"What exactly do you want? I offered to buy it back at a price ten percent higher than the market price, yet you’re still not satisfied. How greedy are you exactly? Name your price!"

"My terms are simple, cancel the wedding, announce your divorce with Yuan Jiayin!"

Ye Lu casually threw out his alarming conditions.

Shang Jingchen clenched his phone in disbelief, gritting his teeth, "Ye Lu, don’t overstep your boundaries, you’re pushing too far."

"Haha, it’s all right when you and your wife bully me, but when I retaliate, you can’t bear it? You love pretending to be deeply in love, doesn’t Yuan Jiayin want to marry into a wealthy family? I want you to destroy and pressure each other in front of everyone."

"I would never do that."

This was a matter of his personal reputation, he had just publicly promised to maintain their engagement, now to regret it and abandon Yuan Jiayin, how would the people view him. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Hah, it seems you are very affectionate towards her, prioritizing the beauty over the country, let me see if you really could do it."

Ye Lu snorted and hung up the phone.

...

On the other hand, Yuan Jiayin sat on the sofa, her mind in disarray. She also realized the deadly trick that Ye Lu was pulling.

"She must be using this to force Jingchen to abandon me, I won’t be abandoned." She clenched her nails, her face twisted.

If Shang Jingchen abandoned her, then she would truly have nothing left, a total failure.

Bai Sijia comforted her: "What are you worried about? Shang Jingchen wouldn’t dare, would he? The public pressure is so immense. If he does such a thing, wouldn’t he become a disloyal man? Besides, he loves you so much. He has proposed to keep the engagement as before. He definitely wouldn’t go back on his word!"

But Yuan Jiayin dared not believe it because she felt that Shang Jingchen’s decision to continue with the engagement was due to public pressure and might not have been entirely voluntary.

What if he really listened to Ye Lu or he couldn’t bear to lose fifteen percent of the shares!

"No, I must go to the group to find him and see his attitude." Yuan Jiayin stood up determinedly, then turned to Bai Sijia with a fierce look, "Sister Sijia, can you help me to arrange this? I absolutely won’t sit around and do nothing, you know what to do!"

She hurried to the Shang Family Group, arrived at the company in a hurry, and saw the employees were all discussing, rumors were everywhere.

They were saying that the company might crumble, and the stock market could plummet.

She hurriedly took the elevator to the top floor, only to be told by the president’s office assistant that President Shang and a group of shareholders were holding an emergency shareholder meeting.

Yuan Jiayin’s face changed drastically, this matter had now alarmed the group’s shareholders, she couldn’t help but feel terrified. Since it concerned the entire group’s interests, this matter couldn’t be decided by Shang Jingchen alone!

She waited anxiously outside.

"We must buy back the shares, otherwise our group will face a significant risk, we can’t let them fall into the hands of rival companies."

"President Shang, have you contacted your ex-wife? What did she say? Is she willing to sell the shares back to us?"

"Miss Ye is so ruthless, it must be because of the previous unpleasant events. Why not try to reconcile? Let the young lady apologize. We can’t let your family’s private issues jeopardize the entire group’s interests."

The shareholders were all talking at once, they were all important figures who owned a lot of shares in the Shang Group.

If Ye Lu were to sell the shares, causing the company’s stock to plummet, the value of the shares they held would also decrease significantly. This related to their immense personal interests, so they couldn’t just stand by and watch.

That’s why they immediately convened a shareholder meeting; to pressure Shang Jingchen to resolve this issue.