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Chapter 799 Motives
Capital puzzle
The night sky of Shanghai's Lujiazui was dyed purple by neon lights. Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of Shenghua Capital, cruise ships on the Huangpu River slowly passed by, dragging light strips. Lin Qiu stared at the K-line chart jumping on the computer screen. The coffee cup had long been cold, and the only sound in the office was her typing on the keyboard. As the youngest fund manager in the company, the "Xingchen Fund" she managed had achieved excess returns for three consecutive years, but she did not expect that this achievement would become an entry ticket to the abyss of the workplace. "Xiao Lin, come to my office." The voice of the chairman's assistant came from the internal phone, with a meaning that could not be refused. Lin Qiu adjusted her suit and pushed open the door of the top-floor office. At the mahogany conference table, the company's vice president Su Mingyuan was playing with a jade ring. His eyes behind the lens swept over her like a venomous snake: "The headquarters has just approved a new M&A project, a European new energy enterprise. How is President Qiu preparing?" Lin Qiu opened the folder: "The due diligence report has been completed, but the other party's valuation is too high. I suggest..." "Suggestion?" Su Mingyuan suddenly slammed the table, shaking the ice cubes in the water glass. "Do you think this is playing house? The board of directors wants performance! The contract must be signed next month, otherwise..." He dragged out the tail sound and took out a stack of documents from the drawer. "I heard that your mother's medical expenses have not been settled yet?" Lin Qiu's hands clenched the back of the chair. Three months ago, her mother suddenly became seriously ill, and the sky-high medical expenses were like a bottomless pit. Su Mingyuan's hand rested on her shoulder: "As long as you cooperate, money is not a problem." On the document, the merger agreement contained tens of millions of interest transfer clauses, and her electronic signature column was blank. When she returned to her workstation, an anonymous message popped up on her phone: "Be careful of Su Mingyuan, he is setting up a scheme with investment banks." The sender was a string of garbled characters. Before Lin Qiu could reply, she heard a colleague behind her exclaim: "Sister Qiu, your fund net value..." On the trading screen, the curve of "Xingchen Fund" fell off a cliff. Lin Qiu rushed into the trading room and found that the risk control authority had been inexplicably changed, and the original hedging strategy was all cancelled. She picked up the phone and called the technical department, but was told coldly: "General Manager Su ordered that General Manager Qiu has been under a lot of pressure recently and needs to rest." In the office late at night, Lin Qiu flipped through the financial reports of previous years. Among the dense numbers, she found that Su Mingyuan transferred the company's funds to a related account through an offshore company. At this moment, the iron door of the fire escape was suddenly knocked open, and three men in black rushed in. The leader tore off her necklace: "Be sensible and don't meddle in other people's business!" The necklace pendant rolled under the table. It was the jade Guanyin left by her mother. Lin Qiu's eyes were red, and she remembered her mother's words when she was a child: "People should be like jade, and would rather break than bend." She quietly opened the recorder and hid it in the file bag. At the board meeting the next day, Su Mingyuan held the loss report and was heartbroken: "I have reminded Xiaolin a long time ago that investment is not an impulsive act. Now the fund is liquidated, and investors are asking to withdraw their capital..." His eyes swept over Lin Qiu, and a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Wait." Lin Qiu suddenly stood up and inserted the USB drive into the projector. On the screen, Su Mingyuan's email exchanges and fund transfer records with overseas companies were presented one by one. The conference room fell into silence, and Su Mingyuan's face turned liver-colored: "This is slander!" "Really?" Lin Qiu called up the recording, "And these conversation recordings, do you need me to play them for everyone?" She looked at the chairman, "Director Wang, you should know better than anyone who was behind the crisis that brought the company to the brink of bankruptcy three years ago." It turned out that when the company was almost acquired by foreign capital, it was Su Mingyuan who colluded with inside and outside. And now, he wants to repeat the same trick and hollow out the company through the new energy merger case. Director Wang took off his glasses and wiped them, then sighed, "Mingyuan, you disappoint me so much." Su Mingyuan suddenly grabbed a water cup and threw it at Lin Qiu. When he was restrained by the security guard, he was still screaming, "Do you think you won? This circle has never relied on justice!" After the storm subsided, Lin Qiu was promoted to CEO. She hung a plaque in her office: "Virtue carries all things." But the game of capital never stops. One day, she received a mysterious express delivery, which contained a half jade ring and a note: "The game has just begun." Outside the window, the neon lights of Lujiazui were still flashing. Lin Qiu opened the latest financial report, and a strange overseas company quietly appeared in the list of shareholders. She clenched her pen and wrote in her notebook: "Capital is like a battlefield, and every step is a life-and-death game." In the following days, Lin Qiu felt invisible pressure. The company's new projects were repeatedly blocked, the partners suddenly changed their minds, and the financing that had been agreed upon was temporarily cancelled. She checked the surveillance and found a mysterious person wandering around the company's server room. Late one night, when Lin Qiu was working overtime, the door of her office was locked from the outside. Smoke came in through the crack in the door. She covered her mouth and nose and tried to contact the security guard, but found that her mobile phone signal was blocked. At the critical moment, the fire alarm suddenly sounded, and the security guard broke in and rescued her in time. The investigation showed that this was a carefully planned arson. Lin Qiu knew that this was a warning from the mastermind behind the scenes. She did not back down, but instead accelerated the rectification of the company. She introduced more advanced monitoring systems and network security protection, while secretly cultivating her own team of trusted people. At an industry summit, Lin Qiu accidentally discovered the person in charge of the overseas company. The other party was a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses named Cheng Yuan. On the surface, he was engaged in international trade, but in fact he was turning the tide in the financial market. Lin Qiu took the initiative to approach and talk, but Cheng Yuan said meaningfully: "Mr. Lin, some things cannot be solved by courage." Lin Qiu smiled and responded: "Mr. Cheng, I believe more in justice and strength." The conversation between the two seemed peaceful, but in fact there was an undercurrent. Back at the company, Lin Qiu received an anonymous letter containing evidence of collusion between Cheng Yuan and Su Mingyuan. It turned out that although Su Mingyuan was kicked out of the company, he was unwilling to fail and joined forces with Cheng Yuan to try to regain control of Shenghua Capital. Lin Qiu handed the evidence to the police and convened an emergency board meeting to inform the shareholders of the situation. After Cheng Yuan learned the news, he began to attack Shenghua Capital in the capital market. He joined other institutions to sell a large number of Shenghua Capital's shares, causing the stock price to plummet. Lin Qiu remained calm in the face of danger. On the one hand, she released good news about the company to stabilize investor confidence; on the other hand, she found a new strategic partner to inject funds and enhance the company's strength. In this fierce capital battle, Lin Qiu gradually gained the upper hand with her wisdom and tenacity. Cheng Yuan's conspiracy was completely exposed, and he and Su Mingyuan were sanctioned by law. When everything settled, Lin Qiu stood in front of the French window in the office, overlooking the bustling night scene of Shanghai. She understood that in the financial industry, which is full of temptations and dangers, the struggle will never stop. But she will stick to her principles, protect Shenghua Capital, and find a bright road in the maze of capital.