After Rebirth, the Celebrity Daughter is the Medical Expert!

Chapter 774: Chapter 622: Only Through Enduring Hardship Can One Have Steadfast Resolve

After thinking through these core issues, Shi Wangyue finally had a guiding principle.

And his clarity allowed Ze Wu to feel like he could momentarily regain his spirits and do something.

After a moment of silence, he reached out and patted Shi Wangyue’s shoulder, "Suffering hardship can lead to finding one’s guiding principle."

—"Let’s go."

Then, he pulled Shi Wangyue into the finance room.

"If we want to preserve what’s valuable, we need to maintain the business that is most worth keeping."

As he pushed open the door to the finance room, Ze Wu looked at Shi Wangyue with sharp eyes.

...

For the next three days, Shi Wangyue, Ze Wu, and the entire finance department of the company gathered in the finance room, repeatedly modeling the company’s financial transactions on the computer.

With increasing time, cold sweat layered on the backs of every finance staff member at Starlight.

The finance director’s face particularly turned pale.

Ze Wu’s mood became heavier, and eventually, he couldn’t maintain his initially calm demeanor.

Only Shi Wangyue’s expression on his face remained as cold and calm as usual.

Calm as the snow-capped mountains in the distance outside the Starlight office building.

Nearing the end of the calculations.

Shi Wangyue asked the pale-faced finance director, whose eyes were bloodshot.

"How much?"

"Five point one billion," the finance director’s voice was incredibly quieter than usual.

But still loud enough for everyone currently in the finance room to hear clearly.

"How long?" Shi Wangyue asked again.

"Three months," the finance director replied dryly, estimating the time with closed eyes.

The answer shocked everyone present.

But what Shi Wangyue said next brought their disoriented minds back to the right path—

"From now on, our goal becomes clear and simple, five point one billion in three months."

In the past one or two months, every decision made by him and Ze Wu had been actualized in specific numbers, reflected in every expenditure, no matter big or small, all clearly visible.

The entire finance room instantly became silent.

This number was unimaginably large, the urgency needing to be addressed also beyond anyone’s imagination.

Ze Wu immediately looked at Shi Wangyue, "Let’s step outside."

...

After leaving the finance room, Shi Wangyue followed Ze Wu to his office.

Upon entering the office, Ze Wu quickly locked the door.

Then, he led Shi Wangyue to the large floor-to-ceiling window in his office, and they gazed at the skyline of the capital city together.

The sky was powder blue, serene and soft like a watercolor painting.

Below, the city buildings lined up densely, spread out like a three-dimensional image beneath their feet.

Through the transparent glass window, everything outside appeared as usual, calm and steady.

But inside wasn’t the same; inside, Ze Wu was experiencing a storm within.

"Aren’t you afraid that all our efforts will turn into nothing, like waking from a dream?"

Since partnering with Shi Wangyue to open the company, Ze Wu had always felt they cooperated well, which was why the company maintained healthy growth.

Throughout the years, MM, whether profiting more or less, at least from a financial perspective, their cash flow was continually healthy.

Never had there been a situation like now, where the finances showed negative.

Cash flow is the lifeline of any enterprise, and drying up is a horror every business owner deeply fears.

Ze Wu now faced the deepest fear of all founders.

He couldn’t act boldly without rationality anymore; he wanted to pull Shi Wangyue along and continue to struggle.

"I’m almost forty years old now."

He circled around Shi Wangyue, "If I live till eighty and this life passes halfway, we’ve spent the best years of our lives moving from overseas to domestic over a dozen years—is it all for this? A future uncertain and bleak? And everything gained returned, mocked mercilessly by destiny?"

He really didn’t have the spacious heart to accept all this instantly, "I can’t accept such failure."

"What we’re doing now is not for failure," Shi Wangyue raised his head to look at the blue sky outside the window, his calm and indifferent voice reached Ze Wu’s ears, "It’s for regaining control in the second half of our lives."

Ze Wu found it difficult to understand Shi Wangyue’s calmness, "You’re really not afraid?"

Shi Wangyue withdrew his gaze from outside and fell onto Ze Wu’s face, "As long as we survive this time, we won’t fear any calamity."

...

Finance room.

Seeing Shi Wangyue and Ze Wu return after a brief step outside, the finance director greeted them, "President Yun, President Shi."

The finance room remained just as silent as when they had left.

Clearly, everyone was nervously awaiting the next arrangement from the two bosses.

Upon entering, Ze Wu wasted no time, immediately announcing the decision he and Shi Wangyue had made together—"We must immediately execute the second step to protect the company, find ways to patch these gaps."

The situation is urgent and important.

Because if this money isn’t supplemented, MM may not keep up with the upcoming investment plans.

Good projects are rare, and once available, you must seize them.

But to seize them, the prerequisite is having prepared funds.

With this number set, Ze Wu and Shi Wangyue sprang into action.

Three months, six point two billion yuan.

For the third step, Shi Wangyue and Ze Wu each took the company’s finance personnel to calculate their assets.

After calculations, the first thing Ze Wu did was lend thirteen billion to the company in his personal capacity, Shi Wangyue lent fifteen billion.

The fourth step, the company was still short by thirty-four billion.

In the past, before Shi Wangyue’s credibility suffered, raising this amount wasn’t particularly difficult for MM.

But now, this thirty-four billion was indeed a massive gap for MM.

Two and a half months left.

This enormous gap hovering over MM—how could it be filled?

...

Within Shi Wangyue’s office.

Sitting across from Ze Wu, Shi Wangyue spoke, "I’ll go for a mortgage."

Perhaps because he had an alert and crisis-driven awareness for finances from a young age.

Among Shi Wangyue’s few hobbies in life, besides loving to earn money, investing once earned, he also loved buying real estate.

More precisely, Shi Wangyue particularly loved buying luxury properties globally, in superb locations at appealing prices.

Therefore, through more than ten years of partnership in the company, Ze Wu had witnessed Shi Wangyue purchasing luxury homes across the globe from domestic to foreign, then from foreign to domestic again.

Years of this saw him accompanying Shi Wangyue buying luxury homes in places like Australia, Hong Kong City, Los Angeles, and London...