deltrittennovels Chapter 529 Who's secretly copying my secrets?
Chapter 529 Who's secretly copying my secrets?
Cheng Qi's voice was crisp and clear, carrying a military-like solemnity.
With a single glance from her, several silent, burly bodyguards in black suits behind her instantly moved, forming an impenetrable wall of people in front of the only entrance to the conference room.
Those icy gazes and rock-solid body silently proclaimed: unless you sprout wings, don't even think about stepping out of this door!
Seeing this scene, which resembled military control, the last bit of desire to go home vanished from everyone's hearts.
They finally understood that President An was about to launch a blitzkrieg by taking advantage of absolute information asymmetry!
Helplessness, bitterness, resignation... a mix of emotions overwhelmed the executives and researchers. They exchanged wry smiles, dragged their heavy steps, and slumped down in the huge conference room, ready to face this uncertain and isolated "business lockdown."
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An Qi returned to her panoramic office on the top floor, the heavy solid wood door closing silently behind her.
The moment she locked the door, the icy, authoritative expression she wore when facing executives vanished, revealing a deeper, more refined, and extremely calm demeanor.
She walked steadily toward the huge floor-to-ceiling window, deftly unbuttoning the exquisite jeweled buttons on the cuffs of her custom-made suit, and asked without turning her head, her voice clear and steady:
"Zhang Lu, how's the task I assigned yesterday—to gather all available cash and buy back our shares while the stock price is crashing—going according to plan?"
Young assistant Zhang Lu immediately stepped forward, opened her tablet, and spoke quickly and clearly:
"President An, the finance department has been operating at full capacity for the past 48 hours. All available liquid funds have been deployed to buy up shares at the limit down price, regardless of cost. Although the stock price is still locked at the limit down, panic selling is rampant, and we have successfully harvested a significant portion of the retail investors' blood-stained shares."
After Zhang Lu finished his report, he swiped his finger across the screen, his tone becoming somewhat serious: "However... President An, the trading room reported an unusual situation half an hour ago."
She paused, then continued, "This morning after the market opened, besides our buyback order, there seems to be another extremely powerful and covert force in the market, simultaneously and frantically absorbing Jiangning Pharmaceutical's shares!"
Her voice lowered instinctively:
"The other party acted quickly, accurately, and ruthlessly, with an extremely vicious and domineering style. Any slightly larger sell order was swallowed up by them in an instant! Our traders felt that the other party seemed to have known all along that there was gold hidden under the limit down price, and they acted without hesitation."
"Um?"
An Qi abruptly stopped, her figure, back to Zhang Lu, revealed a tense expression against the backdrop of the floor-to-ceiling window. Her beautiful brows instantly furrowed into a sharp knot.
My first instinct was that my stepmother and her daughter, those two wretched women, had intercepted the information!
This thought sent a chill down her spine.
But it was forcibly turned off the next second—impossible!
She personally sealed off the laboratory results, the participants were placed under strict house arrest, and the information channels were completely shut down, making it absolutely impossible for them to be leaked in such a short time!
Now that inside information has been ruled out...
Then there's only one explanation left, an explanation that sends a chill down her spine yet also fills her with a strange excitement—in this murky market, lurks a financial behemoth with an almost demonic sense of smell!
Based solely on publicly available clues, subtle changes in market sentiment, and even in-depth research into Jiangning's past R&D capabilities, the other party made a near-suicidal and insane judgment: that Jiangning could turn the tide!
In the depths of despair, they dared to bet heavily, perhaps even their entire fortune, on buying at rock-bottom prices!
This penetrating insight and daring to face certain death stirred in An Qi a strange sense of mutual respect and intense curiosity, akin to meeting a worthy opponent, amidst a strong feeling of threat.
"Interesting!" An Qi slowly turned around, her cold gaze piercing through the floor-to-ceiling window and striking the financial jungle on the other side of the river.
A faint, emotionless smile curved at the corners of his lips.
"Zhang Lu, mobilize all resources to investigate! Focus on monitoring several private securities brokerage channels with the capacity to handle large-scale leverage. The other party's aggressive and precise buying spree suggests they're using leverage; there must be traces of a financial chain. Uncover every clue!"
Her voice was resolute: "I want to see when such a powerful and influential figure emerged in Jinling City!"
"Yes, Mr. An!" Zhang Lu solemnly accepted the order and quickly withdrew.
An Qi was the only one left in the empty office.
The glass curtain wall reflected her slightly tired yet sharp figure.
She gazed into her own eyes, where the complex emotions—crisis, excitement, curiosity, and fighting spirit—ultimately coalesced into a rock-solid resolve.
This "deadly crisis" is a grave carefully dug by the enemy.
But they never imagined that once this trap was broken, it would be the final piece of the puzzle for her to completely control Jiangning Pharmaceutical and clear away all internal obstacles!
Within the vast Anjia organization, equity ownership is like a thicket of thorns.
Her shares in Jiangning Pharmaceutical, plus the share held by her younger brother An Chen who is studying in Europe, barely exceed 45% combined.
A 51% stake is enough to have relative control, but it's still a crucial step away from the 67% absolute control threshold that symbolizes absolute power and silences opponents!
My mother died early, and my biological father was heartless.
In this seemingly glamorous but ultimately rotten wealthy family, her younger brother An Chen, who is studying abroad, is her only weakness and her only source of kinship.
And then there's Lin Wanru, the stepmother who's all sweet talk and has a heart of stone, and her younger sister An Cai, who lives in her shadow and longs to take her place...
They were like venomous snakes lurking in the shadows, flicking their tongues, waiting for her to collapse from exhaustion.
"You want my power? You want Jiangning?"
An Qi stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, letting out a very soft, chilling sneer, a cold flame burning in her eyes: "Then let's see if you have the teeth and the life to take it."
She stood quietly in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, her cold gaze originally piercing through the city skyline, trying to outline the silhouette of the mysterious opponent who was frantically buying up stocks in the abyss of the stock market.
However, what she saw downstairs interrupted her thoughts.
A blatantly bright red Ferrari, almost defiantly so, sped towards the Jiangning Pharmaceutical headquarters building like an out-of-control meteor, leaving two menacing black tire tracks in the plaza before finally coming to a stop.
The car door practically swung open, and a young woman dressed in flamboyant attire, adorned with designer logos that were almost blinding, stormed into the lobby through the revolving door, surrounded by several bodyguards in black and wearing scarlet stilettos that were at least ten centimeters high. She exuded an overbearing and accusatory aura.
An Qi's eyes instantly turned as cold as the Siberian permafrost, but a sneer, sharp as ice, slowly curled at the corner of her lips: "Heh... finally, you can't sit still anymore, huh?"
The person who arrived was none other than her half-sister, An Cai, who was like a leech to her.