Chapter 127: The city's emptiness
The news that someone had hired attackers to take revenge on Xu Jianchuan struck Big Oak Construction's Head Office like a bolt from the blue. Many people could hardly believe it. How could something like this happen? Something they would only expect to read about in a newspaper had happened to the Head Office's current general manager, a man who stood at the very top of the company, wielding authority over dozens of domestic and overseas subsidiaries. The company was a major taxpayer, a key state-owned enterprise, and a star enterprise within the province.
The head of such a company had been caught up in a revenge attack. Many people found the whole affair utterly bizarre, but some senior executives, along with middle and upper management who could see through the smokescreen, knew that everything might be about to change.
For Su Can, the incident was both shocking and entirely unexpected. Everything in Rongcheng had been so peaceful that he had thought his arrival had changed everything. In his memories of his previous life, Xu Jianchuan had suffered a car accident. Beset by troubles within and without, Old Master Xu had been so distressed that his old illness flared up. Seriously ill, he had stepped down. After Xu Jianchuan, no one in the company had possessed enough authority or influence to contend with Mu Kai and the other factions. This had led to the group's transition from public to private ownership. Many subsidiaries had been restructured, and the group had been broken apart.
Yet when Xu Jianchuan's accident happened before him once again, Su Can knew there had to be something suspicious behind such an abnormal occurrence. The odds of another accident like this were simply too high. When he then saw the Santana ram