You got your marriage certificate and then abandoned me? I'll feed the richest woman in the wor

Her soft, slightly choked voice echoed through the brightly lit restaurant.

The shattered ice in the glass bowl melted on her tongue, but the icy touch couldn't stop the surge of warmth churning wildly in her chest.

Chen Yuan sat opposite her.

All the sharpness and coldness had faded from his deep black eyes.

All that remained was a warm, inviting space that made one want to immerse oneself in it.

A large, well-defined hand was stretched out.

His rough fingertips gently pinched her fair, delicate cheeks, which looked as if they could be squeezed for water.

"If I don't spoil my wife, am I supposed to let others bully her?"

His voice was low and husky, carrying an air of self-righteous dominance.

Shen Wanzhou's cheeks instantly flushed with an alluring blush.

She sniffed, buried her face in Chen Yuan's large palm, and rubbed against him like a satisfied little animal.

Those nameless anxieties caused by hormonal changes during pregnancy.

Faced with this man's boundless favoritism, it was like encountering the first snow under the blazing sun.

It vanished without a trace.

The camera seemed to be suddenly pulled up by an invisible hand.

From the warm and inviting Cloud Top Manor, filled with the scent of fir trees, one is instantly transported to the concrete jungle of Jianghai City.

Opposite the Xingchen Venture Capital Building, there is a towering office building with an all-glass curtain wall.

Wu Group Headquarters, Chairman's Office.

The air was filled with the strong aroma of Cuban cigars, mixed with the bitterness of premium freshly ground coffee.

Wu Mingde, chairman of the Wu family, was wearing a well-tailored custom-made suit.

His obese body sank into the large leather boss's chair.

He was holding a half-burnt cigar between his fingers.

The bluish-gray smoke swirled and rose in the cold air from the air conditioner, blurring his calculating, triangular eyes.

"Chairman, good news."

A secretary in a business suit is holding several encrypted financial statements.

Wearing high heels, she walked quickly to the large desk.

"Our informants within Star Ventures have sent back definitive information."

"Shen Wanzhou, the head of the Shen Group, has not appeared in any public setting for two months."

"Moreover, there's Chen Yuan, the god-like mastermind behind Xingchen Venture Capital."

"During this period, he seemed to have vanished into thin air, leaving all decision-making power in the company to that fat guy named Wang Kai."

The secretary's voice was filled with barely suppressed excitement.

Wu Mingde's fingers, which were holding a cigar, suddenly stopped.

A stub of white ash from the tip of a cigar fell onto the polished marble tabletop and shattered into powder.

He sat up straight, and a greedy, fierce glint shot from his cloudy little eyes.

"Is the information reliable?"

Wu Mingde's voice trembled with excitement.

Since Chen Yuan swiftly annexed the Lin family and then suppressed the major century-old families in the Chamber of Commerce election.

Star Capital is like an insurmountable mountain, pressing down on the entire Jianghai City business community.

Wu Group is an emerging conglomerate that relies on overseas capital and focuses on the technology sector.

During this period, Xingchen Venture Capital snatched away countless core projects.

Profits were squeezed to the limit.

They have been secretly looking for an opportunity to retaliate, like a venomous snake lurking in a dark corner, ready to bite at any moment.

"Absolutely reliable."

The secretary handed over a printed copy of the secretly taken photos.

Although the image is blurry, it is still visible.

The photo shows Chen Yuan, who once seemed so arrogant at the financial summit.

She was dressed casually, carrying several shopping bags full of maternity and baby products, as she walked out of a high-end maternity and baby store.

"Rumors are circulating in the industry that Shen Wanzhou is pregnant."

The secretary lowered her voice.

"Chen Yuan's mind is entirely on his wife and children now, and he has no time to care about the company's fate."

"Although Wang Kai is quite capable, he is far inferior to Chen Yuan's unreasonable and devastating methods."

Wu Mingde looked at the photo.

A cruel yet triumphant smile curled at the corners of his mouth.

"Great! Heaven is on my side!"

He stood up abruptly, slamming the cigar in his hand into the crystal ashtray.

sizzle.

The fire went out.

"Contact our capital allies in North America immediately."

A desperate, mad glint flashed in Wu Mingde's eyes.

"Tell them that Star Ventures is currently leaderless, making it the perfect time to short their core technology sector!"

"If we can just create a small opening, we can reclaim our position as the technological powerhouse of Jianghai City!"

"I'll teach that spineless coward Chen Yuan, who only knows how to fawn over women, that the business world is a battlefield, allowing no room for distraction!"

Three hours later.

A long-planned war without gunfire.

It suddenly exploded on the stock market in Jianghai City.

Countless unidentified speculative funds from overseas are like a group of sharks that have smelled blood.

They frantically sold off shares of several core listed companies under Xingchen Venture Capital through various clandestine short-selling channels.

The green price drop line plummeted straight down to the daily limit at a dizzying speed.

In Xingchen Venture Capital's financial system, red alert pop-ups kept appearing one after another.

The piercing beeping sound echoed throughout the trading hall.

"Mr. Wang! The Wu Group has joined forces with seven overseas hedge funds and is dumping shares across the board!"

"The amount of money they're using is enormous; our cash reserves are about to run out!"

The traders were sweating profusely, their fingers leaving afterimages on the keyboard, their voices filled with obvious panic.

Wang Kai stood in front of the giant electronic screen.

The color had long since faded from that round, chubby face.

It was as pale as a sheet of paper.

Sweat soaked the back of his shirt.

He stared intently at those candlestick charts that could collapse at any moment.

His hands gripped the edge of the control panel tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force.

Those bastards from the Wu family, they chose the worst possible time.

It just so happened that Brother Yuan had given a strict order that he and his wife should not be bothered with company matters.

"Hold on! Pour all the money from the reserve fund pool into it!"

Wang Kai yelled at the top of his lungs, his voice cracking.

"Even if it means filling the sea with money, you have to pry these stocks off their daily limit down!"

however.

Faced with a long-planned joint attack by 50 billion yuan of overseas speculative capital.

Wang Kai's resistance appeared to be weak and ineffective.

In less than half an hour, a huge hole was torn in the defenses of the backup fund pool.

The stock was once again locked at its daily limit down.

If the stock price cannot be pulled back before the market closes today.

Star Ventures' technology sector will face a devastating blow, with its market value evaporating by at least hundreds of billions.

Wang Kai gritted his teeth.

He knew he couldn't hold on any longer.

This is beyond the scope of what he, as the acting president, can handle.

He grabbed the car keys from the table, without even taking his coat, and stumbled out of the office.

The black sedan sped along like a mad bull, reaching the mountainside of Cloud Top Manor.

Inside the manor.

Shen Wanzhou was lying on a soft couch in the sunroom on the second floor.

She was fast asleep, covered with a thin cashmere blanket and holding a pregnancy cookbook.

Sunlight shone on her serene profile, making her look peaceful and beautiful.

In the study on the first floor.

Chen Yuan was sitting amidst a pile of disassembled wooden parts.

He was holding a screwdriver.

Focused on assembling this crib that was custom-made in Italy.

A few strands of hair fell across her forehead, and her deep-set eyes showed no trace of the coldness she displayed in front of others.

Only the patience and anticipation of a new father.

"Bang!"

The heavy, soundproof door to the study was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

The door slammed against the wall's anti-collision pad with a dull thud.

Wang Kai stood at the door, panting.

His chest heaved violently, and his shirt was wrinkled like dried pickled vegetables.

He didn't even dare to speak loudly, for fear of waking up the person upstairs who was under special protection.

He could only walk quickly to Chen Yuan's side.

The fat man slapped his thigh anxiously, "Brother Yuan, those bastards from the Wu family have poured 50 billion into this place! Our defenses are about to be breached!"