Chapter 18 — The Creator Cannot Be Erased

The transfer of shares, adjustment of position and non-compete agreement are bound to be signed at the same time. The basis for determining transfer prices as well as the decision-making process are unclear. Third paragraph... Right before the time of submitting the listing application, the company suspended the position of a core management member, revoked all access rights, and through unofficial channels spread information that "a senior leader took advantage of the time before listing to claim additional benefits". This may affect the integrity of information disclosure and the assessment of management's stability. Each content... I have clearly annotated. It appears in every meeting. In which document version? Passed at any approval step. This is not...

"They bullied me."

Where did the process deviate from the truth? I no longer have access to the company's system. Nor will looking for someone in the technical department to restore access. Doing so... Just turns their governance problem... into my own violation. As a shareholder and person who directly ran the company... I still legally keep the Board of Directors meeting notices, capital raising documents and important business records that were officially sent to me. The early years... The process was not as strict as it is now. Supplier quote. Customer confirmation email. Explanation of product versions... All are still saved in my project notebook. Two o'clock in the morning... I turned to the 2022 procurement records. That was when the company replaced the second generation communications module. Of the three suppliers... Unit C quoted an eight percent higher price. It is the only enterprise that has ever mass produced on the same scale. Also the only unit that accepts trial installation of three hundred sets in advance. I put that document in the appendix. Not to prove... How good I am. But to prove one thing. Trung Quang's important purchases in the past... All have quotes. There is a technical review. And there are clear grounds for retrieval. Writing until five o'clock in the morning... The document was more than twenty pages long. I deleted almost half. The more it looks like a denunciation... the easier it is for Chu Dinh Son to reduce it all to a personal conflict. In the end... I only kept three requests. Temporarily stop signing documents about the company's history that are still in dispute. Require the Audit Committee to review the entire process related to share transfers, non-compete agreements and management personnel adjustments. Before the dispute is resolved... No party is allowed to arbitrarily use their own point of view to explain the reason why the listing file was postponed. Eight thirty in the morning. I sent that explanation at the same time to La Man. All members of the Board of Directors. And representatives of the Board of Directors of external investment funds... Tuong Viet. Eleven forty. La Man called.

"Chairman Chu does not agree to bring this matter to the Council."

"He thinks..."

"This is just an internal assignment adjustment within the leadership team."

I ask again:

"The transfer of shares..."

"And the founder change was announced..."

"Is it just an internal adjustment?"

"I have recorded your objections in the memorandum serving the listing documents."

She stopped a few seconds again.

"Tuong Viet asked to see the original documents."

"Only documents I am legally entitled to keep."

"I know."

In the afternoon... I met Tuong Viet at a law office. He didn't comfort me at all. The first sentence says it directly:

"If this is just a dispute over the name of founder..."

"We will not intervene in personal conflicts within the leadership."

"I get it."

"If the delay in submitting the application is due to your refusal to cooperate with the agreed plan..."

"We will also hold you accountable."

He opened the Company Charter and Investment Agreement section. After many rounds of capital raising... Trung Quang's Board of Directors currently has seven seats. Chu family... Two investment funds... One seat for each side. Two independent members of the Board of Directors. And a representative of the executive board. Chu Dinh Son is still the largest shareholder. Also Chairman of the Board of Directors. On issues related to the interests of himself or his immediate relatives... He is not allowed to use both votes of the Chu family. Tuong Viet tapped the conflict of interest clause.

"So..."

"What you have to prove..."

"It's not just that his son stole your name."

"I know."

"You have to prove..."

"These three sets of documents are essentially an administrative decision related to the interests of the parties involved."

I put three folders next to each other. Sort by when they were created. Historical confirmation. Share transfer contract. Non-compete agreement.

"First..."

"They forced me to confirm Zhou Kaiming as the sole founder."

"Then..."

"Make me sell shares cheaply."

"Finally..."

"Put me off the board."

"Also tie me up with a ten year non-compete clause."

"These three things..."

"Not three independent decisions."

"But three steps of the same plan..."

"Get rid of me."

Tuong Viet told the lawyer to record all the version codes of the documents. Then ask again:

"Has the company made any other unusual decisions recently?"

"I cannot confirm for now."

"After being suspended from work..."

"Now look what..."

"I also easily suspect it's a conspiracy."

"If there is no proof..."

"I don't want to attribute it to normal operating problems..."

"It's Zhou Kaiming's fault."

Tuong Viet looked at me for a long time.