Chapter 99, follow-up

Lin Zhiming is going bankrupt!

On this day, the headlines of all the major entertainment newspapers in Hong Kong were all related news.

Normally, a small rich man who went bankrupt would not receive such treatment. There are too many rich people in Hong Kong, and there are rich people who go bankrupt every year. If they are not in the top ten of the rich list, no one cares about whether their business is doing well or not.

But there are exceptions. If the rich man's gossip is relatively removed from the list, the media will also pay more attention to them.

At this time, nine out of ten rich people have gossip. Either like Wen Rongsheng, he welcomes women into his home one after another, or like some rich people, he is keen on collecting beauties in the entertainment industry.

Lin Zhiming was originally neither of those. After all, compared with those self-made rich people, he seemed a bit unfair. As long as he wanted to save face, he would not be able to marry a second or third wife before announcing Jin Shiting's death. Those famous beauties in the entertainment industry would not be able to like his son-in-law.

In the past few years, Lin Zhiming's side was not clean, but he was low-key enough, so he didn't make many newspaper headlines after Jin Shiting disappeared.

Until news came out that he and Wen Jiaqi were dating.

Wen Jiaqi is not famous, but her status is quite special. It can be said that she is the daughter of the richest man with her own aura. And Lin Zhiming's past experience is really not glorious enough, and his character is really worrying.

It is not unusual for these two people to be together. Anything can happen between unmarried men and women. However, many people are suspicious of Wen Jiaqi's thoughts. What do you think she is thinking? Why would she choose such a man?

For various reasons, the exposure of their relationship attracted a lot of attention.

When the news that the two were suspected of being separated came out, the media paid more attention to them. From time to time, a newspaper would report their recent situation in a small space, speculating whether they broke up or got back together.

In this way, it is not so strange that the news of Lin Zhiming's bankruptcy made the headlines of major newspapers in Hong Kong.

In the past, no matter how bad Lin Zhiming was, he was still the chairman of Huafa Securities and had a net worth of hundreds of millions. It was a bit difficult for him to be matched with Wen Jiaqi, but it was acceptable.

Now that he is about to go bankrupt and become a pauper, the gap between him and Wen Jiaqi is also infinitely widening. Can they still be together?

This... is probably a love breakup!

For a while, reporters swarmed downstairs of Lin Zhiming's house, trying to get first-hand information.

They also wanted to interview Wen Jiaqi, but no one knew where her new residence was, so they couldn't find her at all.

But even if you wait downstairs of Lin Zhiming's house, it's not easy to catch him - since Tencent Technology's stock price has stabilized at a high point, his bankruptcy has become a foregone conclusion, and he has not left the house since he returned home.

So for several days in a row, the reports were all news based on speculation, such as "Lin Zhiming is facing bankruptcy and stays indoors", "Wen Jiaqi is missing, suspected of a love breakup", etc.

Although this is indeed the case, there are no recent photos of the parties involved. People soon lost interest in the relationship between the two, and the name Lin Zhiming basically disappeared from the newspapers.

It was not until the news that Jin Shiting filed for divorce in court that Lin Zhiming's name returned to the public eye.

Who is Jin Shiting?

The only daughter of the founder of Huafa Securities! She is also the former chairman of Huafa Securities, the current largest shareholder, and the ex-wife of Lin Zhiming... Oh, no, they haven't officially divorced yet.

In addition to these identities, the most eye-catching news about Jin Shiting is that she was sent to a mental hospital by her husband Lin Zhiming nine years ago, and disappeared in the fire in the nursing home six years ago.

There has been no news since then.

In the month when Jin Shiting went missing, the newspapers were full of reports about her, and all kinds of speculations were flying around.

Some said that she couldn't stand the life that was like being in prison, so she took advantage of the fire in the nursing home to escape; others said that Lin Zhiming killed her and buried her body in order to seize power.

At first, the support rate for the two statements was half and half, but as time went on, the latter statement gradually prevailed.

But people's attention is very limited, and no matter how big the news is, it will be drowned by time. Jin Shiting has not appeared, and everyone has gradually forgotten these things.

So much so that before Lin Zhiming and Wen Jiaqi's relationship was exposed and the media dug up his past, although everyone knew that he had a bad reputation, they could no longer remember why he had a bad reputation.

But after reviewing it some time ago, ordinary citizens, whether they had forgotten or had never heard of it before, were all encouraged after hearing that Jin Shiting had filed for divorce in court.

Jin Shiting is not dead? She is back?

Isn't she mentally ill? Can a mentally ill person file for divorce?

The above is also Lin Zhiming's feeling after seeing the news.

Lin Zhiming has not been doing well recently, and the reason is obvious - he is going bankrupt.

The word "will" is added because he has not yet bought back the stocks that he was going to return, so there is still money in the account of Huafa Securities.

But everyone knows that he is not far from bankruptcy.

At the end of this battle, he was already overwhelmed and completely lost his mind, so he missed the opportunity to buy back the stocks at a relatively low price.

Now, the share price of Tencent Technology has risen to the point where it is difficult to buy back all the shares even if he withdraws all the liquid funds of Huafa Securities.

This is the stock market. Some people become rich overnight, while others become poor overnight.

Lin Zhiming originally hoped that Wen Jiaqi would help him, but when he called her, he only got curses. He had to face the reality - the road of making a comeback by relying on the title of the richest man's son-in-law is not feasible.

Realizing that the road ahead is bleak, Lin Zhiming also became an ostrich. He was unwilling to go to the company to accept the cold eyes and sarcasm of the people, and he didn't want to deal with the next thing.

He locked himself at home, drinking or daydreaming every day, and occasionally cursing Wen Jiaqi in anger.

Although he knew that this woman was cold-blooded and was willing to hang out with him only because she wanted him to make money for her, and he also knew that if he was no longer useful, she would abandon him without hesitation.

But when this day came, Lin Zhiming was still furious.

After a few days of such decadence, Lin Zhiming finally cheered up that day. He thought that he was not without a chance to turn things around.

Although Huafa Securities was doomed to bankruptcy, it was a limited liability company, so even if it went bankrupt, it would not involve personal property.

His personal assets were not much. After all, he only owned 5% of Huafa Securities. The annual dividends plus the salary for his position, as well as the money he had taken for various reasons, did not add up to more than a few million.

He had to support his family and his own expenses were not small, so this money was never enough, so he had to embezzle some of Jin Shiting's money every year.

No, in fact, in the two years before Jin Shiting disappeared, Lin Zhiming basically spent her dividends or liquid funds in the account.

Because at that time Lin Zhiming was not sure whether Jin Shiting was dead or alive, and whether she would come back.

It was easy to say if she died, but what if she was alive? What if she came back?

Although he was still her guardian when she could not prove that she was not mentally ill, he always had a sense of crisis in his heart, so he could be said to have deliberately spent Huo Jin Shiting's money in those two years.

It was not until the third year that he felt that it was impossible for Jin Shiting to come back alive after so much time had passed, so he stopped this deliberate squandering and started to spend his own income first.

So he didn't have much cash in his account. He did have a few properties, but the total was only more than 10 million.

But it didn't matter. Jin Shiting had a lot of properties in her name, and he had spent a lot of the cash in the account, but there were still tens of millions of surplus funds.

With this money, even if Huafa Securities went bankrupt, he could still make his first pot of gold by speculating in stocks and then set up his own securities company.

Although the outside world felt that Lin Zhiming's path to power was not very glorious, he never felt that he was worse than those self-made tycoons. After Jin Shiting was locked up by him, the assets of Huafa Securities multiplied several times in his hands, which also proved this point.

So after cheering up, Lin Zhiming believed that he could make a comeback.

Until he received a court summons and learned that Jin Shiting was going to sue for divorce.

Lin Zhiming was shocked, then panicked, and then furious, wondering how dare she do that?

And the court, why should they accept her lawsuit? She is obviously a mental patient and has no behavioral ability. How can they accept her lawsuit? !

Soon, Lin Zhiming got the answer.

Jin Shiting not only sued for divorce, but also went to the police station to report to the police, claiming that Lin Zhiming and Jiang Wenpeng had teamed up to illegally detain her, and filed a lawsuit with the court.

After the new news came out, the Hong Kong media was boiling. Some went to the court, some went to the police station, and some went to Lin Zhiming and Jiang Wenpeng's homes.

As for Jin Shiting? No one could find her at all.

Those who went to Lin Zhiming and Jiang Wenpeng's homes returned empty-handed. The former had been staying indoors for the past few days because of bankruptcy. Although the latter did not go bankrupt, he rarely showed up in the past few years. However, those

who went to the court and the police station all gained something.

The former confirmed that Jin Shiting's lawsuit against Lin Zhiming for divorce and illegal detention was true, and the latter revealed that it was not only Jin Shiting who called the police, but also other people who were diagnosed with mental illness by Fuen Nursing Home like her.

After the relevant news came out, it immediately set off an uproar.

Although it is difficult for ordinary people to resonate with rich people, Jin Shiting is not only a rich person, she is also a woman, a woman who was persecuted in marriage.

Even though she was so rich, she couldn't gain the upper hand in the marriage. She was even framed as a mental patient by her husband, who was born in a peasant family, and was locked up in a nursing home.

What about those women who have no money and no power? Are their lives even more miserable?

Moreover, hospitals should be places to save people. Even if it is a mental hospital, its purpose is to help those mentally ill.

Jiang Wenpeng, on the other hand, has turned the nursing home into a tool for him to make money. The angel in white has fallen into a devil. Just thinking about it makes people feel sick.

Especially those rich people, when they think of Lin Zhiming using Fu'en Nursing Home to detain Jin Shiting and seize his property, they feel uneasy.

When the news that Jiang Wenpeng assisted criminals and issued a mental certificate to get away with it came out, no matter if they were rich or poor, men or women, they could not sit still.

Investigate! This matter must be investigated strictly!

If this kind of social pest is not caught, who knows if they will become victims in the future!

Everyone was excited, and this matter snowballed, and more and more people were involved. In the end, not many people paid attention to the fact that Jin Shiting sued Lin Zhiming for divorce.

In order to appease the citizens of Hong Kong as soon as possible, the police and the court acted as fast as possible, and the former used the fastest speed to trace the original incident.

In fact, it has been so long since the incident, whether it is the doctors and nurses who assisted Jiang Wenpeng in the crime, or the persecuted people, even the evidence is hard to find.

But in the past six years, Jin Shiting and Xie Yaohua have been looking for these doctors, nurses and victims, and have persuaded some of them to testify in court through various means.

As for the evidence, Wen Yue got a lot after meeting Jiang Wenpeng, including the cooperation agreement signed between him and the criminals and Lin Zhiming and others.

The cooperation agreement they signed is of course not legally effective. They signed such an agreement not for the purpose of suing after one party breached the contract, but only to restrain the other party. After all,

before the incident broke out, whether it was the parents and relatives of the criminals, or people with wolfish ambitions like Lin Zhiming, or Jiang Wenpeng himself, they all had a certain social status.

After signing the agreement, none of them dared to actually breach the contract and let the other party make the agreement public, so this agreement became useful.

Then there are the transfer records between each other. Because the fees of the nursing home are fixed, and the fees are ridiculously high, it is inevitable that people will have doubts.

So these dirty money will be divided into two parts, one part will be deposited into the public account according to the normal fees of the nursing home, and the other part will be transferred to Jiang Wenpeng through an overseas account.

Jiang Wenpeng will also privately transfer money to the medical staff who assisted him in doing these things through overseas accounts to bribe them.

Wen Yue packaged these agreements and transfer records and sent them to Jin Shiting, and there was also a separate "client information" and psychiatric medical information.

After backing up, Jin Shiting handed all these information to the police.

With these materials and the witnesses found by Jin Shiting, the police were able to investigate the original incident with greater ease. Jiang Wenpeng was arrested and sued.

The court also responded quickly and opened a trial for Jiang Wenpeng.

With both witnesses and evidence, Jiang Wenpeng had no room to refute his argument and was sentenced soon.

After the result of this case, Jin Shiting's case against Lin Zhiming and Jiang Wenpeng for illegally detaining her was also opened.

In a series of recent news, it can be said that Jin Shiting's shadow is everywhere, but she has never appeared.

Therefore, although some reporters went to the court to verify and confirmed that it was Jin Shiting who sued Lin Zhiming and Jiang Wenpeng, everyone still doubted that Jin Shiting was still alive.

If she's still alive, why doesn't she show up?

It must be a smoke bomb released by the court!

Well, it's impossible to think about it, the court can't do such a thing, so the topic revolves around why Jin Shiting didn't show up.

Originally, after Jiang Wenpeng's actions were exposed, fewer people paid attention to these things, but as Jiang Wenpeng was punished by law and Jin Shiting's case was about to go to trial, more discussions about this matter began.

So when the case went to trial, almost all TV stations, radio stations and newspaper companies in Hong Kong sent reporters.

Really all over Hong Kong, even commercial newspapers like "Commercial Daily" sent people.

It was not unusual for the Commercial Daily to send someone. Although even if Jin Shiting came back, it would not change the fact that Huafa Securities was on the verge of bankruptcy, her relationship with Lin Zhiming over the years was very representative. They could report these things to attract attention without losing their status, so why not?

In order to grab the news, the reporters came very early, but no matter how early they came, it would be useless if the key figures did not show up. So before Jin Shiting came out, they gathered in twos and threes to discuss whether she would come today.

A reporter said, "She didn't come to Jiang Wenpeng's previous trial, and she may not come today. Anyway, she has a lawyer, so it doesn't matter whether she shows up or not."

Another reporter said, "I think she will come. Jiang Wenpeng has been sentenced, but she has not withdrawn the lawsuit and insisted on suing him and Lin Zhiming. It's obvious that she still holds a grudge. Since she hasn't forgotten the hatred, she will definitely show up today."

As both parties argued their own opinions, two black cars drove to the court gate. When

the reporters heard the noise, they all looked up, and some even walked over with microphones.

The car windows were covered with black film, so the scene inside could not be seen clearly from the outside. However, Jiang Wenpeng and Lin Zhiming were both in the detention center, and the lawyers' array was usually not so large. So although the person could not be seen clearly, everyone felt that the person sitting inside was most likely Jin Shiting.

This was indeed the case.

After the bodyguards got out of the car, the back door of the first car finally opened.

A woman with long wavy hair, large sunglasses, and flaming red lips poked her head out, and then walked down surrounded by reporters.

She was wearing a thin brown suit and a pair of pointed leather shoes. She looked mature and capable, and did not seem to be much different from six years ago. Even her age was not noticeable.

But when Jin Shiting took off her sunglasses and felt the dazzling sunlight, she felt that it was different, very different.

Although she could walk in the sun, meet friends and attend parties in the United States during these years, she was still a person without a name.

She had a name, but it was not her name.

She could talk about her past, but it was not her past.

After many busy days, when it was late at night, she would ask herself, who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?

Only by asking herself these questions over and over again can she confirm that she is still alive, or in other words, the person who is alive is still her.

Her name is Jin Shiting, she came from Hong Kong and is going back to Hong Kong.

It has been several months since she set foot in Hong Kong, but it was not until today, when she stood under the sun again, that she was sure that

she, Jin Shiting, was finally back!

...

Jin Shiting won the first trial without a doubt in the case against Lin Zhiming and Jiang Wenpeng.

But after the trial, the most popular topic was not the result of the case, but Jin Shiting's legendary experience.

Compared with the top ten rich people on the rich list, Jin Shiting's life is not legendary. In fact, for a long time, she was considered a loser.

Huafa Securities was founded by her father and inherited by her, but she failed to grasp it. Lin Zhiming locked her up on the grounds of mental illness and took away the control of Huafa Securities.

And she herself was locked up in a mental hospital, or a sanatorium, for more than two years, and then disappeared in a fire, and no one knew whether she was alive or dead.

Isn't this life experience a typical example of playing a good hand badly?

But after Jin Shiting reappeared, she forcefully sent Lin Zhiming to prison, and sued for divorce, and everyone had a new story.

In this new story, Lin Zhiming is the sinister Zhongshan Wolf and Chen Shimei, while Jin Shiting has become the female version of the Count of Monte Cristo who has been lurking for many years and finally succeeded in revenge.

Being illegally detained for more than two years, missing for six years after being falsely killed, and then forcefully taking revenge after reappearing, isn't this experience legendary?

Moreover, there are rumors that Lin Zhiming's bankruptcy this time was the work of Jin Shiting.

Although the news has not been confirmed, many people are willing to believe it, especially after Jin Shiting got her own shares and decided to support Huafa Securities alone, more people believed this gossip.

At the same time, her experience has become more inspiring, so much so that she is only in her early forties this year, and people from publishing companies and film and television companies have contacted her. The former wants to publish her autobiography, and the latter wants to make a movie based on her.

Of course, these are all later stories.

And these things have little to do with Wen Yue. In fact, even if Jin Shiting sued Lin Zhiming and Jiang Wenpeng for illegal detention and won the case, these things have little to do with Wen Yue on the surface.

Although Wen Yue asked the system to send the evidence of Jiang Wenpeng's crime, Jin Shiting didn't know it, and they had never met formally.

But on the night of the trial, Wen Yue and Wen Rongsheng had a conversation about Jin Shiting.

Well, the conversation was only about Jin Shiting.

Before Lin Zhiming went bankrupt, Wen Rongsheng might still be troubled by the relationship between him and Wen Jiaqi, but after he had nothing, Wen Rongsheng no longer worried.

He knew his eldest daughter's personality very well. She was not a person who could endure hardship! She might be deceived by a rich man, or be cheated of money by a fake rich man, but she would never believe a well-known pauper.

Especially since Lin Zhiming was imprisoned.

In the future, Lin Zhiming will no longer have anything to do with the Wen family, and Wen Rongsheng will naturally not mention him again. As for talking about Jin Shiting, it was related to her experience of barely coming back from the dead.

In the study, Wen Rongsheng asked the question that had been in his mind for a long time: "Do you think your brother is still alive?"

In fact, in the past twenty years, Wen Rongsheng has never given up looking for Wen Kai, but the intensity of the search in the past ten years is not as strong as when he first disappeared.

Before Wen Jialiang and Wen Jiadong got into trouble, the only way to find Wen Kai was to publish missing person notices regularly and donate to the police force regularly every year, hoping that they could arrest the murderer who kidnapped Wen Kai as soon as possible.

Looking at the results, it can be seen that the missing person notice is almost ineffective. Hou Xin was arrested, but Wen Kai's life or death is still unknown.

During this year, Wen Rongsheng thought about increasing the search efforts, but even the kidnapper Hou Xin didn't know whether Wen Kai was alive or dead, so he really didn't know where to increase the efforts.

Moreover, after confirming that Wen Kai was shot before falling into the sea, Wen Rongsheng had to admit a fact that his son might have already been eaten by fish.

Until today, when he learned that Jin Shiting, who had been missing for six years, had reappeared in front of people, Wen Rongsheng couldn't help but feel hopeful again. He looked at Wen Yue with burning eyes and asked, "Jin Shiting was missing in the fire for six years and was able to come back, so is it possible that your brother is still alive?"

Wen Kai may still be alive, but the hope is very slim.

In the eyes of people who don't know the inside story, Jin Shiting and Wen Kai are in similar situations, but Wen Yue knows very well that the reasons for their disappearance are completely different.

First of all, Jin Shiting was an adult when she disappeared. Secondly, she was rescued by Xie Yaohua. She has been hiding behind the scenes for many years. First, she was jealous of Lin Zhiming for having custody of her, and second, she was plotting revenge on Lin Zhiming.

Wen Kai was less than eight years old when he disappeared, and he was shot when he jumped into the sea. No acquaintances went to rescue him at that time. Moreover, he may not know the truth about being kidnapped. Even if he guessed it, he was jealous of Xu Meifeng when he was young, so he should not be afraid when he grows up, right?

If he is alive, there is no reason for him not to come back.

But these sad words can be said to Wen Rongsheng by others, but not Wen Yue.

Not only because she is Wen Kai's biological sister, she should be hoping that Wen Kai is still alive just like Wen Rongsheng, but also because she is the one who has the best chance to inherit the Wen family.

For the family property, it is common for brothers who grew up together to fight to the death. Just like the Zhou family, wasn't the one involved in the kidnapping of Zhou Mingtang Zhou Jiahao's biological brother?

Not to mention Wen Yue and Wen Kai, who have not seen each other for more than 20 years, it is easy to imagine that there is not much affection between them.

And with Wen Rongsheng's preference for sons over daughters, as long as Wen Kai, who is found, is not too unbearable, the inheritance rights that have been firmly in Wen Yue's hands are likely to be in turmoil again.

Wen Yue didn't know whether Wen Rongsheng had any intention of testing her by asking this question, but regardless of whether he did, she had only one answer: "It's possible."

"I think it's very likely."

After getting a satisfactory answer, Wen Rongsheng smiled and said excitedly, "I will contact people now and ask them to increase their efforts to find your brother outside of Hong Kong!"