Chapter 374: Stealing Love (Please subscribe to support!)
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The reason why Xu Kai came back this time, not only because he had already laid the foundation in the United States and there was no need to focus on the United States, but also because something happened that was beyond Xu Kai's expectations.
The thing is that Li Changyi's father, Li Yonghong, chairman of Minxin Bank and the largest shareholder of Minxin Bank, suddenly died.
At the time of the incident, Li Changyi was living with Xu Kai in the United States.
The two of them hurried back on Xu's private plane...
Three years ago, in order to be with Xu Kai, Li Changyi lied to Li Yonghong and said that she was going to the United States to study for a year.
Xu Kai thought that a young lady like Li Changyi would never be able to tolerate him. Not only was he a playboy, but he also had a large harem and many children. She would probably play with him for a while and then break up with him, just like those women like Jiang Fangfang and Tao Xiangning. After that, they would go from being lovers to being friends again and part ways amicably.
Li Yonghong has a similar idea to Xu Kai.
Yes.
Li Changyi's lies did not deceive Li Yonghong for long.
It didn't take long for Li Yonghong to find out that Li Changyi went to the United States not to study, but to live with Xu Kai. The key point was that Li Changyi and many other women also moved into the mansion of former playboy Hugh Hefner in Beverly Hills, Hollywood with Xu Kai.
When Li Yonghong first heard the news, his nose almost got crooked with anger.
——Li Yonghong really didn't expect that his well-behaved and obedient daughter, who rarely rebelled, would rebel so big!
It is not realistic to say that a rich lady does not have fun before marriage. After all, think about it, those rich and noble men have almost had enough fun, and there is probably nothing they have not had fun with. How much better can a rich lady of the same level be? But you can have fun, but don't play too much. Well... it's okay to play too much, because everyone must know.
You know, a rich man can marry a slut for profit, but a rich man also has to save face, and he doesn't want others to know that he is a coward.
But Li Changyi was different. Not only did he live with Xu Kai, he also lived with many other women in Xu Kai's paradise.
The key point is that since Li Yonghong could find out about this matter, other people of similar status, such as the family of Meng Xia, the young man he liked who was a good match for his family, would definitely be able to find out about this matter.
How could Meng Xia be willing to marry Li Changyi in the future? In Li Yonghong's opinion, if his plan did not change, he would have to pay a certain price, such as giving Meng Xia some of his shares in Minxin Bank as compensation.
But in this case, the Meng family, which also holds a considerable stake in Minxin Bank, is bound to become bigger. In the future, Minxin Bank may become owned by the Meng family instead of their Li family.
Then find a new marriage partner for Li Changyi? First of all, the reason why Li Yonghong was able to sit firmly on the throne of the chairman of Minxin Bank was because the Meng family fully supported Li Yonghong. Otherwise, Li Yonghong, who did not have absolute control, would not be able to fully control Minxin Bank.
Moreover, people have to be reasonable. Meng Xia did not make any mistakes and has always behaved herself. The mistake was made by her precious daughter, and the indecent person was Li Changyi. Therefore, it does not make sense for her to unilaterally regret the engagement.
It can be said that Li Changyi and Xu Kai ran away, causing Li Yonghong a lot of trouble.
But Li Yonghong did not panic.
When it comes to their level of union, it is more like a union of two families than a union of two people.
We are all profit-oriented businessmen. It is impossible for us to give up the opportunity to further tie ourselves together just because of a small layer of membrane.
To put it bluntly, Li Yonghong estimated that even if the Meng family knew what Li Changyi had done, they would definitely accept the marriage reluctantly.
Then there is only one question, that is, when will Li Changyi have enough fun and then "return to the family"? Li Yonghong is still very confident about this. He feels that Li Changyi, who he raised according to the standards of a princess, is unlikely to be like other women and willingly be Xu Kai's canary all the time. Sooner or later, she will get tired of that kind of life and tired of Xu Kai, who is fickle and indecisive.
As long as that day comes, Li Yonghong can help Li Changyi and Meng Xia enter the marriage hall with just a little guidance.
It has to be said that Li Yonghong has almost calculated everything.
Then, Li Yonghong called Xu Kai. Although he didn't say anything harsh, let alone scold Xu Kai, it was not difficult to see his anger from his cold tone throughout the call - his anger at Xu Kai's dishonesty and breaking his promise! Xu Kai, knowing that he was in the wrong, didn't say anything, but vaguely reached a consensus with Li Yonghong: "When Xiaoyi has had enough fun, I will send her back to you. Don't worry, before that, I will definitely guarantee her safety."
Li Yonghong didn't say anything angrily like "I'm afraid you'll send my daughter back after you've had enough fun." He just said "hmm" coldly and hung up the phone.
But neither Xu Kai nor Li Yonghong expected that Li Changyi would really accept Xu Kai, a man with many women, and accept this kind of life living with a lot of women. And Li Changyi didn't accept it reluctantly - later, through getting along slowly, she even enjoyed this free and unrestrained life.
The key point is that no one expected that Li Changyi would suddenly and quietly become pregnant with Xu Kai's child less than half a year after being together with Xu Kai.
Now things get serious.
You know, whether they are young masters of wealthy families or young ladies of rich families, they can play as they please but they cannot easily have children.
Because this involves a lot of complicated and difficult issues such as property inheritance.
After learning about this, Li Yonghong immediately rushed to Beverly Hills Villa to settle the score with Xu Kai and persuade Li Changyi to abort the child.
Who would have thought that no matter what Li Yonghong said, Li Changyi firmly disagreed to abort the child.
At that time, Li Changyi had been pregnant for more than two months, but the key point was that Li Changyi was unwilling to abort the child.
As the father of the child and Li Changyi's man, Xu Kai must stand up to protect Li Changyi and her child.
So Xu Kai called Li Yonghong out.
Li Yonghong was also very angry at the time. He wanted to ask Xu Kai how he got Li Changyi pregnant and how he didn't pay attention to safety at all and didn't know how to take care of Li Changyi.
So, Li Yonghong went out with Xu Kai at that time, and was ready to scold Xu Kai.
Before Li Yonghong could speak, Xu Kai said, "Uncle, how about giving the surname "Li" to the baby in Xiaoyi's belly?"
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"Li?"
After a moment's reaction, Li Yonghong asked calmly, "What do you mean?"
Xu Kai smiled and said, "It means exactly what it says. I have many children, so the baby in Xiaoyi's belly and even the children Xiaoyi and I will have in the future can all have the surname Li. Moreover, I am not inferior to you in terms of assets, so I won't covet your property at all. I think, except that I can't be with Xiaoyi alone, I should be more suitable to be your son-in-law than that Meng Xia, right?"
No matter how good Meng Xia is, as the only son of the Meng family, if Li Changyi gives birth to a child for Meng Xia, the child must be named Meng and definitely not Li.
As for Xu Kai, he has many children, and also many women who gave birth to his children. It doesn't matter that the children born to Xu Kai by Li Changyi do not have the same surname as Xu Kai.
Moreover, just as Xu Kai said, Xu Kai's assets are not inferior to Li Yonghong, and in terms of potential he is even superior to Li Yonghong. The key is that Xu Kai's ability to make money is obvious to all, and it is impossible for him to covet Li's property.
In this way, if Li Changyi is really together with Xu Kai, then Li Yonghong's property can be passed on to his daughter Li Changyi first, and then to his grandson (granddaughter) Li XX, or his several grandsons and granddaughters. Then the property of his Li family will not be swallowed up by anyone, and will be passed down from generation to generation in his Li family.
For Li Yonghong, this was definitely a very tempting proposal.
Li Yonghong looked at Xu Kai and asked in a deep voice, "You didn't lie to me?"
Xu Kai smiled and said, "With your extraordinary intelligence, how could I deceive you?"
Li Yonghong snorted, then said, "It's hard to say. I thought you were a trustworthy person, but not only did you break your promise and eat my daughter, you also made her pregnant. You are totally untrustworthy. How can I know if you will break your promise this time like before?"
Xu Kai did not argue with Li Yonghong, but hugged Li Yonghong's shoulders affectionately and said, "This time I will give you a written agreement, with everything written in black and white on paper. Is this okay?"
Li Yonghong smiled cunningly and said, "It's a deal then. All your and Xiaoyi's children must have my last name, Li."
Xu Kai nodded and said, "Okay, we'll all have the same surname as you, Li."
Then the father-in-law and son-in-law went to see Li Changyi as a close family.
Not long after, with the mediation of Li Yonghong, Xu Kai bought the shares of Minxin Bank from its two shareholders at a premium of 30%.
After a while, with the mediation of Li Yonghong, Xu Kai bought the Meng family's shares in Minxin Bank at a premium of 50%.
Since then, Xu Kai has become the second largest shareholder of Minxin Bank, with shares second only to Li Yonghong. The two of them have joined forces to hold absolute control of Minxin Bank.
I have to say here that the Meng family actually did not want to sell their shares in Minxin Bank, especially they did not want to sell their shares in Minxin Bank to Xu Kai, who had stolen their love.
But the fact that Xu Kai cheated on the Meng family was already known to everyone in Minxin Bank, and the Meng family was too embarrassed to stay in Minxin Bank anymore.
Moreover, there was a huge gap between the Li family and the Meng family because Li Changyi cheated on Meng Xia, and they could no longer work together as well as before.
More importantly, Xu Kai had already acquired 14% of the shares of Minxin Bank at that time, so Li Yonghong no longer had to rely on the Meng family.
More importantly, because Li Changyi would not marry Meng Xia, the stock price of Meng's own company plummeted, and at the same time, something else happened, and they urgently needed funds to turn around.
In the past, the Meng family could have obtained a loan from Minxin Bank to make ends meet.
But this time, Li Yonghong refused the Meng family's loan on the grounds that the Meng family could not provide good assets as collateral.
At the same time, Li Yonghong talked to Meng Xia's father Meng Guanglai. He felt sorry for his old friend because his daughter would rather be Xu Kai's mistress than marry his son Meng Xia, so he was willing to buy all of the Meng family's shares in Minxin Bank at a premium of 50%.
Under Li Yonghong's soft and hard tactics, the Meng family had to sell their 17% stake in Minxin Bank to Xu Kai.
As a result, Xu Kai held 31% of the shares of Minxin Bank, becoming the second largest shareholder of Minxin Bank and one of the most influential persons.
This is actually a very good thing for Xu Kai.
Xu Kai has a large number of high-quality assets, such as the shares of more than one hundred companies he owns.
However, the equity in more than 100 companies held by Xu Kai cannot be converted into money easily, so it is easy for Xu Kai to have liquidity difficulties.
After Xu Kai was able to control Minxin Bank, this matter became easy to handle. Whenever Xu Kai was short of money, he could mortgage some shares of a certain company to Minxin Bank to obtain working capital. When he had working capital in hand, he could take back the shares mortgaged to Minxin Bank.
This is equivalent to Xu Kai having a working capital engine that can provide Xu Kai with a steady stream of working capital.
This is also one of the reasons why Xu Kai agreed to let Li Yonghong invest in Minxin Bank.
Speaking of investing in Minxin Bank, there is actually a very interesting story behind it.
Although the market value of Minxin Bank at the time was less than 100 billion, it had reached nearly 70 billion. Xu Kai wanted to buy the shares of its shareholders at a premium, which would definitely cost a lot of money.
Therefore, Xu Kai must sell something in order to buy the shares of Minxin Bank.
After much deliberation, Xu Kai finally chose a stake in a company called Lebao.com.
Two years ago, the founder of Lebao.com approached Xu Kai and told him that Lebao.com's initial business was video production, making it one of the earliest companies to enter the industry.
In order to gain an advantage in the competition with its peers, Lebao decided to purchase copyrights. In that era of rampant piracy, Lebao was the first video website that could watch genuine videos.
Later, Lebao.com set its sights on the color TV manufacturing industry. According to the idea of Lebao.com's founder, when users bought Lebao.com's color TV, they were using Lebao.com.
Lebao.com also wants to make mobile phones and is developing three models of mobile phones, all of which are smartphones.
In addition, the founder of Lebao.com also wants to develop new energy vehicles.
Anyway, in the eyes of Xu Kai, a man with a vision for the future, the founder of Lebao.com is on the right track and seems like someone who can accomplish great things.
The founder of Lebao.com is very good at fooling people. He deceived Xu Kai, a man who lived for more than 70 years in his two lifetimes, into completely falling into the pie he painted.
Finally, Xu Kai made a big investment in Lebao.com, that is, he invested more than 10 billion Chinese yuan at one time and obtained 30% of the equity of Lebao.com at that time.
As a result, after receiving Xu Kai's investment, Lebao.com went public quickly after a series of operations that Xu Kai didn't even know what was going on.
Then a scene that made Xu Kai dumbfounded appeared.
——After Lebao.com went public, its stock price soared all the way, at one point hitting 36 daily limits in a row. It was called a "monster stock", and its market value also soared to more than 140 billion yuan.
Xu Kai seldom sells shares - usually, after he buys shares in a company, he almost always holds them for a long time.
This is not difficult to see from the fact that Xu Kai now owns shares in more than one hundred companies.
But Li Yonghong insisted that Xu Kai buy shares in Minxin Bank, and Xu Kai also wanted to have a cash engine.
As a last resort, Xu Kai had to sell his shares in Lebao.com, which was still skyrocketing at the time, in the secondary market, cashing in tens of billions of yuan, which he then used to buy shares in Minxin Bank.
After Xu Kai sold his shares in Lebao.com, its stock price continued to soar, and its market value reached 160 billion at its peak.
At that time, this made Xu Kai feel a little painful. You know, that was billions of profits.
But not long after, Lebao.com's stock price began to plummet, and it continued to fall like a cliff.
By now, the market value of Lebao.com has almost fallen below 10 billion.
Xu Kai, who sold all his shares in Lebao.com near the highest point, became famous. It is said that Xu Kai has unparalleled investment vision. Some people call him the stock god of China. There are also conspiracy theorists who say that it was Xu Kai who drove up the price of Lebao.com and then sold it at a high price, which led to the sharp drop in the price of Lebao.com.
In short, because Xu Kai made tens of billions of dollars from Lebao.com and became the biggest winner in the Lebao.com incident, people have all kinds of opinions about him, and Xu Kai also became famous in the capital market.
That's going too far.
Xu Kai bought the shares of Minxin Bank originally to support Li Yonghong in taking the position of chairman of Minxin Bank, and also to let Li Yonghong help him with working capital.
But what Xu Kai never expected was that Li Yonghong, who had always been in good health, suddenly died of sudden death because of his strong ambition for his career.
It just so happened that Xu Kai had already laid a solid foundation in Hollywood at that time, so he returned to China with Li Changyi, on the one hand to send Li Yonghong away, and on the other hand to help Li Changyi secure the position of chairman of Minxin Bank.
After being busy for more than three months, Xu Kaicai helped Li Changyi sort out all the matters concerning Minxin Bank, and then returned to Hengdian, preparing to have a good rest for a few days at No. 1 Furong Village.
Unexpectedly, Xu Kai had just returned to Hengdian when Xiang Chun came to cause trouble for Xu Kai...
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(End of this chapter)
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