Chapter 233: Chapter 143: Now I Can’t Explain Myself, I Ended Up Exposing You All (Double Chapter)

His phone blew up in a short amount of time.

Especially Li Likun, who was startled when he saw the news.

Li Yang was on the balcony for a full half-hour explaining the situation to his parents.

Then he started copying and pasting the same message to Bai Qing and Jiang Banxia.

Li Yang knew what Chen Jie wanted, nothing more than to shove the responsibility onto him, using the contract terms to demand penalty payments for breach of contract.

The penalty was about a hundred million, which was normal given the current broadcaster contracts that often had penalties of forty to fifty times that amount.

After all, that’s a hundred million, and Mouyu is barely worth anything now.

The angel round financing of twenty million was provided by Aofei, taking 20% of the equity. The A-round was conducted a month and a half ago, with a thirty-million-dollar investment from Red Shirt Capital, taking 20% while diluting the first-round equity, reducing Aofei’s stake to 9%.

Red Shirt Capital had provided the highest premium, meaning Mouyu was barely valued at a billion.

To squeeze a hundred million out of Li Yang was absolutely profitable for them.

As for so-called traffic? Any platform being held hostage by a big streamer ends badly, and Chen Jie knew this better than anyone.

His goal had always been to leverage streamers for platform service.

Other platforms might get hijacked by major streamers, but Mouyu never did; it didn’t matter if someone left.

Anyway, Li Yang was attending exams as required, documenting the background ban situations daily as evidence to prove he wasn’t refusing to broadcast, but simply couldn’t.

As for Chen Jie trying to mess things up, he’d accompany him to see who would last longer.

This situation spiraling out led to the revelation that Li Yang was a shareholder of Green Water Group.

More and more people questioned how someone as young as Li Yang could own billions in assets.

Many almost concluded Li Yang was involved in money laundering.

Even the side of Yangfan Entertainment, someone tracked down the contract file number, believing Li Yang’s money was illegitimate.

…

Wang Junsheng fanned the flames from behind, hoping for Li Yang to run into trouble; otherwise, he couldn’t hold on.

Damn, the stock market was still rising in January, nearing 3,200 points.

Recently, the investors had already questioned him several times about the returns, and the longer he dragged it out, the more miserable his end would be.

He initially thought this exposure would force Li Yang to exit Green Water Group, but unexpectedly, Green Water Group got hit even harder.

The stock chips were in complete chaos since most were under 5% holders, secretly reducing their shares, and nobody could make sense of it promptly.

In lack of funds, he needed either strong allies or to take down his enemies.

Because he knew very well that Bai Qing and the county government couldn’t pour more money in for additional shares.

As long as he could take down Li Yang, there was still a chance.

The result was total emotional collapse for Green Water Group’s stock value, as even during a bull market, its market cap painfully fell below four billion.

Starting Monday, Li Yang began clearing out his shares gradually.

Later, he said in the group, “No maneuvers for the next month, everyone have a peaceful New Year. Anyone looking to invest can purchase small amounts of Green Water Group stock multiple times. If there’s no market, any loss will be deducted from my consulting fee, remember, individual buys shouldn’t exceed fifty million.”

The situation was clear, Wang Junsheng and others were almost left with one option: pull up and get out.

As for continuing to collect chips for opposition? As Jiang Banxia put it, they could turn the tide from disadvantage before now that they were in advantage, should they give the opponent any chance?

Jiang Banxia used her small amount of chips to disrupt the entire Green Water Group market.

Xiangnu’s message came through, asking, “What about my money this time? You promised me half the profit.”

Li Yang glanced at the data and said, “How about this, I was supposed to receive over a hundred million in consulting fees this time, and the thirty-six million I promised you, which, after leveraging, only made a bit over a hundred million—we counterbalance each other evenly, how about it? I’ll give you all my consulting fee for this round, saving us the trading hassle.”

Xiangnu: “I don’t believe you, I need to see your account!”

“Damn, you don’t trust this honest gentleman? When have I ever lied to you?”

Li Yang indeed sent the account screenshot over.

Xiangnu was stunned when he saw it, “Five hundred million! And you only gave me a bit over a hundred million?”

“Get out! Do you even realize how much of it is my own money? My pledged stock is in the tens of millions, my live contract, and my own painstaking costs—do you think you could make that much with just seventy-two million? Count seriously, I even lost a few million to give you, and you’re still ungrateful?”

Li Yang’s money was still meant for Green Water Group.

Green Water Group under others wasn’t valuable, but in Bai Qing’s hands, it was.

As long as he cashed in on old favors, he’d soon have tens of billions in assets.

If real estate operated well, the scale could be even larger.

The next three to four years were golden years for real estate.

From the second half of 2015, real estate would unleash unprecedented potential; even without relying on export business, Green Water Group had hopes of hitting a hundred-billion scale.

Allowing some funds from the wealth group to enter provided room for operation, despite the potential for loss; the overall loss shouldn’t be too large.

Xiangnu: “I still don’t believe you’re so kind-hearted.”

“Damn, wasn’t I good to you? Turning you from a millionaire rich woman to a billionaire rich woman, and you don’t even thank me, just suspect me!”

“Alright, alright, don’t get mad. I believe you, the holidays are near, right? I’ve prepared a gift for you, I’ll send it over in a couple of days…”

“Good for you!”

Li Yang didn’t mind the quality of the gift; the thought was enough.

Exam on Tuesday, and another on Wednesday morning.

Wednesday afternoon, he received a call from Zhao Tianming, then went to meet him at the school gate and got in Zhao Tianming’s car.

They first went to the police station to present all evidence concerning the big spender group’s payments, and then returned over seventy-two million from ill-gotten funds.

As for the leads provided by the other party, the little profit made from trading stocks was not even of interest to anyone, nor mentioned.

After returning the funds, the police station issued a restitution certificate, and Li Yang went to Zhao Tianming’s office to chat.

“Brother Ming, shouldn’t I get a banner for this? I’m getting trashed online every day, I need to clear my name.”

Zhao Tianming said with a smile, “No problem, no problem, in a couple of days I’ll personally bring it over, along with a professional photographer.”

“That works, and besides the banner, is there no bonus?”

Zhao Tianming: “…”

This guy, don’t think I don’t know what he’s doing.

He made money off dirty cash for a month, and he still cares about the bonus?

How did his younger sister even meet someone this cunning?

“Well… I’ll help you apply…”

“Also, I’m constantly being slandered by Mouyu, trying to force a breach; this affects my cooperation with you, shouldn’t you handle it?”

Zhao Tianming said, “Why don’t you just issue a statement? Post the proof we gave you, who’d dare say it’s your fault?”

“Can’t they aggressively fight a bad case? I’m just a nobody, how can I fight their legal team? Haven’t you found anything on Mouyu? I’ve given you so many clues, performing for them a month…”

Zhao Tianming didn’t reply, since Li Yang wasn’t in the system.

Today he wanted to chat with Li Yang alone mainly to ask about his relationship with Xiangnu, and if he’d have time for a dinner at his place.

Yet before he could even ask, Li Yang didn’t stop talking.

“Are there no leads? If not, tell me and I’ll provide them.”

Zhao Tianming looked a little stunned, “How could you have leads?”

Li Yang was just a student, that’s all!

Could he have more means than the authorities to investigate affairs?

Li Yang chuckled and said, “Before I provide leads, I want to know one thing first.”

“What thing?”

“You surely caught those manipulating dirty cash; and should have almost finished interrogating them—when did they decide to target me?”

Zhao Tianming pondered for a while, “They said they knew your high share, and wanted to leverage you for money laundering; no one specifically targeted you.”

That’s the difficulty, nothing could be tied back to Mouyu, so after Mouyu returned the funds, it was over, except for perhaps a verbal warning.

“I know, I just want to ask about the exact date.”

“November 28th.”

Li Yang chuckled, “I signed the contract on January 3rd, and Mouyu’s CEO Chen Jie first discussed the contract with me on November 29th.”

“Hmm? What’s that supposed to mean?”

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