Zhou Hongyi suddenly divorced! The ex-wife divided nearly 9 billion yuan of shares, reducing her holdings in disguise to cash out? Dong Secretary scolded angrily

Tencent News "First Line" by Xiao Feng

360 (601360.SH), whose stock price tripled in two months due to the Chat GPT concept, announced on the evening of April 4 that the company's chairman Zhou Hongyi and Hu Huan dissolved their marriage through friendly negotiations and made relevant arrangements for share splits and other matters. After this equity change, Zhou Hongyi and his concerted actors hold a total of 3,671,440,546 shares in 360 companies, and the shareholding ratio is still higher than 51%. Hu Huan did not hold shares of the company before the change in equity, and intends to hold 446,585,200 shares of the company after the change, accounting for about 6.25% of the shares.

Based on the current 306 stock price, Zhou Hongyi's ex-wife Hu Huan has about 9 billion yuan in shares. This is also known as the first A-share divorce case in 2023.

However, after the stock price rose repeatedly, he announced his divorce, and Zhou Hongyi's move was interpreted by all parties in the market as preparation for reducing his holdings. However, the announcement shows that the actual controller Zhou Hongyi and his concerted actors have no plans to reduce their holdings of listed companies in the next 12 months, and Hu Huan will not increase or reduce their holdings of listed companies in the next 6 months. And because Hu Huan did not work in 360 Group and its subsidiaries, this change has no substantial impact on the company's operation and management.

However, an investor argued that according to the regulations, it could not reduce its holdings within six months of the transferred shares; In addition, this year's digital economy is sought after in the capital market, this trend will not be completed in the short term, and the shipments of major shareholders generally take one to two years, so make an advance amount.

In response to various suspicions, Zhao Luming, vice president and secretary of the board of directors of 360, said in the circle of friends in the evening that divorce is a very serious matter, and I believe that most people still value feelings more than money. He asked rhetorically, "First of all, can't you reduce your holdings without divorce?" ”

Secondly, he also said that if the major shareholder intends to reduce his holdings, then his ex-wife Huan will share 4.99% of the shares, and it will be better not to touch the mandatory disclosure arrangement.

It is worth mentioning that as early as 2022, Zhou Hongyi once lamented in the circle of friends: "My life is so unsuccessful, it doesn't mean anything." This sentence aroused the curiosity and questions of netizens, and then Zhou Hongyi responded on Weibo, "Recently the state is not good, frustration comes from the inability to balance poor work and family, you don't have to be far-fetched to guess and think wildly, thank many friends for their sincere care and encouragement support, keep it in mind, and do not reply one by one." "It is suspected that family relations have been in crisis since then.

Hu Huan is Zhou Hongyi's wife, who has given a lot of support to Zhou Hongyi for more than 20 years after resigning and starting a business, and the earliest start-up capital for founding 3721 from Founder came from the support of Hu Huan's family. It was rumored that in the early days of the business, he and Hu Huan rented a three-bedroom apartment in Beijing's south city, with the two living in one of the rooms and the other two for employees. In the difficult period of entrepreneurship, it is also Hu Huan who is supporting the family's income.

At the two ceremonies of 360's listing in the United States and privatization and return to A-share listing, Hu Huan accompanied Zhou Hongyi as a bell-ringing witness. When asked what was his best choice, Zhou Hongyi answered that he chose his wife.

He once described his love story with Hu Huan in detail in "Subversive: Autobiography of Zhou Hongyi":

It was through BBS that I met my current wife, Hu Huan. She was also working at Peking University Founder at that time, and she was a tall beauty. I started talking to her from the moment we met, of course, I was very shy in life and did not dare to pursue it blatantly. And all she knows about me is: this is the famous Zhou Hongyi, a thorn who always causes trouble for the company as soon as he enters the company, and is not well received by the leadership.

At that time, Peking University's Founder's office was a large bay, with more than 100 people per bay, and each department was also very small. Many computer terminals are set up by me, and I can check their static IPs. So, as soon as I went online, I knew who the person speaking on the forum was. On the Internet, I am like a fish in water, I can completely open up nonsense, and I can also pursue people I like. On Mizuki Tsinghua BBS, I found Hu Huan's ID and chatted with her every day, very close. Interestingly, I knew who she was, but she didn't know who I was. Until one day, I saw that my boss was walking behind her back, and I quickly typed over: "Your boss is behind you." Only then did she realize that the person she chatted with online every day was my colleague under the same roof—me.

Later, I finally sent out an offline invitation to invite her to Pizza Hut at the Zhongguancun intersection to take a seat. For science and engineering men with incomes like us at that time, Pizza Hut was still a very luxurious place to go. We didn't eat, just a cup of black tea and chatted in the north and south.

I'm not very good at falling in love, and I rarely say sweet words to "flirt with girls", usually just telling about myself. At that time, I was still a down-and-out little engineer, earning only 1,000 yuan a month, living in a separate place, and eating in the Peking University cafeteria every day, looking inconspicuous. In front of Hu Huan, I like to talk about my past entrepreneurial experience, talk about my dreams, what I want to do in the future, and how I will use a software or program to change the world, a look of "the sky will descend on the people of Sri Lanka". Ordinary girls will think that I am a little unrealistic or neurotic, but Hu Huan does not think so. She always believed that what I said was true, and she has supported me ever since.

Interestingly, it was getting late after Pizza Hut, and we went out to take a taxi home. As soon as I reached out and hit a yellow-faced car, a piece of two and one kilometer. Hu Huanyi stretched out his hand and hit a Fukang, a piece of 61 kilometers. I thought to myself: Mom, it's luxurious.

It turns out that Hu Huan's family background is indeed much better than mine. I later learned that her parents were both university professors. And I heard that we were the first couple on Mizuki Tsinghua.

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