Bankruptcy was not the worst fate.
Private assets wouldn’t necessarily reduce to zero like corporate ones.
But for a former global giant to fall from grace and lose all the capital that once brought them pride. The mental torture was more unbearable than anything else!
Mr. Ruan, already suffering from hemiplegia, grew paler and fainted multiple times, only to wake each time without ever truly succumbing. This old bastard seemed like he had an unusually resilient life.
Ruan Yanshun was arrested and his sentence was estimated to be no less than twenty years.
The Ruan family completely lost its true backbone
The Ruan Manor was temporarily preserved, with a market value of around $5 billion.
Other than a few minor amounts, none of their private assets were saved.
Because in the later period, Ruan Yanshun, whose mind was consumed with saving the group, had embezzled everything he could—antiques, personal assets, and even funds from other Ruan family members’ accounts—to supplement the capital chain to save the Ruan Group.
After all, almost everyone’s private accounts are affiliated with the Ruan Group.
In other words, now the Ruan family had no money aside from their mansion, the world’s largest and most luxurious estate.
Even the unpaid servants left one by one.
Old Master Ruan clung to life, his once formidable mouth now unable to utter a single coherent word.
No servant remained to wipe the saliva from his chin.
Really…
Who could deny that this was karma?
The relatively invisible fourth-year student, Ruan Yanxu, lost his gentle and elegant demeanor. Due to public opinion, H University dismissed him. The former professor had now fallen to a point where no school was willing to accept him.
Ruan Yanwei, having been depressed for six months, was the first to accept it. He even laughed aloud.
Ruan Yanwei held a cigarette between his lips: “Push me? Hahahaha, push me? If taking the blame could return our family to its peak, I’d gladly do it, hahahaha…”
“Fifth Brother!” Ruan Yanxu, unable to hold back, slapped Ruan Yanwei hard.
With a resounding “smack,” the entire hall fell silent.
Ruan Yanxu’s gold-rimmed glasses flashed with cold anger: “Ruan Yanwei, look at yourself these past six months. Do you still resemble a human being?”
“I asked you to consider the big picture, but all you’ve done is resent the family and give up on yourself. Are you worthy of being a member of the Ruan family?”
“You asked me to consider the big picture?” Ruan Yanwei, still leaning where he was slapped, looked up at Ruan Yanxu with a manic smile. “Haha, yes, didn’t I consider the big picture?”
“Ha…haha…” Old Master Ruan, gasping and struggling in his wheelchair, seemed to want the two to stop arguing, but he couldn’t form a single coherent word.
Like an old cripple who was barely surviving.
“Fourth Brother quit pretending. You’re no longer a professor at a prestigious university. You’re just a despised rat. Our family’s no longer top-tier capital. All we have left is this manor.”
Ruan Yanwei tried to pat Ruan Yanxu on the shoulder, only to have his hand slapped away. He turned and laughed with a cigarette still in his mouth. “Tsk…who would’ve thought that in just six months, our Ruan family would fall from the top of the world to this point? It’s honestly hilarious! Before, we took no one seriously, and now no one takes us seriously. It’s just…hahaha…”
He smirked bitterly.
After all, he was sacrificed for the family’s survival, only for the family to not only lose its peak but even lose its foundation.
It was a complete collapse!
Ruan Yanxu suppressed his anger, lowering his fist, unwilling to look at Ruan Yanwei as he went upstairs.
He turned to Old Master Ruan, squatting beside him. “Father! What do we do now? Eldest Brother is still in prison. We have to get him out!”
Ruan Yanshun was the only business genius left in the family. Now, with just the manor remaining, should they hold onto it or sell it? What should they do?
Little did they know they would soon lose even the manor.
Ruan Yanshun, focused solely on the Ruan Group, wouldn’t have hesitated to use any means to try to save it.
He’d mortgaged the Ruan estate to a relatively small private bank.
Most banks in the U.S. are privately owned, and when Ruan Yanshun urgently sought funds, the top banks declined. After all, he was asking for at least $3 billion in cash.
Kuda Bank accepted the terms, agreeing to disburse funds quickly.
On the surface, this was because the bank president’s son was infatuated with Ruan Jiaojiao, hoping to help her. But the reality was that the request came from the new shareholder who had saved Kuda Bank from near bankruptcy four months earlier.
The new shareholder who injected capital to save Kuda Bank has an almost absolute say and this shareholder was… Xie Youzhou, thousands of miles away.
Following M Country’s usual procedures, they could now repossess the manor and evict the Ruan family.
But Xie Youzhou had other plans, so he granted the Ruan family a bit more time, letting them linger there in a carefully set trap.
Ruan Jiaojiao, meanwhile, believed the wealthy Kuda Bank heir had a crush on her, and she cried and said that she didn’t want to have anything to do with Kuda Bank’s ugly son.
But she wasn’t in the manor. She was in the arms of Wright, who was filled with guilt.
Wright’s failure to help led to the Ruan Group’s complete downfall.
This smiling tiger who had always been smiling couldn’t help it anymore. He hugged Ruan Jiaojiao sadly and fearfully, begging her not to be sad and not to hate him.
How could Ruan Jiaojiao not have hatred?
But now she had grown up.
She had learned to use a man’s guilt and love to her advantage—which was much more useful than simply hating him.
Her next goal was to make Marceau or Wright…
Vow to marry her.
Then, she could regain her previous life!
And perhaps even find a way to revive the Ruan Group.
No one knew Ruan Jiaojiao’s thoughts, but Wright’s mother certainly disapproved of her son’s closeness to Ruan Jiaojiao.
She didn’t want her son to marry someone like her!
Marceau soon joined the fray, apologizing to Ruan Jiaojiao.
But her attitude toward Marceau turned cold. She had the same intentions for both men, but her approach to each differed.
Ruan Jiaojiao’s wrist grew a lot in an instant.
But she didn’t realize that with every action, she was pushing herself closer to the abyss…
Meanwhile, Hortez, who had been reported missing, appeared on a reef hundreds of kilometers away.
And if nothing unforeseen happened, she would soon meet the man she once “loved deeply” within two months.
