After Mr. Xiang divorced, the president regretted it

The shrill ring of a cell phone broke the suffocating silence in the office. Xiang Yu took a deep breath and answered the call.

"Mr. Xiang, are you okay?" Mr. Liu, a competitor, expressed his hypocritical concern on the other end of the line. "I heard that your new project has encountered some difficulties recently. It's a pity. As you know, the business world is like a battlefield, and it changes rapidly. You have to hold on!"

Xiang Yu's face turned pale. He knew that this call was just Liu's show-off and ridicule. He clenched his fists, suppressed his anger, and said coldly: "Thank you for your concern, Liu. I won't bother you with my company's affairs."

"Don't say that, Mr. Xiang. We have been friends for many years. If you are in trouble, of course I will help you." Mr. Liu's voice was full of pride. "I have asked the marketing department to make a detailed analysis report. The market share of your new project is less than 5%. It can be said that it has completely failed. But don't worry, I have always been kind. As long as you are willing to sell your company shares to me at % off the market price, I promise that I will not fire any of your employees."

Xiang Yu was so angry that he was shaking all over and almost crushed his phone. Mr. Liu's words were undoubtedly salt in his wounds and a naked humiliation. He took a deep breath, tried to control his emotions, and said through gritted teeth: "Mr. Liu, don't be too happy too soon. It's still uncertain who will win!"

"Really? Then I'll wait and see." Mr. Liu smiled contemptuously and hung up the phone.

Xiang Yu put down his phone helplessly, and his eyes were dark. He knew that what Mr. Liu said was right. The failure of the new project was an indisputable fact. The company suffered heavy losses, its capital chain was broken, and bankruptcy and liquidation were imminent.

"How could this happen..." Yan Jin's voice trembled, and his face lost all color.

"It's all your fault! If you hadn't insisted on starting this project, we wouldn't have ended up like this!" Xiang Yu stood up abruptly and vented all his anger on Yan Jin.

"How dare you criticize me? If it weren't for your poor management, a traitor inside the company would have leaked our core technology. How could we have been caught off guard by our competitors?" Yan Jin was not to be outdone and retorted.

"Enough!" Xiang Yu roared, and the atmosphere in the office dropped to freezing point. "What's the point of saying this now? The project has failed, the company is going bankrupt, and we are all finished!"

He fell weakly on the chair, covering his face with his hands, in great pain. Yan Jin was also silent, leaning weakly on the desk, with a blank look in front of her.

At this moment, the office door was suddenly pushed open, and a familiar figure appeared at the door, "Mr. Xiang, Mr. Yan, something bad has happened..."

The person who broke in was the manager of the project department. He was sweating and looked flustered, obviously having heard some bad news. "Mr. Liu... Mr. Liu..." He gasped and could not speak a complete sentence.

"What's wrong with Mr. Liu?" Xiang Yu looked up suddenly, with an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Mr. Liu...he...he announced at the press conference...announced...announced that he would acquire our company..." The project manager finished the sentence stutteringly, as if he had used up all his strength.

Acquisition! Xiang Yu and Yan Jin looked at each other, and saw shock and despair in each other's eyes. They knew that with the company's current situation, they were simply unable to resist Mr. Liu's acquisition.

"Impossible!" Yan Jin stood up suddenly and shook his head in disbelief, "How dare he..."

Before Yan Jin could finish, Xiang Yu's phone rang again. He answered the call with trembling hands, and the traitor Zhang's triumphant voice came from the other end of the line:

"Mr. Xiang, long time no see. How are you doing recently? I heard... your company seems to have encountered some minor troubles? How unfortunate..." Zhang the traitor's voice was full of gloating. "But don't worry, I have always been kind and generous. As long as you are willing to sell your company to me at 50% off the market price... no, 30% off, I promise to take good care of your company..."

Xiang Yu was so angry that his eyes went dark. He knew that the traitor Zhang must have defected to General Liu and was now trying to take advantage of his misfortune. He suppressed his anger and said word by word: "Traitor Zhang, you will not die well!"

"Hahaha..." Zhang the traitor laughed arrogantly, "Boss Xiang, you should worry about yourself! I have already told all the employees in the company that you are going to give up the cooperation project. Now everyone is panicking. Do you think they will still believe you?"

Xiang Yu hung up the phone abruptly, his heart aching. He knew that what Zhang the traitor said was not an exaggeration. Once the employees lost confidence, the company would be finished.

The atmosphere in the office was extremely depressing. Yan Jin slumped in his chair with a blank look in his eyes, as if he had lost all hope.

Suddenly, the office door was flung open, and a group of employees rushed in angrily, surrounding Xiang Yu and Yan Jin.

"Mr. Xiang, Mr. Yan, why are you giving up the cooperation project? Why are you giving up on us?"

“We have worked so hard for the company for so many years, is this our reward?”

"You can't do this to us, we want an explanation!"

The employees' questions rang like thunder in Xiang Yu's ears. He opened his mouth but couldn't make any sound. He looked at the angry and disappointed faces in front of him, feeling powerless...

"That's enough!" Yan Jin suddenly stood up. She looked around at everyone with a firm and resolute look in her eyes. "I will give everyone an explanation..."

Her voice was not loud, but it was full of power, and everyone's eyes were focused on her... Yan Jin's voice was like a powerful tranquilizer, temporarily suppressing the surging emotions of the employees. She took a deep breath, and her eyes swept across the familiar faces, with mixed feelings in her heart. Over the years, she and Xiang Yu fought side by side, leading the company step by step to glory, but now, she has to destroy it all with her own hands. How can she not feel pain?

"I will do everything I can to find a new way out for the company." Yan Jin's voice was a little tired, but very firm. "Please believe me, give the company another chance, and give us another chance too."

The employees looked at each other, and finally chose to believe Mr. Yan, who had always shared the good and bad times with them, and quietly left the office.

The office door closed again, locking all hope and despair in this small space.

Yan Jin kept her promise and began to work non-stop to find new business opportunities for the company. However, reality dealt her a heavy blow. The partners who used to be close to her now avoided her and even took advantage of her misfortune.

"Boss Yan, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's just that I can't help you! Your company is in such a bad situation that anyone who gets involved will be in trouble..."

"Boss Yan, as you know, our company has been having difficulty with capital turnover recently. We really have no other choice..."

Rejection after rejection, excuse after excuse, gradually eroded Yan Jin's remaining hope. She was like a traveler who lost his way in the desert, with only endless despair before her eyes.

On the other hand, Xiang Yu was also struggling with the company's predicament. He worked day and night, trying to find a way to solve the funding problem, but to no avail. Banks refused to lend, investors withdrew their capital, and the company was like a lonely boat in the wind and rain, which could be swallowed by the huge waves at any time.

The tremendous pressure brought Xiang Yu to the brink of mental collapse. He began to suffer from insomnia and hair loss, and his once high-spirited face was now covered with fatigue and fatigue.

Late that night, Xiang Yu dragged his tired body back home, only to find that the lights in the living room were still on. Yan Jin was sitting on the sofa, staring out the window with lifeless eyes, with a document on the table.

Xiang Yu walked over, picked up the document, and suddenly found that it was a divorce agreement...

"You..." Xiang Yu's voice trembled a little. He raised his head and looked at Yan Jin with complicated eyes, "Why do you do this?"

Yan Jin turned her head and looked at him, her eyes full of exhaustion and... determination...

"We..." Yan Jin's voice was very light, but it was like a heavy hammer, hitting Xiang Yu's heart hard, "Let's just do this..."

"That's it." Yan Jin repeated, his tone terribly calm, like a pool of stagnant water, unable to cause any more waves.

Xiang Yu's fingers holding the agreement turned white, and his joints were distinct, as if he was trying hard to restrain something. He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end he just laughed at himself. "Divorce? Is this the solution you came up with?"

"Do you have a better idea?" Yan Jin asked back, with a barely perceptible tremor in her tone. The company was the result of her life's hard work, but now it was facing the crisis of bankruptcy, and all this was caused by her husband, Xiang Yu, and his ambitious competitor, Mr. Liu.

"We can still find a solution together and face it together!" Xiang Yu almost shouted. He couldn't accept Yan Jin giving up their marriage so easily, just like he couldn't accept the impending bankruptcy of the company.

"Together? How? Look at you now, do you look like a gambler who has lost all his money?" Yan Jin pointed at Xiang Yu, her eyes red. "We have already lost, and we have lost miserably! Instead of being dragged into the abyss together, why not..."

"Enough!" Xiang Yu slammed the table and interrupted Yan Jin. He couldn't deny Yan Jin's words. Now he really looked like a desperate gambler, but he was unwilling and didn't want to admit defeat.

At this moment, a rapid phone ring broke the tense atmosphere between the two. Xiang Yu glanced at the caller ID and saw that it was an unfamiliar number. He hesitated for a moment, but still answered the call.

"Hello, hello, is this Mr. Xiang from Xiang Group?" A strange male voice came from the other end of the phone, with a bit of magnetism and elegance, "My name is..."

Xiang Yu's heart skipped a beat, and an inexplicable premonition came over him. He subconsciously held his breath, waiting for the other party's next words.