What chilled Zhou Shujing even more was that from the moment the market opened on Monday morning, Weng Group's stock price had been falling all the way. Yet once it hit a certain low, it began rebounding. It was obvious someone was buying up shares at the bottom.
"It must have been the Pei family. Ever since Dad built this family business from nothing, they've been eyeing Weng Group like tigers eyeing prey. Pei Xingze and Weng Shao have repeatedly shorted Weng Group. Now that something has happened to Dad, they'll never miss such a perfect chance to swallow up Weng Group."
Weng Sui spoke with conviction. He believed that since Weng Shao had painstakingly exposed Weng Yingjie's bribery of the Pei family's private jet maintenance engineer, he was trying to seize this opportunity to help the Pei family acquire Weng Group in one stroke.
"That ungrateful bastard!" Weng Sui cursed through gritted teeth. "He deserves a horrible death!"
"Dad's been detained by the police, public opinion is in an uproar, and even the company employees are panicking. Several shareholders have been calling me nonstop, asking what exactly happened and when Dad will get out... How the hell am I supposed to know?" The more Weng Zhen spoke, the more frantic he became. Faced with such a massive mess, he truly lacked the ability to turn the tide.
"Even worse, there's no money left in the Group's accounts. Even if we want to stop the hostile takeover in the secondary market, we don't have enough money to compete for shares."
"It's all Weng Shao's fault!" Weng Sui began swearing again. "If he hadn't spread our family's dirty laundry everywhere and helped that scumbag Pei Xingze attack Weng Group at every turn, we wouldn't have lost so much money. Now we