A Beijing socialite stole my boyfriend; she went crazy after I got married.

Xie Qingyang was taken aback. "Even if you don't want to admit it..."

and many more.

She suddenly realized that Xie Jing might not have meant that.

Xie Qingyang: "What did you say?"

Xie Jing glanced at her. "I have never had any relationship with the Lei family, and they know that very well."

Xie Qingyang's face turned deathly pale. "You, you're not—"

She took a half step back. "Are you Grandpa's illegitimate son?"

Xie Jing remained unmoved. "Putting everything else aside, at least in their relationship, everyone was there willingly."

Xie Qingyang: "?"

She didn't quite understand what was going on for a moment, but she also knew that she had no right to mock the other person's identity.

Xie Jing continued, "You've spent three years at Peking University, constantly talking about 'credit endorsement' and 'short-selling risks,' yet you haven't even understood the most basic risk isolation."

The man's eyes were cold and stern. "First, all the cross-guarantees between Tianyu and the Lei family's offshore entities were forcibly released by me four years ago, and full judicial isolation was implemented. Every penny the Lei family owes overseas is not even a note on Tianyu's balance sheet."

"Secondly, the so-called AA-level trust qualification is nothing more than a shadow rating they bought from a small rating agency in the Cayman tax haven using a few forged transfer agreements. In Tianyu's risk control system, the Lei family's credit rating has always been junk level."

"But!" Xie Qingyang instinctively wanted to retort, "Short-selling institutions don't care about these things! As soon as news of margin calls breaks, overseas markets will definitely short Tianyu—"

Short selling?

"I'm waiting for those overseas short-selling funds to enter the market."

Xie Jing sneered.

"The Lei family's margin call and the short-selling institutions' dumping of shares will only drive the price of Tianyu's 12% non-voting shares overseas to rock bottom. At that time, Tianyu's cash flow will be used to buy back all these shares at a 20% discount within two weeks, and in the process, completely squeeze out the remaining shares of the Lei family."

He leaned forward slightly, looking at the swaying Xie Qingyang:

"You think the Lei family is Tianyu's defense line? In my eyes, they are just bait I use to lure out overseas speculative funds to short the stock, and then conveniently complete the equity cleanup."

"You took the 100 million you 'worked hard' to earn, and used it to become the bait, even smugly believing you could take down Tianyu..."

Xie Jing paused, then said, "Where do you get the audacity to think you can be my successor?"

"You! How could you say that?!" Xie Qingyang was furious, his eyes blazing with rage. "You never teach me—"

Xie Jing glanced at her. "When you turned sixteen, you said you were going to invest five million US dollars in a biotech startup. I asked you what the company's core technological barriers were, how many rounds of financing its cash flow could support, and what the founding team's credit record was in the industry."

Xie Qingyang's expression grew increasingly grim.

"How did you answer me?"

Xie Qingyang's lips moved, but he didn't speak.

Xie Jing continued, "Later, that company went bankrupt and went bankrupt before its Series A funding round because the founder embezzled funds and the ownership of core technology patents was unclear. All the money was lost."

Jiang Chu raised her hand. "So what exactly did she answer you?"

Xie Jing: "...I don't remember exactly what she said, but she just told me to mind my own business."

He wouldn't waste any brain cells on his niece; he'd be lucky if she even remembered the gist of it.

Jiang Chu laughed. "I understand. She just wants you to unconditionally support, praise, and back her up after she makes a decision."

Xie Qingyang gritted her teeth, "You're overthinking it, I don't need it at all—"

"Oh, and another thing," Jiang Chuli ignored her and continued to Xie Jing, "either she hopes that after she rejects you, you will persistently beg her to accept your guidance and help."

After Jiang Chu finished speaking, she stared at Xie Qingyang.

Sure enough, Xie Qingyang's expression for a moment clearly showed that he had been right.

Jiang Chu: "Xie Qingyang, do you think everyone is so pathetic? That they all have to revolve around you?"

"You!" Xie Qingyang was about to faint from anger. "What do you know! You don't understand at all..."

Jiang Chu shrugged. "At least I know that when someone starts repeating themselves like a broken record, it means they've broken down and have nothing more to say."

Xie Qingyang opened his mouth, then quickly looked at Xie Jing, "Then, then I must get the money back!"

She took a sudden half-step forward. "And since you'd already set up this trap for the Lei family, why didn't you tell me?!"

Xie Jing remained calm. "...You're an adult, so I won't keep emphasizing not to run red lights. I assumed you had common sense."

"How can these be the same?!"

"What's the difference?" Xie Jing said calmly. "Besides, you've told me countless times to leave you alone."

Xie Qingyang was so choked up that she almost couldn't catch her breath, but the enormous risk at hand made her unable to care about anything else.

That's over a hundred million!

This is the culmination of her hard work over this period of time!

"...You have to help me get my money back now!"

Xie Qingyang leaned forward eagerly, speaking very quickly:

"You call Lei Bin on behalf of Tianyu, say a few nice words to reassure them! Pretend to be interested in the cross-shareholding project, throw out some bait for cooperation, make them think Tianyu is really going to get involved, and return my money!"

The more she talked, the more she felt that her plan was feasible.

"This is good for both of us! Didn't you want to deal with the Lei family? By draining that 100 million yuan from their accounts and cutting off their cash flow for liquidation, they'll be wiped out even faster! By helping me get my money back, you're also speeding up Tianyu's liquidation process. It's a win-win situation!"

Xie Jing looked at her with a hopeless gaze, "No."

Xie Qingyang grew anxious, "Even if the Lei family isn't related to you by blood, what good will it do you to completely sever ties with them? The Lei family is a large conglomerate—"

"Back when Old Master Lei was still alive, the Lei family possessed top-tier European supply chains and core licenses in Hong Kong, making them quite prominent. That's why they were able to form a marriage alliance with the Xie family."

Xie Jing interrupted her.

"But since the old master passed away, the second generation of the Lei family has been fighting for power and profit, and the third generation has been extravagant, resulting in a serious loss of core talent in the family."

They lack both the ability to generate revenue from real industries and the awareness to hedge against macroeconomic cycles; they only know how to maintain their superficial wealth through high leverage and offshore tax avoidance.

"A hundred or two hundred million yuan in subordinated funding will only allow them to survive for a few more days. Soon they will destroy themselves through cross-defaults on crude oil futures and overseas bonds."

Xie Jing said nonchalantly, "You did affect my plans, but settling accounts with the Lei family wasn't a high priority on my agenda anyway."

He wasn't in a hurry at all.

"Xie Jing!" Xie Qingyang roared, "Are you even human?! You can't treat me like this! I'm your daughter—"

"You are not."