Chapter 320 Return the Money (First Update Request for Monthly Ticket)

Mei Jinhuan returned to Shanghai with that white man.
When she got off the plane, it was already the next afternoon.
From afternoon to afternoon, a full twenty-four hours had passed.
She seemed a bit absent-minded.
Instead of going home with her, the Caucasian man went to the most expensive hotel in the city, the Yun'an Building.
Mei Jinhuan didn't go straight to the company either. She was extremely tired and felt like she couldn't keep her eyes open. She felt the need to sleep for a while.
As soon as she got off the plane, her phone received calls and messages on WeChat that almost made the phone explode, but she didn't want to see what was going on.
Ever since she went abroad, she had turned off her phone.
She used a new phone bought overseas.
Without a doubt, she can't turn off her phone after returning home.
After turning on her phone, Mei Jinhuan didn't pay attention and put it in her Hermes platinum bag that she carried with her, and went to sleep when she got home.
During sleep, Merit Venture Capital's building had turned into a mess.
Dozens of local clients and investors were crowding the entrance of Merit Venture Capital, demanding money.
This is not debt owed by Merit Venture Capital, they are the clients who entrusted their money to Merit Venture Capital for management and investment.
Merit Venture Capital has been in this industry for over 20 years and has a good reputation.
However, they couldn't escape being dragged down this time by Mason Financial Group.
Even though the client's and investor's money in the stock market or venture capital was not taken by Mason Financial Group, confidence is lost and no one dares to put their money with them anymore.
A big man with a long beard punched the long table in the conference room, shouting in heavily accented Mandarin: "I'd rather have my principal back, I don't want any interest or dividends! Just give me back my principal!"
The fund manager in the conference room is covered in sweat, nervously saying: "Mr. Huang, you have signed the contract, and private funds cannot be withdrawn in advance unless it is time... Moreover, your money is still with us, invested in several start-up companies as venture capital, with promising prospects! As soon as they go public or get acquired by other big companies, the profits will multiply tenfold or even hundredfold in no time!"
"You talk pretty! Who knows when your company will go bankrupt? Even your major shareholders are withdrawing their stocks, let alone us?! - I don't care about any contracts, just pay up!"
The person shouted loudly, and a chorus of "pay back the money" filled the meeting room.
Several fund managers cursed inwardly, but their immediate superiors were still in the hospital, with their lives hanging in the balance. What reason did they have to complain?
At least they are still alive, living well and healthy...
A few people glanced at the office of the director of the investment department and felt something really strange.
If you calculate carefully, in the past twenty years, every director of the investment department at Merritt Venture Capital either died an unnatural death or was on the verge of dying, except for Duane Xiaowei.
段潇薇见机快，在假的王建材身死又曝光，梅瑾欢上台做首席执行总监开始，她就毅然决然地递交了辞职信，离开了梅里特风投。
Later on, Xu Ninglan, who took office, was not only arrested by the police, but also kidnapped and killed. Now he is lying unconscious in the hospital, still in critical condition.
The fund managers rallied and desperately tried to persuade those clients and investors, but they simply wouldn't listen.
And they are all wealthy individuals who can afford to pay for the services of professional investment companies like Merit Venture Capital to help manage their assets. If one does not have a fortune of at least fifty million, it is impossible to become a client of Merit Venture Capital.
And conversely, they have so much wealth, their social relationships are also very complex.
From top to bottom, there are always places where they thrive.
Merritt Ventures, do you really want to talk to them about the law?
The law also emphasizes that the crowd is not responsible.
A senior executive at Merit Venture Capital reluctantly agreed to a refund.
However, this money is not in cash, so the people will have to wait a few days for them to withdraw the money.
Unexpectedly, this acceptance was not anticipated. Once the news spread, those clients and investors who were originally confident in Merit Venture Capital became anxious.
They have all signed contracts, and originally Merit Venture Capital was the reasonable and legal party, even if they refuse to make early withdrawals, it is justified.
I can't believe that Merit Ventures actually agreed to the early withdrawal requested by those people!
What does this imply?
This means that Merit Ventures might really have issues!
As a result, more and more customers and investors flew in from all over the country the next day, demanding money from Merit Ventures.
This is not comparable to the dozens of clients and investors I had yesterday.
The second day Mei Jinhuan came to the company, she encountered such a chaotic scene, comparable to the bank run during the Great Depression.
Mei Jinhuan's anger surged in her heart.
She coughed and said loudly, with a serious face: "What's going on? Everyone calm down! Calm down!"
Several fund managers turned around and saw Mei Jinhuan, who had been missing, finally arrived. They rushed over as if they had seen a savior and were so excited that they almost cried: "General Mei! General Mei! You are finally back!"
Mei Jinhuan raised her hand and gestured for everyone to quiet down before saying, "What's going on? I go abroad for just one trip and I almost don't recognize the company when I come back."
A fund manager hurriedly said, "President Mei, please go back to the office first. We will give you a report on the recent situation of the company."
Mei Jinhuan smiled and said to those clients and investors, "Please wait a moment, I will go back to the office to organize the information. Rest assured, Merit Venture Capital is the longest-established private equity firm in the country. Our reputation for over 20 years is comparable to state-owned banks. Please rest assured, I will be back soon to have a meeting with all of you."
She quickly calmed down the impatient clients with just a few words and then turned her head back to her own office, watching the female employees from the marketing department bring food and drinks into the conference room.
"So, what's the matter? Don't you have someone in charge?"
A few fund managers exchanged glances, thinking, "The CEO is out of the country, not even answering calls."
The deputy general manager is said to be fake and dead, and the director of the investment department has been arrested, reportedly suffering serious injuries.
So who can they turn to for help?
Of course, they wouldn't say such things in front of Meijin Huan.
The fund manager at the forefront frowned and said, "President Mei, you are the backbone of the company. Without your presence, who dares to make decisions? Moreover, the situation is too big now, and everyone doesn't know what to do."
Mei Jinhuan nodded and relaxed a bit, saying, "Okay, I'm back now. I'll go and have a meeting with them."
As soon as she arrived in the conference room, the door was pushed open again, and this time, it was Wei Dongyan who walked in.
He came in with two male secretaries, carrying briefcases in his hand, looking very official. He said to Mei Jinhuan in a cold voice as soon as he entered the door, "General Mei finally came back. You didn't answer the phone. I thought you had also fled with the embezzled money."
This sentence of his rekindled the emotions of the previously pacified clients and investors.
"What?! Mr. Mei couldn't find anyone overseas, so he wanted to flee?!"
"Haha, if it were me, I would run away... What is left of Merit Ventures now? Just an empty shell?!"
Everyone in the meeting room is discussing animatedly, and Mei Jinhuan can barely keep the smile on her face.
她用尽所有的涵养和耐心，才强行把那股戾气压下来。
梅瑾欢对着卫东言挤出一个笑容，干巴巴地说：“卫总，您也是我们梅里特风投的大股东，您说这话，难道是要跟自己的公司过不去？”
Weidong sat down unceremoniously at the head of the conference table and said, "Yes, I am the major shareholder, but the management power of the company is in the hands of General Mei. No one pays any attention to what I, as the major shareholder, say."
"General Wei is being too harsh. When I am on vacation abroad, my habit is to turn off my phone and not worry about work at all. After all, it's vacation time. Wei has been abroad for so many years, doesn't he know that people abroad vacation like this?" Mei Jinhuan glanced at the conference room and finally took a seat at the bottom of the table under Wei Dongyan's instructions.
Wei Dongyan's face was solemn and indifferent, and he said in a cold tone, "When I invested in your company in the past, I valued your company's ability to make money. Now that it cannot make money, why should I continue to invest?"
He stretched out his hand behind him, and the male secretary standing to his right quickly took out a photocopied contract from his briefcase and put it in Wei Dongyan's hand.
Wei Dongyan took it with a casual hand and put it in front of Mei Jinhuan, pointed to the contract and said, "This is the signature I made when I initially bought shares. Take a careful look at the contract. If you understand it, then give me your shares back."
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Second update at 7 p.m. in the evening.