Chapter 872 - Live Beyond One's Means
Chapter 872: Live Beyond One’s Means
“Daddy, you’re back.”
“Mm.” Chu Lui answered nonchalantly and walked in. Habitually, he first went into the room to look at Song Wan—his mother.
Inside, Xia Yixuan was talking to Song Wan while massaging her muscles. As a result of these small cares and concerns, Song Wan was still very healthy even though she had already been asleep for three months and had even become chubbier. However, other than that, she could not wake up.
“Brother Lui, you’re back.” Xia Yixuan stood up and walked to Chu Lui.
She smiled and pulled Chu Lui’s hand to bring him over to see Song Wan. “I think Auntie’s fingers moved today. Is she going to wake up soon?” she said happily. However, in her heart, she was frowning.
Move? Move my ass. She’s sleeping like a dead pig. If this goes on, she’ll be fat to death. She was already frustrated helping her clean up her behind every day.
Chu Lui walked over and held Song Wan’s hand. The temperature of her hand was normal, but it seemed a little colder than an average person’s. However, she looked okay. Perhaps there would be a miracle, and she would wake up; however, it would not be now.
“Thank you.”
He genuinely meant it when he said ‘thank you’ to Xia Yixuan as she had really taken good care of his mother. No matter what happened in the past—at the very least, he would remember this favor.
“It’s what I should do.” Xia Yixuan smiled as innocent as a child and hugged his arm. In the past, she did this frequently. Brother Lui, you had not forgotten about it, right?
Chu Lui did not push her away. At this time, Chu Xiang was standing outside the door; and her small hands were clutching the doll in her arms very tightly. Her childish face slowly turned dark.
She grabbed the door with all her might and ran back into the room to hug the doll and cry.
Granny was asleep and would not wake up, and there was another Auntie beside Daddy. Even though her younger sister was not around, Daddy still did not like her.
Chu Lui did not care about Chu Xiang as he would not care for anyone unimportant to him. However, in this house, he would not let Chu Xiang suffer. Her clothes, food, and lodging would be taken care of by a professional but not himself.
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He took out a card and swiped it at the elevator to open it. From the eighteenth floor to the twenty-eighth floor, there were ten floors in between; and this distance was around half the size of the old Chu Enterprise building.
He could stand at an even higher place and look even further. Of course, he also kicked out the useless parasites.
“Cousin, this place is really not bad.” Once Du Jingtang came in, he touched this and touched that every once in a while as he had not come more than a few times. On top of a building with nearly thirty levels, the cars outside looked as small as ants.
Of course, he also had an office that was as big as Chu Lui’s. However, he did not like to be too high up so he arranged for his office to be on the fifth floor. He was very satisfied with it, and of course, he would frequently come over to crash Chu Lui’s place.
“How is it on your side?” Chu Lui asked Du Jingtang. As for the employees’ side, they would use both new and old ones as they did not pose much of a difference.
Du Jingtang walked over and sank his entire body into the couch. “The stockholders at that side are all anxious. Since we started buying Chu Enterprise’s stocks, their stock price had started to cut their meat.
Also, Min Guocheng had sold one-third of his stocks, and this one-third is with Chu Lui. It was obvious that the remaining two-thirds would be within their reach.
How could Min Guocheng possibly fight with Chu Lui using that brain of his? It was no wonder that when his cousin gave up on his position as CEO of the Chu Enterprise back then, he was not too reluctant. It was because he had already decided to switch to a bigger building, and the new Chu Enterprise building was situated in one of the busiest streets in the city.
It was a new commercial building with offices and entertainment all in one mega-sized corporation. Actually, Du Jingtang should have guessed it at the start. This cousin of his was never someone that would be happy with his current situation and would not just stop at a specific high point in life.
The original Chu Enterprise building only had eighteen levels, and to Chu Lui’s ambitious heart, he would never be satisfied. Now, there were many buildings with more than twenty or thirty levels. Based on his personality, why would he be content to be stuck forever in a building with eighteen levels?
However, before he could turn his plan into action, Min Guocheng happened.
Chu Lui turned on the computer, and the Chu Enterprise stocks were dropping like crazy and almost to the bottom line. As for the project they had prepared for three years, the person who signed the contract was him—Chu Lui. It was written clearly on the contract that if it was someone else, the contract would be invalid; and the money would be returned to the owners. Since he had taken over that project, he would have made quite a big loss. He was going to make Min Guocheng compensate for the exact amount he did at the start.
At this end, things were gradually becoming more stable. As for other people which included Min Guocheng, the same was not happening; and he was overwrought.
“Why? Is it still dropping?”
He did not even dare to look at his computer and look at the trend of the stock market today. If this continued, he would have to use the Min family’s business to support the Chu Enterprise. Also, he had just started the Hang Yu project. That project needed them to inject a huge amount of investments, and money was running like water into the project.
He only knew that this project was very profitable, and the money earned could be used to buy another building with eighteen levels; and he could even own the land itself. However, he did not expect that the first phase of investment would cost so much to the point where he could not handle it.
Recently, he still used the Min family’s credibility to borrow money from the banks. After the new project was running, he could then repay the money in one shot and should be the point where he would start to earn. However, he was currently living beyond his means. He kept putting in sum after sum as if he was adding in water, but there was not even any profit. Just like that, the other party was chasing another sum of payment. He slapped his own forehead; he had not slept in a few days.
“Mm, it’s still falling. It might drop until it’s suspended,” his assistant said carefully.
“CEO, Hang Yu is asking for money again.”
“How much?” Min Guocheng slapped his forehead again, and it was so painful that he wanted to curse.
Money, money, money again. How much money had he shoved into the project?
“They want fifty million dollars.” When the assistant said it, he felt the pain in his heart himself. He knew the company’s situation the best. Let alone fifty million dollars, it was very difficult for the company to even take out five million dollars now. Besides, the most troublesome thing was that the banks were not willing to lend them any more money.
“Go and talk to the bank.”