Chapter 238: Chapter 238 Paralysis
"Useless, you’re all useless. You can’t even handle something this simple. Why are you still standing here? Hurry up and delete all of this for me." Jin Zhengxiong furiously smashed his phone to the ground, but the sound did nothing to quell the fire in his heart. Anything within his sight that he could move was shattered to pieces.
After Jin Zhengxiong finally finished venting, he found that the assistant was still kneeling there, not having left at all.
Jin Zhengxiong, panting heavily, spoke in a voice like a broken bellows: "Why are you still here? Didn’t I tell you to get that done immediately? Or are you thinking of rebelling? Don’t you forget for a second who gave you everything you have right now."
Jin Zhengxiong grabbed the assistant by the hair, his gaze as venomous as a viper’s.
"The moment this happened, I got people to try to delete the Weibo posts, but it was useless. These things can’t be deleted. Even the Weibo officials can’t do anything. We hired internet trolls, but their comments were quickly deleted, and the bought Weibo accounts vanished without a trace. The other side must have hired a very skilled hacker. Weibo is in emergency repair mode, and we have no idea when these things can be erased."
The assistant, yanked by Jin Zhengxiong’s grip, had his neck bent to a point, making it difficult to speak.
Hearing the assistant’s words, Jin Zhengxiong lost control and gave the assistant a slap across the face, his eyes fiercely murderous. "This is all because of those incompetent fools. If they had been a bit cleaner with their work back then, would I be in this crisis now?"
"I don’t care what method you use; you have to make all these things disappear for me. If you don’t, I’ll make you disappear from this world." Jin Zhengxiong stared at the assistant in his grasp with his old, muddied eyes. His hands, gnarled like old tree roots, slowly moved down without warning, choking the assistant’s neck. His hoarse voice asked, "Understand?"
The assistant lowered his eyelids and said with difficulty, "Understood."
"Get out." Jin Zhengxiong released his grip, his eyes cold and venomous as he watched his assistant disappear from view.
What he didn’t know was that the moment the assistant turned around, a cold gleam emerged in their dispassionate, machine-like eyes, and a mocking smirk curled their bruised lips.
On the other side of the villa, Jin Yuyan’s room was equally chaotic. She had mortgaged a sum of money in the Jin family’s villa to the bank, but compared to the hole she needed to fill, it was a mere drop in the ocean. At this moment, a mine scandal involving the Jin family in Bai City exploded, causing the stock to plummet. The stocks she had painstakingly acquired turned into worthless paper overnight, sinking in the water silently.
"How could this happen? Why did it turn out like this?"
At this moment, Jin Yuyan had lost all traces of elegance and refinement. Her hair was disheveled like straw, and her eyes were bloodshot, making her look like a ghost.
"Ahhh!" Jin Yuyan swept her computer to the ground, the well-made laptop splitting in two, the once vibrant screen turning pitch black in an instant.
"What do I do, what do I do, Jin Yuyan, calm down. There has to be a way to fix this. The heavens will always leave a way out; I will rebound from this." Jin Yuyan paced neurotically around her room, muttering to herself for encouragement, her eyes gradually taking on a manic gleam.
Meanwhile, in the study, Old Master Jin seemed to have aged years in mere moments, the wrinkles on his face etched deeply into his bones.
Xu Ke was unaware of what was happening within the Xu Family. Even if he knew, he might not care. He was currently driving his newly purchased car, heading toward the Lin Group.
"How are things going? An hour has passed, and why is that stuff still up? Didn’t I tell you to remove it? Remove it for me! Are you defying my orders now? Don’t forget who gave you everything you have. Don’t think you can escape my control. What I have given, I can just as easily take back."
Jin Zhengxiong watched the situation on the internet escalate, even drawing the attention of local police.
Jin Zhengxiong’s heart began to race, his breathing becoming labored. Hands trembling, he fished out his quick-acting heart pills from his pocket, swallowing them dry before finally feeling a bit better. This ordeal left Jin Zhengxiong drenched in sweat, as if he had been pulled out of water.
"I’m talking to you, can’t you hear me? Are you mute or deaf? Hurry and say something." Jin Zhengxiong, hearing nothing from his silent phone, felt his anger rise once more, his hands itching to smash something to vent his fury.
Just when Jin Zhengxiong thought there would be no reply, a cold snort emanated from the other end of the line.
"Jin Zhengxiong, do you remember Zhang Guodong?" The assistant’s voice was rough and hoarse, as if forced out from deep in their throat.
Jin Zhengxiong frowned, trying to recall but realizing that this person wasn’t in his memory. "Who is that? What does it have to do with what I’m telling you to do now?" Jin Zhengxiong said impatiently.
"Ha, I knew you wouldn’t remember. Let me tell you, I wasn’t born an orphan. My father’s name was Zhang Jiadong, and my mother was Li Chunni. Eighteen years ago, they worked in the Jin family’s mine. They wanted to make more money to send me to the best schools. They hoped I’d become a teacher, marry a gentle and virtuous woman, and have a couple of lively children."
"But a mining disaster destroyed all that. My father was buried in a collapsed mine shaft, and my mother was silenced as a witness. I hid in a dark corner and watched it all unfold, not daring even to cry out loud. Back then, you lived in luxury off the blood and toil of others, and I could have eaten you alive with hatred." The assistant sighed longingly.
"I used to dream of killing you, dismembering you, but I couldn’t because I’m just an orphan. You were like a cloud in the sky while I was just dirt on the ground. I thought I’d live my life with this hatred alone, but then you came to our orphanage looking to adopt, and as fate would have it, you chose me. Tell me, isn’t the heavens themselves endorsing my revenge?" The assistant’s sinister and eerie voice crawled through the receiver, chilling Jin Zhengxiong to the bone.