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But the Rivers family and the Holt family were already in trouble.

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Even with the right sales channelsb, /bafter a month, the medicine Evelyn had on hand had dropped to just forty yuan a box.

The price of masks had plummeted even further, down to thirty yuan a box.

After doing the math, the Rivers family found they had lost more than seven million yuan this round.

And they still had arge inventory they hadn’t managed to offload.

The Rivers family’s business projects were on the verge of copse, their stock price continued to fall, and this flu showed no sign of slowing.

There wasn’t even the slightest sign of recovery.

Eliza checked the calendar and figured the timing should be just about right.

“What? Bankrupt?”

Evelyn stared at Nathan in disbelief and asked, “Honey, are you sure you’re not mistaken? The Holt family is huge–how could they possibly go bankrupt?”

Nathan had just heard some inside news from the industry.

He red at her and said, “Why are you yelling so loud? Do you want Naomi to hear?”

“But how could they suddenly go bankrupt? They’re a publicly listedpany with a market value in the billions!”

The Holt family used to be the leading business in Westbrook. They had even made it into the Fortune 500.

How could they go under all of a sudden?

“I can’t exin it all to you, but the Holt family has had bad debts piling up for years. Now, because of the flu, they can’t even keep up appearances anymore. Word is, all their halted projects left them owing tons of outside debt. Now creditors are lining up, and the Holt family is about to run out of money!”

“Then… then what about Naomi and Zayden’s engagement?”

As soon as Evelyn said that, Naomi, who had overheard the conversation upstairsb, /bcame downstairs.

“Mom, Dad, what were you just talking about?”

Naomi’s face was pale.

Evelyn tried to keep up a calm front, but Naomi had clearly heard everything.

“You said… the Holt family is about to go broke? That’s impossible! Dad, you must’ve misheard!”

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She had only just gotten Zayden to agree to marry her.

And now her parents were saying the Holt family was out of money.

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They were already in the second half of senior year, and the SATs were just a month away. She had assumed she was the future daughter–inw of the Holt family, bso /bshe’d been cking off for the past two

months.

If she bombed the SAT and couldn’t even get into college, and then had to marry a bankrupt Zayden…

Naomi couldn’t even imagine what kind of life that would be.

“Naomi, it’splicated. Don’t worry, your dad and I will handle it…”

Nathan tried tofort her.

But Naomi couldn’t hear a single word. Her face pale, she said, “Dad, the Holt family absolutely cannot go broke! You have to do something–see if there’s a way to help them recover! They’re a billion–dorpany! There’s no way they’d suddenly have no money!”

“Market value is just that–value. No one’s actually handing them a billion in cash! And besides, all they’ve got left is bad debt. We’d be better off staying out of it!”

Nathan didn’t have the heart to say that their own family’s financial situation wasn’t much better than the Holt family’s.

The Holt family owed money, but they were also teetering on the edge of going broke.

“No! I don’t care! The Holt family cannot be poor!”

Naomi cried and threw a tantrum. Nathan and Evelyn could only look at each other, helpless.

The only reason they had agreed to the engagement with the Holt family in the first ce was because the Holts were rich.

But now that the Holt family was broke, were they really going to jump into that fire pit?

Just then, the Holt family called the Rivers family.

On the other end of the line, Grace tried to sound calm, but Evelyn could hear the desperation in her voice. “Evelyn, do you think you coulde over for a bit? I wanted to talk to you about the supplies…”

Evelyn wasn’t stupid. It was already thiste–there was no way Grace was calling about supplies. She was probably looking for investment.

Evelyn looked nervously at Nathan.

Nathan immediately shook his head, signaling her not to go.

But before Evelyn could say anything, Naomi snatched the phone away and said urgently, “Madam Grace, we’lle over soon.”

“That’s wonderful! I’ve already prepared dinner. We can eat and talk at the same time.”

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Grace sounded overjoyed.

Naomi then hung up the phone.

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bAs /bsoon as she looked up, she saw Nathan standing furiously from the couch.

“Do you even know what you just agreed to? What if they ask us for money?”

“Calm down, honey! Naomi just can’t ept it yet.”

“Even so, you don’t get to make adult decisions for us! What do kids know? Do you really want to drag this family down too?!”

Nathan red at Naomi, his eyes full of bitter disappointment.

Naomi, however, didn’t think she’d done anything wrong.

Lifting her chin stubbornly, she said, “It’s just a bit of investment. If the Holt family’s projects get some funding, they’ll be able to start making money again, won’t they? If we help them out when they’re down, they’ll remember how good we were to them! What’s so wrong with that?”

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