(Chapter 55) Finally, An Attack On To Hanxi
Leone was amazed at how Astrid lived her life. After eating biscuits to quench her hunger... She then went outside and sat in the garden! He didn't expect Astrid's home life to be so... Boring?
Leone knew Astrid to be a super genius, one more intelligent than his own genius brother! So he expected her to be working as soon as she got home. But she instead sat in the garden and stared at flowers for 3 hours!
He then learned that Winoa was actually Astrid's attendant! He was quite shocked to learn that, considering how Winoa seemed to be close to Astrid and her mother. He was in awe of how they acted with each other.
He had seen firsthand how servants and maids could destroy a rich and aristocratic family. The Guilliano family had plenty of lusty men within. Luckily, the family he was close to was all quite loving and loyal.
Astrid wasn't looking at the garden compared to Leone's thoughts. She was actually scheming. Winoa had seen this look plenty of times from her now she knew how dark she was.
Astrid then took out her phone and started to send a message. She only needed to wait 10 seconds before she got a response.
Seeing the response her eyes glazed. 'They underestimate my father. Are they stupid?' She then smiled chillingly.
Winoa caught the smile and immediately understood that Astrid was going to act. "Winoa, it seems that someone decided to attack Hanxi this morning." Astrid started to explain what happened.
Winoa's expression shifted. 'They attacked the shareholders of Hanxi!? Picking up almost 23% shares? Do they think Mr. Tuhs is stupid?' Winoa couldn't believe what they were doing was a plan of an actual businessman who made hundreds of millions a year.
Little did she know, that her mind had been completely plagued by Astrid already. An 8% profit annually would be seen as good business for most. While Astrid was able to pull more than 100% profits from nowhere!
It was a reason why the rapidly rising Auxil company had been on many's radars. Such growth would normally indicate foul play, but no evidence could be found of such. So then it was decided, the CEO of the company was a ridiculous, inhumane genius of this world.
Astrid was a genius, but there was plenty of foul play. She had completely ruined some companies single-handedly without them being able to react quick enough to respond to her attacks. With her skills in hacking, killing, and business. She swooped up a lot of valuable shares and positions quickly.
The profits she could get were of the backs from other's money and effort. For the start of her business she had low amounts of spending. But her revenue had already hit a billion within 2 quarters.
This allowed the company to expand accros the country. Their technology alongside Hanxi completely dominated the market. They had little competition from foreign companies, but they needed to exist still.
"Also, make sure to look for a new driver. It seems this one is... Best his time." Astrid had calmly fired the driver, and booked him in for a week of torture...
Winoa nodded. She didn't know why Astrid decided to fire the driver, but she would never question Astrid's decision on anything.
"Alright, you can do what you want for today. I'll be working with mother to solve the issue." Astrid then stood up and dismissed Winoa.
Winoa nodded and joined Francesca and Leone. Leone was watching Francesca practice acting and asking her many questions. While Francesca was becoming slightly annoyed by his questioning.
Winoa joined in and forced Francesca to join them in watching some films. When seeing their obvious looks of asking where Astrid was, she just said she was doing some work with Mrs. Tuhs.
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"Are you sure it hasn't been bothering you lately? You need to tell me these things Astrid." Astrid quietly sighed. Ever since she had her first period. Her mother had been extremely worried, but Astrid explained that it was no problem for her anymore.
She was directly lying to Mrs. Tuhs about that. Ever since her stomach cramps were becoming worse. Especially after that night, she could barely stand the next day. At least she could get away with staying in her room.
"I'm fine. Dad will be fine with Hanxi, the shares that Jyuin got were all sold for at least 10 times it was worth. Just a few changes in the market will make those stocks worthless. Including their own." Astrid was extremely calm about the situation happening at Hanxi.
Mrs. Tuhs sighed and continued to focus on the work she needed to do. Since she and Mr. Tuhs had trusted their shares to Astrid, she also did some work for the company now and again.
Astrid was actually extremely happy that someone had finally attacked her father. It now meant that she could start to narrow down her enemies one by one. For now, completely crushing Jyuin's stocks would be good.
Mrs. Tuhs decided to ignore Astrid's blatant hacking in front of her face, she knew Astrid was no saint. She had heard about Astrid's company rising to such a high place within the Italian market and already could guess her daughter was doing something.
But this would just be the beginning for Astrid. She first hacked into the sensitive documents of Jyuin and collected enough evidence for shareholders to decide to quickly short-shell their stocks. She then separated some evidence of them bribing some government officials and also began to falsify a rumor they were involved with child trafficking.
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As Astrid was readying her evidence to completely destroy Jyuin. Their representative was over at Hanxi giving Mr. Tuhs an annoying time...
"We would like to buy the 10% shares from you at this price. No matter what you do, you won't be able to do anything." The representative was arrogant. His boss had been confident about the destruction of Hanxi since he was given funds by an outside source to buy off their shareholders at ridiculous prices.
By also giving those same shareholders some more privileges, they managed to get a sizeable amount of shares. They even negotiated a deal with the newly established Auxil to sell some of their shares within the business! With the 10% from Mr. Tuhs, they would be the top shareholders of the business...
Mr. Tuhs was no fool. He had been messaging Mrs. Tuhs all day about what was going on. Now he was being messaged by his daughter and was told a plan she was doing. He felt the CEO of Jyuin was incredibly stupid.
A businessman that was proudly used by others to bring him down? It made him laugh. Now he understood what his daughter was thinking, that they had multiple enemies. And that they all were planning to strike soon.
But they didn't plan to coordinate very well. There seemed to be such a disadvantage for them, but Astrid was using their weaknesses to perfection. Since they put all of their pressure on to Hanxi, she already had made preparations to ruin them within the hour. If their company was ruined, then the person who provided them funds would undoubtedly pull out as well. Meaning that they would need to sell the 23% shares they had picked up...
Mr. Tuhs just gave a steely look. Thinking he was pressured and angry, the representative gloated. "If CEO Tuhs hopes to survive this I would suggest selling those stocks. You know as well as I do that those won't be worth much when we buy stocks from Auxil." He had a smirk on his face.
Stephan, who was standing beside Mr. Tuhs, then gave a cold smirk. 'Is this man stupid? Did they do any research at all? Did they think we would roll over and die when they started to blatantly try to acquire us? Who do they think are the main shareholders of those two businesses.' He then felt sorry for this man. He would be slapped in his face so hard he might not be able to go outside again...
Mr. Tuhs then got a message on his phone. He calmly had a look at its contents and gave a light smile. "I think this conversation is over for now. I think you have some work to do later." Mr. Tuhs spoke meaningfully, as he stood up and lead the representative out of his office.
He was confused at Mr. Tuhs reaction. 'Isn't he meant to be begging me to stop? Isn't he meant to sell his shares? What happened?' He might be arrogant, but not entirely useless. He had his position for a reason...