Ye Chuji’s neck hurt from Ye Shuyun’s tugging but it was incomparable to the pain he felt in his heart. He turned around to look at his father who was still lying unconscious. His heart hurt but at the same time, it was comforting.
“Dad, do you see? You hadn’t raised this daughter of yours in vain. Even though younger sis isn’t around, I have another good younger sister. You have another filial daughter. Even if the Ye family is no more, your children and grandchildren will be here for you. Do not be scared.”
Only then did Ye Chuji sat down. He looked at Ye Shuyun; he had no idea where to begin.
It was really his fault; he was really useless.
“Our Ye family commissioned a huge project, the largest airport in Sea City. We invested almost $5 billion and the airport connects to the port. This is the biggest investment our family has undertaken before.”
“Once the airport is built, generations of wealth will be passed down to the descendants of the Ye family.”
“Me and dad wanted to take this gamble. After all, even though us Ye family have much power in Sea City, who knew what it would be like in the future? The situation is changing day by day and in the past year, those at the top had left and those who need to change had changed. The situation wasn’t one that we could avoid and hence, the two of us thought of this.”
“Just nice this opportunity came along and me and dad thought about it for a really long time before deciding to invest in it.”
After all, transport and goods are the necessary conditions for everything in the future. The airport now is a government one and Sea City is the only place that is trialling a private airport and port. But the investment is too large and not many people have the means to invest in it. In the end, the Ye family had grinded down and invested everything onto it.
At the beginning, everything was normal and the project proceeded as planned. There wasn’t much of an issue and all the administrative work was taken care of. It was completely legal and didn’t go against any national law.
But who knew things would change?
Just as they were digging up the runway, they found a large cemetery from the Yuan Dynasty in Sea City. The cemetery was under national protection and the airport which had billions invested into it already was forced to stop construction.
Even though the government gave them some compensation and a better piece of land, all the investment that they had made prior was already made, how could they recover it back?
Moreover, they had borrowed the money from the bank and now that they had to start work again, they had to return the money that they owed the bank first. If not, the bank would auction off the land that they had. The bank would only believe that they had the ability to return the money they owed if they did so. If not, they wouldn’t be able to get any more loans for the construction of the airport. It was $3.2 billion, that was almost $4 billion.
Ye Jianguo had given up his face recently and sold everything that could be sold. But he only managed to raise around $200 million. Where was he supposed to find the other $3 billion?
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
Ye Shuyun cried again.
Thinking of her father going around borrowing money from others, she felt a stab in her heart.
“Dad didn’t allow me to tell you,” Ye Chuji wiped his face but he couldn’t hide his reddening eyes. “He said that you have just found your footing in the Lu family and he wanted you to live a good life and not worry about the Ye family.”
“What is living a good life?” Ye Shuyun shouted as she stood up. There was a tinge of sourness in her nose.
“Brother, I am a Ye too, I am a Ye. Even though we are not biological siblings, I still remember how the two of you supported me while I was growing up. When I was young, I had whatever Rongrong had. Not only mum and dad, you and Rongrong would give in to me. After that, Rongrong went missing and mum left. We were the only 3 left.”
“Brother, how could you both be like this? How?”
The thing that upset Ye Shuyun the most was that Ye Jianguo didn’t treat her as his daughter. Such a big thing in the family and he didn’t even tell her. Would she only know about it when the Ye family had crumbled and dispersed?
Upon hearing his sister’s name, Ye Chuji turned his face away and secretly weeped.
Ye Rongrong, his younger sister, was his parent’s favorite daughter. However, she went missing when she was 19 and nobody knew if she was taken away or kidnapped. More than 25 years have passed since then.
Dad didn’t have much time left and mum had left a long time ago.
“Brother, how much more do we need?” Ye Shuyun wiped her own tears. This wasn’t the time to cry, they did not have the right to cry now.
Ye Jianguo didn’t have any illness; his body was better than any of them usually. He was only worried. If this thing was settled, everything would be fine.
“$3 billion,” Ye Chuji felt it unbearable to say this number too. If they wanted to restart work, they needed $3 billion. Or else, the bank would need them to pay back that amount first and that would mean that they would lose the $2 billion that they had invested earlier on. That was almost $6 billion and the Ye family definitely couldn’t carry that burden.
Even though their family had fame and power, they didn’t have money now.
What would the bank look at?
They only looked at money.
“Let me think of a way,” Ye Shuyun quickly took her bag. “Brother, look after dad first, I will think of a solution.”
What could Ye Chuji do now? He had done everything that he could, borrowed whatever he could borrow and ran whenever he could run to. He could only wait and see if his sister had any solution.
He tugged at his dry lips; in actual fact, he knew too that there wasn’t much hope.
Three billion dollars, even if the Lu family sold everything they had it wouldn’t be enough.
Ye Shuyun called Mother Lei’s number. She cried on the phone and gave Mother Lei a huge shock. As she listened to what happened in the Ye family, she started getting a headache from everything.
“Sis, don’t worry, don’t worry, where are you? I will come over right now.” as she said this, she started crying too. She didn’t dare to waste any time as she rushed out without bothering to change.
She was afraid that Ye Shuyun would do something with her unstable emotions. There were so many cars on the road and they were all moving so quickly. If something were to happen, what was she supposed to do? This was her biological sister and they both had the same blood in their veins.
If it wasn’t for Uncle Ye back then, they couldn’t have been adopted into the Ye and Lei family respectively. They wouldn’t have the life they had right now. She was very clear in her heart how Uncle Ye treated her sister as well as her.
That is why nothing could happen to Uncle Ye. If not, what would her sister do in the future?
