Chapter 358: Endless Sorrow

"Then...then we have to stop these bastards! Arrest that chairman or manager of Fanghuan, interrogate him, pry his mouth open!"
"I'm afraid it won't work, Mr. Aiden.
That chairman Su Hao, who's considered the core of Fanghuan, was just an unemployed bum before joining!
Then one day, he suddenly appeared in the company, rising through the ranks at rocket speed, eventually becoming chairman."
An ordinary person with absolutely no connection to finance, thrust into the limelight as the leader?
"You mean, all these people on the surface are just puppets?"
"The real mastermind is definitely hiding behind them.
But who that person is, no one knows yet.
And no one knows just how deep this secret network extends.
Mr. Aiden… even some of the people around us, perhaps, are already their people."
"...I don't like hearing that, John." Aiden's face darkened.
"I trust my team as much as I trust you."
These people are all old comrades who have climbed up the political ladder with him.
Would they betray him and side with a mysterious, dark force?
Absolutely not!
“But, Mr. Aiden…” John’s words pierced Aiden’s illusions like a cold knife.
“Our plan to prioritize clean energy policies and our quietly finalized list of supported companies is highly confidential.
However, Fang Huan Investment, as if they had a pre-existing script, had already swept up all the shares in related sectors before you took office.”
“This…this means that someone within our ranks leaked the information?”
“Yes, Mr. Aiden. Some of us are already cooperating with Fang Huan.”
He let out a barely audible sigh, a sigh filled with the bitterness of betrayal.
How much must the price offered by Fang Huan have been for them to betray years of friendship?
“John.”
“Yes, sir.”
“You…I can still completely trust you, right?” He asked this question with difficulty.
“Of course, sir.”
“Then…find it. Find out who’s behind this illusion, who is truly pulling the strings?
Who is manipulating our great United States of America like a puppet! Can you do it?”
Secretary John was Aiden’s closest comrade-in-arms, his most trusted confidant.
If even John had…
He truly didn’t know who else in this world could be trusted.
“Sir, this will be an incredibly difficult task.”
John straightened his back, his gaze fixed firmly on Aiden.
“But I promise you, I will lift this black veil and find the shadow hidden in the deepest recesses!
I, John Klein, swear that no matter what happens, I will never betray you!”
Hearing John’s resounding vow, his eyes welled up with tears.
On one hand, he could feel that unwavering loyalty.
On the other hand, he sadly realized that in this vast country, perhaps only this person remained whom he could truly trust.
This land he loved so dearly was being wantonly tainted by an unseen hand, filling him with endless sorrow!
***
On the other side of the world, at Fang Huan Investment Headquarters.
"Operating Tottenham Hotspur is much more complicated than I imagined."
Su Hao frowned slightly as he looked at the report in his hand.
He had thought that managing a club and managing a company would be similar, but now it seemed they were completely different.
The English Premier League, after all, is the world's premier league, with an astonishingly high level of commercialization.
This meant he couldn't just focus on London; he had to consider the overall picture from a global revenue perspective, and the calculations involved were incredibly complex.
From marketing to player selection, every link was interconnected, far more mentally taxing than he had imagined.
“Yes, Chairman Su, although Tottenham Hotspur's expenses are usually enormous, if managed well, it's a super money-printing machine.
Just qualifying for the Champions League once can bring in a huge profit!”
Liu Bo reported from the side.
Su Hao nodded. He had previously thought that Premier League clubs were just money-burning machines that only spent money and didn't earn any, but he hadn't expected them to be so profitable if managed well.
Although they were currently experiencing temporary losses due to the trade situation, as long as they weathered this period, there would be a day when they could start to reap the rewards.
“Take this file and forward it to the club.” Su Hao handed over a thick file.
“I’ve annotated all the information they sent on all the executives and players.”
Liu Bo took the file, his hand sinking in at its astonishing thickness. He asked in shock,
“My goodness… Chairman Su, this is thicker than the Oxford Dictionary! You… you finished it all in one night?”
“Yes, it took me half the night. Finally finished.” Su Hao said casually.
For him, spending half the night on this was already a lengthy and significant undertaking.
“Chairman Su, you really like football? Do you often watch the Premier League?” Liu Bo asked curiously.
“No,” Su Hao shook his head, “Never.”
Liu Bo: “…”
However, since Tottenham is now Fang Huan’s business, Su Hao thought he should make time to watch it in the future.
“By the way, Chairman Su, this is the global market report that the research department just released.
Although we have invested in the clean energy sector in the European market, currently, from a global perspective, the returns are still highest across the ocean.”
The global capital market is in the midst of a massive feast.
Europe, Asia, and the Americas are all thriving.
Among them, the most aggressive and capital-attracting market is undoubtedly the US market.
Technology stocks are showing a strong upward momentum, like a giant gravitational singularity, continuously drawing global capital into it.
"..."
Su Hao took the exquisitely bound report, his gaze sweeping over page after page of data charts.
Everywhere he looked, colors represented "positive growth," the entire market displaying a highly correlated, one-sided optimistic sentiment.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, his gaze was firmly drawn to one particular stock code.
Amidst that harmonious green glow, an anomaly abruptly entered his field of vision.
That stock wasn't the eerie green glow of rising prices, nor the blinding red of falling prices, nor the dazzling gold of limitless potential.
It was a...chaos!
A kaleidoscope of colors, bizarre and fantastical, like a newly formed universe, or a collapsing black hole, emanating an eerie aura that both chilled and inexplicably excited.
It was strikingly similar to the scene when he first glimpsed "Tebicoin."
Su Hao's fingertip hovered over the name, softly murmuring it.
"GameStop?"