The next day, the stock market opened.
Brown's share price fell by three percent at the bidding stage. By the time formal trading began, within less than thirty minutes, it had plummeted directly from three percent to limit down, with close to ten million sell orders.
All the shareholders were once again flabbergasted. Such a sharp drop was completely beyond their expectations. In the history of the group's share price, such a slump was rare, except during times of major financial crisis.
That day, Terry Garcia and Clara Brown went to the police station to visit Audrey Scott, who was in custody.
Compared to her usual self at the office, Audrey now, without her exquisite makeup and with her haggard face, looked every bit like a sixty-year-old woman.
Seeing her mother in this state, Audrey's eyes widened like pupils.