I am weak and friendly

Chapter 303 Holy crap!

"Let me go, let me go, I'm fine!" Tang Yiping pleaded with his brother until he finally released him, asking, "Are you really alright?"

"It's nothing," Tang Yiping said. "Brother Ban, do you know who our company's investors are?"

"???" Ban thought for a moment and said, "I heard from President Lu a couple of days ago that several venture capital firms, a lot of funding sources, and some giants have all come to invest in us..."

“I’m not talking about this time, I’m talking about our company’s earliest investors.”

Brother Ban frowned and pondered, "You mean this? I really don't know. I only remember that our company initially received a lot of investment, and its development momentum was quite good, but later..."

Brother Ban shook his head: "Later, our product flopped, sigh..."

The inability to make that local application successful and the failure to grow the company into a large and strong enterprise are the eternal pain in Brother Ban's heart.

Tang Yiping said, "Brother Ban, you don't even know who the company's investors are? Don't you think that's strange?"

"It's quite strange. Logically speaking, I should know," said Brother Ban.

Is it possible that our company's angel investor is actually Brother Bao?

Ban Ge: "??? Bao Ge? How is that possible? Bao Ge used to be a programmer at our company, then he became a team leader (TL), and he's been a TL ever since. Where did Bao Ge get the money to invest in our company...?"

What Brother Ban said makes a lot of sense, but if Tang Yiping hadn't seen those things in Brother Bao's "Heart as Dead as Ashes," he probably wouldn't have had any doubts.

Moreover, before being "pulled back," Wei Song was just a "programmer."

Tang Yiping then asked, "Thinking about it carefully, Brother Ban, don't you think Brother Bao's TL is a bit strange?"

"What's weird?"

Isn't it weird?

Although Linghai Technology was Tang Yiping's first internship company, and Bao Ge was his first Team Leader, even if he hadn't eaten pork, he had seen pigs run. As a Team Leader, Bao Ge's presence was too strong.

Besides Bao Ge, the company actually has several other senior executives, such as the chief financial officer, the chief sales officer, and several vice presidents, but they basically do not interfere with any of Bao Ge's actions. Even Lu Mingyuan, the boss, almost never interferes with Bao Ge's management.

The position of Chief Technology Officer in the company has always been vacant. The actual Chief Technology Officer is Brother Ze, but even Brother Ze has to obey Brother Bao's orders.

This hierarchy appears rather chaotic and strange.

But this has always been the case in the company, and no one has raised any objections.

Bao Ge's high-pressure management style is also strange. He confidently manipulates everyone, cares more about the company's development than the boss, and forces everyone to work overtime whenever he has nothing to do.

Applying this to TL would certainly make sense, but it still feels strange; the motivation is just too strong.

If Brother Bao is someone who flatters his superiors and likes to fawn over his leaders, that would be normal.

But Bao Ge is not that kind of person.

If we consider his perspective as an "investor," it makes much more sense.

You guys are eating and drinking my food every day, wasting my investment, and you'd better get to work! My company is going to go bankrupt, and my investment is going to go down the drain!

Get to work!

Not working properly? Take my PUA!

"Are you still half asleep? No way, no way." Brother Ban thought Tang Yiping was just confused. "What on earth are you thinking about?"

"Perhaps," Tang Yiping said.

If he hadn't seen Bao Ge's memories, he might have really thought that way.

Have you ever had a moment when you suddenly felt that life is nothing but a dream?
Sometimes, you suddenly realize that everything you've experienced was just an illusion, and never really happened.

You might doubt yourself, wondering if you're just a patient in a mental hospital experiencing delusions, if you're just a brain in a vat, or even if you're just a program.

You clearly remember that yesterday you were a rising star, experiencing unprecedented success, but suddenly you wake up to find yourself divorced, living an ordinary life, or even destitute.

You don't even know when this change happened.

You just sense that something is wrong.

It's like you took the wrong turn at a certain intersection.

Then, after walking a very, very long way, I realized something was wrong.

Brother Bao, that's the feeling.

The force that brought Wei Song back not only brought back Wei Song and the Coordination Office, but also brought back other memories that should have been lost. What exactly is this method of "stealing"?
What was stolen was "achievement"?
In Bao Ge's memory, he was once a famous angel investor, one of the most insightful and courageous young investors in China, a genius investor who focused on discovering gazelle companies and invested in many unicorn companies, such as Touchpoint Internet and Linghai Technology.

But how can we verify something like this?
Is Bao Ge's memory necessarily real? What if it's just his imagination?
Tang Yiping pondered for a moment, then thought that perhaps there was another person he could consult.

He took out his phone and glanced at the time.

Four o'clock in the morning.

This is too early.

Over there, Brother Ban couldn't hold on any longer either, and was already snoring softly.

Tang Yiping was also sleepy, but... if he didn't send a message now, he definitely wouldn't be able to fall asleep.

He found Wei Song's contact information: "Brother Wei, do you remember who else is an angel investor in Touchpoint Interconnect?"

Tang Yiping thought that Wei Song was unlikely to give him an answer, but to his surprise, Wei Song replied almost instantly.

"Wait a moment, I've found some information, I'll send it to you now."

Tang Yiping: "Why aren't you asleep yet, it's so late?"

"I can't sleep until I figure certain things out."

me too.

Tang Yi waited quietly for a moment, and then a document was sent over.

"Angel round... three investors, lead investor... Du Baobin..."

Du Baobin?
Tang Yiping suddenly sat up. It really was Brother Bao!
"Brother Bao's investment company, investment company..."

The document was a scanned PDF with small text. Tang Yiping enlarged the text and read it line by line:
"Du Baobin, his investment company... Tianyu Investment?"

Tang Yiping's eyes widened.

Tianyu Investment?

No, isn't this Lin Duo's company? How come it belongs to Bao Ge?

What's the situation?
What the hell!

Tang Yiping's eyes widened in surprise.

This document is quite long, and it includes a lot of additional information.

The qualifications of these investment companies and the resumes of the investors themselves are probably the necessary procedures for investment.

Tang Yiping found Bao Ge's information and Tianyu Investment's information and studied them carefully.

Previously, he had also looked for some publicly available information about Tianyu Investment, mainly to investigate Lin Duo.

Upon comparison, he discovered that almost all of Bao Ge's information matched Lin Duo's resume.

What's the situation?
Was Bao Ge impersonated by Lin Duo?

No wonder Brother Bao was so angry when he saw Lin Duo.

Is this instinctive anger and rejection?
But... what is Lin Duo's connection to this matter?
Tang Yiping continued looking through the documents, and after searching for more than ten minutes, he finally found a line of text in a corner.

"Lin Duo, investment assistant at Tianyu Investment, attended this investment meeting and took notes..."

Investment Assistant, Lin Duo.

Little follower?
Tang Yiping discovered that having one's talent taken away was nothing compared to what was to come.

This is damn obvious – body possession!

A person's social identity, social status, achievements...

It can be completely taken away and then given to another person?

What power is this?
How was this thing taken away?

And...did Lin Duo himself know that?
Tang Yiping felt a chill run through his body, even more shocked than when he first learned that his talent could be taken away.

Whose methods were these? What methods were they?
(End of this chapter)