"If I'm not worthy, you think you are?"
Zhang Wenhao's eyes turned cold. "You're nothing but a good-for-nothing. You can't even keep an eye on your own wife. Churan has suffered too much being with you. She'd be much better off with me. I can give her anything she wants!"
Ye Chen's expression darkened. He lowered his voice and said coldly, "I'll give you two choices. First, kowtow to Churan and apologize, then swallow every word you've said in front of everyone. Second, I'll make your family's group go completely bankrupt. Your choice."
"Hahahaha! Are you fucking kidding me? Who the hell do you think you are, saying you'll bankrupt my family's group?"
Zhang Wenhao roared with laughter, looking at Ye Chen with disdain. Clearly, he hadn't taken a word Ye Chen said seriously.
"Are you a moron having a daydream? How are you going to bankrupt my family's group? Do you know its market value? You think it'll go bankrupt just because you say so?"
Expressionless, Ye Chen stared at Zhang Wenhao for a moment as though he were a moron. Then he took out his phone and called Tang Sihai.
"Within three minutes, I want to see Zhang Wenhao's family's group bankrupt and in liquidation, with its debts coming due!"
Bankrupting a group worth billions in three minutes was nothing but a daydream!
Zhang Wenhao stared viciously at Ye Chen. "Fuck, you've filled the sky with your bullshit! You think you're that super tycoon from the internet?"
Then Zhang Wenhao added coldly, "You good-for-nothing, stop pretending. I'll give you two choices too. First, get on your knees and apologize to me, then divorce Churan immediately. Second, I'll find some people to cripple you completely and make you watch with your own eyes as Churan and I enjoy a sweet life together. You choose! I'll give you one minute!"
Ye Chen glanced down at his phone. "You have one minute left. Are you sure you don't want to make amends?"
"Fuck off! You have thirty seconds left to think it over. If you don't get on your knees, I'll make you regret it for the rest of your life!" Zhang Wenhao said indifferently.
"Twenty seconds!"
"Ten seconds!"
"Five seconds!"
"Time's up. Don't blame me for being ruthless. You brought this on yourself, you good-for-nothing!" Zhang Wenhao straightened his collar and beckoned to several bodyguards, ready to have them teach this good-for-nothing a lesson.
But just then, Zhang Wenhao's phone suddenly rang.
Zhang Wenhao froze. Seeing that it was his father, he hurriedly answered.
"Dad, I'm at the banquet venue. Are you here yet?"
Over the phone, Zhang Wenhao's father roared, "You good-for-nothing! Who the hell did you offend? What trouble have you gotten us into? All the shareholders are frantically selling off our group's shares. Our stock has already fallen by more than eighty percent!"
His father shouted again, "The bank suddenly came demanding repayment of our debts! All our partners have abruptly terminated their cooperation with us and stopped settling payments! Our cash flow has dried up! Bankruptcy and liquidation are our only way out!"
As Zhang Wenhao listened to the voice on the phone, his face turned deathly pale, and beads of cold sweat trickled down his forehead.
"Our family is finished! Completely finished!"
Zhang Wenhao wanted to ask more, but suddenly he heard sirens on the other end of the line, followed by the sound of a door being broken down and police officers demanding that his father cooperate with their investigation.
All the strength suddenly left his body. His phone fell to the ground and shattered.
His legs gave out, and he fell to his knees before Ye Chen.
The wind blew past, leaving him icy cold in body and heart.
The bodyguards watched in shock and uncertainty, no longer coming forward.
Terrified, Zhang Wenhao asked Ye Chen in a low voice, "Who exactly are you? You did all this, didn't you?"
The onlookers were astonished too. Zhang Wenhao had taken a phone call and suddenly knelt before the Xiao Family's live-in son-in-law. What was going on?
Ye Chen looked down at him, bent slightly, and said in a low voice, "I gave you a choice, but you chose wrong."
"I know I was wrong. I apologize. Please, let me go! Churan has nothing to do with me. I've never even touched her. I didn't help her secure the cooperation with Dihao Group either. Everything I said just now was made up. I'm begging you, spare me, spare my family!"
Zhang Wenhao kept kowtowing and apologizing. Never in his dreams had he imagined that a live-in son-in-law of the Xiao Family could wield such power! One phone call had bankrupted his family!
When he raised his head and looked at Ye Chen's face, he felt that the ordinary face was more terrifying than a demon's!
Someone who could bankrupt his family in a matter of minutes was not someone he could afford to offend!
Ye Chen shook his head. "You should be satisfied, because at least I've spared your life! Otherwise, your whole family would already have died violent deaths!"
At those words, Zhang Wenhao's face went deathly pale with fright, and his whole body trembled violently.
Ye Chen looked at him and said coldly, "I'll tell you the truth. I'm that super tycoon from the internet. If you don't want to die, you'd better not go around telling people who I am. Otherwise, neither you nor your father will live to see tomorrow morning!"
With that, Ye Chen patted Zhang Wenhao's face, ignored him, and strode into the hall.
Zhang Wenhao collapsed completely onto the ground, but even after such an extreme humiliation from Ye Chen, he didn't dare resist in the slightest.
Seeing Ye Chen enter the hall, Zhang Wenhao scrambled after him.
He looked around and spotted Xiao Churan. He crawled over to her, knelt at her feet, and kowtowed repeatedly, crying out, "Churan, I apologize! I shouldn't have spread rumors about you. Your winning the Dihao Group project had nothing to do with me. Please, let me go!"
Startled by his actions, Xiao Churan hurriedly backed away, only to bump into a warm embrace.
Xiao Churan looked back and saw that it was Ye Chen holding her.
After entering, Ye Chen had spotted Xiao Churan. Carefully dressed up today, she shone dazzlingly in the crowd like a star in bloom.
Seeing Zhang Wenhao rush toward Xiao Churan, Ye Chen had pulled her into his arms first to keep her from falling, then glared fiercely at Zhang Wenhao.
Frightened, Zhang Wenhao immediately rolled away on the floor, terrified of provoking Ye Chen.
Xiao Churan asked in confusion, "What's wrong with him...?"
Holding her, Ye Chen said softly, "Maybe there's something wrong with him. Don't mind him."
Although they were husband and wife, they had never been particularly intimate. Feeling Ye Chen's warm embrace, Xiao Churan blushed to the tips of her ears.
She hurriedly pulled free of Ye Chen's arms and stammered, "Um, Chairman Ye of Dihao Group should be here by now. I'm going to have a look..."