January 1, 2021.
From Christmas to New Year's Day, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, and internal briefs circulating among major investment banks—
all kept revisiting the same question:
What exactly was Tang Jin?
In truth, no one in the capital markets had ever truly overlooked that name over the past two years.
It was simply that, at the time, [Tang Jin] had been viewed more as a family office structure pieced together by Smiling Holdings, Tang Yi Precision, and several overseas capital advisors.
Beneath it was hidden a group of low-profile partners spanning law, finance, mergers and acquisitions, and physical industries.
Most people believed it was merely a defensive wealth alliance built to weather future global upheavals.
That was until Christmas eve, when Tang Jin's New York headquarters was officially unveiled.
When it released information to the public for the first time as a complete institution, the entire capital world abruptly realized that this so-called joint family office had quietly completed its global deployment.
It was connected to Huaxia's most powerful new-economy investment platform, linked to Tang Yi Precision, which was reshaping the global manufacturing landscape, and held several immensely powerful financial instruments across technology, biopharmaceuticals, cross-border consumer markets, secondary markets, and even the restructuring of global commodities. At that moment, the world turned its attention in unison toward Jin Meixiao.
[Golden Smile], [Ms. Smile].
These reverent titles began appearing frequently in financial media reports and private conversations.
Ouyang Xuanyue drew the same attention.
Countless people attempted to infer Tang Jin's true power structure from the two women's résumés, relationships, and industrial layouts.
And it was at such a moment—
Late at night.
Annie Kate landed alone and without a sound in Huaxia's Imperial Capital.
She had not even brought luggage, carrying only a delicate handbag