My Ares Son-in-Law

Although some suspected that Huang Dabao and Liu Yanqiu's affair was related to the mysterious chairman of Dansheng Group, ultimately there was no effort to pursue it.

After this wave of rumors subsided, they gradually disappeared. Everyone went back to work and study, treating it as just an urban legend.

While these people treated this as just something to talk about after dinner, it was a nightmare for Old Mrs. Zhou.

She had pinned all her hopes on Baoqiu Building Materials, but now her dream has been shattered.

The atmosphere in the living room of the Zhou family villa was quite oppressive.

Grandma Zhou sat on the sofa, her face particularly grim. A pile of documents, all related to building materials for the East Suburbs project, were carelessly tossed aside by her.

"Baoqiu Building Materials is finished. Huang Dabao and his wife have been crippled and donated all their assets. The 30 million yuan worth of building materials we wanted is completely out of the question."

After saying this, Grandma Zhou leaned against the wall in despair, as if all her strength had been drained away.

"What bad luck! If they had just dealt with Baoqiu Building Materials, their business cash flow would have been much better. Now, Baoqiu Building Materials is ruined, and even their money has been donated to Project Hope. If only they had given some to the Zhou family! Why bother with those poor kids?"

Grandma Zhou complained, in her eyes, those children who couldn't afford to go to school were nowhere near as important as the money her Zhou family was making.

Zhou Hao's expression was also very unpleasant: "Grandma, how about... we try finding another building materials supplier? The provincial capital is so big, there can't be only Baoqiu doing building materials wholesale, can there?"

"Find another company? Does your idiot brother think I haven't tried? If I could handle it, why would I have sent that little bitch Zhou Keying to Huang Dabao? In the provincial capital, besides Baoqiu, there are only two other large-scale building materials wholesalers."

“One is Dansheng Group’s supply chain, but they only supply their own company and don’t cooperate with outsiders at all; the other company’s price is 40 percent higher than Baoqiu’s. With such a large funding gap, our budget is simply not enough!”

"Then... what do we do?" Zhou Hao asked anxiously. "The project in the eastern suburbs is about to start, and if we don't have building materials, the project will have to stop!"

"Stop construction." Old Mrs. Zhou gritted her teeth. "For now, the project in the eastern suburbs can only be temporarily suspended. We'll have to wait until the funds are in place and we find suitable building material suppliers before we can resume construction. Anyway, I can't think of any other solutions. If you can, why don't you come up with an idea?"

"Stop work? Grandma, we can't stop work! We've already invested a lot of money in the project in the eastern suburbs. Stopping work for even a day means a loss of hundreds of thousands of yuan. If this drags on any longer, our Zhou family really won't be able to hold on!"

Zhou Hao was anxious. "We can think of a solution slowly, but once we stop work, it means we will have no income. If the people in the capital find out that we not only failed to manage the Zhou family business well, but also caused the cash flow to break down, we will not be able to explain ourselves when we go back."

"I said stop construction!" Old Mrs. Zhou slammed her hand on the coffee table. "What? Did I go back on my word? All you do is spout nonsense all day long, without any useful solutions. I also want to explain to the capital, but what can I explain?"

Zhou Hao was stunned by her imposing aura and froze on the spot. His panic intensified, and he dared not utter another word.

Grandma Zhou leaned back on the sofa, slowly closed her eyes, and wearily rubbed her temples.

Her mind involuntarily drifted back to what happened last night. She had deliberately sent Zhou Keying to Baoqiu Building Materials on credit, hoping that Huang Dabao would sleep with Zhou Keying and then use that to blackmail Huang Dabao's Baoqiu Building Materials business.

But to her surprise, Zhou Keying hadn't returned home since leaving last night, and wouldn't answer her calls this morning, only sending her a cold message: "Don't look for me unless it's important."

Then, recalling the news I heard this morning that Huang Dabao and his wife had been crippled, and the rumors of Baoqiu Building Materials going bankrupt and its assets being donated...

A cold sweat instantly broke out on Grandma Zhou's back, and an inexplicable fear spread from her spine to every part of her body. She dared not think any further about whether this matter was related to Zhou Keying.

But how could that brat Zhou Keying possibly have such powerful abilities?
Could it be that this girl has actually hooked up with someone powerful?

"Grandma, what are you thinking about? Hurry up and call that bitch Zhou Keying. It's all her fault for not getting Baoqiu Building Materials sorted out. That slut is probably flirting with some man somewhere right now."

Zhou Hao shouted impatiently.

"Shut up!" Old Mrs. Zhou glared fiercely at Zhou Hao. "You can't help at all. You're supposed to be a young master of the Zhou family in the capital. Even if you're not particularly outstanding, can't you just stop causing trouble?"

……

On the other side, Zhou Keying sat on the sofa by the window, holding a cup of coffee that had long since gone cold, staring blankly at the garden outside the window, looking somewhat dazed.

She didn't sleep well last night.

As soon as she closes her eyes, Huang Dabao's lewd face appears in her mind, and she can feel the sensation of his greasy hand rubbing against her shoulder.

There is also that kind of despair where you cry out to heaven and earth but receive no response.

Those images, like nightmares, kept replaying in her mind, haunting her.

"Thinking about last night again?" Yun Yuyan walked in from outside and said helplessly when she saw Zhou Keying like this. "It's all in the past, so don't overthink it. Just relax from now on. Xiao Chen said he'll take care of it, and he definitely will."

“I believe in him, but I still need some time to adjust,” Zhou Keying nodded.

Yun Yuyan added, "Also, I suspect that what happened to you yesterday has a lot to do with that old lady Zhou. She might even have done it on purpose. Why don't you just leave the Zhou family's affairs alone and let those guys in the capital handle it themselves?"

Zhou Keying was silent for a while, then finally nodded: "I'll listen to you. From today onwards, I will no longer concern myself with anything related to the Zhou family."

"Whether it's the project in the eastern suburbs, the old lady's financial pressure, or the mess Zhou Hao made, none of it has anything to do with me anymore."

"I don't want to be used as a pawn by the Zhou family in the capital anymore. I don't want to take unnecessary risks for their benefit anymore. I don't want to put myself in such a desperate situation again."

“I have my own career to attend to and my own life to live. The cooperation project with Dansheng Group is what I should focus on next.”

“That’s the right way to think. You’ve been working so hard these past few days, busy with those bastards, and in the end, no one cares.” Yun Yuyan truly felt sorry for Zhou Keying.

The Zhou family's business in the western region was doing quite well and was quite large, but when the Zhou family from the capital came, they took it all away and made a mess of it.

Zhou Keying was constantly putting out fires and cleaning up messes, so exhausted that she couldn't sleep well.

Now, I've finally come to terms with it. (End of Chapter)