After work and dinner, Chu Qianmiao
returned to the hotel to study. Suddenly, her phone rang, and Tan Shen's name
flashed in the center of the screen.
The call connected, and she heard
Tan Shen ask, "Are you in Beijing? I'm back. When are we going to see a
movie?"
Chu Qianmiao told Tan Shen,
"I'm on a business trip to a major industrial province, on a new
project." "
Tan Shen, a bit disappointed,
asked, "How long will that take?"
Chu Qianmiao said, "I'm just
starting out as an IPO. I'm still working on it."
Tan Shen immediately perked up.
"Don't worry. I'll drive you over this weekend. We can go see a movie
together in the city you're on a business trip. It'll be something
special."
Chu Qianmiao didn't care about the
special taste right now. Suddenly, an idea struck her, and she said to Tan
Shen, "Shen, the company they're looking for us to take public is called
Liya Manufacturing. You, Yingji Capital, are shareholders of Liya Manufacturing."
Tan Shen was intrigued. "I'll
file a report with our company and apply for a business trip."
Chu Qianmiao stopped him.
"Stop it," she told him. "I have something important I'd like to
ask for your help with." She explained how Qian Siji's shares were
initially held on his behalf by his cousin, then asked Tan Shen, "Your company
must have conducted due diligence when investing in Liya Manufacturing. I
wonder what your thoughts were on this issue of proxy holding at the
time."
Tan Shen replied, "It seems
our department head is spearheading this investment. Wait for me. I'll ask him
about it tomorrow. He's leaving soon, so now's a good time to ask him. Things
that you might normally choose not to discuss now seem insignificant. Wait for
good news. I'll call you tomorrow when I find out." "
The next day, Chu Qianmiao didn't
receive a call from Tan Shen, but she did receive a call from a young woman.
The girl looked about her age, in her mid-twenties, sweet-looking, and
stylishly dressed.
She and Chu Qianmiao took the same
elevator upstairs. Inside, the girl looked at Chu Qianmiao with her chin
slightly raised, a hint of hostility in her eyes.
Chu Qianmiao didn't quite
understand this sudden and inexplicable hostility.
Before exiting the elevator, the
girl asked, "Are you here to see the chairman?"
Chu Qianmiao: "
What's the connection?"
She shook her head and told the
other person, "I'm from the brokerage project team."
The hostility in the girl's eyes
faded a little, and she nodded and smiled at her, "Thank you for your hard
work." "
She turned and left, sprinting
towards the executive office in her high heels.
Chu Qianmiao was bewildered.
Ke Mingjun happened to walk by, and
she casually asked, "Assistant Ke, who was that girl who just walked
by?"
Ke Mingjun adjusted his glasses and
told her, "Oh, that was the chairman's wife."
Ke Mingjun replied, "The
chairman's second wife."
"
"
Chu Qianmiao's moods changed in an
instant.
When she entered the due diligence
office, she found that Ren Yan hadn't arrived yet, but everyone else was.
As soon as she entered, Qin Qianyu
immediately pulled her aside to gossip.
Qin Qianyu gossiped to her, "Brother,
remember, at the first meeting dinner when I first arrived, I sat next to one
of Li Ya's vice presidents. We had a great time drinking that day. Yesterday, I
wanted to ask him some business and technical questions, so I arranged to have
dinner and drinks with him alone, and we chatted over drinks." After all
this conversation, guess what?
Chu Qianmiao dutifully added,
"Hey, I can't guess that. How about you tell me?"
Liu Lifeng, who was drinking water
nearby, suddenly spit it out.
"You two work so well
together. Since you're stuck at the investment bank, why don't you go work on
the overpass?"
Cui Xijie chuckled, "The
overpass isn't the perfect place for Qianmiao to showcase her talents, right,
Qianmiao?"
Chu Qianmiao also chuckled, but
didn't respond.
Qin Qianyu continued, "I'll be
surprised to hear that Qian Siji has a mistress. "
Chu Qianmiao, "Little
Madam"
What the hell is this?
Qin Qianyu saw her bewildered
expression and said, "It's Qing'er and San'er."
Chu Qianmiao's heart skipped a
beat.
"And Qing'er and Qian Siji
have a son who's already several years old."
Chu Qianmiao felt a gust of wind
whistling beside her ears. Actually, the room was calm; the wind was emanating
from her head, stirred by her chaotic thoughts.
No wonder Ke Mingjun used the term
"former" chairman's wife when referring to Gao Liya.
Qing'er's child is already several
years old, which means it was born before Gao Liya died, or even before she and
Qian Siji divorced.
She was stunned for a moment.
Where was the deep affection they
promised? The tears that flowed when he spoke of his wife? Was all that deep
affection all fake?
She sat in her office, digesting
all this hypocrisy.
Suddenly, her phone rang. It was
Tan Shen calling her.
When the call went through, Tan
Shen told her, "I've found out, and the results might be a little
surprising."
The information Tan Shen provided
did indeed overturn Chu Qianmiao's perceptions.
It turned out that Qian Siji's deep
affection, tears, and affection were all fake.
The affectionate nostalgia, the
poignant moments, were all acted out.
The truth was, when Liya
Manufacturing was founded, Qian Siji was divorcing his ex-wife, using her
childlessness as an excuse. By then, his son, born to his lover, was already
over a year old. For this son, Qian Siji was determined to divorce.
"How did you think his wife
was sick?" Tan Shen asked Chu Qianmiao over the phone. "Breast
cancer, out of anger." Chu Qianmiao's knuckles turned pale as she gripped
the phone.
Tan Shen also told her that because
Liya Manufacturing was founded before their divorce, Qian Siji was worried that
Gao Liya would take half of his assets, so he asked his cousin to hold the
shares on his behalf.
Later, during the divorce, none of
the company's shares were divided.
Until Gao Liya died three years
ago, Qian Siji transferred the shares back to his own name. Now that Gao Liya
was gone, he no longer had to worry about her suing him for her shares. He
began planning for the company's IPO.
"If that's the case, why does
he still play the role of a loving couple?" Chu Qianmiao was deeply
puzzled by Qian Siji's dramatic behavior.
"Because the company is going
public, he doesn't want to be seen as a scumbag," Tan Shen said.
"When the proxy holding was first reported, my boss said he was curious,
but he couldn't get any information. Later, my boss said that if he didn't tell
the truth, the project would not be invested in. Only then did Qian Siji reveal
the truth. "
So, this is the real reason for
proxy holding: a man who has committed adultery doesn't want his wife to share
his company shares in the divorce.
After Chu Qianmiao hung up the
phone, she stood up and went downstairs. She stood in the open space of the
office building and took a deep breath.
She felt suffocated.
She thought that the capital market
truly tested human nature and the heart. It was a huge stage, full of drama,
from deep love to the distortion of right and wrong. Everyone here could act it
out, and they were all movie stars.
So, this is what they call deep
love between husband and wife, this is what they call marriage? The fact that
such examples exist in marriage is truly depressing.
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