"One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, ten million, a billion!"
Liu Chen stared at the zeros following the number in the text message on her phone. After counting them, she was completely stunned.
"A hundred million!"
Ren Yu had transferred a hundred million to her!
Hu Min, sitting two children away from Liu Chen, vaguely heard the phrase "a hundred million" and couldn't help but ask, "A hundred million what?"
Sensing the eight pairs of eyes from the four adults in the room fixed on her, Liu Chen coughed twice: "Ahem, it's Zhuzhu asking about my Weibo. You guys continue discussing, I'm going to the restroom."
With that, Liu Chen grabbed her phone and hurried to her master bedroom, closing the door and locking it from the inside.
The sound of the lock turning made the four adults in the living room exchange bewildered glances.
Wang Dong looked at Hu Min, Hu Min looked at her elder sister-in-law, and Liu Fang looked at Chen Long, lowering her voice, "See! This definitely looks like she's in a relationship! She has to hide to make a phone call!"
Under his wife's accusing gaze, Chen Long could only blink. He then subtly guided his empress-like wife towards the master bedroom door. The four of them held their breath, trying to overhear what Liu Chen was saying inside.
Liu Chen, now sitting by the edge of the bathtub, had just connected her call to Ren Yu.
As soon as the call connected, Liu Chen quickly said, "I don't need that much money."
A hundred million, she felt she could buy half of the land for that future high-tech industrial park!
"Take it. Aren't you worried about not having enough money to build the houses after buying the land? After building the houses, you still need to buy equipment and renovate. There are many expenses."
Listening to Ren Yu, Liu Chen pursed her lips. That was true. She had originally planned to buy the land outright and then get a loan from the bank to build, renovate, and buy equipment. Now, with this hundred million, all the intricate plans she had mulled over countless times in her mind on how to secure funds suddenly seemed pointless.
"Then, I might need this money for a whole year?"
It wasn't that Liu Chen didn't want to repay the money quickly. The main reason was that even though she was confident in the sales of Meimei Chang and the pork jerky, anyone who had worked as a manufacturer knew that:
The faster the goods sell, the more capital distributors tie up.
Distributors are different from retail. In retail, buyers pay you immediately. But in this era, when manufacturers sell to distributors, most transactions are on a rolling basis.
What does "rolling basis" mean?
There are two types. One is time-based rolling: settlement is done monthly, where the previous month's accounts are settled in the middle of the current month, meaning distributors hold onto half a month's worth of payment.
The other is payment-based rolling: regardless of how long a batch of goods takes to sell, payment is only made for the first batch when the second batch is picked up.
Generally, when promoting a new product, most manufacturers adopt the second type of rolling, or are forced to.
This is because the vast majority of distributors cannot sell the first batch of a new product within a month.
Liu Chen, on the other hand, is fortunate enough to be settled along with Meili Pai's payments, meaning settlement is monthly.
With the launch of the pork jerky, the amount of outstanding payment will increase. Of course, for every piece of pork jerky sold, Liu Chen earns nearly two hundred from the system alone, which is essentially a cash inflow, even more than that.
However, the company's sales volume is what it is. Even with the frightening profit margin of the pork jerky, it's impossible to earn a hundred million a year. As for Meili Chang, it's essentially breaking even.
"It's fine. Perhaps by next summer, your dividends will add up to a hundred million."
Ren Yu's words were spoken so casually that Liu Chen almost didn't react. After a two-second pause, she finally understood.
A hundred million divided by sixteen million would be... six, right?
She thought about how the first person to earn a hundred million after her rebirth wasn't the system, but her shares in Ren Yu's company.
Truly, life is unpredictable!
"Hahaha, the way you put it, I suddenly feel like a rich woman." Liu Chen looked up and saw herself in the bathroom mirror, her mouth stretched into a grin that nearly reached her earlobes.
Perhaps hearing Liu Chen's obvious joy, Ren Yu also lowered his voice and teased, "Rich woman, that term sounds quite interesting."
Then, Liu Chen chatted about resolving her cousin Jiang Di's situation upon her return that day.
Ren Yu also spoke about how, after incorporating the company into Tsinghua University's campus recruitment, the company had almost monopolized the interns from Tsinghua that year.
Of course, many students were unwilling to join startups, finding them unstable. However, the top eight out of the top ten in their major directly signed internships with Xinghai Technology.
They chatted for so long that Liu Chen's aunt came to call Liu Fang for dinner. As soon as she entered, she saw her younger sister with her pregnant belly leaning against the door, eavesdropping!
Liu Fen was also clever. Seeing her sister eavesdropping, she didn't say anything. She slowed her steps and returned to the foyer before raising her voice to shout, "Dinner is ready!"
Hearing the voice, Liu Chen, still somewhat reluctant to end the conversation, told Ren Yu, "I'm going to eat. Your suggestion is good. Since you're worried the planned industrial park might shift left or right, I'll just buy around it."
"Yes, if the plan is confirmed, the area that can be changed is limited. The overall direction cannot be altered, as determining the area of a development zone takes at least several years of negotiation."
"Okay, bye-bye, I'm going to eat."
"Mm, goodbye."
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After hanging up the phone, Ren Yu held the hot mobile phone and placed it on the bedside table.
At that moment, the door was knocked on from the outside and then opened, revealing Shen Hong's smiling face. Seeing the lingering smile on Ren Yu's face, he winked and said, "Boss, you were on the phone with your wife?"
Ren Yu shook his head, "Not my wife, she's still young."
Hearing this, Shen Hong couldn't help but roll his eyes: "Young? She's already a freshman and still young? Forget about Tsinghua, do you know that some of those beasts at Peking University are eyeing Liu Chen? If I, Old Shen, hadn't stepped in and announced that Liu Chen has a boyfriend, those beasts would have confessed their love to her by now."
Ren Yu's faint smile disappeared from his face. He put his hands in his pockets and turned his back to Shen Hong, gazing at the expansive view of the villa district outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. "No need to stop them. Let Chenchen see these people."
Shen Hong looked confused at this statement: "Let Chenchen see these people? What do you mean? Let them pursue Chenchen? You trust Chenchen so much that she won't be swayed?"
Ren Yu tilted his head slightly, looking at Shen Hong behind him, and gave him a look of profound meaning.
Shen Hong looked at Ren Yu's expression, completely bewildered. It wasn't until he closed the door and was about to leave that it suddenly dawned on him.
"Holy crap! You're planning to use them as a benchmark for comparison! Holy crap, Boss, why are you so devious!?"
Ren Yu, who was called devious, didn't care at all. httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
What's wrong with being devious?
Wouldn't you use tricks to chase a wife? Are you going to wait until you're old and pulling the oxygen tube to use tricks?
Of course, the reason he dared to do this was his certainty that a smart girl like Chenchen would not be fooled by the sweet talk of some superficial playboys.
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Liu Chen was unaware that the reason no one had pursued her this semester was that someone had already spread the word that she had a boyfriend.
She was currently sitting at the dinner table, being subtly questioned by her mother.
"Chenchen, you're in college now, are your classmates all dating?"
Liu Chen picked up a piece of food with her chopsticks, finished it, and said, "It's alright. After all, they're adults, and they have the freedom to date."
Hearing this, Liu Fang kicked Chen Long, who was sitting next to her.
Receiving the hint, Chen Long put down his chopsticks, sighed inwardly. His wife had spoken, so even the most difficult task had to be done.
"Chenchen, your mom wants to ask if, after nearly a semester at Tsinghua, any boys have pursued you?"
Chen Long's question made Liu Chen pause. She suddenly realized that, indeed, no one had pursued her.
She shook her head, "No, perhaps everyone isn't that interested in dating, and no one has ever pursued me."
Liu Fang, who had been worried about her daughter dating, was unhappy to hear this.
Her Chenchen was so beautiful and outstanding, were these young boys blind? Couldn't they see her?
"If they don't pursue you, it's because they lack vision. Listen to your mother, we're not in a hurry."
After thinking for a moment, worried that Chenchen might actually take her words too seriously and not be in a hurry, Liu Fang quickly added, "It's also possible that we're too formidable, and they're afraid to pursue you. Believe your mother, there are plenty of excellent boys in this world. When you enter society, the boys who pursue you will definitely stretch from your apartment gate all the way to the entrance of the residential compound."
Liu Chen smiled and shook her head, listening to her mother's comforting words.
"Don't worry, Mom. If I really have a boyfriend, I'll tell you."
As soon as she said this, Liu Fang breathed a sigh of relief, but her mouth continued to chatter, "It's okay, it's okay. Your mom isn't some old-fashioned traditional woman, I'm very open-minded."
"Yes, and I just borrowed a hundred million from Ren Yu-ge today. I estimate that no one will dare to pursue me before I repay the debt, right?"
The moment Liu Chen uttered these words, all the chopsticks on the table stopped moving. Everyone, with remarkable synchronicity, leaned their bodies slightly towards Liu Chen.
Liu Fang's eyes widened, and she directly asked, "What? What did you just say, a hundred million?"
Liu Chen took another bowl for herself, scooped some black chicken soup, stirred it to skim off the surface oil, and then spooned two spoonfuls into her mouth.
Seeing that the chicken soup had gone down and wouldn't spill, Liu Fang pressed again, "What did you say, what hundred million?"
Liu Chen put down the spoon in the bowl and blinked innocently, "Just money, RMB, a hundred million."
"Crash..."
The ceramic spoon in Liu Fang's hand fell into the bowl, splashing a considerable amount of soup onto the tablecloth in front of her.
"You, you borrowed a hundred million from Ren Yu? You, how could you, how will you repay this money?"