Chapter 23 Trap

Liang Zexian has always had a gambling habit. He didn't gamble much in the past, as he thought it was just a way to have fun. Sometimes when he was short of money and lost money gambling, he would borrow some money from others to make ends meet, and then he would pay it back when he could get the money from the family trust next month. If that didn't work out, he would ask his mother for money.

Grandpa Liang was worried that his descendants would squander the family fortune, so he invested one-third of his inheritance in a family trust. The beneficiaries could receive one million yuan every month, and the trust would be passed down from generation to generation so that they wouldn't have to beg on the streets.

Yu Yin, as a latecomer, received nothing; the rest of the Liang family benefited. On her first birthday after marriage, Zhao Shu began giving her extra pocket money, the same two million yuan a month, to keep her happy. He doubled what she didn't get in the Liang family.

The one million yuan he received was not enough for Liang Zexian to spend. After paying off his debts, he would have no money to spend lavishly. Moreover, Liang Lisheng felt that he should be self-reliant and develop his abilities at that age, so Liang Lisheng would not give him money to spend, and also ordered his family not to give him money to spend.

So Liang Zexian started to have second thoughts about the company's money. After all, it was his company, so he could just borrow it and pay it back later.

Liang Zexian patched up his business for several years and everything was fine. Until one year he went to Las Vegas and had good luck, winning a lot of money. On a whim, he followed others to the high seas to gamble big money. He won and lost some, but he lost the last two games so much that he was scared.

In order to pay off his gambling debts, he embezzled public funds from several companies under the Liang Group, but still could not pay it off. The interest on the money owed was extremely high, and the total debt kept growing.

After a period of delay, the board of directors proposed to audit the accounts and voted to nominate Zhao Shunian to take charge of this task. At that time, Zhao Shunian had just joined the Liang Group's board of directors.

Zhao Shunian was very good at checking accounts, and Liang Zexian felt that he was doomed this time. Sure enough, Zhao Shunian came to talk to him not long after.

Zhao Shunian's few words frightened him so much that he became paralyzed. Thinking about the close relationship between the two families, he knelt down and grabbed Zhao Shunian, begging him to spare his life.

Zhao Shunian asked him to surrender, but he refused. After begging for a long time, Zhao Shunian finally agreed and asked him what was going on.

Liang Zexian told Zhao Shunian everything, and Zhao Shunian asked him to give him some time to think about it.

While waiting for Zhao Shunian's reply, he had nightmares every night and was extremely tormented. The amount of money he embezzled was too much, and he would have to spend his whole life in jail. Even Liang Lisheng could not save him.

Finally, Zhao Shunian arranged a meeting with him, promising to help him fill those huge holes and pay off his gambling debts, but he had to transfer his shares in Zhaoshi to one person and the 6% of Liang Group shares he inherited from his grandfather to another. Finally, he had to sign a confidentiality agreement. With no other choice, he had to agree. Zhao Shunian had a handle on him, and if he told him to go west, he wouldn't dare go east.

Liang Lisheng learned that Liang Zexian secretly sold shares of Zhaoshi Group to a stranger, and Zhao Shunian bought them in the market quickly, which made him angry to death.

Later, when he heard that Liang Zexian had sold all of his shares in the Liang Group, he threatened to sever his father-son relationship with Liang Zexian.

Liang Lisheng only knew that Liang Zexian owed gambling debts and had to sell his shares to pay off the debt, but he didn't know the trick behind it. He asked someone to investigate, but no other problems were found. It was all the fault of the prodigal son.

Liang Lisheng had to buy back the shares at a high price. He didn't expect that Zhao Shunian noticed his movements. He only took back 2% of the shares and let Zhao Shunian buy the rest.

However, all of this was a plot by Zhao Shunian. The 1.3% stake in Zhaoshi Group held by Liang Zexian was the key to his gaining control of the group.

Zhao Yunbin now ostensibly calls the shots at the group, but in reality, he's the one in control. Zhao Xinzhi dislikes Zhao Yunbin's honesty and steadiness, believing they don't mesh well together. But Zhao Shunian appreciates their compatibility, complementing each other in age, personality, and abilities. The father smoothly manages relationships with the board members for his son, willing to take on both the ugly and the bad, because they're always in the same boat, supporting each other through thick and thin.

The 4% stake obtained from Liang Zexian also paved the way for Zhao Shunian to become the chairman of the board of directors of Liang Group.

Liang Lisheng originally held 5.6% of Zhaoshi shares. Two years ago, in order to save the Liang Group, he transferred 3% of the shares to Zhao Xinzhi. With the remaining 2.3%, he felt that it would be safer to divide the eggs into two baskets, half for himself and half to Liang Zexian.

Zhao Shunian saw Liang Zexian as full of flaws, and it was quite feasible to obtain shares from him. From the moment he entered Las Vegas, he fell into the trap set by Zhao Shunian.

In the trap set for Liang Zexian, Zhao Shunian was the only winner, and all the money and shares fell into his pocket.

………

The day before New Year's Eve, his second uncle, Zhao Yunli, returned to the old house to celebrate the New Year. He had deliberately been absent the day Yu Yin and Zhao Shunian returned, feeling that the scene would be frustrating and that out of sight, out of mind. He was unwilling to accept the situation, but he was powerless to change it; the Zhao family's most important assets had already been distributed.

The most coveted of all his assets is Zhao Xinzhi's personal fortune. No one knows the exact amount of his personal fortune, who will ultimately receive it, and how it will be distributed. This will only be revealed after his death. His 40% family trust interest will undoubtedly be passed on to Zhao Yunbin and his son.

Zhao Yunli returned to the west building and saw his eldest son, Zhao Jinian, who had been elusive, sitting lazily. He was furious. "Since you can't find a suitable barber to cut your hair, I'll help you cut it. Sister Fen, bring me a pair of scissors."

Zhao Jinian, who had medium-length curly hair that he had recently styled, immediately shouted, "Mom, Dad is going to kill me."

Second Aunt, Ms. Jian, just came down from upstairs. When she heard what the father and son were saying, she hurried forward and said, "Jinian rarely comes back. Don't get so angry when you see him."

Zhao Yunli pointed at Zhao Jinian and said to Ms. Jian, "Your son is out there fooling around every day. The most filial he's ever been to you is asking you for money. He's only one year older than Shunian, and they're both married. My dad will have a great-grandchild soon. But do you think any of your son's girlfriends are serious? I can count on one hand the ones who've been together for more than three months."

Ms. Jian immediately shifted focus and asked in surprise, "Is Yu Yin pregnant?"

"I meant later, not now. What's going on in your mind? Are you trying to change the subject so that I won't scold Jinian?"

Ms. Jian only half-heard his words. "They've been married for two years, and Yu Yin's belly hasn't moved at all. Do you think there's something wrong with Shunian or Yu Yin?"

"If you were as cruel as my sister-in-law, Jinian wouldn't be like this today." Zhao Yunli took a deep breath, closed his mouth, ignored her, and left directly to find Zhao Xinzhi in the East Building.