The Traps of the Black Swan (Book 2)

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The two news stories were spreading like wildfire. A positive one was for Skylar and M Industries, due to Ruby Jane and Lisa. The negative one for Seungri, who was being criticized ruthlessly.

Harmon Industries PR department was trying to suppress Seungri's news but there were innumerable reposting of the news hence they were helpless. Whereas Skylar and M Industries monitored the news so that things don't go out of hand while they cleared any news about Evans connecting with Ruby Jane.

Undoubtedly people were saying Ruby Jane purposefully put on a drama at Coasta in the morning to get positive views on her. The netizens in favor of Ruby Jane were high using her dialogue, 'Then why didn't you have the guts to do it?' and a video of the newborn baby's mother and father speaking for Ruby Jane, sending their gratification helped to die down the negative impact.

Similarly, the small issues and negative news against the M or Skylar were meticulously buried. However, it would take a long time and a clear investigation report for M Industries to have clean hands from the golden oil and gas subsidiary due to the deaths involved.

Ruby Jane's team rested as they didn't have to be mingled with company stuff. Jaxon, Elder Harmon, Chaeyoung, and the Manoban family went to the Manoban mansion when Lisa took Ruby Jane to Skyarc. He watched her play and bathe Laze, then she took bath before he breathed in relief when Ruby Jane fell asleep with Laze curled against her.

Laze went back to its bed, glaring at Lisa. He felt like Laze was silently commanding him that 'I put mom to sleep. You better take care of mom.'

Amused by his thought, Lisa removed fur on the bed using a pet hair removal brush without disturbing Ruby Jane's sleep.

Even though Laze was short-haired and didn't shed much hair, he least wanted it to affect her health. It was one in the midnight when he laid back on the bed to catch on some sleep as they were leaving early in the morning back to City Coasta.

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In the morning,

Everyone was expecting Harmon Industries to lose terribly in the market. Seungri was also prepared to see the losses. But the market left everyone dumbfounded.

The business analysts were mind blown. The three main graphs and commentary were going on about M, Skylar, and Harmon in the business news channel. To everyone's expectation, Skylar's stock price was shooting up, M Industries had stopped falling and started to enter the profit zone. The most anticipated fall of Harmon didn't happen hence the discussions were going as they guessed the coming projects and the success rate of Harmon.

Doing too good doesn't let you rest. Mino was overwhelmed with the business proposals, calls, emails, attending on behalf of Ruby Jane. When he had to check the filtered information, the most exhausted ones were his secretaries and the security who were dumping the flowers and unwrapping the gifts to decide if they should be thrown away, returned, or donated. Neither Ruby Jane, not Mino wanted any of it.

By the peak time, sleep-deprived Seungri, an amazing businessman, didn't take long to realize somebody was playing with the Harmon stock prices. Looking at it in any way, he had expected loss to be around hundreds of millions in a day.

Seungri started ordering his IT team and his men to stop the market manipulation as it would do him no good. However, finding professional manipulators was never an easy task.

Dylan handled most of the work and the shareholders from barging into the office. They were demanding an emergency board meeting, obviously to question Seungri's authority.

However, seeing the market still on the rise, they cooled down without selling their shares at a low price assuming Seungri had everything under control. How foolish of them to think that.