Preface: The Fall of Genius

November 23, 2010, Haidu Intermediate People's Court, Binhai Province.

On this day, the display screen in the lobby of the Haidu Intermediate Court did not reveal any cases worthy of special attention. However, careful people can still perceive that the atmosphere of today's Haidu Intermediate People's Court is somewhat different from the past -- on the bulletin board at the door, there is an inconspicuous announcement of the opening of the court, and the defendant is none other than Zhou Nan, chairman of the famous Haidu Feiteng Group.

This year's 36-year-old Zhou Nan has been in the limelight for more than ten years, once the richest man in Binhai Province and even the whole country, known as a business genius born out of thin air, in the past many years, has become an inspirational example of the grassroots rise that countless young people in China worship and emulate.

On the 24th, the trial of Zhou Nan's case continued. The Haidu Intermediate People's Court also changed its usual busy scene, and there was only one formal trial case in the afternoon. The front and back doors of the C101 courtroom are closed, and only the eye-catching lights at the door indicate that the trial is going on.

Dozens of journalists and some business people, as well as some relatives and friends of Zhou Nan, were allowed to observe the trial. Zhou Nan stood in the dock tired and weak, wearing a beige vest printed with the words "Haidu Guard", although his resolute and angular face lost the agitated look, his tall figure of more than 1.8 meters still stood straight.

That's right, such a tall and straight figure surprised the media reporters who were silently watching behind him, and what was left for Zhou Nan's relatives and family was speechless sadness.

The judge's majestic and powerful voice echoed in the courtroom, Zhou Nan turned his head suddenly, and the cold light flashed in his godless eyes in an instant, projecting on a middle-aged man in the corner of the auditorium like two bolts of lightning. The man was wrapped in a black European wool coat with a raised collar and a black cap, and because he was wearing a pair of wide-brimmed sunglasses on his face, he couldn't see his appearance at all.

It's him! Pan Hu! Don't say that he is tightly wrapped, even if he turns to ashes, Zhou Nan can recognize this despicable and shameless villain! If it weren't for the betrayal of this once trusted subordinate whom he had carried with him, he would not have been reduced to the desolate situation of being a prisoner.

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In 2009, Zhou Nan was framed and imprisoned because of a transaction that offended Chen Xiaoning, chairman of Heilan Group, who was born as the son of a high-ranking official with a deep background. He never imagined that the person who was hiding behind the scenes and stabbed him with a cold arrow turned out to be his vice president Pan Hu, the villain who betrayed him and threw himself into Chen Xiaoning's self-forgetfulness.

Chen Xiaoning and Pan Hu instructed people to conspire to use 12 men and women to open dozens of securities accounts to control the trading of shares of Feiteng Energy and Feiteng Real Estate in the hands of Zhou Nan, create a false impression of active stock trading in the secondary market, and attract investors to arbitrage funds, involving billions of yuan, which soon attracted the attention of the China Securities Regulatory Commission...... In July 2010, Zhou Nan was arrested.

The process may be tortuous and complicated, but there is only one result: the former generation of business geniuses has fallen.

“…… The Haidu Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zhou Nan to two years and six months in prison for the crime of indulging the trading price of securities; He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for the crime of falsely reporting registered capital, and it was decided to enforce the fixed-term imprisonment of three years......"

The moment the court announced the verdict, Zhou Nan realized.

For so many years, his business sense and advanced business acumen have always walked ahead of the system and environment...... Finally, on this day, he paid a heavy price for it. And the betrayal of deputy Pan Hu and the framing of Chen Xiaoning were just the last straw that toppled the dominoes - he knew where he was wrong and where he was lost.

As a big businessman who started from the bottom of society, Zhou Nan has no political backers. Without the support of power and disdain to make friends with the powerful, he succeeded, but at the same time, he also laid the foreshadowing of failure...... Finally one day, Zhou Nan's business kingdom disappeared in an instant, and he finally tasted the bitter fruit of his surname.

It seems that everything is too late, but is it really too late?

The judge's verdict came to an abrupt end. Since then, the dust has settled on the sensational Zhou Nan case. And almost at the same time, Zhou Nan, who was tired to the extreme, desperate to the extreme, and angry to the extreme, with deep resentment and unwillingness, his tall body fell down with a bang.;