Chapter 338: Chapter 215: Promises Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny_2
Chen Cheng originally just wanted to test the waters with Yu Xinwei, after all, five hundred million is not a small sum, and he has always been cautious in his dealings.
But Yu Xinwei’s reaction made him realize that things might be even more complicated and cruel than he had imagined.
He glanced at Tong Jialu beside him and noticed that her previously excited expression had disappeared, replaced by a complex emotion mixed with sympathy and unease.
Although Tong Jialu was young, she had seen her fair share of the world.
For a popular actress to beco so distraught in front of a stranger, the story behind that guarantee must be filled with sadness and desperation.
Perhaps it was out of sympathy between won, Tong Jialu took the tissue box on the table, and after getting Chen Cheng’s approval, passed it over.
“Miss Yu, don’t cry, take your ti.”
After a while, Yu Xinwei finally stopped crying. She lifted her head, her eyes brimming with tears as she looked at Chen Cheng with a hoarse voice, “Mr. Chen, I’m sorry, I lost control of myself.”
“Now, can you tell , who it is that you trusted so much and who has caused you so much pain?”
Yu Xinwei began to speak, “It was… my best girlfriend.”
“Girlfriend?”
She nodded, “All the money I earned, I poured into it. Furthermore, under her guidance, I signed that guarantee agreent.”
Chen Cheng pondered for a while, setting aside how strong Yu Xinwei’s ability to attract money was now, but what’s certain is that, to willingly shoulder a debt of five hundred million, this girlfriend’s ans were truly clever.
“Tell more in detail, just who is this girlfriend of yours?” Chen Cheng asked, “As far as I know, you grew up in an orphanage, is she a classmate, or…”
Yu Xinwei cald her emotions and said, “She’s a good sister who grew up with in the orphanage, her na is Liu Fei, she’s three years older than .”
She continued, “We have been very close since we were little, just like sisters. Later, I was adopted by a kind family and left the orphanage. A few years later, she was adopted by another family, and we’ve kept in touch.”
“Then after that, I got into Shanghai Drama Academy, and she went abroad to study.”
Chen Cheng: “So the family that adopted her must be quite well-off.”
“Right!” Yu Xinwei said with a choked voice, “We have always stayed in touch. After she returned from studying abroad, she started working at her family’s company.”
“Four years ago, she said she was going to Dian City, it was her family’s developnt project, a holiday resort.”
After listening, Chen Cheng quickly analyzed this information in his mind.
Dian City had developed rapidly in the past few years, and indeed the real estate business was a tempting piece of cake, but it also bore risks; one misstep could break the capital chain.
It seed that Yu Xinwei’s girlfriend wasn’t as simple as she appeared on the surface.
“Did she get you to invest in this project?” Chen Cheng asked.
Yu Xinwei nodded, tears starting to swirl in her eyes again, “She said the project had a bright future, guaranteed profits, and even said I could beco a shareholder, and then I’d be able to get dividends every year…”
She added, “At first, I really did receive dividends!”
Tong Jialu curiously asked, “Did that resort open for business?”
Yu Xinwei shook her head, “It’s a tourism real estate, and then her family pulled so strings and got a presale license. After presale, I got the first dividend.”
“Then if it could be sold, why did you go and guarantee anything?” Tong Jialu continued to ask.
“After that, she said there were so issues with the capital chain and asked to loan her so money to tide over.” Yu Xinwei continued:
“I thought, since I could get dividends, there shouldn’t be any major issues. So, I gave her all my savings from over the years.”
She held her breath and said a number, “Eighteen million.”
Chen Cheng and Tong Jialu exchanged a shocked look, both seeing the astonishnt in each other’s eyes.
Eighteen million, while perhaps not an astronomical sum for a popular actress, was no small amount for her before she beca so famous four years ago.
“How did you manage to gather that amount?” Chen Cheng asked, “As far as I know, your rise to stardom only started last year, right?”
A hint of sha flashed across Yu Xinwei’s face, difficult to articulate, she didn’t answer Chen Cheng’s question, but instead continued talking about the guarantee.
“Last year, she said they were launching phase two of the resort and needed additional investnt. She said if I put in more money, things would get over the difficulties, and the profit would be enough to pay off my mortgage and buy an even bigger house…”
“You invested again?”
Yu Xinwei smiled bitterly and shook her head, “At that ti… I had been brainwashed by her, all that was in my head was the idea of making money, I didn’t think too much…”
“What happened afterward? How did the project turn out?”
Yu Xinwei’s tears broke out anew, “Afterward… she said the project’s capital chain broke down and asked to help guarantee a loan, otherwise my investnt would be completely lost…”
“So you went and signed the guarantee agreent?”
Yu Xinwei nodded, “I had nowhere to turn by then, I could only choose to trust her…”
“Now, the project is halted, she’s disappeared, and the money’s gone too.” She continued, “As the guarantor, I only have the option to pay back this money.”
She looked at Chen Cheng, “Mr. Chen, I don’t want to be seen as untrustworthy, and I can’t be seen as untrustworthy. Otherwise, my career is really over!”
Chen Cheng looked at her breaking down, his eyebrows deeply furrowed.
“Hold on.”
Yu Xinwei: “What’s wrong?”
“You just said that the first investnt of eighteen million, where exactly did it co from?”
Yu Xinwei lowered her head, fidgeting with her thumbs, staying silent.
“The person who could lend you eighteen million four years ago, if you go to him now to turn things around, it shouldn’t be difficult, right?”
Chen Cheng countered, “Besides, you are more popular now than you were four years ago.”
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