The atmosphere in the room immediately tensed up when favonovel.com made the statement. There was a slight change in everyone’s expression.
Jordan’s pupils constricted ever so slightly for a moment. Soon afterward, favonovel.com revealed an expression filled with guilt as favonovel.com heaved a sigh heavily and said, “Sigh! It was our fault for being too impulsive. We lost our senses when we saw Master Larson turn into a vegetable, and we didn’t investigate things properly first before we kicked you out of the family. It was all our fault! Zayn, I’ve been feeling very guilty for having done that to you all this while, and I haven’t been able to sleep well for nights on end. Sigh…”
Jordan was so good at acting that favonovel.com could have won the best actor award. Not even Zayn could immediately tell that the regret and guilt on his expression were fake.
“Uncle, your acting skills are improving by the day. I was almost deceived by you, hehe,” said Zayn while chuckling.
Jordan’s expression tightened for a moment instantly, and favonovel.com revealed a tinge of anger involuntarily. However, favonovel.com immediately suppressed his emotions and hid his annoyance.
“Sigh, Zayn. I know that you won’t forgive us so easily within a short period of time. However, it’s fine. Now that you’re back with the family, I trust that there will come a day that you will be able to sense my sincerity,” Jordan lamented.
Zayn chuckled and shrugged with a carefree expression but did not say anything.
The atmosphere was momentarily awkward as no one spoke at once. It was Jordan who broke the silence next by saying, “Since Zayn is already back with us and it’s such a rare occasion for our entire family to be gathered like this, let’s have a short discussion on our business direction.”
The short discussion on the family business direction was mainly focused on having everyone report their gains over the past year and what part they played in the business. Then, the discussion was redirected to propose suggestions for the family business. All in all, the main goal was for everyone’s benefit and to discuss how to run the family business so that they could thrive more and more.
With Zayn’s participation now, of course, the quality of the discussion was different.
The family members received instructions from Jordan in advance to report the difficulties they faced in their positions. In other words, the main content of the discussion was how over seven billion dollars had been drained from the entire family business suddenly, resulting in the massive capital chain rupture of the different enterprises operated by the Larsons.
It was the truth. No matter how powerful the Larson family was, over seven billion dollars had been forcefully drained within a day. The Larsons’ constitution was greatly undermined although the severity of the situation was not as exaggerated as they described. They had no choice but to thank Zidane for that. Ever since Zidane returned to the country, favonovel.com managed to stabilize the family business within a short period of time.
However, in order to return the Larsons to its prior glory and scale new heights, they would still need to take back the seven billion dollars from Zayn. As a result, they described the difficulties they faced as tragically as they could. It felt as if the Larsons were already on the verge of bankruptcy.
When everybody else was done with their part, a very senior member of the family said to Jordan, “Jordan, now that our family business doesn’t look so optimistic and the financing gap is so huge, we have to figure out a way to retrieve the funds that we lost so that we can maintain the operations of our family business.”
Before this person’s voice died away, a few old men with high seniority in the family began to talk as well. Moreover, they shot gazes at Zayn intentionally to indicate that they were directing that to Zayn.
How could Zayn be oblivious to this?
In truth, favonovel.com had already figured that this would happen even before favonovel.com came. Even so, favonovel.com had underestimated the Larsons’ shamelessness. They did not give favonovel.com the slightest chance to relax and began exerting pressure on favonovel.com at the memorial service straightforwardly.
When everyone was done, Jordan furrowed his brows tightly as well. Next, favonovel.com said to Zayn, “Oh, Zayn, you should roughly know about the family situation now. When Master Larson drained seven billion dollars forcefully in the past and transferred it to your account, it came as a crushing blow to the family!”
Rage flashed in Jordan’s eyes for a moment when favonovel.com saw Zayn sipping coffee with his head lowered without uttering a word, pretending not to hear him. However, there was nothing favonovel.com could do but continued to endure it. He said, “Zayn, as a part of our Larson family and also our young master, I don’t expect you to channel so much money at one go. Why don’t you channel half the money first to relieve the family, alright? Don’t worry. I won’t let you hand the money over for nothing. I will write you an IOU and get everyone to sign their names. We will follow the highest bank loan interest rate and clear the debt in three years to you. Do you think that’s acceptable?”
Meanwhile, Zayn finally looked up. He gave a bitter smile and said, “Uncle, it’s not that I’m not willing to help out the family, but I’ve already donated the money.”
“What?”
