Wen Jincheng had achieved excellent results in his competition, and the students of Pluto had survived their long exam week and welcomed their winter break.
Jiang Nian took out her suitcase and packed her things while chatting with her friends.
Just as she was about to put down her phone, a news notification suddenly popped up:
[Multiple projects suspended: could the Shen Group be facing bankruptcy? Our station learned today...]
Jiang Nian frowned at the news.
Something had happened to the Shen Family? Wasn't Shen Hui supposed to expose all this much later?
In the original novel, Shen Hui had spent a long time in a slump after the cheating scandal at the banquet. Only with encouragement from his friends and Fu Zhenzhen had he gradually emerged from that dark period.
Afterward, he had stopped fixating on the Shen Group and chosen instead to destroy the Shen Family from within.
With help from his maternal grandmother's side of the family, he had gathered plenty of crucial evidence and exposed many of the group's shady dealings. Several major projects had been suspended outright, the Shen Group's stock had plummeted, and the company had faced a serious threat to its survival.
Old Master Shen had been so furious that he ended up in the hospital. At that point, Shen Qifei had tried to seek help from the powerful connections on Shen Hui's grandmother's side, with predictable results.
The Shen Group had been bought out, Shen Qifei had been ousted, and the Shen Family had hit rock bottom overnight.
But in the original novel, Shen Hui had only exposed that evidence after being framed and kicked out of the family. Wasn't he still living perfectly comfortably with the Shen Family now?
*Sure, there were occasional rumors that he'd infuriated Old Master Shen into