chapter 13.2

It turned out that Qifengtai was an undeveloped state-owned forest resource, and the government decided to put it up for auction in order to promote local economic development.

Nowadays, availability of forest resources had become very scarce for developers. Therefore, when bidding invitations would start, many companies would eagerly compete for a spot.

But in the end, only the two largest companies, Qiao Est. and Gu Est. passed the audit.

Only after seeing Qifengtai’s three characters[1] did Qiao Yang gradually remember the plot of the novel.

No wonder Qiao Jin said yesterday that he was deliberately approaching Gu Ye in order to win the bid.

In the novel, the original owner really did not spare any efforts to find out the maximum budget that Gu Est. had set aside for this piece of land.

And finally, he indeed defeated Gu Ye and claimed this piece of land at the bidding session.

However, he was unaware that the land they were competing for was actually a trap itself—a trap used to harm Qiao Est.

The original owner was just breaking his head drilling into the trap.

He only remembered that in order to win against Gu Ye, the original owner took this piece of land at a price several times over the budget without the consent of the Qiao family.

Paying a huge amount of reserve funds made Qiao Est. to become caught up into a temporary capital chain[2] rupture.

Afterward, under the name of Qiao Est., Qiao Yang had secretly taken out a huge loan of several billions from the bank. He used it to develop this piece of Qifengtai land and build a high-end relaxation and entertainment resort.

However, the government issued a violation regulation order and Qifengtai was sealed up for investigation.

The huge investment of nearly tens of billion was instantly lost.

What’s worse was, Qiao Est. immediately faced a crisis of capital funds rupture at the same time, but also faced with the inability to repay billions of huge loans situations.

In order not to be sued, Qiao Est. sold off its projects under subsidiary company one after another at low prices.

It ended up in bankruptcy. The original owner‒who could not stand the ending and the pressure from all sides‒chose to commit suicide by jumping off a building. Thus, he left this《To Strive Forward》novel.

And this novel’s Qiao family also went into decline in this business war and power struggle ‒ eventually vanished without a trace from then on.

All of this was a conspiracy in which someone was taking advantage of the original owner’s foolish and competitive heart to push Qiao Est. to the bottom step by step.

Qiao Yang took a deep breath of the cold air, deeply regretting that he had not read the plot well enough that he did not know who was behind the Qiao Est.’s entrapment.

But no matter what, this piece of land, Qifengtai, absolutely must not have it!

Liu Wen saw that his boss was frowning and asked him tentatively, “Is this planning file not adequate?”

Qiao Yang, “No.”

He calmly contemplated on it. Read this novel only on Foxaholic

This matter was being manipulated by someone behind the scenes. If they rashly withdraw the bid now, they would inadvertently alarm the snake[3] instead. It would be better to seize this opportunity and do some planning first, then figure out who the enemy was hiding behind.

Qiao Yang instructed Liu Wen, “Go ahead, let everyone proceed according to this proposal, and turn it in to me when it’s done.”

Not long after Liu Wen went out, the office’s door was knocked again, “Young Master Qiao, the Vice President wants to see you.”

The Vice President?

Qiao Zhen!

“Quick come in.”

Qiao Yang almost jumped up from the chair, just when he was about to go out to meet him(QZ), Qiao Zhen walked in.

His face was gloomy and carried a trace of anger.

However, Qiao Yang’s heart was thinking about something else, thus, he completely overlooked the emotions, “Big brother, it so happens that I also wanted to look for you about something.”

He quickly took out his phone, because he was too anxious, he kept entering the wrong password.

Qiao Zhen didn’t even look at him and coldly instructed Liu Wen, “You go out.”

Qiao Zhen, the vice president of Qiao Est., one of the key members of the Board of Directors. But none of this was what made the employees revere him.

His ways of handling matters were swift and decisive[4], and strict and sharp temperament deterred others from even daring to look at him in the eye.

Liu Wen shrank his head and replied nervously, “Yes!”

He immediately got lost.

Qiao Zhen came over and slapped the information in his hand heavily on the table with a ‘bang’. Qiao Yang, who was in the process of unlocking his phone, also jumped.

Qiao Zhen was a head taller than Qiao Yang, coupled with a cold and imposing manner, towered over Qiao Yang and stared at him. His voice paused with every word, and compelling people’s hearts with a question, “After going through the trouble of drafting such an impeachment document, how come it wasn’t presented at the board meeting?”

Qiao Yang looked down: It was the speech script the original owner made to impeach Qiao Zhen.

How does Qiao Zhen have it?!

He has already destroyed all of the copies ah.

The flash drive where the original documents were stored was locked in his office desk drawer.

Could it be that whoever stole his flash drive printed it out and secretly gave it to Qiao Zhen?

Very quickly, Qiao Yang figured it out: Someone inside the company is inciting disharmony between the Qiao brothers in the dark.

It was possible that the Qiao family was framed by a group of people who took advantage of the auction to bid for Qifengtai.

Qiao Yang calmly explained, “Brother, whether you believe it or not, I never intended to impeach you in the first place. Not at the last board of Directors meeting, and definitely not in the future. I don’t know how this impeachment document got into your hands, but the person who sent it to you definitely harbor malicious intentions.”

Qiao Zhen sneered and questioned, ” ‘Harbor malicious intentions’, the relationship between us still needs to be provoked?”

He looked straight at Qiao Yang—pitch-black bottomless eyes like a hawk staring at him—the whole person exuded a terrifying aura.

But Qiao Yang was not afraid of him at all.

He unlocked his phone and quickly pressed open the music file, “Brother, you listen to this stuff first.”

With only two people in the office, a simple and melodic sound drifted out, it was slightly lyrical and gentle.

Qiao Yang looked at Qiao Zhen, his eyes were full of hope and eager expectation, the hands that were hanging on the side of his waist were slightly trembling because he was too nervous.

Qiao Zhen’s brow gradually wrinkled.