Chapter 48
Although Zhuang Yi’s follower had spoken very rudely, everyone present was a business tycoon. Many people had already begun asking their assistants to look into Zhuang Yi’s background.
Although Yan Qingwen knew the truth, she still had to put on an act. She had Chen Zhien, who was standing not far away, also look into what exactly Dawei Tianlong Group was.
Very soon, someone shouted out the results of their investigation. “Dawei Tianlong Group—wasn’t its predecessor Weilong Group, which was invested in by the central state-owned enterprise Dawei Telecom? Seven years ago, Weilong Group was on the verge of bankruptcy. The current chairman, Qiu Xin, stepped forward and acquired Weilong Group, renaming it Dawei Tianlong Group. One year later, relying on a five-billion-yuan order from J Country, he successfully saved Dawei Tianlong Group…”
Someone looked at Zhuang Yi and asked, “Then what’s going on with this president? I’ve never heard of him before.”
“This gentleman is the newly appointed president. He took office a few days ago,” Zhuang Yi’s follower said proudly. Although their Dragon King was the president, he knew that the current chairman of Dawei Tianlong, Qiu Xin, was only working for their Dragon King. The one truly in charge was their Dragon King!
After confirming Zhuang Yi’s identity, quite a few businessmen had already changed their attitude toward him.
Jiang Zanghua also intended to make his acquaintance, but Jiang Yunhan stopped him and said, “Uncle, we’re one of K City’s three great families after all. How can we rush over to curry favor with him? That would be too degrading. Since he appeared here, he must need to pull in investment. He should be the one begging us.”
In reality, he was frantically complaining inwardly:
【Damn Dragon King male lead. He’s even come to K City to scam money?!】
In The Dragon King Returns, after the Dragon King male lead took over Yan Group, in order to clear away his obstacles in K City, he quickly gathered the strength of K City’s major families to deal with Shenji Sect. Thus, he revealed his trump card—Dawei Tianlong Group.
After this group, which had been on the verge of bankruptcy and had suffered years of losses, was revived by J Country’s five-billion-yuan order, it used a shell company to go public. Its main business was in aerospace communications. Three years ago, by cooperating with Huada to launch a commercial communications satellite, it earned a wave of trust from stock investors, and the group’s stock rose sharply. In just a few short years, it developed from a company losing hundreds of millions into a behemoth worth hundreds of billions in market value.
Immediately afterward, the group chairman, Qiu Xin, began painting grand promises. He said that in the next few years, they would launch thirty-six communications satellites and create a huge communications system, harvesting another wave of leeks.
Of course, in recent years, those communications satellites had hardly been launched. Either they exploded, or new grand promises were painted to shift the public’s attention, such as building a deep-water port in Crimea for W Country.
By the time Zhuang Yi became president, which was the current time period, Dawei Tianlong Group’s market value had already exceeded two hundred billion, and Qiu Xin’s net worth was estimated at fifty billion.
Because of all these shining points layered one over another, stock investors had great confidence, and many investors also saw business opportunities.
Zhuang Yi used Yan Corporation to build momentum for Dawei Tianlong Group, then released a blockbuster announcement, claiming that Dawei Tianlong Group would spend fifty billion to cooperate with N Country in digging a canal connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. It would replace the Panama Canal’s position, and in the future, they would be able to control ten percent of the world’s shipping pricing power.
He even received an audience with the president of N Country, and both sides signed the relevant cooperation proposal.
This news ignited the restless hearts of stock investors and investors alike. Hundreds of thousands of shareholders frantically bought Dawei Tianlong Group’s stock, and the group also easily obtained eighty billion in investment and loans.
When readers of The Dragon King Returns reached this part, they would also marvel that the male lead truly deserved to be the Dragon King. Even the president of a country rushed to cooperate with him.
In reality, Zhuang Yi had cashed out and transferred his assets when the stock price was at its highest. A few years later, when the public discovered that Dawei Tianlong was already heavily in debt, Zhuang Yi said he had long since resigned, so Dawei Tianlong had nothing to do with him.
Because Dawei Tianlong’s chairman was Qiu Xin, and he took the money and ran to J Country, the shareholders and investors could not find him and could only accept their bad luck.
And after K City was harvested by Zhuang Yi like this, everyone suffered heavy losses and could no longer hinder Yan Corporation’s rise. They could only obey his orders.
At this time, Shenji Sect had already learned of Zhuang Yi’s existence and began thinking of every possible way to deal with him. Unfortunately, all of Shenji Sect’s assets combined were still not as much as Zhuang Yi’s assets alone. Moreover, Zhuang Yi had the forces of all of K City supporting him. In the end, even the final boss could only lose to him in hatred.
As for whether anyone discovered that this was a conspiracy during the time he built this shocking scam?
Naturally, there were. The official Ministry of Commerce had once issued warnings to investors, but Dawei Tianlong Group’s external packaging was too good. They had shaped Qiu Xin into a patriotic private entrepreneur and loudly praised him as a genius businessman and the youngest billionaire. Many people chose to believe the grand promises he painted.
And Lin Yixiao, the villain who appeared in the early-to-mid stages, had nearly uncovered all the scams Zhuang Yi had set up. But in the end, Zhuang Yi struck first, used her weakness, and got rid of her.
The readers of The Dragon King Returns were all biased. They felt there was nothing wrong with the Dragon King male lead. After all, the Dragon King should be exactly this kind of ruthless person who used any means necessary. The world had failed him too much, so it was understandable for him to repay the world this way.
After hearing Jiang Yunhan’s words, Jiang Zanghua also felt they made sense, so he maintained his airs and waited for Zhuang Yi to come forward and chat with them.
Yan Qingwen digested the information revealed by Jiang Yunhan’s inner thoughts and the [Comments Section], wanting to know how Jiang Yunhan would slap the “Dragon King male lead” in the face.
Thinking of this, she turned her head and asked Wen Hebai, “Are you hungry? Let’s go eat something first.”
Wen Hebai linked arms with her, her smile as warm as a spring breeze. “Okay, Wife~”
Seeing that Yan Qingwen had actually ignored him, Zhuang Yi’s expression abruptly changed and darkened. The people beside him who had originally wanted to strike up a conversation with him instantly stiffened, unsure whether they should go forward or not.
This business dinner was being held at the Li family’s hotel, so the catering was naturally prepared by the Li family’s chefs. Before the formal seating, there were some drinks and desserts. Wen Hebai took a small mousse cake and brought it to Yan Qingwen’s lips.
Yan Qingwen: “…”
Had this person really not noticed Zhuang Yi’s fierce gaze, as if he wanted to swallow her whole?
For Wen Hebai’s personal safety, Yan Qingwen did not really want to play along. However, this was a public place. If she refused, rumors would definitely spread that they appeared united but were emotionally estranged.
After thinking for half a minute, Yan Qingwen bit into the small cake, and Wen Hebai put the rest into her own stomach.
“The two of them are eating the same little cake together. Oh my god, their relationship is so good!” Qing Zikai, who was beside Wen Hegu, let out a girlish, deliberately sweet voice.
Wen Hegu looked at him, her expression hard to describe. She suspected that bringing him here tonight might have been a mistake.
Clearly, their small gesture also fell into Zhuang Yi’s eyes. He could no longer endure them acting so intimately in front of him, so he stepped forward and put on the posture of someone in power. “Miss Yan, I have a project you might be very interested in.”
【The Dragon King male lead couldn’t get Yan Corporation, so he wants to use this project to trap Yan Corporation, then threaten Female Lead No. 1 into being with him?】 As soon as Zhuang Yi stuck out his butt, Jiang Yunhan knew he was about to shit.
[The male lead is about to make a huge contribution in front of Female Lead No. 1 again.]
[Sigh, this author’s writing is too terrible. Why not write Female Lead No. 1’s inner thoughts?]
[+1. I want to see the scene where Female Lead No. 1 discovers the truth and falls for the male lead.]
[The hell, you guys just want to see a beauty throw herself at him.]
[The male lead was her bootlicker for seven years, and now he revealed such a huge piece of information and helped her. So what if she throws herself at him?]
Yan Qingwen’s brow lifted. Judging from these comments in the [Comments Section], the force behind Jiang Yunhan seemed unable to spy on her inner thoughts? That was good. Otherwise, it might discover she had long since awakened and use other methods to trap her.
If Yan Qingwen had not seen the [Comments Section] back then, perhaps she would have been like the previous Liao Song and avoided being trapped early because of his inner thoughts, thereby being captured by him emotionally. Now, she wanted to see what actions Jiang Yunhan and the force behind him would take if she pretended not to hear his inner thoughts.
“There aren’t many projects that can interest me. Let me state this in advance: if it’s new energy vehicles, forget it,” Yan Qingwen said lightly.
At the mention of new energy vehicles, the Jiang family’s expressions immediately changed. Saying this in front of so many people—wasn’t she telling everyone that Yan Corporation would not invest in Jiang Corporation’s new energy vehicles?!
In the early stage, they had used Yan Corporation to build momentum and even told people that Yan Qingwen’s biological mother had also invested fifty million. Originally, everyone had been very confident, but after Yan Qingwen stirred things up like this, how many people would tell them they were not investing after tonight?
【Damn, what madness is this woman throwing? What’s the point of dragging Jiang Corporation into the water at a time like this?】 Jiang Yunhan was also extremely angry. He had even been thinking of stepping forward to help Yan Qingwen just now. Now, he would simply wait and watch the show!
Zhuang Yi crooked his mouth into a smile. “It’s not a childish project like new energy vehicles, but a project that can truly make big money. Why don’t we talk in a private room?”
Wen Hebai tucked the hair by her temple behind her ear and smiled faintly. “Our Wen family is also quite interested in the money-making project you mentioned. Why not tell us too?”
Once she spoke, many people who enjoyed watching excitement joined in. “That’s right, we’re interested too.”
Zhuang Yi’s face turned livid.
【He’s starting to whet everyone’s appetite!】 Jiang Yunhan mocked inwardly.
“All right!” Zhuang Yi seemed extremely unwilling, but in order to satisfy Yan Qingwen and Wen Hebai, he still chose to publicly announce the news that NG Investment Co., Ltd. had won the N Country canal project.
NG Investment Co., Ltd. was the company Dawei Tianlong Group had established in G City based on its cooperation with N Country on this project. It had gone public one year ago. From that time onward, Dawei Tianlong Group had been preparing to win this project. Recently, they had already begun negotiations with the N Country government and were expected to secure the project with fifty billion.
Zhuang Yi was not afraid of being investigated, because all of this information could be found on N Country’s official website. Negotiating with the N Country government, President N personally receiving Qiu Xin, and signing contracts with him—all these actions were real. But once Dawei Tianlong Group obtained loans and investment funds, they would use methods such as delaying construction progress to make shareholders and investors sink deep into the swamp, unable to escape.
Zhuang Yi spoke eloquently. “As long as we can obtain control of this canal, we can control ten percent of global logistics pricing power. Think about it: after M Country obtained control of the Panama Canal back then, how much money did it make from it? And Egypt, which controls the Suez Canal—others can only beg it to open the gates and let them pass!”
The businessmen had all received the information collected by their assistants, and their hearts were deeply shaken. “Dawei Tianlong is truly capable!”
If they really obtained control of the N Country canal, then large sums of money would flow into their pockets even while they lay down!
Even Jiang Zanghua was somewhat tempted by what he heard.
Facing those businessmen who kept asking Zhuang Yi for more information, Zhuang Yi ignored them all. He only looked deeply at Yan Qingwen. “Miss Yan, what do you think?”
Yan Qingwen raised her eyes and looked at him. “President Zhuang… this isn’t the attitude of someone sincerely discussing cooperation.”
Zhuang Yi frowned. He had already lowered his posture enough. Even the president of N Country could not make him act so humbly!
He felt anger simmering in his heart. Unfortunately, Wen Hebai even took the initiative to add fuel to the fire. She let out a mocking laugh and said, “You keep calling my wife ‘Miss Yan.’ That means you fundamentally don’t see her as the president of Yan Corporation.”
Zhuang Yi’s expression darkened. Why was she everywhere?! Did she think that just because he still admired her a little in his heart, she could speak to him with such an arrogant attitude?
“This was my oversight. My apologies, President Yan,” Zhuang Yi said to Yan Qingwen while suppressing his anger.
Yan Qingwen smiled faintly and shifted her gaze to the Jiang family. “Speaking of logistics, that seems to be the Jiang family’s field. Compared to Yan Corporation, it seems cooperating with the Jiang family would be better.”
Jiang Yunhan was almost hopping mad:
【Pah, pah, pah! Yan Qingwen, what a vicious heart you have. You’re trying to divert disaster eastward?!】
The [Comments Section] also began showing voices scolding Yan Qingwen.
[What’s going on with Female Lead No. 1? She clearly heard the male lead’s inner thoughts. She’s doing this on purpose, right?]
Of course, there were also people trying to rationalize Yan Qingwen’s behavior:
[Haha, she’s doing it on purpose. She wants the male lead to step forward and deal with that idiot Zhuang Yi so the male lead can shine!]
[That analysis makes sense too.]
Zhuang Yi glanced at Jiang Yunhan and thought that this guy had ruined too many of his good things recently. Moreover, every woman he had set his eyes on had this guy’s figure beside them. Was he trying to steal his women from him? Then he would start with the Jiang family first!
“If the Jiang family wants to invest, I also welcome it.” Zhuang Yi narrowed his eyes.
At this point, Jiang Yunhan could no longer care about offending the Dragon King male lead. “No thanks. You can play by yourselves. Our Jiang family won’t accompany you.”
“Can you represent the Jiang family?” someone asked.
Jiang Zanghua looked at Jiang Yunhan unhappily, but considering his recent contributions, he did not slap him in the face in front of outsiders.
Yan Qingwen said, “Our Yan family and the Jiang family can be considered family friends. We can’t very well compete with them for food, so forgive me for having no interest.”
Zhuang Yi wanted to kill Jiang Yunhan.
All the sugar in this chapter is in the content summary. Hahahahahahaha.
Note: Dawei Tianlong Group scamming hundreds of billions was inspired by news about XinW Group. All content involving communications satellites, Crimea deep-water port, N Country’s canal, and signing contracts with the president of N Country is based on news reports related to XinW Group. Of course, because this is a novel, some of the data has been exaggerated.
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