San Francisco, United States, late November 2006.

Every day there are too many people in this city with indifferent expressions and hurried behavior, they do their own things, they dress fashionably or casually, like fish shuttling in the deep sea, swimming in fragments, knowing whether they are warm or cold.

This year was a year full of nightmares for Gu Xingyuan.

Sean, a partner of the law firm, took advantage of his position to forge documents and embezzle funds entrusted by the client to the firm in the name of Gu Xingyuan, suspected of an amount of 40 million US dollars.

Sean saw that things were showing signs and fled San Francisco with his family overnight.

Gu Xingyuan was betrayed by his partner, and reached a "repayment agreement" with the victim without any choice, and the creditor was given a one-month grace. $40 million is a huge amount of repayment for Gu Xingyuan, and all his friends around him have borrowed it, plus his own savings, but he has raised less than $10 million.

For his wife Shen Ya, her husband rarely came home for nearly half a month, so she was inevitably a little worried, and went to the office to see him, only to learn that there was such a big thing in the office.

Shen Ya cried anxiously, and immediately thought of Gu Qinghuan.

"Qinghuan is now the president of Xinyao, and she will definitely be able to get hundreds of millions." She grabbed Gu Xingyuan's arm tightly, trying to persuade her husband to seek Gu Qinghuan's help.

Gu Xing knows better than anyone else how difficult Gu Qinghuan has been in Xinyao over the years, and she can indeed take out hundreds of millions, but the group has its own operating model, and setting aside such a large sum of money is bound to cause criticism from others. But he also knew that if he couldn't get the money, the creditor would take him to court, and in doing so, he would not only lose his lawyer's license, but also face jail time.

Just when he was hesitating whether to call Gu Qinghuan, someone formally indicted Gu Xingyuan from the local prosecutor.

The prosecution is not "misappropriation of embezzled funds", but is suspected of "fraud".

Sean graduated from a prestigious school, has his own social circle in San Francisco, and has made friends with some wealthy investors.

In 2002, he befriended Gu Xingyuan, and then established a joint venture law firm. With this as a guarantee, he used a philanthropist to participate in the fundraiser in his spare time, so as to attract some businessmen to participate in his investment, and promised that the investors would receive high returns.

From 2004 to 2006, Sean used security protocols drafted by law firms to repay the previous investors with money from new investors, and through such fraud, he absconded with huge sums of money.

That's really a huge amount of money, even if Gu Xingyuan lives day and night for a few hundred years, he won't be able to earn so much money.

When Gu Xingyuan heard that Sean had not only embezzled custody funds, but even defrauded investors in the name of the firm, and did not know the whereabouts of the $5.6 billion with him, he was stunned.

Sean escaped, and Gu Xingyuan couldn't get out of the relationship.

The person who sued Gu Xingyuan was George 61 Canon, who had the biggest loss among the creditors. This time the prosecution and repayment of the money can no longer save Gu Xingyuan. If you commit fraud as a lawyer, you can't get away with a heavy sentence.

The huge number had already made Gu Xingyuan and Shen Ya desperate, Gu Xingyuan was furious and was hospitalized on the same day.

In late January 2007, Gu Xingyuan was imprisoned, and at the end of April, the court will hold a compensation hearing.

Gu Xingyuan and Shen Ya said before, this matter should not affect a pair of children, Gu Sheng said before that she wanted to go to the United States, but Shen Ya refused, she mistakenly thought that her father was seriously ill from her mother's words, how did Gu Xingyuan and Shen Ya know that she would take a flight to the United States at the end of January 07.

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It was a rare sunny day when Sheng arrived in San Francisco, and the sun stabbed people's eyes.

At the exit of the airport, the driver helped her put her luggage into the back compartment, and saw that she had a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were tired but implied expectation, so she asked with a smile in English: "Travel?" ”

"No, visiting relatives." In a strange country, using an unfamiliar language, because of the presence of parents, it will feel warm.

found the address of Gu's house, Shen Ya opened the door that day and saw Gu Sheng, as if in a dream, seeing her relatives for the first time, the helplessness and despair that had been accumulated for a long time burst the embankment in an instant.

The smile on the corner of Ah Sheng's mouth froze, and he saw his mother squatting not far in front of him and crying.

She could hear that cry, not excited, but fear and pain.

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Gu Xingyuan was prosecuted for misappropriating funds in the custody of his clients and failing to repay them, and according to the regulations, his lawyer's qualification certificate was revoked and he could be imprisoned for up to 10 years.

If the above case is fine, but Sean absconded with the money, although he acted alone, the law firm was jointly owned by him and Gu Xingyuan, there was a previous case, which occurred in a state in the United States, someone defrauded investors of more than one billion dollars, and was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Sean is carrying $5.6 billion, and Gu Xingyuan is tied for several crimes, at least for more than 50 years.

At that time, Gu Cheng didn't know the news, Gu Xingyuan was in prison, Shen Ya had nothing to do, and the only person who could run for this matter was Ah Sheng.

didn't have time to reverse the jet lag, Ah Sheng knew very well that all the problems came from that Sean, and in the afternoon he ran to visit people close to Sean, these people had also been questioned by the police before, and Ah Sheng was quite gentle when he first saw him, once Ah Sheng mentioned the name of "Sean", he would definitely treat him coldly.

Dragging her tired body home, her mother had just returned from elsewhere, and pulled out an ugly smile: "I tried it a long time ago, but it didn't work." ”

Ah Sheng is not afraid of running around, she is afraid of being so laborious that she still can't protect her father in the end.

On the first night back in San Francisco, Lu Zichu called and heard his voice,