The Gu Corporation's stock was forcibly delisted by the stock exchange and permanently banned from relisting, with a penalty imposed!
Qin Meimei: !!!
Gu Tianlei: !!!
All guests and media present: !!!
Worse than bankruptcy, regardless of the immense power you once wielded, having your company's stock forcibly delisted with no chance of appeal or future relisting is a complete professional death sentence in the business world.
The Gu Corporation was utterly finished.
Gu Tianlei's mind went blank, a dull roar filling his ears.
He knew about the massive hole in the company's financial statements. It was the result of Qin Meimei and Wu Ya colluding to transfer 1.05 billion yuan from the accounts. This expenditure severely exceeded the budget, and Qin Meimei had failed to maintain her partnership with Wu Ya afterward. The major shareholders of the company would never accept this, which was why he had instructed them to falsify the accounts.
He had never expected this to be discovered!
The banquet tonight was meant to allow the Gu family to rise again, to reclaim their peak status in Beishi. Instead, before they could even touch the pinnacle, they had plummeted into an abyss.
"Impossible! How could this happen?! How could the Gu Corporation's financial situation have problems! Let go of me! I want to confront the stock exchange personnel face-to-face!" Qin Meimei struggled and roared.
The police held her down. "Don't move! We will confront you about every crime you've committed."
The implication was that the falsified financial statements were just the tip of the iceberg; she had committed far more serious offenses!
The curiosity of the onlookers was piqued. The news of the Gu family's eldest daughter's arrest just two days ago was still fresh in everyone's minds, and now the Gu Corporation was in trouble. Qin Meimei was likely the mastermind. Many who had been bullied by Qin Meimei took out their snacks and began to watch.
Heaven was opening its eyes to punish Qin Meimei and the Gu family.
"What evidence do you have! Without an arrest warrant, you have no right to touch me!" Qin Meimei tried to struggle further, but a familiar voice amplified through the speakers interrupted her.
"It was all Qin Meimei's orders."
The large screen in the banquet hall, which had been showing a promotional video for the Gu Corporation, suddenly flickered and changed to display Gu Yan.
Upon hearing the voice, everyone turned.
On the screen, Gu Yan, wearing a detention center uniform, sat behind bars, her face gaunt, her eyes and the tip of her nose red.
"Luo Xiaoyao and her mother came to the Gu family looking for Qin Meimei. Qin Meimei told me to send them away. I arranged their trip abroad as instructed. I don't know what happened to them afterwards, how they were imprisoned. I only found out recently that they had died. Qin Meimei told me they had escaped and asked me to go and check the place where they were held, and that's when I realized I had been deceived..."
Qin Meimei's eyes widened in disbelief. She forgot to struggle. How could there be an interrogation recording?
The police had never mentioned this to her!
"Who made this fake video, turn it off quickly!" she shrieked.
However, apart from the reporters filming her with their cameras for the live broadcast, no one paid her any attention.
The video continued to play:
"Later, I went back to question her, and she told me not to be afraid, to do as she said, that she and..." Gu Yan paused here.
"And who?" the interrogating police officer's voice could be heard on the video.
Seemingly unwilling to reveal another important individual, Gu Yan changed her words. "She said she would bail me out."
Qin Meimei's eyes widened like saucers. Gu Yan was confessing everything!
If this continued, she was finished!
"What evidence do you have to prove that what you're saying is true?" the interrogating police officer asked again.
"I have a recovered recording from a mobile phone memory card..."
Qin Meimei: !!!
No!
Qin Meimei suddenly struggled free from the police officers restraining her and rushed towards the video control console, attempting to stop the video from playing further.
However, with her hands tied behind her back, her movements were uncoordinated. She stepped on the hem of her long evening gown and fell to the ground, knocking over a pyramid of wine glasses.
With a loud crash, the guests scattered as the pile of glasses tumbled onto Qin Meimei.
"Mom..." Gu Ze started to go to her but was stopped by a police officer.
Glass shards and red wine mixed on the ground. Qin Meimei, as if oblivious to the pain, got up like a madwoman and stumbled towards the control console.
Her hair was disheveled, sticking to her face wetly. Her light gold evening gown was soaked in red wine. The skin on her exposed arm was scratched by glass fragments. One of her high heels had fallen off, and she walked with a limp, looking utterly pathetic, a far cry from her former imperious self.
Before she could reach the control console, she was apprehended again by two police officers, who dragged her away.
Many guests took out their phones to record her pathetic scene and post it online. The media reporters were even more direct, broadcasting it live from start to finish.
[Shocking! Qin Meimei Arrested Again at Gu Corporation Annual Gala, Appears Disheveled on Scene.]
[According to sources, this is not the Gu Corporation's annual gala, but Times News's event, the company of the Ye family's eldest young master.]
[Thirty years east, thirty years west. Qin Meimei bankrupted the Ye family back then, and now? The Gu Corporation's stock has been forcibly delisted.]
[Retribution. This is so satisfying to watch. Someone can finally deal with Qin Meimei.]
[Qin Meimei is such a hypocrite, I feel sick. Just two days ago she used her daughter's arrest to promote a motherly image, and now she's been exposed.]
[Oh my, the Gu Corporation's stock has been forcibly delisted. Good thing I sold early.]
...
That evening, the top trending news items included: "Times News Gala: Gu Family Delisted in Opening Act," "Gu Corporation Stock Forcibly Delisted," "Gu Corporation Permanently Banned from Relisting," "Is Your Gu Corporation Stock Trapped?" "Qin Meimei Arrested Again," "Want to Know All of Qin Meimei's Crimes?"...
At the Imperial Grand Ballroom.
Gu Ze watched helplessly as his parents were dragged away by the police, while Qin Meimei continued to shout, "Xiao Ze, you must avenge us!"
He clenched his fists, his eyes red with hatred, glaring at Yu He and her family, as if he wanted to rush forward and kill them one by one.
"Young Master, Young Master, bad news! The Old Master saw the live broadcast online and vomited blood from anger. He's in the emergency room, and the doctor has issued a critical illness notice." The Gu family's butler rushed over to report.
"What! Grandfather!" Gu Ze turned and entered the elevator. He got out of the elevator.
As he ran out, he failed to notice the cars on the road. With a loud bang, a large truck struck him, sending him flying. The truck couldn't brake in time, and its wheels rolled over his arm.
The scene was a bloody mess, his entire arm crushed into pulp.
Qin Meimei, who was about to be put into a police car, saw this and immediately broke down.
"Xiao Ze!" she struggled desperately, but the police officers holding her, having learned from previous experience, did not let her succeed. They forcibly put her into the car, locked the doors, and drove away.
That night, another headline was added to the Gu family's tragic news: The Gu family's ruin and despair.