Lu Minxing is the senior vice president of the Listing Division of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. She believed in the rules for more than ten years until her mother told her in front of her hospital bed: Don't be responsible only for the rules your whole life.
Shen Nianzhou, the CFO of a medium-sized biotech company, came to Hong Kong to apply for listing with a piece of flawed clinical data.
When they met for the first time, Lu Minxing asked her twenty-seven questions, each of which was to the point. She answered everything without missing a beat. But the hand she placed under the table kept pinching her fingers - she had been doing this for more than ten years, and a thin layer of calluses had developed on her fingertips.
Lu Minxing saw it. She didn't say anything, she just turned up the air conditioner two degrees and pushed her coffee cup two inches towards her.
That was the first day they met
It took them six years, two rounds of questioning, a related-party transaction crisis, betrayal by their most trusted person, and the death of their loved ones before they held each other's hands on the rooftop.
Concept: "Wherever everything can be priced, two women spent six years confirming something without a price tag."