In order to accompany Bai Tao to go camping, Pei Shi increased his daily work intensity a while ago, so he now has a relatively free time. After concentrating on processing a batch of emails and approval process forms in OA, Pei Shi can actually slow down his pace and take a break. After all, he has just recovered from a cold.
But Pei Shi finally chose to go to work the next day, because he felt that if he stayed with Bai Tao, something uncontrollable might happen.
Bai Tao has this ability, which is to disrupt all of Pei Shi’s plans and make Pei Shi lose all of his rationality. She is a completely unpredictable and unstable element, setting fires everywhere arbitrarily.
But she and I had a marriage agreement after all, and the only time we had sex after marriage was because I was drunk.
Bai Tao is not in a clear mind now, so Pei Shi cannot take advantage of her without any psychological burden.
So you must stay away from white peaches and stay calm.
So he found something to do - Pei Shi asked Yuan Mu to sign him up for an industry forum that he had not originally planned to participate in.
Work can indeed help people focus and put aside unnecessary distractions.
When Pei Shi arrived at the venue and met with several partners in the industry to discuss the prospects of the big data industry and the current situation of each other's companies, he felt much more normal.
Big data has been the hot topic in recent years. Both the government and relevant industry associations have been very actively organizing relevant theme forums or industry chapters, hoping to connect the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. However, Pei Shi does not go to every one of them, such as the one today. Because the organizer is not very strong, few leading companies in the industry can be invited. Most of the attendees are big data or derivative industry companies that have not yet achieved scale and are in the start-up stage in the past two years in Rong City, as well as some companies that are still in the angel round. In comparison, Shilai Technology is unlikely to cooperate with such companies. In addition, the companies participating in today's conference have many overlapping businesses with Shilai Technology. In the absence of any intention of mergers and acquisitions in the competitive field for the time being, Pei Shi originally did not plan to come.
However, as a new company in the big data industry that has already reached a certain scale, it is not a bad idea to participate, even if it is just to see how far the start-ups in the same field have achieved, understand the market situation, and judge the future direction of the big data industry...
Pei Shi found a lot of excuses for himself, but in fact, looking at the somewhat messy exhibition hall, he also had some self-doubt.
The organizers this time had no experience in conference affairs, which led to a great chaos at the scene. The microphone of the keynote speaker suddenly had problems, so that the small business owners in the audience could not bear to sit there and waste time, and they took the initiative to approach the participants from investment institutions to hand out their business cards in an attempt to attract investment. After all, most big data companies spend a lot of money in the early stages.
Fortunately, because it was a temporary attendance, at Pei Shi's request, the organizer did not force Pei Shi to make a seat card. Pei Shi also attended the meeting in a low-key manner and did not attract unnecessary attention, so no one surrounded him at this moment.
But the situation at the scene still made Pei Shi frown. Fortunately, just before he was about to leave, the conference organizers finally restored order. The messy venue returned to calm, and all the participants took their seats again.
After the keynote speech, there was a tea break, which was also the moment that these startup owners were looking forward to the most. In addition to research and development, the most important work for a startup at the beginning was market development, and market development included marketing: marketing to your customers and marketing to your investors.
Therefore, even though the investors present today are not big names and the attendees are not senior managers of investment companies, it never goes amiss to get to know two more investors, and the companies on site showed great enthusiasm for the investors attending the meeting.
The founders of start-up companies have different styles and their popularity in the capital market is completely different. During the tea break, we can see the obvious difference: some founders are technology geeks who can talk about specific business very well, but they are not good at commercial negotiation and financing or communicating with investors. In the end, there are not many people around them. But there is a founder of a company called Xiaozhao Technology who is very eloquent. This man looks to be about the same age as me, and he looks okay. He is very good at getting along with everyone. After a while, he became friends with several investors who attended the meeting. They had a great conversation and were almost like brothers.
It is most convenient to leave during the tea break, which is not conspicuous or abrupt. Pei Shi withdrew his gaze and was about to walk out.
But when he passed by the founder of Xiaozhao Technology, the other party's words made Pei Shi successfully stop.
He was speaking in a low voice, looking somewhat mysterious: "You know Shilai Technology, right?"
The man smiled and said to one of the investors: "One of the partners behind my company has a deep connection with Shilai Technology."
Shilai Technology was founded by Pei Shi alone, and there is no such thing as a second partner.
Of course, some investors present knew about Shilai Technology and raised questions on the spot: "Shilai Technology was founded by Pei Shi alone."
The man was not annoyed by being questioned. He was unaware that the person he was talking about was standing not far away. He continued to speak: "I am not saying that the partner behind me is a partner of Shilai Technology. To be precise, my partner is related to Pei Shi."
When he said this, he took out his cell phone and showed some photos to several investors attending the meeting.
"This is Pei Shi's current wife."
Pei Shi didn't see the photo, but he heard the other party's smug voice and continued without noticing -
"I am Mrs. Pei Shi's first love. We met before, and she told me very clearly that she would file for divorce from Pei Shi in the near future. As you know, Shilai Technology is striving to go public. If the founder's divorce lawsuit breaks out during this process, it will be fatal." The other party paused when he said this, "You should have seen the news about Mrs. Pei Shi's cheating before, right?"
Investors are all shrewd people, how could they not know this kind of gossip? Someone immediately said, "Is Pei Shi's wife that cartoonist? I remember she was quite famous."
"Yes, her name is Bai Tao." The man nodded, his voice carrying just the right amount of sadness and melancholy. "In fact, Bai Tao and I were my first love. We were almost engaged at the beginning, but the Bai family insisted on marrying with the Pei family and separated us. As a result, Bai Tao was not happy in her marriage. She and Pei Shi were just a pair of resentful couples, and their marriage had already been in crisis."
The man tried to gain fame and reputation by saying, "Of course, I had no intention of interfering in their marriage before Bai Tao became single again. That time, Bai Tao just came to me to discuss Xiao Zhao's business. She and her parents wanted to invest, and we were discussing the specific cooperation matters, so we were photographed."
When someone heard this, they suddenly realized something and said, "So Zhong Xiao, your company's name Xiao Zhao also has a meaning, right?"
So this is Zhong Xiao.
Zhong Xiao on the other side was unaware of this and kept nodding his head: "Boss Wang, you really have a keen eye. You figured it out right away. This company was named after half of her character 'Tao' because Bai Tao and the Bai family also invested in it."
He further explained, "But because Bai Tao has not divorced yet, and my company and Shilai Technology's product business line are in competition, Bai Tao is not listed as a shareholder in the company registration. Bai Tao's shares are only held by me on behalf of her. But believe me, a lot of this is inside information. You might as well invest in Xiao Zhao instead of Shilai Technology. You see, the main businesses we provide are almost the same, but Xiao Zhao will not have any founders getting divorced, but it's hard to say about Shilai. After all, as common property after marriage, I don't know how the divorce lawsuit will turn out, and whether the shares will be divided..."
Pei Shi knew that there were some so-called start-ups in the big data industry that were not doing business properly, but were instead trying to swindle investment. Once they got the investment, these legal persons had a hundred ways to embezzle funds from public accounts for personal use, and then declared the start-up a failure after squandering all the money.
Angel investment has a high failure rate. It is not uncommon for eight out of ten projects to fail. Therefore, as long as these so-called start-ups do not take too much funding from investment institutions, their methods of misappropriating investment are covert and low-key enough, and they can finally declare the project dead due to poor management, it is very easy for them to get away with it.
Even worse, when this "startup project" is about to be liquidated, the other party has already set up a new company in another city with the same main business scope, preparing to seamlessly connect with the "new company and new project" to make money and defraud a new round of investment.
This is a typical entrepreneurial scammer. He is not doing real business, but is using "entrepreneurship" as a cover to cheat people out of money and squander it.
Pei Shi had heard Pei Fei mention Zhong Xiao before, but he didn't take it seriously at the time. Now that he had met him, he realized that there was no need to care about what algorithm he was working on, because he didn't seem like a serious businessman.
It would be fine if Bai Tao was married before marriage, but would she be involved with such a man after marriage
This Zhong Xiao is most likely the type who is trying to defraud investments.
This type of habitual offender is usually eloquent and good at speaking, and has a good emotional quotient, so that he can move easily between various investors. The most important thing is that he knows how to brag and package. Eight out of ten words he says are false, but because of the mixture of truth and falsehood, it is often impossible to distinguish them. Many investors really fall for this trick.
It's just that Pei Shi knew that Zhong Xiao's words were full of water and he shouldn't pay too much attention to them. But for some reason, he still took them seriously and became a little irritated.
He and Bai Tao will not divorce, and Shilai Technology's listing will not be hit unexpectedly by a divorce lawsuit.
But the photo in Zhong Xiao's hand made him very unhappy, even though it might be fake.
At this moment, Zhong Xiao was still showing off, hinting at his close relationship with Bai Tao and the Bai family, trying to use Bai Tao and the Bai family as endorsements for his own entrepreneurship and get as much investment as possible.
It is likely that Zhong Xiao set up his business to target Shilai Technology, and it is also convenient for him to use the rapid rise of Shilai Technology to exploit the confidence of investors and thus achieve the purpose of making money.
In this regard, several small private equity investment institutions actually expressed some interest. Zhong Xiao was probably encouraged, so he took out his phone again: "Don't misunderstand me. Bai Tao and I are seriously discussing cooperation. She also knows the business situation of Pei Shishilai Technology. So when she heard about my project, she knew that the return on investment in the early stage would be several times, and she kept asking me for investment. If you don't believe me, just listen."
As he spoke, he probably played a video. The sound quality was quite clear. Pei Shi couldn't see the picture, but when he heard the voice, he recognized Bai Tao almost instantly. Her tone was indeed quite serious—
"How much do you want?"
Others don’t know, but Pei Shi is almost certain that it was Bai Tao. He can even imagine Bai Tao’s frowning expression when he said this.
It is easy to fake photos, but it is not easy to fake videos and audio.
Pei Shi originally thought that everything was just a bluff by Zhong Xiao, but he didn't expect that there was actually some truth in it.
So did Bai Tao really go to meet Zhong Xiao? Did she really want to endorse his investment in a fraudulent project
Pei Shi's face darkened.
Zhong Xiao quickly cut off the video: "I am used to making backup recordings of business negotiations. The following is our communication about the company's business, which is confidential. But this project is really, Pei Shi's wife personally came to the platform to invest money. After listening to my project introduction, she kept asking me how much money I wanted..."
Zhong Xiao shook his phone in distress. It was also at this moment that Pei Shi finally saw clearly the photo that had been displayed on his phone before. It was indeed Bai Tao. The photo seemed to be taken by a third person and was a bit blurry, but it could be seen that Bai Tao was talking to Zhong Xiao. She was also wearing a wig and her outfit was different from usual, sneaky.
Is this what you call discussing business? You have to dress up to discuss business? It's more like cheating.
However, Bai Tao has never shown her face before, so some investors expressed doubts: "But isn't Pei Shi's wife very mysterious and low-key? How can we be sure that this is her?"
"Look at you. Do you think it's fun to lie about something like this? But I have evidence here. Look, this was taken when I went to Bai Tao's house and looked through her photo album when I was dating her. You don't know Bai Tao, but you should know Bai Tao's father, Bai Yalin, right? These are all their family photos. Isn't Bai Tao one of them? Look at this face, isn't it the same person?"
Everyone in the investment circle knew Bai Yalin, and several investors immediately believed what Zhong Xiao said.
…
Zhong Xiao was still talking, Pei Shi pursed his lips and walked out of the venue with a sullen face.
According to Pei Fei, Zhong Xiao had only returned to China not long ago, and he started his own business after he married Bai Tao. He had a video clip, which meant that Bai Tao was flirting with him and saying sweet words to him, while she was meeting her first love behind his back? And she even invested money in him? That was their common property after marriage! To round it off, wasn't Bai Tao using her own money to support a stranger
*****
Yuan Mu had made an appointment with his boss, so he was already waiting at the entrance of the venue. However, after waiting for a long time, he saw Pei Shi coming out of the door. His expression was visibly ugly, and his face was very long.
Yuan Mu has been following Pei Shi since the start-up. Starting a business will encounter all kinds of problems. Pei Shi is, after all, born a rich man, and it is normal for him to have a bad temper when he occasionally encounters irritating customers. However, Shilai Technology has suffered huge losses since its inception and has come a long way to where it is today. Yuan Mu has been with Pei Shi through almost everything, but he has never seen him look so unhappy.
Could it be…
Yuan Mu had a bad feeling. Was Shilai Technology going to go bankrupt
After all, my boss has been very strange recently. First, he took a weekend off for the first time, and no one knew where he went. Then, after returning from vacation, he claimed to have a cold and was working from home. Now, after attending a forum that he shouldn’t have attended, he is so irritated again…
Yuan Mu was driving with a worried look in his heart: "Boss Pei, are we going back to the company?"
Pei Shi's lips were flat, and he tugged at his tie irritably: "Go home."
It’s over. The workaholic is going home. Yuan Mu’s bad premonition becomes stronger. He thinks it might be time for him to look at job-hopping information.
*****
Bai Tao discovered Pei Shi returning home when he was confronting the dog.
As soon as Pei Shi came home, Bai Tao left the dog behind and ran towards Pei Shi, pointing at the dog in the yard and complaining, "Husband, the stinky dog peed and defecated everywhere in the yard! This dog has no manners at all!"
She had hoped that Pei Shi would do her justice and punish the uncivilized dog on behalf of the moon, but Pei Shi only glanced at her and his face darkened: "Is the purpose of my return home to take care of dogs?"
After the man finished speaking, he changed his shoes and went upstairs.
What happened? Was he shot
Bai Tao didn't care about the dog anymore and went upstairs. Pei Shi was reserved when he went out this morning, but he was obviously in a good mood. He ate a whole bowl of frozen dumplings that he had hurriedly cooked. How come he had such a bad face after going to some forum and coming home
Is your business not going well? Have you suffered any setbacks in your career
Isn't this a good opportunity for me to take advantage of the situation, offer gentle comfort and warm up the relationship
Bai Tao pushed open the door, feeling that her chance had come, and said gently, "Honey, what's wrong? Did something happen to your business?"
She prepared a bunch of comforting words like "There's always light at the end of the tunnel", but before she could even open her mouth, Pei Shi looked at her and said, "You don't expect me to order anything good."
Pei Shi looked at Bai Tao a few more times. Bai Tao always felt that he was a little weird after returning home.
The man pursed his lips and spoke again as if he couldn't help himself: "Will it be good for you if I go bankrupt?"
Pei Shi was already sitting at the table at this time: "Forget it, I won't say anything more. I want to take a look at the company's financial report. Please help me close the door."
Is this an order to evict me
Bai Tao was still in a daze, but Pei Shi turned around and added, "Also, I forgot to mention that you will no longer have pocket money from now on."
what? !
Bai Tao was unhappy: "Why?"
Since she came here, Bai Tao knew that Pei Shi would deposit a generous amount of "pocket money" into her card every month, and her comic book derivative copyright fees were quite high, so she rarely needed to use the money in this card, and she didn't think that married women should rely on men for their lives, but...
It's not about money, it's about attitude!
What's the matter? Instead of giving the money to yourself, are you going to give it to some vixen out there
Pei Shi was not only unaware of this, but also added insult to injury by saying, "Not only will you have no pocket money, but you will also have to pay for household expenses in the future."
Bai Tao was shocked. Is Pei Shi's company really going to go bankrupt? !
"Are you short of money lately?"
"It's not tight." Pei Shi said expressionlessly, "But I think you have too much money. Instead of contributing to inexplicable things and people, you might as well contribute to your family."
How did I contribute to others? This groundless accusation must be Pei Shi's bluff!
Bai Tao thought sadly that it seemed that Pei Shi's business had really encountered a bottleneck, but this man was too concerned about his reputation to admit that he was short of money, so he could only find other excuses to cut his expenses.
At times like this, a qualified wealthy lady would naturally not quarrel with her husband, but would stand by her husband, accompany him through the difficulties, and even generously donate money to save her husband from the dire situation!
The opportunity to show yourself has come again!
Bai Tao immediately patted her chest and said with great ambition: "Husband, husband and wife share a common destiny. There is nothing that cannot be overcome. Don't be embarrassed to talk about it! I have made a lot of money from comics in the past few years. If it doesn't work, I can ask my parents for more. How much do you want? I..."
Before Bai Tao finished saying "I'll give it all to you", Pei Shi's face turned dark, and his voice was almost gnashing his teeth: "Normal men don't use women's money. I hope you don't always think about spending money on men."
Pei Shi lowered his eyes when he got to this point, as if he was carefully reading the financial report, but the topic he was talking about was completely different. He glanced at Bai Tao and said meaningfully, "Men who spend your money don't really like you."
Why did you spend money on other men
Bai Tao wanted to shout—
I, Dou E, am so wronged!