Chapter 122: Left with Nothing

Re-examining the contract terms, Zhang Yuru realized that she had nowhere to retreat.

Qin Yan beckoned lightly, and the assistant outside the door immediately handed over a share custody agreement: "President Zhang, please take a look and sign."

Zhang Yuru stared at the document, hesitating.

At this time, Qin Yan spoke seriously: "As long as you sign this document, I will represent the largest investor of the Zhang Group and issue a letter of understanding for you, which will downgrade the accusation of economic crime against you to an economic dispute."

In reality, this meant that Qin Yan assumed all economic losses caused by the false accusation against Zhang Yuru in the name of the Qinling Group and took over the shares held by Zhang Yuru.

In this way, the Qinling Group would hold 45% of the Zhang Group's shares, becoming the actual controlling party.

However, in the first six years, these shares nominally still belonged to Zhang Yuru; as long as she could repay the so-called losses, this portion of shares would eventually return to her hands.

After a long silence and thought, Zhang Yuru finally signed her name on the document; this was her best choice at the moment.

When the signing was completed, it was already 3:00 AM.

From that moment on, Zhang Yuru was left with nothing again, as if she had returned to the state of her first venture in college.

Seeing Zhang Yuru sign her name, Qin Yan turned to Lin Yu, who had been silent all along, and teased: "You clearly have the ability to help her, but you insist on me coming forward; you really made me run a lot of errands."

Lin Yu scratched his head embarrassedly, "I have no money."

Qin Yan rolled her eyes, then looked at Yang Yuhua: "Brother Yuhua, you are also too serious; just turn a blind eye to your sister-in-law's affairs."

Yang Yuhua replied expressionlessly: "If I really took the benefits, she wouldn't be a suspect."

Hearing this, Zhang Yuru was shocked.

Qin Yan suggested leaving to give the two space, "Let's not be the third wheel."

Soon, only Zhang Yuru and Lin Yu were left in the room.

At dawn, Zhang Yuru finally broke the silence, "Can you take me home?"

And Lin Yu walked toward the kitchen, "The food is cold; I'll heat it up for you; eat before you go."

What they didn't know was that Li Xueying and Zhang Bin had already woken up and were driving over.

Li Xueying complained while driving, and Zhang Bin said enviously: "But my sister is really amazing; she could buy a house in her junior year."

Li Xueying said with a mocking sneer, "No matter how much she earns, it's all our family's money; no one can take it away, and this house is the same."

Before the words fell, they had already arrived at the residential area opposite the Zhang Group headquarters building.

And at this time, Zhang Yuru in the room was drinking lean meat porridge with preserved egg, and large tears fell.

She had never thought that being able to drink a bowl of steaming porridge in the morning would be such a luxury.

Only now did she realize how good Lin Yu had been to her.

With a faint scent of tobacco drifting over, Zhang Yuru turned around holding the bowl and looked, only to see Lin Yu smoking on the balcony.

At that moment, it was as if time had flowed back six years, when the Zhang Clan had just started and earned its first pot of gold.

Lin Yu would get up early every day to prepare breakfast for her, and then wait for her to eat while smoking on the balcony like he was now.

However, everything had changed; the two had long divorced and could never return to the beautiful times of the past.

In fact, at this moment, Zhang Yuru was full of regret.

Because she found that although she had known Lin Yu for many years and had been husband and wife for six years, she knew so little about him.

The only thing she knew was that Lin Yu had lost his sister ten years ago.

What surprised her even more was that the President of the Qinling Group, Qin Yan, seemed to be an old acquaintance of Lin Yu, and the Chief of the Huacheng Security Bureau, Yang Yuhua, was actually Lin Yu's cousin.

Just at this time, the sound of a key opening the door came from outside; Lin Yu and Zhang Yuru looked back at the same time, wondering who else had the key to this house.

After the door opened, both sides were stunned.

Li Xueying almost couldn't believe her eyes; hadn't Zhang Yuru and Lin Yu already divorced?

Zhang Bin trembled when he saw Lin Yu, remembering his broken arm, and wished he could escape immediately.

After a brief silence, Zhang Yuru broke the deadlock first: "Mom, little brother, why are you here?"

Li Xueying's face sank, directly ignoring Lin Yu's existence; after all, she dared not provoke him anymore.

The previous mental hospital experience had made her suffer enough.

So she said directly to Zhang Yuru: "Weren't you arrested by the security bureau? I heard your matter is very serious, and even the Zhang Clan no longer belongs to you."

Zhang Yuru, who was bowing her head to admit her mistake, was extremely dejected: "Yes, the Zhang Clan no longer belongs to me now."

Hearing this, Zhang Bin said half-luckily and half-proudly: "Fortunately, we sold the shares in our hands before you had an accident."

Zhang Yuru asked in disbelief: "You sold the shares? To whom did you sell them? That's 10% of the shares; do you know how much they are worth?"

Li Xueying retorted angrily: "You're still yelling; the Zhang Clan claims to be worth billions, but our shares were only worth a little over 100 million."

Faced with such a situation, Zhang Yuru almost suffocated and couldn't say a word.

Lin Yu patted her back gently to help her recover.

She shouted angrily and incredulously: "You sold all the shares for 100 million? Do you know that after the Zhang Clan goes public, these shares could be cashed out for at least 1 billion?"

However, Zhang Bin and Li Xueying just sneered, thinking she was joking.

Zhang Bin added self-righteously: "Sister, don't lie to us; a big brother I know said that the shares in our hands were only worth about 100 million. People gave us an extra 20 million out of face for me."

Zhang Yuru was almost going crazy, finally figuring out how the Long family had acquired so many company shares.

She never thought that her family had actually sold nearly one-third of the shares to the Long family!

"Are you confused? If you hadn't sold my shares, how would the Long family have enough shares to deal with me? Now they have mastered enough equity, which allowed them to force the palace, frame me, and finally kick me out of the company."

Zhang Yuru pointed out angrily.

Mother Li Xueying was also furious, "What kind of talk is that? What do you mean we harmed you? Flies don't bite seamless eggs; if you hadn't made a mistake yourself, how could the Long family have framed you." She retorted mercilessly.

These words were like a knife stabbing into Zhang Yuru's heart. ===== CHAPTER 123 =====

Li Xueying was even less willing to let it go, continuing to lecture Zhang Yuru.

"If you had agreed to Long Yiqing's marriage proposal back then, none of this would have happened today. Being kicked out of the company by the Long family now is something you brought upon yourself; what does it have to do with us? Perhaps even if we hadn't sold, others would have, so how can you blame us?"

Her words pierced Zhang Yuru's heart like a knife.