Free Web NovelChapter 491: Chapter 279: Making a Fortune and Moving into a Villa
Fang Zhen thought for a moment and said, "Go ahead and hold this house for me. Set up a meeting with the owner; I’d like to discuss it in the next few days."
"Okay," Lu Lulu agreed.
Fang Zhen didn’t buy the house outright because he still didn’t have quite enough money on hand.
If he transferred the money from the company’s account to his personal one, he would have to pay a hefty sum in taxes.
He planned to use the company’s accounts and purchase it in the company’s name. This way, the property’s depreciation could be written off as a business expense, which would save him a significant amount in personal income tax.
After all, he was the sole owner of the company. freewebnoveℓ.com
The only problem was, there wasn’t enough money in the company accounts either.
But he wasn’t worried.
Because he had another way to generate wealth.
When Fang Zhen returned from the Curse Seal World this time, he had contacted Zheng Yachen.
Zheng Yachen’s medical aesthetics clinic, leveraging the hype surrounding the Alchemy Ointment, had launched smoothly and was now successfully up and running.
Moreover, it had a steady clientele, and Fang Zhen could collect a 20% dividend from it every month.
It was a decent sum of money, but he considered it little more than pocket change.
The real moneymaker, however, was a major business deal that Zheng Yachen had brought to him.
Zheng Yachen had quite a few high-end connections among her acquaintances.
One of them was a businesswoman who reportedly did business in the Imperial Capital but frequently returned to Xiahai. She was one of Zheng Yachen’s clients. After trying Fang Zhen’s Alchemy Ointment, she was utterly astonished and inquired about buying some from him.
Zheng Yachen relayed this information to Fang Zhen, though they hadn’t discussed the specific price yet.
Fang Zhen quoted a price: two million per bottle of Alchemy Ointment.
To his surprise, the client agreed and wanted to buy twenty bottles at once.
Today, he was scheduled to meet this businesswoman to discuss the transaction.
If the deal went through, the profit would be substantial.
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「The next day」
On a yacht at Xiahai Pier, Fang Zhen met the businesswoman who wanted to buy twenty bottles of Alchemy Ointment.
Zheng Yachen accompanied Fang Zhen to the meeting.
Fang Zhen, for his part, brought the Alchemy Ointment with him.
To look the part, he had bought two carrying cases, fitted them with soft, custom-molded interiors, and lined them with high-grade silk.
He placed ten bottles of Alchemy Ointment in each case.
This was Fang Zhen’s first time conducting business on a yacht.
He’d heard that deals involving such large sums of money were typically negotiated at high-end hotels, golf courses, or exclusive business clubs.
And since Xiahai was a coastal city, it was home to quite a few wealthy yacht owners.
As it turned out, the businesswoman owned a private yacht.
After a brief questioning by several security guards in black suits, Fang Zhen and Zheng Yachen boarded the yacht and met the businesswoman.
Fang Zhen sized her up. This woman was in her forties and very well-preserved. She still possessed a mature charm, her bearing elegant and her attire opulent. She appeared gentle on the surface, but he could sense a core of sharp competence beneath.
They exchanged brief pleasantries before getting straight to the point.
After Fang Zhen presented the ointment, the businesswoman examined it for a moment before doing something that left a lasting impression on him.
She took out a small knife and made a shallow cut on the back of her hand.
As she did so, the businesswoman frowned. She seemed cautious and afraid of the pain, yet she went through with it.
Then, the businesswoman took one of the bottles of Alchemy Ointment, opened it, and dabbed a small amount of the green paste onto the wound. Almost instantly, the cut healed completely.
"Alright, it’s the genuine article." The businesswoman nodded, a satisfied expression on her face.
’This businesswoman is really something else,’ Fang Zhen thought as he watched the entire display.
"Two million a bottle, so forty million for twenty. I’ll wire the money to the account you specify," the businesswoman said.
The transaction was completed with remarkable speed. The businesswoman even told Fang Zhen to expect another order in the future; she would likely need another twenty bottles of the Alchemy Ointment at the same price of two million each.
Fang Zhen felt the money had come almost too easily.
It used to seem so hard to make money; now, it seemed all he had to do was use a little of his Spirit, and the money would just flow in.
His company’s account was now forty million richer, and he had gotten to know the wealthy woman, whose surname was Luo. He considered her a new, stable sales channel.
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As for Zheng Yachen, the market’s response to the Alchemy Ointment had been so overwhelmingly positive that she had quadrupled its price.
Of course, this meant Fang Zhen’s wholesale price to her was no longer 500,000 a bottle, but two million.
It was a matter of adjusting to the market price.
Zheng Yachen wasn’t dissatisfied. She was merely a distributor. In theory, the selling price of the Alchemy Ointment didn’t affect her directly; her clinic was profiting from the increased foot traffic and publicity.
After this deal, the combined total in Fang Zhen’s personal and company accounts exceeded sixty million.
Needless to say, that very afternoon, he finalized the purchase of the villa in the Xiahai High-tech Zone.
「Two days later」
The official ownership transfer for the villa was still in progress, but Fang Zhen had already been granted practical access. He immediately updated the security system, registering his own fingerprints and irises for the biometric locks and changing the passcodes.
Fang Zhen was particularly pleased with the villa’s two basement levels.
He moved in quickly, transporting all his equipment to the new villa.
Of course, Fang Zhen personally drove the main console for the "Dungeon Life Game" over himself.
After taking care of those two matters, Fang Zhen tapped into his social network to find an expert in mechanics.
He was still set on building a suit of Exoskeleton Armor.
Unexpectedly, a useful tip came from Hao Lei, one of his friends.
Hao Lei was an avid consumer of TikTok and other short-form video apps, with a particular interest in quirky, bizarre, and entertaining content creators.
Among the creators Hao Lei followed was a mechanical engineering graduate who frequently posted videos of his handmade Gundam models on his TikTok channel.
This creator had a particular passion for Gundam and Exoskeleton Armor—an incredibly intense interest. Fueled purely by this passion, he had drawn up complete design schematics and even built a functional, combat-ready small-scale model of an Exoskeleton Armor.
Of course, he hadn’t solved the problem of a power source; he had only perfected the mechanical engineering and design.
Perhaps due to limited time and funding, the creator didn’t post videos very frequently, so his channel was quite niche, with fewer than ten thousand followers. As it happened, Hao Lei was one of his die-hard fans.
Fang Zhen took a look and found it quite interesting.
This guy had only solved the mechanical problems of the Gundam and exoskeleton, referencing some online resources from abroad and applying his mechanical engineering knowledge to build the models and armor.
However, he hadn’t considered the power source at all, nor had he dealt with things like electrical signals or the programming for the Exoskeleton Armor’s control interface.
But that was fine, because Fang Zhen didn’t need any of that.
For the Exoskeleton Armor he envisioned, he planned to replace the conventional power source entirely with an Extraordinary one: Energy Storage Stones.
In other words, the Energy Storage Stones would provide all the power, eliminating the need for any additional electric or steam-based power source. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
The power transmission could be handled by a runic alchemy system, making any other kind of transmission system obsolete.
This creator’s work was a perfect match for Fang Zhen’s requirements.
After getting the creator’s contact information from Hao Lei, Fang Zhen called him directly to arrange a meeting.
