During this period, he took a trip to Mingzhou to see Xu Qin.

In the end, they only met briefly; with tears in her eyes, Xu Qin shooed him away from three meters away.

She said it was too dangerous.

After Chen Cheng returned to the West Coast, he spent some time in Silicon Valley, exchanging ideas (and engaging in backroom deals) with many people.

He also officially joined Li Fei's laboratory to pursue his Ph.D.

He had already completed the papers for the research topics Li Fei selected for him.

He had even scraped together his doctoral dissertation.

It would only be made public after the Zen product was released.

He had been out for over three months this time.

The new fund had a net profit of 5.6 billion from shorting the stock market.

Since the economic stimulus bill was introduced, the Nasdaq had rebounded by nearly 40% to date.

The new fund's 18 billion position had also risen by that much, with a paper profit exceeding 7 billion.

56+70 = 126; this fund had already brought Company Name a net profit of 10 billion.

Of course, most of it was still paper value.

The 1 billion borrowed—the main body of this money was Hong Kong Company Name.

Chen Cheng earned 6.8 billion through complex derivatives and option strategies.

Later, from buying the dip in gold to clearing his positions, after deducting the dividends for the traders, he made a net profit of 11.4 billion.

Adding both sides together, the paper profit exceeded 30 billion, and that was in dollars.

You could say he really was a pig caught in the updraft.

Having earned too much, Chen Cheng had John shut down all the websites.

Investors holding internal fund shares would receive regular updates.

At 10 PM, the plane had not yet taken off.

Chen Cheng saw a piece of news on the media feed.

The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and he forwarded the news link to Meng Yanchen.

At this moment, in a conference room at the Beijing headquarters of Company name, the air was thick with gloom and the atmosphere was oppressive.

Meng Yanchen and Andy sat side by side.

Meng Yanchen's hands rested naturally on the table, his right index finger and thumb rubbing slowly against each other.

Andy was using her laptop to handle other work.

She had come purely because she was press-ganged by Chen Cheng to help him out.

However, work at Company Name could not stop, so she had to multitask.

Fortunately, Chen Cheng had hired an accounting firm, so she only needed to grasp the results.

Beside Andy, an accountant from the firm was still looking at documents and stating the findings of the financial investigation into Company Name.

Sitting opposite the group was the founder and chairman of Company Name, Han Zhengchu, with his daughter Han Yiting beside him.

Meng Yanchen felt his phone vibrate in his pocket, took it out, and glanced at it.

He immediately raised an eyebrow, a faint smile appeared on his lips, and he turned to hand the phone to Andy.

Meng Yanchen tapped on the conference table and nodded to the accountant who was speaking, signaling him to stop for a moment.

The accountant nodded and put down the documents in his hand.

Meng Yanchen spoke to Han Zhengchu opposite him: "Chairman Han, since we can't continue the negotiations, let's stop here for today."

"Whenever Chairman Han wants to talk, we can talk again."

After saying this, Meng Yanchen packed up his things.

After reading the message, Andy closed her laptop even faster than Meng Yanchen.

The rest of the negotiation team, although still a bit confused, knew that Meng Yanchen was leading this negotiation.

Naturally, when he left, they all followed him out of the conference room.

Leaving behind a bewildered Han Zhengchu and a few small shareholders of Company Name.

At this moment, Han Zhengchu's confidant ran in, "Chairman Han."

Han Zhengchu frowned and asked his confidant, the company's CTO: "What's going on?"

The tall, thin man swallowed hard and handed his phone to Han Zhengchu, "The director of the SEC Enforcement Division has made a statement regarding our situation."

"Public issuers entering their capital markets, regardless of where their headquarters are located, must not provide false or misleading information to investors."

"Investors who have suffered damages must be compensated, and fraudsters must be punished."

"The media is interpreting this statement as meaning this fine could be astronomical."

"In addition, there is talk that the Department of Justice will file criminal charges against us."

As he spoke, the tall, thin man ‘cleverly’ added, "However, this is useless as long as we don't go abroad."

After reading the news, Han Zhengchu was so angry his face turned red and his neck thickened; the tall, thin man's phone ended its sinful life on the spot.

He gritted his teeth and shouted the name of his 'son-in-law'.

"Jiang! Han!"

"Jiang! Han!"

"You ungrateful dog!"

Han Zhengchu attributed all of this to Jiang Han, who had poked through the window paper.

Perhaps being betrayed by someone close to you hurts more.

On the plane, Zou Yu watched Chen Cheng, who was resting with his eyes closed opposite her.

She raised an eyebrow and asked, "Are you just going to leave your little lover over there like that?"

Chen Cheng did not open his eyes, "Given her current situation, staying put is the best choice; she shouldn't go anywhere."

"Besides, the country doesn't allow foreigners to enter right now."

Zou Yu pursed her lips, "You could also choose not to go back."

Chen Cheng's eyes narrowed, and he looked at her with a light laugh, "I think you're getting carried away. The negotiations for Company Name have already entered the second half. Training needs to start over at Zen too."

Zou Yu pouted and gave a light harrumph.

"Hmph, and you still won't let Sister Na and the others know about Anna's pregnancy."

Chen Cheng rolled his eyes at her; how could he let them know?

If they knew, they would be hounding him every day to have children with him.

Things like having children should just be left to fate.

Anyway, he hadn't taken any precautions; if they could conceive, it was only a matter of time.

The plane landed at 11:00 local time.

After handling the necessary procedures, Chen Cheng drove the car that Eleven had delivered to the airport tarmac and returned to Huaihai Road with Zou Yu.

When Chen Cheng landed, he saw that Company Name had been officially suspended from trading and had entered the delisting process.

Afterward, he worked from home for half a month, and by the time he came out, it was already June.

Today, the seal was officially broken.

Watching Aunt Qiu, who was about to enter the house wearing a mask, Chen Cheng raised his hand to stop her, "Aunt Qiu, don't come in yet."

"Find a few people to come over first, clean every corner of the house, and disinfect everything."

Aunt Qiu was clearly stunned for a moment, but immediately recovered, "Oh, okay. I'll go call some people right now."

Chen Cheng smiled, "Remember to give them protective suits."

America was in deep water right now, while life at home was peaceful, so even Aunt Qiu's vigilance had dropped.

"Okay, sir."

Chen Cheng shook his head with a smile and continued teasing the Cat, which was gradually turning into a pig.

Of the Cats in the house, only the mother Cat Orange, the eldest Dandan, and the third one, Cat, remained.

The second one, Huainan, had been taken by Ye Zhenzhen to Binjiang Garden.

The name was given by Lucy, "Oranges grow in Huainan."

This immediately made it the one with the most elegant name among the Cats.

Recently, for some reason, they were all placed with Xiao Ye again.

The youngest, Yaoyao, had been taken by Xiao Ye to the Old Western-style house on Fuxing Road, a few streets away.

Now Xiao Ye had both 'son and daughter'.

"Chen Cheng~"

Hearing Zou Yu running down the stairs, Chen Cheng turned his head and raised an eyebrow, "What's wrong?"

Zou Yu widened her eyes, "That... Lin Miaomiao's mom gave birth."