The Lu family was being too overbearing. In the trading room, only Lu Yunshi and He Zhitong knew she had borrowed money from the Lu family.

After suffering huge losses in the stock market last month, He Zhitong herself was in dire straits, living in seclusion and avoiding public appearances. She had no interest in gossiping about others.

That left only Lu Yunshi. Therefore, this matter known only to the Lu family had become public knowledge – it must have been the Lu family themselves who leaked the information to create public pressure for debt repayment!

If Du Chengrong were conscious, how could he allow others to bully her like this? Du Chengrong cared deeply about face – her shame was the Du family’s shame.

A mere 30 million Hong Kong dollars – yes, although this amount was far less than the Du family’s wealth, Xia Ziyu couldn’t even produce 300,000 in cash now.

All her properties, jewelry, and luxury cars had already been pledged to the Lu family. The Lu family still allowing her to live in the house and drive the cars was already showing great respect to the Du family. Du Chengrong had always shown favor to his Fifth Concubine. If the Lu family pushed Xia Ziyu into a corner and Du Chengrong awakened, it would be very awkward for them – but no matter how awkward, they couldn’t just gift 30 million Hong Kong dollars to Xia Ziyu. She was Du Chengrong’s Fifth Concubine, not the Lu family’s Fifth Concubine. There was no reason for the Lu family to spend 30 million supporting her luxurious lifestyle.

The Lu family was also short on cash! With Lu Family Media’s stock falling below 5 dollars, they needed to buy back shares to gradually raise the price. The Lu family needed liquid capital.

The Fifth Concubine either had to repay the money or surrender all her assets cleanly to settle the debt. Forceful collection would be embarrassing for everyone – Hong Kong was such a small place, where people constantly ran into each other.

The Lu family was also struggling to balance their debt collection approach. Their different treatment of Xia Ziyu versus Xia Xiaolan before the stock market crash revealed their pragmatism.

Xia Xiaolan was just a mainlander – the Lu family could completely ignore her if they didn’t go to the mainland. Lu Yunshi could dismissively talk about teaching Xia Xiaolan a lesson for her “ambiguous relationship” with Tang Yuanyue that had irritated Young Miss Lu.

Later, when shorting Lu Family Media, even though the Lu family clearly couldn’t hold on, they still maintained an arrogant attitude when calling Xia Xiaolan.

Why? Because Hong Kong’s wealthy circles hadn’t truly accepted Xia Xiaolan yet.

Until she steadily earned 400 million Hong Kong dollars in this stock market crash – neither the Lu family nor others would look down on her any more!

A beautiful young woman in her early twenties might navigate among wealthy young masters with her looks, but she couldn’t handle the ruthless stock market that way.

Steadily earning 400 million and knowing when to stop was more challenging than making over a billion in one go. Who wouldn’t be greedy when facing huge profits?

That Xia Xiaolan could achieve this at such a young age demonstrated her capability. Don’t say it was all luck – there’s a difference between having luck and securing that luck.

Now, forget the Lu family – even if Xia Xiaolan approached Hong Kong’s current richest person wanting to discuss business, they would spare some time to hear her ideas.

Everyone had to respect capable young people. After earning their first “100 million,” one boarded the high-speed train of wealth accumulation.

It was difficult to turn 1 million into 100 million. But 100 million easily became 200 million.

Today, Xia Xiaolan could earn 400 million – seizing another opportunity might put her into the billion-dollar net worth category.

For such a young person, why wouldn’t the wealthiest be willing to spare time to listen? It might be a promising idea-

As for Xia Ziyu, the Lu family’s reluctance to directly force her out stemmed solely from her status as Du Chengrong’s Fifth Concubine.

Du Chengrong wasn’t dead yet. The Lu family naturally had concerns about bullying his woman this way.

But the Lu family truly needed money.

The title “30 Million Debt Lady” had already spread, but Xia Ziyu’s face was that thick – what could the Lu family do?

Lu Yunshi was scolded again by her family, saying she shouldn’t have acted as an intermediary at that time!

Not being in the trading room, Lu Yunshi couldn’t have anticipated Xia Ziyu would turn to the Lu family for money.

Lu Yunshi felt wronged but dared not argue back. The family had been willing to lend the money, hoping to prevent Xia Ziyu from forced liquidation and stop Lu Family Media’s decline.

She was still Du Chengrong’s Fifth Concubine after all – who knew she could be so shameless? A month after losing the 30 million Hong Kong dollars, she never mentioned repayment, hadn’t voluntarily handed over the collateral to the Lu family, and still lived in a mansion and drove luxury cars.

Criticized by her family, Lu Yunshi’s father made her responsible for recovering the 30 million loan.

Lu Yunshi went to see Xia Ziyu personally. Xia Ziyu avoided meeting her.

What else could be done?

Lu Yunshi could only go to Du Zhaohui.

With Du Chengrong in a coma, Du Zhaohui was in charge of the Du family. Now that the Fifth Concubine wasn’t repaying her debt, Du Zhaohui should give the Lu family justice.

Lu Yunshi finally managed to meet with Du Zhaohui. He sat in his office with his legs crossed, looking truly irritating.

Who could have imagined that Du Zhaohui, this playboy, would one day become “President Du,” managing the Cheng Rong Group?

Lu Yunshi had always looked down on Du Zhaohui!

How could a playboy who lost his mother in childhood compete with others in the Du family?

Yet this playboy, nevertheless…

Lu Yunshi suppressed her humiliation and stated her request.

Du Zhaohui couldn’t help but laugh out loud, and then his face suddenly turned grim, looking somewhat sinister:

“Miss Lu, we don’t have any relationship, do we? Why should I be responsible for the debt between the Fifth Concubine and your Lu family? You lent her the money, naturally, you should seek repayment from her. If people learned I was helping my young stepmother repay debts, what would they think? I’m afraid my old man would jump out of his sickbed to beat me!”

Lu Yunshi was furious: “Du Zhaohui, have you forgotten? Zhitong asked me to help you deal with the Fifth Concubine-“

Wasn’t this a favor he owed her?

Du Zhaohui sneered, “Oh really? Such a thing happened? I don’t remember.”

He didn’t owe He Zhitong anything, much less Lu Yunshi. If not for Tang Yuanyue’s sake, neither He Zhitong nor Lu Yunshi would have bothered with him. This was between him and Tang Yuanyue – Lu Yunshi had no right to claim this favor.

Du Zhaohui was already quite shameless, and he told Lu Yunshi she could choose to make this public.

Of course, this matter couldn’t be made public.

Backed into a corner by this scoundrel, Lu Yunshi stormed out of the Cheng Rong Group in anger.

Fine, if Du Zhaohui wouldn’t step in, she would take a harder approach. If Du Zhaohui didn’t care about the Du family’s face, why should the Lu family still have concerns?

Du Zhaohui watched her departing figure and tapped his desk:

“…Whatever, let that woman go trouble Xia Ziyu!”

Du Zhaohui had originally wanted to say that if they looked down on Xia Xiaolan, they should seek her forgiveness – not a perfunctory apology, but truly examining their mistakes – then he would help the Lu family recover this money.

On second thought, forget it.

Even with this condition, Lu Yunshi and her kind would never truly respect Xia Xiaolan.

Xia Xiaolan was already buying Lu family shares at the bottom… She could make Lu Yunshi realize her mistakes through her strength!