The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Two days later, Zhang Jingwen, who wanted to travel abroad, was stopped.

She was informed that she could not travel abroad at this time, and the other executives of the wealth management platform were in the same situation.

There wasn't much explanation; they simply restricted people from leaving the country.

As for Zhang Tao, after discovering the truth, he led a large group of people to cause trouble on the platform.

The news was leaked by a busybody journalist, triggering a wave of profit-taking in a short period of time.

As a result, the interest that should have been paid on the 15th was delayed until the 18th.

Zhang Tao himself was nervous. He had lost all his shares, and all that was left was the 300 million yuan in wealth management on this platform.

As long as the payments are made normally, he will still have an income of fifty to sixty million yuan every year.

Several years later, you can cash out all the principal, so you won't suffer too much loss.

He remains a billionaire.

Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. With Zhang Jingwen restricted from leaving the country, things started to look a bit off on the platform.

Zhang Tao himself was also in a state of utter chaos, and he didn't even have time to deal with the matter of withdrawing from Tengsheng Fruit.

He just wanted to cash out his 300 million yuan principal as quickly as possible, and he wasn't even willing to pay interest.

With virtual investment products like these, it's not so easy to get the money out once it's in.

This wasn't the most despairing thing for him; what truly drove him to despair was that his wife formally filed for divorce.

Zhang Tao seemed to have forgotten one thing: he married this woman because she was a law student.

People have tolerated him having affairs all this time, just for this day.

Wait for a more suitable opportunity to strike decisively.

Since the platform hasn't collapsed yet, the 300 million yuan invested in wealth management products can still be considered joint property of the couple.

His wife was also clever; she waited until this moment to produce concrete evidence of his affair with Zhang Jingwen.

Their demands were also very clear: to divide marital property in advance.

She is the original wife who has been married for four or five years and has given birth to two children for Zhang Tao.

Naturally, they are entitled to half of the marital property.

Moreover, the party who committed adultery is not on her side, and the court will also take this aspect into consideration.

If this was just adding insult to injury, then what remains is truly cutting off water and food supplies, forcing them into a dead end.

After years of investigation by Zhang Tao's wife, the couple's joint assets totaled 5.7 million yuan.

The most valuable of these is the 15% original shares of Tengsheng Fruit held by Zhang Tao.

He has now used these shares to take out loans and invest in financial products that she strongly opposes.

Zhang Tao's wife directly demanded the distribution of all remaining assets except for the shares.

This is the main reason why she insisted on getting a divorce before the platform went bankrupt.

Once that investment platform goes bankrupt, causing a crisis of inability to redeem funds.

That means the 300 million yuan of marital property would be completely wiped out.

Only 2.7 million can be distributed among them.

Now she wants to give all of this investment to Zhang Tao, and she will take the remaining 2.7 million.

This woman's evidence was comprehensive and well-organized; she even hired the most outstanding divorce lawyers in the entire capital.

It's fair to say that she was already preparing for this day the moment she learned that Zhang Tao was having an affair.

So, you can't underestimate the person next to you in bed.

If you betray her, she will really rack her brains waiting to kick you when you're down.

The only thing she was unsure about was Chen Pingsheng's attitude.

Therefore, he made a special trip to Shanghai to visit Song Yanxi before filing the lawsuit.

Being women ourselves, we can understand each other a little better.

Even if Chen Pingsheng didn't support her desperate counterattack, he wouldn't have gone so far as to target her, a single mother, because of his relationship with Zhang Tao.

She's also a mother of two.

If Zhang Tao had continued to live a good life, she would have remained a down-to-earth and hardworking virtuous wife and loving mother.

Unfortunately, he is not.

Then I won't be that kind of housewife who only knows how to cook pots and pans.

From a woman's perspective, Song Yanxi understands her quite well.

But she still called Chen Pingsheng beforehand to ask for his opinion.

Chen Pingsheng had no objections whatsoever. Could he possibly deal with such a vulnerable woman? Even if Zhang Tao's wife had the upper hand now, she had only been preparing for this long.

It was just a well-prepared attack.

And most importantly, the fault wasn't hers at all.

If she doesn't step forward today to protect her assets, who can guarantee that Zhang Tao won't go looking for mistresses again after he gets through this ordeal?

Women, in the end, still have to think about themselves.

Zhang Tao was a senior executive when Tengying Group was first established, and he was one of the earliest people to follow Chen Pingsheng in building the empire.

He's even more senior than Gao Hu, and now he's putting on such a melodramatic spectacle.

Public discussion is prohibited within the group, and it is even more forbidden to spread in any work groups.

But unsurprisingly, it became the talk of the town for the entire Tencent Group.

Not to mention Tencent Film Group, countless news reporters outside are keeping a close eye on this matter.

This is quite normal; after all, it's not uncommon for wealthy people to get divorced.

What's strange is that their divorce turned into a palace drama, more exciting than any TV series.

No matter what, Zhang Tao still has a net worth of five or six hundred million yuan in cash.

If he hadn't made that one wrong step, he would definitely have billions in the future, a true tycoon.

He doesn't want a divorce now, and he certainly doesn't want to give all the cash, including real estate, to his ex-wife.

His ex-wife showed no mercy, even going so far as to expose her family's dirty laundry to gain public sympathy.

This was all done to expedite the divorce proceedings and leave Zhang Tao no time to prepare.

A divorce case also implicated a prominent financial company that had illegally raised over 20 billion yuan.

The matter escalated to the point that even Chen Pingsheng could no longer cover it up.

The main problem is with financial companies that have collapsed; too many people rushed to cash out their money.

In other words, the goal is to cash out all the money they have deposited in there.

At first, the word spread from one to ten, from ten to a hundred, and from a hundred to a thousand.

Now, tens of thousands of people are collectively demanding that the payment be made.

Faced with such a massive online uproar, Zhang Jingwen, the beautiful CEO, was immediately taken away for investigation.

The same applies to the remaining ones.

The company's employees kept leaving, and in the end, they even issued a statement.

"I ran away."

No matter how many words are above, the explanation boils down to these four words.

The founder ran away, and in a very nonchalant and sarcastic way.

No one knows where he went, just like when Zhang Jingwen was arrested, he kept saying that nothing was wrong.

The cover-up couldn't be kept any longer; if he didn't escape, he'd be locked up behind bars. He wasn't stupid.

Public opinion was in an uproar, and the impact of the incident was more serious than imagined.

Countless people rushed to block the entrance.

The divorce case of Zhang Tao, which triggered this dispute over fulfilling the payment obligation, has received relatively little attention.

Unfortunately, Zhang Tao's wife was too well-prepared, and Zhang Tao, caught off guard, had no chance to resist.

Zhang Jingwen went to jail, and all the assets he had built up over the years were wiped out.

As for the two children, it's unknown who they'll call "Dad" in the future.

In late April, Zhang Tao stood on the roof of that financial company building.

Jump down.

He died at the age of less than forty.

The experiences of this period may have been too exhausting for him.

Zhang Jingwen, whom he thought he deeply loved, was merely someone else's bedside tool.

He thought he deeply loved his wife, but at the crucial moment, he not only failed to lend a helping hand, but also prepared for today's breakup six months in advance.

The brother he thought was his brother avoided him during his most difficult time, and wouldn't even look at him twice.

How tragic life is.

If he had known he would end up like this, he might have preferred to have remained that fruit vendor in Beijing who couldn't afford a house.

(End of this chapter)