Francis fainted for a completely different reason compared to last night, and he was immediately sent to the hospital after the doctor administered first aid.
However, everything had changed completely even before he woke up.
The Gurney family’s stocks continued to be sealed after the market opened in the morning. The investors had expected that the Gurney family would increase their stocks to stabilize the market, but they did not expect that no action was taken at all.
On the contrary, the news that Francis owed a huge loan to the bank because he had failed in his investments began to spread wildly.
A video of Francis being hospitalized twice was uploaded by the media. In order to stabilize the situation, the Gurney family said that Francis was just doing a routine check-up and they stated that they weren’t in debt. They also sent a lawyer’s letter to sue the person who had spread the rumours.
In less than half an hour after the lawyer’s letter was sent out, an invoice containing the Gurney family’s debts was spread on the Internet. Panic was spreading, and all the media platforms began to publish news about the Gurney family.
Since they were already in a financial crisis before this. how could they have money to pay off their debts? As they couldn’t afford to pay their suppliers, all of their suppliers began to spread bad rumours to the public as well out of anger.
The suppliers were asking for their payments while the vendors were demanding their supplies, but the Gurney family couldn’t placate both parties at all.
There was news that Francis had used their hard-earned money as capital for his investments, which led to the current result.
When the news was spread to the Internet, all the investors could no longer hold back their anger. Many people even rushed to the Gurney family’s company to hold a riot.
Francis finally woke up in the afternoon, but he saw a group of people sitting in his ward as soon as he opened his eyes.
His entire family as well as Casper, who had fallen ill last night, were all present and all of them had anxious expressions on their faces. When they saw Francis wake up, they immediately gathered around him. “You’re awake? Are you alright?”
After Francis nodded, Frederick helped him sit up and poured him a glass of water. Francis already figured that the situation was bad when he saw everyone in his ward and he asked, “Why are you here? Don’t you have to deal with the company’s situation?”
“Something happened to the company and we don’t know how to salvage the situation. All of us are panicking!”
After Francis listened to the recap of what was happening in the company, he held his chest because he almost almost fainted again.
This was the consequence of his own actions. Then, Francis gasped and ordered his son, “Sell all of the shares of the Davis family that we have so we can use the funds to save ourselves.”
His son said with a bitter smile, “Dad, the Davis family’s stocks have crashed after everyone started to sell their stocks since this morning. We have hundreds of millions of dollars that have been sealed in that account, so we can’t sell it right now.”
“That b*stard, Michael! He’s trying to kill us!” Francis knew that Michael was one step ahead of him again, so he could only curse angrily.
At this point, everyone knew that Francis had been set up by Michael.
Camila complained from the side, “I told you not to trust Michael back then, but you ignored me and insisted on investing with him. Now that you have been set up like this, our family is as good as dead. It’s over!”
His son didn’t know what had happened between Francis and Michael. “Dad, why don’t I go talk to Michael and beg for his forgiveness? Maybe he’ll let us off.”
“Do you really think that’ll work? How can Michael let us go when things have become like this?” Camila sneered.
“Mom, we can’t just sit here and do nothing.” Francis’ son sighed and asked, “Dad, what’s going on between you and Michael? Weren’t both of you alright before this? Why did things suddenly turn out this way?”
Francis closed his eyes and stayed silent. He couldn’t tell his son that Michael was just taking revenge because of his schemes were exposed at the start, right?
His son could only ask Frederick when Francis chose to stay silent, “Do you know what’s going on? Can we smooth things over with Michael?”
Frederick shook his head. “No!”
“Why?”
“Because…” Frederick stammered and Francis opened his eyes. “Because I plotted against Michael first. I wanted to have him under my control, but I didn’t expect that he would find out about my intentions. That’s why the situation became like this.”
Everyone in the Gurney family stared at Francis. Since Francis had taken the initiative to provoke Michael first, there was no room for negotiation at all.
Francis did not dare to look at his family around him. If they knew that his grandson could no longer have children, they would definitely hate him even more.
He really couldn’t accept that things had become like this, and he didn’t believe that he would be defeated by Michael. He murmured, “Michael can’t come up with such a grand scheme alone, so someone must be helping him! Go and find out who’s behind this now!”
Camila was incredibly upset. “What’s there to investigate? Who else would help Michael except for William? After all, didn’t you get on William’s bad side because of Evelyn?”
“William?” Francis reached a sudden realization when he heard this name because he knew very well that he had offended William. “Really? Didn’t he fall out with Michael?”
“Haha, do you really believe that? There’s no doubt that they were just putting on a show to lure you into a trap, or else Michael would never do this without William’s help.”
Camila’s words made Francis’ face turn pale. He had been trying to rope Michael in for his own benefits before this. He had always thought that he had everything planned out to plot against Michaell, so he wouldn’t make any mistakes. The current situation was completely different from what he had thought at the beginning.
“The Gurney family would be finished if they’re really working together to bring me down!”
William would never allow anyone to turn the tables against him and he must’ve planned it perfectly from the start. Francis had originally wanted to find someone to help him, but who else would dare to help the Gurney family if they found out that William was involved?
Francis closed his eyes desperately and there was dead silence in the ward.
None of the Gurney family members were fools, so all of them had the same thought as Francis.
Their financial situation had fallen drastically and they didn’t have the capital to clear their debt. The Gurney family’s bankruptcy seemed almost inevitable at this point.
Francis’s son and daughter-in-law looked at him with resentful eyes. “Dad, why would you make such a drastic mistake? What should we do now?”
“You can’t change anything by getting mad at your father. We can only save ourselves now!” Camila made a prompt decision. “Since there is no way to stop us from going bankrupt, we have to find a way out. We’ll sell all of the valuable assets we have immediately.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Frederick received a phone call and his face became extremely grin after he answered the phone. “The servant in the villa said that Azalea was looking through the old man’s study and she has taken all the paintings on the walls.”
“That shameless b*tch!” Camila glanced at her daughter-in-law and quickly got up. “Let’s go back and see what she’s up to!”