, Doctor Wu Nan." Nie Han'er nodded.

The people around them erupted in shocked cries again.

"Wu Nan? One of Huaguo's top doctors! They say he teaches at Celestial Medical Academy and rarely leaves the hospital. He actually came here?"

"Him? Eight years ago, a billionaire offered Wu Nan fifty million a year to be his private doctor, and Wu Nan still turned him down."

The crowd swallowed hard, their understanding of Nie Han'er now tinged with even greater fear.

"Miss Nie Han'er, we'll take Young Master Zhuang away first." Wu Nan put his mask back on and waved his hand. The medical staff immediately and carefully moved Zhuang Xin onto a stretcher and wheeled him into the ambulance.

With its siren blaring, the ambulance sped away.

Nie Han'er waved a hand, and a lead bodyguard stepped forward. "Miss."

"Mm. Take half our men and watch over Zhuang Xin. Don't let anything happen to him again," Nie Han'er said.

The head bodyguard nodded firmly. "Rest assured, Miss. We will never let Young Master Zhuang suffer even the slightest further harm."

He then led a group of men after the ambulance.

As for Li Yao, who was still kowtowing on the ground, no one paid him any attention.

Nie Han'er turned to Zhu Zuo. "You should go back first. I will handle things here."

"How can I do that? Zhuang Xin and I are brothers who have faced life and death together. Something this serious happened to him, and you want me to go back?" Zhu Zuo snorted coldly. But when he saw Nie Han'er's icy expression, he ultimately nodded. Casting a glance at Li Yao on the ground, Zhu Zuo gave a sinister smile and turned to board a luxury car.

He had said nothing in front of Nie Han'er, but that did not mean he would do nothing.

After sitting silently for a moment, the gold-rimmed man got into the car. Only then did Zhu Zuo glance outside and say calmly, "Have someone deal with it."

"Rest assured, Boss Zhu. I understand!"

After that brief exchange, the line of luxury cars finally departed.

After those people left, Li Yao's phone rang as he continued kneeling on the ground and kowtowing.

The moment he answered, he heard his mother crying hysterically. "Come home quickly and take a look! Your father's stock company, which had been soaring, has been exposed for serious quality issues. A huge number of investors have pulled out, causing turmoil and sending the stock plunging. In such a short time, it has already hit rock bottom. We lost tens of millions all at once! You have to understand, that was money your father borrowed! Our family has gone bankrupt..."

"What? The stock suddenly crashed, and we lost tens of millions?" Li Yao, blood still on his forehead, stood frozen in place. He shouted like a madman, "My family went bankrupt? Tens of millions... bankrupt, bankrupt..."

Nie Han'er fell silent for a moment and said nothing. She got into her luxury car and headed for the hospital.

Only Li Yao remained on the street, endlessly kowtowing and crying out.