King of Capital

Chapter 15 Money Ability

At ten o'clock in the evening, the moon was high in the sky, but no stars were visible.

The office was brightly lit and the interns were still busy. He Chuan left first, and Shen Xin watched a movie intermittently with headphones on.

She stretched and packed her things to leave: "How's the progress?"

"Sixty percent."

Xie Jingxing piled the documents on the table and raised his computer to work while standing. He twisted his shoulders to relax and raised his wrist to check the time again: "Do you want to have a midnight snack before leaving?"

"Brother Fu, didn't your teacher teach you that 'sunk costs should not be involved in major decision-making'?" Shen Xin refused bluntly and decisively.

There is a reason why there are so many scumbags in the financial circle. The operations of taking advantage of the sunk cost effect in dinner, online car-hailing, and watching movies are very similar to the steps a scumbag takes when sending a girl home at night. It's just that his lavish spending conceals his unruly nature.

Shen Xin and He Chuan were originally playing the role of NPCs today, guiding the interns who had no experience in prospectuses to not do their work in a too disgraceful way.

After handing over work in the afternoon, not a single intern took the initiative to ask for help. She also felt that today's kids have too little initiative, but during afternoon tea, the situation suddenly changed.

When Su He got off work, she couldn't stand it anymore and hinted to her and He Chuan to stop helping too much. She had already crossed the bottom line by staying until now.

It's really not our army's fault for not trying hard, but the enemy played to her needs and challenged her weaknesses. The last work of a famous director in his life that was not publicly released had an unspeakable destructive effect on the literary and artistic young women.

"Good movies belong in theaters. Advise your friend to release it. I'll buy tickets to support you." Shen Xin said regretfully after packing up his things.

The movie-watching experience just now was extremely bad. The interns treated her like an encyclopedia, asking her all kinds of questions as if she were trying to squeeze out some melatonin from a toad, interrupting my immersion many times.

Xie Jingxing expressed his gratitude and said, "I have a movie theater at home, you are welcome to come and experience it."

"Reliable, I'll go to your cinema and sign up for membership later!"

"Uh... I mean, I have a private cinema in my house."

Seeing that Shen Xin's expression was not right, Xie Jingxing added doubtfully: "Of course, it is smaller than a normal movie theater."

"…Can your cat do backflips?"

Shen Xin was stunned for several seconds, unable to tell whether the rich man in front of her was so rich that it was beyond her imagination or he was just trying to flirt with her.

Xie Jingxing raised his eyebrows: "I don't keep cats, but I can."

Shen Xin's face was full of mischief. She shook her head slightly and smiled without saying anything. She simply put on her commuter bag and walked away in her high heels.

"How can a cat do a backflip?" Zhao Mengche said curiously, looking at her back.

Feng Shuo at the side said mysteriously: "My cat can do it. Do you want to come to my house and see for yourself?"

"Why don't you bring your cat to the office?" Song Anli looked confused.

Feng Shuo was speechless with a frozen expression, and everyone burst into laughter, except Song Anli, who looked silly and asked what everyone was laughing at. Zhao Mengche put his arm around her shoulders and whispered a few words, and the laughter in the office became even more cheerful.

Song Anli was also laughing. It is so simple to coax a man. You just need to be simple in the right situation.

After the adjustment and relaxation, everyone continued to work hard. Xie Jingxing took the time to send WeChat messages to He Chuan and Shen Xin respectively, saying "thank you".

Even though the two of them didn't really help after dinner, their few words of advice were enough to help the young interns avoid detours and mistakes, which would benefit them not only in this internship but also in the future.

It is a blessing to meet such a senior when you first enter the workplace. It is worth remembering and cherishing.

By twelve o'clock in the morning, the financial and legal work had been basically completed, and everyone was checking the draft against the original prospectus.

Xie Jingxing also completed the "Business and Technology, Fundraising and Investment" section, and began to focus on writing corporate investment highlights and industry development expectations for environmental protection concepts, striving for upper limit bonus points.

After the entire prospectus is updated, we start to compare the draft with the original version for checking and proofreading.

Reverse sampling was conducted by searching keywords, the entire text was read aloud for verification, and the electronic version format was checked using three computers: HP, Apple, and Thinkpad.

After working until three in the morning, everything was finally done. Zhao Mengche couldn't wait to arrange other people's matters, saying that he should quickly send the electronic version to several instructors so that they could go home.

"You guys go home first, I'll review it again." Stanford objected.

Qi Tian also said: "I will stay to help, you go first."

"Okay, stop arguing. You all go back. I'll review it."

Xie Jingxing finally made a decision: "Go home and rest early. One of you will work hard to get to the office at 7 o'clock in the morning, spend two hours reviewing it again, and hand in the paper version to the instructor on time at 9 o'clock."

"I live close by, I'll come."

Stanford once again took the initiative to volunteer, and Qi Tian, ​​Fan Haonan and others followed suit and responded positively.

After spending the morning overtime writing the 'meeting minutes' and shamelessly forcing Shen Xin and He Chuan to stay to help in the afternoon, everyone had a change of mindset to some extent.

If you don't do your homework well in school, you still have the opportunity to correct it. As long as you attend classes, you will get extra points at the end of the semester. At work, everything is result-oriented.

If there are any errors or omissions in this prospectus that is handed over to the mentors, all the efforts of everyone who has worked overtime like a hard worker until now will be wasted, which is also a sunk cost.

Ninety-nine steps have been taken, and this one step is all that is left. No one wants to fail at the last moment because of a low-level mistake like a typo.

It was Xie Jingxing who made the final decision. He called Stanford and Qi Tian's names and asked them to come for a recheck tomorrow morning. Others were free to get up early and work overtime if they wanted.

No one had much to say, and everyone packed up their things and went home to work overtime, feeling depressed and tired.

Apart from Song Anli, she did the least work during the day, so she continued to stay up with Xie Jingxing, reading the whole article aloud and reading it alone.

The problems with prospectuses of hundreds of pages and tens of thousands of words are usually not with the content itself, but with tedious details such as text formatting and typos. Intelligent machines are prone to malfunctions when working at high intensity, let alone humans.

However, as Tang Man emphasized: the prospectus is legally binding and not a single punctuation mark can be wrong.

Writing another company's name into its own prospectus, as a certain corporate website did, is a fatal mistake that could be enough to get the other party to pull their collar and yell "Fuck you, give me your money back!", and that's a job for big international law firms.

Normally, when an investment bank writes a prospectus, it will spend a lot of energy just to check the text for errors after the draft is completed, and it will go through it over and over again without getting tired of it.

Xie Jingxing and Song Anli worked until five in the morning, when it was barely light outside, before they sent the electronic version to the email addresses of several instructors. They were dizzy and their eyes were dull, their work efficiency dropped to zero, and the rest was left to Qi Tian and Stanford.

"Are you really confident in handing the final review over to someone else?" Song Anli's voice was hoarse and no longer coquettish.

Xie Jingxing yawned: "What else?" "I thought you would sleep on the floor in the company for a few hours and review with them in the morning." Song Anli said in a gloomy tone.

Xie Jing Xing smiled and pulled back the suit jacket draped over her shoulders: "I trust you as well."

What he did during this half day and night was almost equivalent to being the person in charge of the "updated prospectus project". Regardless of whether the final result is good or bad, he should naturally bear the most responsibility. This is the awareness that a leader should have from the moment he takes over the command.

Talking about whether you can feel at ease now...it's unnecessary.

"Wait, I'll return it to you after I wash it after get off work today."

Song Anli grabbed the sleeve of her coat and blinked her big eyes. She couldn't help crying in shame after being shot in public yesterday afternoon. She made the excuse that she had a stomachache due to her period, and then she really had a stomachache due to her period while crying...

In the second half of the night, I was afraid of catching a cold from the air conditioning and kept wearing Xie Jingxing's clothes.

Xie Jingxing admired Song Anli for still being able to think and think carefully at this time. He was too tired to talk, and he didn't want to argue. He threw down his clothes and took a taxi home to wash and change clothes.

The latter lived far away and simply decided not to leave. He just sat down on a few chairs in the conference room and took the time to catch up on his sleep.

……

Juntai prepared dormitories for the interns, and the original plan was for them to move there together after work on the first day of employment. However, they never expected that they would take on such a big job that they would have to work all night.

So Xie Jingxing got up in a hurry to pack his luggage after getting home without sleeping for two hours, took a warm bath to refresh himself, and returned to the company before nine o'clock.

He used to like taking cold showers, but after a young colleague of his worked overtime all night and went home the next morning to change clothes and take a cold shower, which led to sudden cardiac death, he immediately corrected his bad habit and urgently purchased funeral insurance for all Taihe employees.

Taking a cold shower is terrible, it’s better to work overtime all night...

"Brother Fu, you betrayed the working class."

The yawning colleagues who returned to the company criticized Xie Jingxing's ugly face. Such a dog capitalist really deserves to die.

Zhao Mengche's focus was different. He stared at the paper bag in his hand and asked, "You're only bringing this much luggage with you when you move to the dormitory?"

"No, I brought breakfast and lozenges for Song Anli, as well as a shirt. She didn't go home last night." Xie Jingxing explained.

Fan Haonan nodded thoughtfully: "Okay, it's warm and thoughtful."

"It's a nice gesture." Feng Shuo followed suit.

Xie Jingxing was helpless with the wild imagination of this group of people, so he went to the printing room to find Qi Tian who was printing the paper version of the prospectus for a final discussion. After confirming that there was no problem, he printed the prospectus and put it on the desks of several instructors.

After finishing my work and sitting down at my workstation, I saw in the intern WeChat group that Song Anli said she had a cold. Xue Haoran and Zhao Mengche both said they would bring her breakfast and cold medicine. No wonder everyone was thinking about it.

At nine o'clock in the morning, several mentors arrived at the company one after another, and walked into their respective offices with poker faces as if they were owed eight million in debt to review the updated prospectus.

At this moment, the interns' hearts were with the death row inmates on their way to the execution ground. They were not in the mood to joke around and just looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

"Don't look at me, I need to take a nap. Call me if you need anything." Xie Jingxing lay down calmly.

Song Anli, who had changed into a new shirt and was still wearing the coat he had worn yesterday, suggested, "Why don't we check ourselves again? At least we're prepared no matter what."

"Find nine interns from Juntai for three months. With the assistance of Shen Xin and He Chuan, if we can update a new version of the prospectus within the same period of time and submit it directly to the regulatory authorities for review, I will quit the internship immediately."

Xie Jingxing couldn't help but sit up straight again and said to all the interns: "We have done well enough, be more confident."

"So when we have the summary meeting later, I hope everyone can keep a normal mind. No matter what questions the instructor raises or what comments he makes, don't rush to feel guilty. I will take full responsibility for everything."

The atmosphere fell silent in an instant. Zhao Mengche raised her chin slightly and looked at Xie Jingxing's profile. With her height, she didn't need to use this posture.

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At the same time, in Tang Man’s office, several mentors were holding paper copies of the prospectus and reading them seriously.

He Chuan and Shen Xin sat on the sofa in the corner, staring at the computer screen, the former especially so anxious that his calves were shaking.

"Forget it. If we can't finish reading it, let's postpone the summary meeting." The head of the research institute was the first to break the silence.

Tang Man said with a cold tone: "I had originally scheduled a project report meeting with Mr. Liu, the person in charge of the semiconductor industry, and Mr. Chen from the information department at 3 pm. The time cannot be changed."

"I asked a colleague from the Shanghai branch to help serve as examiners. After all, this was a mistake on our part, and we can't let the interns pay for it." Su He seemed to take the initiative to take the responsibility.

The head of the institute hesitated to speak, but finally followed his heart and said: "It's not easy for these kids to stay up all night, so we need to respect their work results."

"Then postpone it until five in the afternoon."

Tang Man tilted her head and glanced at He Chuan, her eyes seemed to be sharp: "Can you finish it in another two hours?"

She was in charge of the test question on "updating the prospectus". According to her estimation of the abilities of the eight interns, she did not reserve any time for them to carefully review the prospectus.

I just wanted to spend a dozen minutes to take a quick look, picking out some basic details like text format and professional terminology, which would be enough to educate the interns at the summary meeting.

However, the actual situation was seriously deviated from expectations. The updated prospectus was too complete and the details were almost flawless. It was just a waste of time for He Chuan and several colleagues to work on it in one night.

The summary meeting could not be held, as she was too embarrassed to bring up the details. She needed time to carefully review the entire document and understand how the prospectus was updated before she could make a clear statement.

"No problem." He Chuan gritted his teeth and took the blame from his leader.

In fact, he got up at five o'clock this morning and set aside two hours to review the prospectus so that Tang Man would have a clear idea before the meeting.

But at the same time, the actual situation was far beyond his expectations. The part about environmental protection written by Xie Jingxing in "Business and Technology, Fundraising and Investment" was too in-depth, and he had to spend time looking up information to verify it.

Shen Xin's rank was two levels lower than the four instructors, but the identity of an insurance agent was special these days, and she didn't want to spoil Tang Man, so she said with a hint of meaning: "We underestimated the abilities of these interns, especially in areas other than professional ability."

"It's my fault. I forgot to inform you that Xie Jingxing's father is Xie Cheng, the chairman of Yunshan Agriculture and Animal Husbandry." Su He smiled slightly.

Tang Man felt so choked up by the two people's singing the same tune. Shen Xin predicted what she wanted to say next, and before she could scold her for providing too much help to the interns, he gave an explanation in advance - money ability.

Money ability is also a kind of ability, and the financial industry does not shy away from this. If losing both parents is a natural earth and wood saint, then having a huge fortune is a natural financial saint.

No matter how Shen Xin was fooled into providing so much help to the interns, it was result-oriented and the four instructors should be blamed for not setting the test questions rigorously.

(End of this chapter)