Walking out of the cold door of Detention Center, the winter sun is a bit dazzling.
Zhao Chen squinted his eyes slightly, adapting to the change in light.
Then, he saw the black car waiting quietly in the parking lot, and Su Wantang leaning against the car, staring in his direction.
She was waiting for him.
Almost as soon as he cast his gaze over, Su Wantang quickly came forward to greet him.
She didn't ask what the outcome was, but when he walked up to her, she naturally opened her arms and gently embraced him.
The embrace was warm and soft, with her unique faint fragrance, instantly dispelling all the coldness and depression brought out by Detention Center.
Zhao Chen did not refuse, gently rested his head on her shoulder and closed his eyes.
"Is it solved?" Su Wantang asked softly in his ear.
"Yeah." Zhao Chen responded in a low voice, "For now."
"That's good."
Su Wantang tightened her arms, as if to rub him into her body and give him the most solid protection, "Let's go home."
The car slowly drove away from Detention Center, leaving the cold and solemn buildings far behind.
Outside the car window, the city skylight became vivid again.
A head-on confrontation between father and son ended with Zhao Chen's overall victory and Zhao Jianguo's forced compromise.
Rights Issue One of the biggest obstacles on the road appears to have been cleared.
However, Zhao Chen knows that the real game never stops.
Detention Center Meeting Room The unique oppressive air seems to never be dispelled by sunlight.
Lin Wanqing sat on this cold chair again, looking at the opposite person through the thick glass with a tired expression but a hint of... relief?
No, maybe Zhao Jianguo is resigned to his fate, and the ominous premonition in his heart is getting heavier and heavier.
"I agree."
Zhao Jianguo didn't wait for her to speak, and spoke first in a hoarse voice, with a complex emotion that even he himself might not be able to clarify,
"Rights Issue, I will no longer object."
"What?!" Lin Wanqing suddenly stood up, the legs of the chair rubbed against the ground and made a harsh sound, attracting side glances from the guards on the side.
She ignored this and leaned forward, almost touching the glass, staring at Zhao Jianguo, her voice sharp and deformed due to extreme anger and disbelief:
"You agreed?! Zhao Jianguo! Are you crazy?! How could you agree?! That's our money! It's hard for us..."
"Shut up! Sit down!" Zhao Jianguo shouted suddenly, a hint of offended anger and deeper irritability flashed in his eyes.
He glanced at the guard, lowered his voice, and explained hastily and helplessly:
"So what if I don't agree? Voting Rights is in his hands! It's signed in black and white, and he can't take it back until the end of the year!"
Legally and procedurally, what can I do to stop him? Making trouble at Board of Directors? Now Board of Directors listens to him!"
"Then it's okay if we don't participate in the subscription?"
Lin Wanqing's chest rose and fell violently, and his voice trembled due to suppression.
"If we don't pay this money, just dilute the shares a little bit, it's better than throwing the real gold Silver back into the bottomless pit!"
"Not participating? You put it lightly!"
Zhao Jianguo's face was gloomy,
"That's ten shares of Near West! Once it is significantly diluted, it's hard to say whether Henglong will still have the surname Zhao! By then, what have we been doing all these years?"
He paused, as if grasping some life-saving straw, and softened his tone slightly, trying to comfort,
"But my concession was not in vain. I forced him to agree. After this Rights Issue, there will never be any Equity Financing behavior within a year. He will use Legal Document to ensure this.
As long as we last until the end of the year, I will take back Voting Rights. At that time, we will still have the final say in the company! In the late Qing Dynasty, we took a longer-term view and made temporary concessions for..."
"Long term? Zhao Jianguo! We can't survive now!"
Lin Wanqing interrupted him, his face no longer able to maintain any gentleness or calculation, only anxiety and anger on the verge of despair.
"Do you know how much cash we have available now? It's less than 100 million even if it's a dozen!
You also have to deal with the management that may be needed on your side, and maintain the operations and cover of those construction companies!
Once we participate in this "10 for 4", our base will almost be drained!
At that time, let alone what actions Zhao Chen makes, even if the stock price of Henglong drops slightly, all the shares we pledged may be lost to the securities firm Forced Liquidation!
You lose all your money! Do you understand?!"
The more she spoke, the more excited she became, tapping her fingers on the partition unconsciously:
"We now hold more than 100 million in cash and several real construction companies. These are our own things and the meat in our mouths!
Henglong? Henglong is a mess now, a mess that is being targeted by Zhao Chen! Why do we have to hang ourselves on this tree?"
Zhao Jianguo was a little confused by her series of questions, especially when he heard the number "Xi billion", his eyelids jumped hard.
He first thought that Lin Wanqing still had at least six to seven billion in money.
At this moment, it sounded like the situation was more tense than he thought.