Shen Bing headed home at his leisure, while the atmosphere in Heavenly Auspice Special Glass's conference room was positively funereal.
As soon as the stock market opened that morning, the traders working for Heavenly Auspice Special Glass noticed someone dumping shares to drive down the price.
Someone was fucking looking for trouble! Heavenly Auspice Special Glass had been growing strongly over the past two years, and its share price had risen steadily.
Given the company's current profitability, the stock still had room to climb.
Yet someone was selling now. Had they hit their head? The traders began buying up shares. Whatever the other side dared to sell, they dared to buy.
Some retail investors, seeing such confidence from the controlling shareholders, joined in, keeping the stock price steady.
But less than an hour after trading began, undercurrents started stirring online as one revelation after another surfaced.
Heavenly Auspice Special Glass's chairman suspected of murder!
The dark secrets behind business competition!
The rise of a ruthless business family.
Every word of the reports and commentary struck where it hurt.
For a publicly listed company, even a minor problem would affect its share price, let alone something as serious as its chairman being arrested.
Had it been a state-owned enterprise, trouble involving the chairman might not have had much impact on the company. But Heavenly Auspice Special Glass was privately owned...
The previously steady candlestick chart immediately plunged headfirst as though it had lost its bearings, hitting the daily lower limit and never getting back up.
Despite Heavenly Auspice Special Glass employing every means it could to salvage the situation, the results were negligible.
Online, no matter how much anyone praised Heavenly Auspice Special Glass, a single retort of "Your chairman got arrested" rendered every effort pointless.
The senior executives at Heavenly