New Year’s soon arrived.
When Jian Suiying visited home, Jian Suilin was helping the nanny set up the fruit tray. As soon as he saw him come in, he came over and said in front of their father, “Ge, you’re back.”
Seeing his pleasant and docile appearance, a fire started to brew in Jian Suiying’s stomach. He was aware that this was all fake, and he’d been faking for over ten years already. He endured the impulse to hit the hypocrite in the face with his fist, and walked past him without looking.
There was nothing Jian Dongyuan could do but look away.
Jian Suiying sat on the sofa, and chatted casually with his father. Jian Suilin brought a plate of fruits and sat beside him. “Ge, these are rambutans that someone just brought from Hainan yesterday. Please have some.”
Jian Suiying rudely said, “Stay away from me.”
Jian Dongyuan frowned, “Suiying.”
Unblinkingly, Jian Suilin began to peel the fruit and handed it to his mouth. “Ge, eat some, it’s sweet.”
Jian Suiying looked at his father and then at Suilin. He didn’t want to look too bad in front of his father, so he reluctantly opened his mouth and swallowed it.
Jian Suilin was also very attentive to him during dinner, serving him vegetables and the soup, which made Jian Suiying want to lift the table over him.
After the Beihai incident, he thought that the boy was completely worn out and was pleading for mercy. Unfortunately, it’s Jian Suiying that he’s pleading to, the one who can’t ever spare the other just by begging for mercy. He was too tired of Jian Suilin’s antics. If someone really wanted to fight with Jian Suiying, they should come to him squarely. If they can’t afford to lose, they shouldn’t challenge him in the first place.
During dinner, Jian Dongyuan heard that Jian Suiying was going to Qinhuangdao to visit his grandfather, so he asked the nanny to pick up all the tonics gifted by others and let Jian Suiying take them with him.
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Early the next morning, Jian Suiying drove to Qinhuangdao by himself, carrying a whole bunch of gifts in the trunk. His company only had a 3-day vacation, so he has to come back after an overnight stay, but he still wanted to go back and visit. Lao Jian was already getting old, so he’ll basically have fewer chances to catch a glimpse of him.
He arrived at his grandfather’s place at noon. Lunch was already ready, and there was also a full table spread and two bottles of Maotai.
The two men drank as they chatted, and their meal lasted over two hours. They both drank a little too much, so Jian Suiying ended up sleeping in the afternoon. After waking up, it was dinner time again. He went to eat.
The weather was too cold to go fishing, but time passed slowly and leisurely with Lao Jian as he walked his dog by the lake and talked about family. Jian Suiying doesn’t feel the need to think about anything during this time. Whenever he visits his grandfather, he always feels like he’s coming over for vacation, like in his childhood.
After staying overnight, Jian Suiying drove back to Beijing in the afternoon. He took a rest to prepare for the next day, when he’ll enter the stage, negotiate with people, and sign the contract. They’d been discussing for several months, like in a tug of war, and at this time, the two sides have basically reached an agreement. The contract will be formally signed by the beginning of February after some details are finalized.
The matters with the bank have also been prepared in advance. After the contract is signed, the first batch of funds from the bank can come in.
Everything went smoothly. According to the company’s plan, the transfer of ownership should be handled before the Spring Festival. The second loan can be released by the bank following the Spring Festival, making the project formally operational. However, just when the money had been transferred to the account and the transfer was about to go through the next day, something happened.
It was 9:00 in the morning. Jian Suiying was sitting in the office when the phone rang.
He received a call from the employee he delegated to handle the transfer paperwork, anxiously informing him that the land had just been taken by the court just yesterday afternoon. Jian Suiying suddenly got angry and asked, in succession, which court had sealed it up and what exactly the matter was.
However, this employee knew nothing more about the issue other than that it had been seized by a local court in a county in Sichuan.
On property that had been seized by a court, no one dared transfer land ownership anymore. Matters that were supposed to be smooth and profitable suddenly sprang up with issues, and Jian Suiying had a very bad feeling in his heart. He hung up and called Yang-zong, who sold him the land. The boss was also very confused, for she herself hadn’t even received the notice from the court.
The two scheduled an appointment to go to the relevant departments to learn about the situation.
At the moment, Jian Suiying was calm. After all, life is a process of experiencing and solving conflicts.
It took almost a whole day to get in touch with the court and the company applying for the land acquisition and to get a general understanding of the matter before and after.
The matter involved very complicated debt relationships. The company that sold him the land was a reorganization of three state-owned enterprises, one of which had gone bankrupt and defaulted on its debts. After the reorganization, most of the problems with debt have been solved after 13 years of operations. After three generations of appointed leaders, the current bosses were basically not very knowledgeable about the debt problem at that time. Because there was no one to recover the profits and losses of the state-owned businesses, personal interests didn’t influence them, so, the current bosses weren’t aware that there was still a small amount of debt left.
Along with several other debts that year, it was also packaged and sold to an asset company. After several transfers, it was then sold to a company in Sichuan. Because the time was too long, although the company in Sichuan still held the creditor’s rights, they couldn’t find the trail for the assets. The creditor’s rights firm that time no longer exists as well, and even the legal person involved disappeared, so no one had come to collect the debt for over 10 years now.
To everyone’s surprise, just before Jian Suiying could successfully transfer the ownership to their company, the creditor’s rights firm and the legal person suddenly appeared like spring bamboo after the rain, and brought the Sichuan court to seize the land in one fell swoop.
From this kind of position that they had, it was clear that they’ve been preparing for this.
From Yang-zong’s explanation, Jian Suiying believed that she really didn’t know about the issue and wasn’t deliberately digging a hole for him to fall over and jump up on. After all, the land itself was clear and free of problems. It was only the company’s assets that were the issue. When the creditor’s rights firm find a realizable asset, any asset can be seized by them through legal procedures.
The two spent the afternoon discussing countermeasures against the information they had found. The total value of the debts owed in the past nine years was over 100 million. And with years-long worth of interest, the other party will demand at least 400 million to 500 million for compensation.
Although Yang-zong expressed regret and anxiety, Jian Suiying knew that it was more difficult to get the money back after the contract was already signed and the money had already gone to other’s pockets.
Everyone knows he shouldn’t pay the money, but the company selling the land must negotiate with the creditor’s rights firm, which will inevitably involve litigation, lawsuits, various negotiations, and debt repayments. The formalities involved with state-owned enterprises were particularly complicated. It was likely for the issue to drag on for a year and a half at the latest. And because of the timeline, it was difficult to obtain certain evidence, which will take them a much longer time. It was possible that this matter could be resolved in the end, but it still delayed Jian Suiying’s progress. If he can’t get the ownership transfer according to plan, the bank will re-evaluate his project and refuse to loan them money. He has also already invested all the company’s funds, but the follow-up funds cannot come in so easily. Once the capital chain breaks, he will be in big trouble
After realizing the seriousness of the matter, Jian Suiying felt a headache coming in. In the workings of a large project such as this one, there will always be various difficulties and obstacles to face. It was almost impossible to make money without first experiencing setbacks, but no setback has given him so much psychological pressure compared to this one. First, their investment was too large; second, no matter how much he considers it, the seriousness of the matter will not be lighter than he thought.
The company in Sichuan had obviously found clues to the assets for a long time now, but they discovered that the company was negotiating a deal with Jian Suiying’s, so they must’ve been holding their horses to collect the debt, because if they rushed it, the selling company would definitely delay selling the land to drag the issue on. Private enterprises will have it hard by filing lawsuits against state-owned enterprises. After signing a contract with Jian Suiying, the pressure faced by this state-owned enterprise was twofold, and it had to be resolved soon. In the midst of the chaos, it was better to take advantage of the opportunity and raise the price. If it were Jian Suiying, he would do the same.
What they could hope for now is that the three parties involved can reach an agreement through negotiations only, and without causing trouble by bringing the matter to court. If there was truly no way to reach an agreement, then Jian Suiying’s last resort is to sue the state-owned enterprise and recover the money he paid. However, this method still wastes money. His investment of at least ten million will be wasted, and he will also offend many people. If the lawsuit continues for a long period of time, his losses will be immeasurable.
Jian Suiying felt that even though the house was already leaking, it continued to rain all night. Jian Suiying was disappointed in his failed love affair and felt that he should be triumphant after his efforts to make things better on his side, but he didn’t expect to experience such a fall.
He and Yang-zong scheduled an appointment to meet with the company in Sichuan the next day, and hoped that tomorrow’s negotiations could let him at least see the turning point of things.
The next day, he went alone with Yang-zong. The appointment was set at a hotel café.
Only two representatives came from the other side, and once their meeting started, both sides went straight to the point. Finally, the lion bared its teeth, and the other side offered 830 million yuan in reparations.
At that, Jian Suiying and Yang-zong’s expressirole in the past few days. He had already shown his intention of not bringing Yang-zong along and agreed to talk to them alone before, but the other side hadn’t said anything in reply. Today, though, he finally received a reply.
He felt that this matter had gone quite dramatic, but as long as he could keep his share of the capital, he didn’t care how things would end.
However, he never expected that at the time of their meeting, when he entered the room, aside from a few of the people he expected to see, he would also see his own brother sitting on the sofa drinking tea in a formal suit and shoes, as well as Li Yu, whom he was no longer as familiar with, standing in front of the window, his back turned the moment he entered the room.
It’s like LY hasn’t had enough of screwing JSY over for no good reason. Like his brain couldn’t think that if he just groveled to jian ge and told him what the next plans his scum bro is plotting so he can show his loyalty to jian ge, show him he will change and that honest to god his brother didn’t know shi. JSY might actually forgive????
Does Li yu believe in Suilin so much that he’s willing to continue their partnership, instead of confessing and asking for Suiying’s forgiveness?
Because LY doesn’t really see JSY as a person but as something he should own and possess and control and have snu snu with. If JSY doesn’t behave the way he wants, he ‘punishes’ him. Even when he screwed him over, he was more upset about how JSY reacted to being screwed over because it didn’t meet his expectations. He thought he could screw JSY over and JSY would still fawn over him and be available to him.