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Chapter 471 The Deception of the Lorimers
Author: Ray Ellis
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While the investment bidding conference proceeded, a gloomy atmosphere hung over the Lorimer family.

Just before the conference began, the provincial government issued a major announcement declaring the Prudence County Trading Association an illegal private organization and shutting it down.

Nora collapsed immediately hearing this. The Prudence County Trading Association had been the Lorimer family's greatest hope to secure a spot in the investment bidding conference. They even bribed them with 10 million.

Now that the Prudence County Trading Association was disbanded, the Lorimer family not only lost its chance to participate in the conference but they also forfeited the 10 million they had paid.

Watching various businesses secure satisfactory investment projects at the conference, the Lorimers were left empty-handed.

Nora couldn't help but let out a frustrated sigh.

"A total of five trillion!" She banged her cane on the ground, her voice trembling. "Yet our family didn't get
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