Power and wealth bring fragrance

"Yunmeng Securities?"

Wei Yuan read out the four elegant and handsome characters on the wall and looked at Chu Xinrou questioningly.

Chu Xinrou winked charmingly, then took Wei Yuan's hand and walked inside.

It's clear that everyone here knows her very well.

From the receptionist to the well-dressed financial elites coming and going, no one seemed surprised by her presence; on the contrary, they were exceptionally friendly towards her.

"The young lady has arrived."

"Xinrou is here, and you look even more beautiful."

"Xinrou, when are we going shopping together?"

Chu Xinrou skillfully handled the greetings from different people, and led Wei Yuan to the innermost office.

Without knocking, Chu Xinrou pushed the door open and walked in, letting out a cheerful shout.

"aunt!"

In the spacious office, a woman is sitting in a leather chair behind a luxurious desk, making a phone call.

Hearing Chu Xinrou's shout, the woman turned around and happened to meet Wei Yuan's gaze.

Beneath her thick, black waves was a stunningly beautiful face. A pair of gold-rimmed glasses perched on her nose, yet they couldn't conceal the calm, sharp eyes behind the lenses. The slightly upturned corners of her eyes added a touch of intimidation.

A perfectly tailored dark gray suit skirt accentuated her perfect curves, and her long, straight legs, encased in gray stockings, were casually draped over the desk. Her delicate feet peeked out from under the stockings, adding a touch of softness and allure.

She possesses the competence and sharpness of a career woman, as well as the charm and maturity that come with age.

In short, she is an absolutely wonderful woman.

The only thing that puzzled Wei Yuan was that this woman looked to be no more than thirty years old, which was very different from the aged appearance of Chu Xinrou's father. The age difference was too big, wasn't it?

Chu Lingyi was also a little surprised to see Chu Xinrou. She then realized that her beautiful legs were resting on the desk, which was a bit indecent. She quickly pulled her legs back, sat up straight, and waved to them.

After saying a few casual words and hanging up the phone, Chu Lingyi looked at Chu Xinrou, who had sat down, with some surprise.

"Why did you suddenly think of this place?"

"Who is this?"

Chu Lingyi looked at Wei Yuan, then gave Chu Xinrou a meaningful look.

Chu Xinrou blushed.

"Auntie, you can just call him Wei Yuan."

"I came to you today because I have no other choice but to ask for your help!"

Chu Lingyi raised an eyebrow, her gaze sweeping lightly over Wei Yuan, a hint of understanding already in her eyes, and she teased him with a smile.

"Could it be that your dad objects to your relationship, and you want me to act as a mediator?"

"Auntie~ I have something important to tell you~"

Chu Xinrou couldn't take the teasing anymore and said coquettishly, then angrily revealed Chu Feng's contempt for Wei Yuan and Wei Yuan's desire to cooperate.

As Chu Lingyi listened, the smile on her face gradually disappeared, leaving only a calm and serene expression, her eyes flickering slightly.

"Auntie, Dad can't be relied on, I can only beg you."

Chu Xinrou was being coquettish with Chu Lingyi.

Chu Lingyi remained noncommittal and did not immediately agree.

She tapped the table lightly, her eyes behind her gold-rimmed glasses fixed on Wei Yuan, who sat opposite her, with scrutiny and inquiry.

"This matter is not as simple as you think."

Chu Lingyi paused, her gaze never leaving Wei Yuan, and her tone gradually became more subdued.

"Dingsheng Group is an industry leader with a scale of several billion yuan. It has been deeply involved in the industry for many years, and the capital and human connections behind it are very complex. Even I don't want to provoke them easily."

"But you're just an ordinary person with no background or connections. I'm curious where you get the confidence to openly talk about retaliating against Dingsheng Group?"

"If it's just a momentary impulse, or if you think you can use your relationship with Xinrou to get me to use my family's influence to avenge you, then I'm sorry, I won't agree."

As soon as he finished speaking, the air in the office seemed to freeze instantly.

Chu Xinrou was stunned, not expecting Chu Lingyi to refuse so decisively.

Only Wei Yuan remained calm and composed, showing no surprise whatsoever.

Ordinary business people believe in not acting until they see a clear benefit, let alone these old money families that have been passed down for generations.

If they were really that easy to talk to, they wouldn't have survived to this day; they would have been completely exploited long ago.

He met Chu Lingyi's sharp gaze, his voice calm yet resolute.

"If I dare to touch him, it means I have enough confidence."

"What do you think is needed to bring down a real estate group?"

Without hesitation, Chu Lingyi replied, "Of course..."

She had only just begun speaking when Chu Lingyi suddenly stopped, looking at Wei Yuan with a hint of surprise.

"You actually have something on them?"

Startled, Chu Lingyi abruptly stopped tapping the table with her fingers.

As a seasoned trader with years of experience in the financial markets, she knew all too well what this kind of core evidence meant.

Once confirmed, Dingsheng Group will face an extremely severe blow, and its decades-old foundation could collapse overnight.

However, it also contains enormous benefits and advantages.

If operated properly, it can bring enormous benefits!

She stared at Wei Yuan for a long time, suppressing the shock surging in her heart, quickly regaining her composure, and after a moment of quick calculation, she spoke crisply and decisively.

"Is that so? Then I agree to it."

"Give me everything you have, and I will mobilize all our resources to carry it out."

"You shouldn't show yourself for now. It's too dangerous for you to face Dingsheng Group on your own."

"Yunmeng Securities is different. With the Chu family's backing, Liu Ding wouldn't dare to retaliate no matter what."

"Once it's all done, you'll get exactly what's yours, every single penny."

As Chu Lingyi spoke, she glanced at Chu Xinrou and teased her with a smile.

"How about that? Are you satisfied now?"

Chu Xinrou chuckled, looking rather embarrassed.

However, Wei Yuan looked at Chu Lingyi with a half-smile after hearing her words. He did not agree immediately, but instead chuckled and clapped.

"What a cunning scheme! No wonder you're a financial elite. You're trying to take the whole meal, pot and all, right off the bat."

"However, I'm sorry, I disagree."

The room fell silent immediately upon hearing this.

Chu Lingyi narrowed her beautiful eyes slightly, her gaze suddenly becoming extremely sharp.

"Little guy, you've got something wrong."

"You're the one begging me to help you, not the other way around."

"I granted your request, and now you're going to disagree?"

Are you kidding me?

Chu Lingyi was somewhat annoyed, and a layer of coldness suddenly appeared on her beautiful face. With the explosion of her long-standing superior aura, the atmosphere in the entire office turned cold.

Chu Xinrou was also caught off guard, not understanding why the two of them suddenly broke up.

However, Wei Yuan remained calm and composed, showing no signs of being frightened by Chu Lingyi.

"I can understand asking for an exorbitant price in business negotiations and then negotiating a lower price, but your suggestion just now was really treating me like I was not human."

"According to your logic, if everything is handed over to you, then what does the whole thing have to do with me?"

"You'll get all the benefits, and I'll just get scraps. Do you really think you can treat me like a beggar?"

Wei Yuan's highly provocative words immediately made the atmosphere even more tense.

Chu Lingyi's brows furrowed suddenly. She leaned back slightly in the leather seat, crossed her arms, making her chest appear even more voluptuous, but her tone was full of displeasure.

"Little guy, don't be so arrogant."

"Even if you do have leverage over Dingsheng Group, leverage doesn't equal victory. Without vast resources and connections, your evidence simply won't be put to use. Before the news even spreads, Dingsheng Group will suppress it and use its resources to crush you completely. Without Yunmeng Securities, you won't even last until you see the results."

"I've used so many resources to help you, shouldn't I get most of the benefits?"

"And you've already received such huge benefits just by providing a little bit of dirt on Dingsheng Group, and you're still not satisfied?"

"Greed knows no bounds; you've gone too far with the little guy."

Wei Yuan could only laugh, and too lazy to beat around the bush with Chu Lingyi any longer, so he spoke directly.

"President Chu, you've got the position wrong from the very beginning."

"Now it's not me coming to you begging for your help, but you need to seize this opportunity to cooperate and use the profits from taking down Dingsheng Group to save Yunmeng Securities from its precarious state."

"So you should be the one to humble yourself and beg me, not the other way around, understand?"

These words immediately caused a huge stir.

Chu Xinrou looked completely bewildered.

Yunmeng Securities is on the verge of collapse? What kind of nonsense is that?

However, Chu Lingyi suddenly tensed up, a look of shock flashed across her eyes, and she frowned and reprimanded her sharply.

"Nonsense! Yunmeng Securities has been operating for many years, with a solid foundation and abundant assets. How can you say it's in a precarious situation?"

Wei Yuan chuckled softly and spoke in a calm tone.

"Yeah?"

"But I heard that your cash flow is already stretched to the limit and could break down at any moment?"

"Not only that, but all the wealth management products you're selling are unsold, redeeming maturing products is extremely difficult, and you're even struggling to pay your employees' salaries?"

"If it weren't for your past goodwill barely keeping you afloat, you might have completely collapsed by now."

"Solid foundation, abundant assets? Ha."

Wei Yuan chuckled, but his words struck Chu Lingyi like a poisoned needle.

Chu Lingyi stared blankly at Wei Yuan, all the strength and composure on her face instantly crumbling, the color draining from her cheeks little by little, leaving only embarrassment and astonishment.

She clenched her fists tightly, her chest heaving slightly, no longer able to maintain her aloof and sophisticated demeanor.

Chu Xinrou was equally shocked, looking at Chu Lingyi in disbelief, her tone anxious and bewildered.

"Auntie, is it true? The company has really come to this?"

The office fell into a long silence, with only the faint sound of the air conditioner blowing air.

After a long silence, Chu Lingyi let out a long sigh. Her tense shoulders completely collapsed, and she seemed to have taken off the armor she had been holding up for so long. Her energy and spirit quickly withered away.

She raised her hand to take off her gold-rimmed glasses, rubbed her tired brow, and her voice was full of exhaustion and helplessness.

"You had a fight with your dad before and moved out on your own, so there are many things you really don't understand."

"He's right, that's exactly how it is."

"When Yunmeng Securities was handed over to me, it was already a mess."

Chu Lingyi's tone was filled with exhaustion.

"Your grandfather and your father are cut from the same cloth. They spent their whole lives idling around, indulging in pleasure, squandering the family fortune, and had no interest in running the main business."

"In the early years, when the family had a lot of wealth, it was still manageable. But over the years, the cash flow was constantly depleted, and blind investments failed, which has long since squandered most of the Chu family's assets."

"Over the years, I have been the only one struggling to keep Yunmeng Securities afloat, working day and night, constantly borrowing funds and robbing Peter to pay Paul to barely maintain the company's normal operation and preserve the last vestiges of the Chu family's dignity."

She paused for a moment, looked out the window, her eyes filled with loneliness.

"Didn't you notice anything unusual when you went back to the old house?"

"Even the old house's walls are mottled, the interior is old and dilapidated, and it has not been renovated or maintained for a long time. Most of the servants have also been laid off. In the end, it's because of insufficient cash flow, and they can no longer afford to maintain the old splendid style."

Outsiders only see that the Chu family still lives in the old house and drives luxury cars, but they don't know that the inside is already empty.

"That's why your father is so eager to arrange a marriage for you, to find a powerful man to help maintain this respectable image."

Chu Xinrou stood there, stunned, completely overwhelmed by the shock and confusion.

For a long time, she only thought that her father was stubborn, conservative, snobbish and mean, and only wanted to control her own life, forcing her to accept a business marriage. She never thought that behind it was the reality that the Chu family was on the verge of collapse.

It turns out that the root cause of the father's inhumane arrangements was that the entire family was already on the verge of collapse and could only rely on marriage alliances to obtain external capital to prolong its life.

The grievances and resentments she had accumulated in the past suddenly became complicated and heavy, blocking her heart and making her unable to say a word. Her nose tingled with soreness.

Wei Yuan suddenly realized why the Chu family's villa seemed so gloomy and lacked proper repairs; it really was on the verge of bankruptcy.

After adjusting herself for a moment, Chu Lingyi put her gold-rimmed glasses back on, straightened her posture, and looked at Wei Yuan with a completely different expression, filled with shock and helplessness.

"However, these things are all top secret, and outsiders could never know them."

"Where did you get this information?"

Wei Yuan raised an eyebrow, smiling but saying nothing.

He didn't even know that Yunmeng Securities was owned by the Chu family, so he had no time to pay attention to such things.

Those messages were just things he had heard recently.

Since he joined Yunmeng Securities, he has been fully activating his "Listening and Heavenly Ears".

The conversations coming from all directions were exactly what he had just said, which allowed him to turn the tables and win the battle!

Seeing that Wei Yuan remained silent, Chu Lingyi felt that he was even more unfathomable.

She kept the news of the Chu family's problems a closely guarded secret, and neither Chu Feng nor she could possibly leak it.

Indeed, no one outside knows that the Chu family is on the verge of bankruptcy.

But Wei Yuan, an ordinary person, found out that this skill was truly amazing!

With such apprehension in mind, Chu Lingyi's tone suddenly changed, and she looked at Wei Yuan with great frankness.

"I admit, I did have selfish thoughts just now."

Chu Lingyi spoke frankly and sincerely.

"When I learned that you had evidence that had severely damaged Dingsheng Group, my first reaction was to get the evidence and take this opportunity to reap huge profits, fill the hole in Yunmeng Securities, and stabilize the foundation of the Chu family. That's why I wanted to exclude you and take full control of the operation."

"I was too impatient and too greedy. I underestimated you and underestimated your abilities."

She bowed slightly, abandoning all arrogance, and spoke solemnly.

"I am no longer qualified to claim that I lead the entire plan. I am willing to fully cooperate with your strategy and use all resources to block Dingsheng Group."

"My only request is that the Chu family participate in this cooperation and receive a share of the profits, so as to stabilize the cash flow, allow Yunmeng Securities to survive, and preserve the last foundation of the Chu family."

"I can promise you that we will never overstep our authority or interfere; we will only cooperate fully, how about that?"

Chu Xinrou also came to her senses at this moment, looking at Wei Yuan with slightly red eyes, gently tugging at his sleeve, her red lips moving but she did not speak.

Wei Yuan gently patted her hand, smiled warmly, and had already made up his mind.

Even without the Chu family, he could still target Dingsheng Group, and the result would be the same.

However, if Dingsheng Group were to use its connections to retaliate, that would be his weakness. If he wanted to completely defeat Dingsheng Group, his methods would inevitably be much more drastic.

Similarly, it will attract a lot of wolves and tigers, and the benefits gained will be much less.

While cooperating with the Chu family would grant them some benefits, it would also bind them to the Chu family's connections and resources. With their help to fend off those greedy bigwigs, the final benefits would actually be much greater.

Besides, even if I don't consider anything else, I have to give Chu Xinrou face.

Not only did he have a huge argument with his father, Chu Feng, for him, but he also came to Chu Lingyi for help.

His unwavering loyalty could not be ignored.

Wei Yuan looked at Chu Lingyi, who seemed a little nervous, and spoke in a deep voice.

"I can get you involved."

"However, you must follow my instructions."

"If there's any dissent, I'll kick you out at any time!"

Chu Lingyi responded immediately without any hesitation, her eyes solemn.

"No problem, I'll do whatever you say!"

Chu Xinrou smiled immediately, tightly gripping Wei Yuan's hand, her smile full of gratitude.

Chu Lingyi also breathed a long sigh of relief. Her tense mind, which had been tense for many days, finally relaxed a little, and her tense shoulders and neck slowly stretched.

She looked at Wei Yuan again, her beautiful eyes behind the gold-rimmed glasses filled with admiration and solemnity.

Although she was outshone by Wei Yuan, she harbored no ill will towards him; on the contrary, she greatly admired him.

It's perfectly normal for business people to target each other.

The young man in front of her was calm and composed, with amazing insight. Even she couldn't handle his words after just a few sentences. Given time, he would surely achieve great things!