Free Web NovelChapter 775: Chapter 623: Second Update
Honestly, how many young people these days, once they’ve made some money, actually like buying houses?
Shi Wangyue acts just like his dad’s and mom’s generation, where once you have money you like to buy land and buy houses.
For this, Ze Wu had once been very curious and asked him, "Why do you love buying houses so much?"
Shi Wangyue answered, "Buying houses is reliable."
Ze Wu then补充ed based on the pattern he’d observed in Shi Wangyue’s property purchases.
What Shi Wangyue meant was—"Buying good houses is reliable."
Now that MM is facing a crisis.
Ze Wu sat in Shi Wangyue’s office, listening to him talk like this, and really couldn’t help but admire how far-sighted he’d been back then.
Buying houses really is reliable!
Because over the next month.
By continuously relying on mortgages, selling properties and so on, Shi Wangyue raised another two billion in cash flow for the company.
Of that two billion, 1.8 billion came from him selling a mansion he owned across from Hyde Park in London.
He hadn’t bought this place under his own name; back then he had a friend hold it on his behalf.
It was first built in the 19th century, when the Qing Dynasty was still around.
So when he first bought this house, Ze Wu and Xie Shengxing had teased him, saying, "You’ve basically bought an antique."
An antique comes with the advantages of being an antique.
The location of this old house was truly priceless; its neighbors included, but were not limited to, the head of state of some European country and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
Shi Wangyue had owned this house for seven or eight years.
He bought it and just left it there, and even the annual maintenance costs were far from cheap.
Fortunately, when he bought it, the global economy wasn’t doing well.
The owner was the richest man of some country, who’d only put this mansion on the market for a distress sale because his business had gone bankrupt that year.
Which just happened to let Shi Wangyue, who was on a business trip in the UK at the time, scoop up the bargain.
Back then the owner was desperate to sell the house and get cash.
So the price Shi Wangyue paid for the house was less than half of what he’s selling it for now.
All in all, the return on this investment was so enviable that even Ze Wu, who’d never been that into real estate, was itching to fly over to the Hyde Park area right now to see if there were any mansions suitable for him, so he could hurry up and buy one and just sit and wait for it to appreciate.
But...
How to put it?
No one knew whether this house had some kind of strange magnetic field.
The wheel of fortune turns.
Now it was Shi Wangyue’s turn to sell it to save himself.
Yet even after selling off his most valuable properties, and after he and Ze Wu scraped together funds from all over the place.
There was still a more-than-one-billion-sized hole left in MM that needed to be filled.
...
At night, at Future Time.
"Do you have to work overtime tomorrow?" Ning Youguang lay sprawled on top of Shi Wangyue, her voice lazy.
"Do you have something planned?" Shi Wangyue pulled the blanket up, covering Ning Youguang’s bare shoulders.
"If you don’t have to work overtime, why don’t we go watch the sunrise tomorrow morning?" Ning Youguang said softly, "Last week I saw the video and photos my senior posted of her and her husband watching the sunrise on the Shijingshan boardwalk. It looked so beautiful. I really want to go see it with you too, okay?"
A wave of guilt rose in Shi Wangyue’s heart. "Okay."
He lifted his chin slightly and dropped a kiss on Ning Youguang’s smooth forehead. "I’m sorry I haven’t really spent time with you lately."
Ning Youguang reached out and gently covered his mouth. "I know work has been really hard on you lately too."
With that, she grabbed the phone beside her and set an alarm for four o’clock.
The next morning.
As soon as the alarm went off, Shi Wangyue threw back the covers and got out of bed.
The alarm woke Ning Youguang, but she kept her eyes closed and lazily stayed in bed, not wanting to get up.
So after he got dressed, Shi Wangyue went to the wardrobe, took out the clothes she was going to wear today, laid them out on the bed, and then dug her out from under the blanket. "It’s already four-twenty. If you don’t get up now, we won’t be able to see the sunrise even if we make it to Shijingshan."
Ning Youguang reached out with her eyes still closed. "Honey, carry me up."
Shi Wangyue let out a low laugh, and after he’d fished her up from the bed, he started undressing her and helping her change.
By the time he was done, Ning Youguang was completely awake.
Then the two of them quickly washed up together, got ready, and walked out the door hand in hand.
When the car drove out of the underground parking lot, it was still pitch-black outside.
Fortunately, although it was cold, there wasn’t much wind.
It really was perfect weather for a hike.
...
The two of them drove from Future Time to the nearest Shijingshan boardwalk entrance from their home, and the whole way was smooth and clear.
After they parked the car at the nearest entrance parking lot, they saw a few cars with their lights on arriving one after another, along with people in sportswear coming to climb the mountain.
In this life, no matter what you do or which path you take, you will never lack chance companions or people walking alongside you.
Ning Youguang happily took out her phone and snapped a few photos at the foot of the mountain.
Then she stuffed the phone into the crossbody bag on her chest, and with Shi Wangyue and the others around them, started climbing the steps up the mountain.
After quietly climbing for thirty to forty minutes, the group finally reached the platform at the top of Shijingshan, the best place to watch the sunrise.
Soon, fiery red clouds rose in the east.
Sitting shoulder to shoulder on the steps at the summit, watching the red sun in the distance, the shock and amazement in Shi Wangyue’s and Ning Youguang’s eyes rose along with the sun as it slowly climbed.
That is where humanity’s hope lies.
It always rises and falls across the boundless sky at a speed ordinary people cannot fathom, rising and falling, rising and falling.
For billions of years, it has watched over the universe and the sky through all their ups and downs.
It seems to always know exactly where it’s supposed to be at any given time.
Never stopping, always moving forward.
The heart that had been suppressed in Shi Wangyue for so long was, in that moment, finally released.
Looking at the sunrise and morning glow before him, beautiful as a scene from the celestial realm, he couldn’t help but think: "I’ve been an entrepreneur for so long; it’s not like I haven’t had setbacks. Those setbacks were caused by the environment, by circumstances beyond my control. They were challenges I couldn’t avoid and didn’t need to avoid."
"If this time is different, so what? Just because it’s different, does that mean I can’t win this war?"
Back when he signed the cooperation agreement, no one forced him to sign.
Now that they’ve gone back on their word and refused to cooperate, kicking him when he’s down, he can’t blame anyone else.
What’s the big deal?!
The responsibilities and obligations that are his, he’ll shoulder.
The debts that are his, he’ll repay.
As the brilliantly gorgeous clouds, like celestial maidens weaving brocade in the sky, gradually dispersed with the rising sun.
Looking at the sun in the distance, radiating light over the earth and blessing all beings.
Shi Wangyue suddenly felt a relaxation he’d never experienced before.
Then he turned his head and looked at Ning Youguang, smiling gently.
He smiled for quite a while before finally reining it in, and said to her, half-sighing, "Jiejie, I suddenly feel pretty useless."
"Why are you suddenly saying that?" Ning Youguang’s heart trembled slightly, though her expression stayed gentle.1314
