Saint Luke's Hospital.

After exchanging greetings, a vice president quickly appeared and arranged for a nurse to handle Zhuang Wei's transfer to a VIP ward, moving her to a private room.

Compared to the six-person room, the new ward was much more spacious, warmer, and quieter.

After Su Yehao finished exchanging pleasantries with the vice president, his assistant Zhuang Wei, lying on the hospital bed, covered her mouth and coughed twice, asking, "Boss, why are you here? I'm fine. I probably caught a cold in London."

Su Yehao smiled and said, "I had you running around to so many places, and going from hot to cold makes it easy to get sick. I've already assigned the roadshow task to someone else. Take a good rest in Tokyo for a while, and it won't be too late to go back to work after you've fully recovered. This counts as a work injury, and I'll cover all the medical expenses. After the successful IPO, I'll give you all more bonuses."

Nong Qingying chimed in, "Yes, your face looked so red just now. You were about to burn up."

Reaching out to touch her own face, Zhuang Wei smiled gratefully, probably because Su Yehao had come to visit her in person, making her feel that her boss was very reliable. She said, "Thank you. It's also my fault for not exercising regularly. I'll go hiking and play tennis with friends to get some exercise when I get better."

"You really should exercise, but I know you guys have a lot of work to do now. Let's hire more people later. It'll only get busier, and things will be much easier if we spread the work out."

Su Yehao told her to rest and asked the nurse if there was a special care service.

He was surprised to learn that there was a deluxe package that included customized meals from famous restaurants, 24-hour service, and priority access for checkups and treatments, costing 500,000 yen per day, or 35,000 Hong Kong dollars, specifically for high-end clients.

Thinking that Japanese hospitals really knew how to play the game, Su Yehao booked it for Zhuang Wei for three days and had someone send a meal over, followed by a full medical checkup.

The customized meal hadn't arrived yet.

Kinshiro Kento from Dai-Ichi Kangyo Securities arrived first with a bouquet of carnations and several boxes of fruit wrapped in wooden boxes to visit her.

Finding that Su Yehao was indeed there, Kinshiro Kento was overjoyed and said in English from afar:

"Young Master Su! Long time no see. Congratulations on the upcoming IPO of your Yanwenzi Group. Our company will also participate in tomorrow's roadshow. I never thought that in just one year, you have become a globally renowned businessman. In all of Japan, only Masayoshi Son's achievements can barely compare to yours, but he's already old, so you're far ahead of him!"

Kinshiro Kento had studied abroad and had good English skills. His flattery skills were also excellent.

Back then, the headquarters of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank rejected Su Yehao's loan proposal for acquiring iCQ, but Kinshiro Kento had taken it upon himself to provide Su Yehao with a loan of 500 million Hong Kong dollars within his authority.

This could be considered a small favor.

With this connection, Su Yehao naturally gave Kinshiro Kento a lot of face, smiling and patting him on the shoulder, and telling him in English:

"There's still a certain gap between me and Masayoshi Son, but I'm confident that I'll surpass him. I've made a lot of money from my investments in your securities company, and I believe there will be many opportunities for cooperation in the future."

"Dai-Ichi Kangyo Securities is always ready to provide you with the best service, Mr. Su."

Kinshiro Kento said with a smile, looking at Linda Yun, Nong Qingying, and others. No matter what he thought in his heart, he kept his eyes straight ahead, not even glancing at them more than a few times, so as not to be misunderstood by Su Yehao.

Letting Zhuang Wei rest, Su Yehao and the others all went to the hallway.

Thinking of taking the opportunity to repay the small favor of changing the hospital room, and also to solve the funding problem for SK-II, he introduced Nong Qingying to Kinshiro Kento, telling him:

"This is my girlfriend. She recently came to Tokyo to do business and has joined me in acquiring a skincare company called SK-II. I'm confident that I can develop this company into a leading skincare brand. Currently, it's mainly developing in Asia, and there may be a lot of places where funding will be needed in the future, so I'll have to trouble you to handle the loan matters for her."

High-quality major clients who need money are like shining banknotes in Kinshiro Kento's eyes.

Although he had already left the banking department, as long as he released the news that he had a major client in hand, he believed that there would definitely be old colleagues who would be willing to give up the commission for securing the loan, just to complete their performance tasks.

Compared to the reward money, promotion and salary increases were more important to many bank employees. Once they were in a higher position, they wouldn't have to worry about making money.

So Su Yehao's introduction of orders to him was equivalent to giving Kinshiro Kento another chance to earn extra money, and it was the kind that didn't violate company regulations at all, allowing his former colleagues to complete their performance while he could get the commission reward for the order.

With a smile on his face, Kinshiro Kento thanked him and said enthusiastically:

"I know SK-II. It operates counters in many shopping malls, and there are also independent stores in Ginza. When I get home later, I'll have my wife and her friends switch to SK-II products. I can also purchase a batch to give to clients as gifts."

After listening.

Su Yehao smiled. The other party was still so smooth and sensible in his eyes, and his ability to handle things was also good.

He had thought about poaching Kinshiro Kento to work under him before, but unfortunately, the man didn't agree in the end, as he had a family and didn't speak the language, and didn't want to leave his comfort zone where he had worked for many years.

Like many people in Hong Kong, Nong Qingying's English skills were okay, and she had gone to the UK as an exchange student.

While flipping through her bag to get her business card, she smiled and said, "Then thank you very much, sir. You can come to our company for inspection when you have time. In order to increase the product variety and expand the number of stores, we can indeed take out a loan of about 20 billion yen. Our company's debt ratio is very low."

The previous expenses were mainly paid by Su Yehao, and SK-II had almost no debt. The loan had been settled as early as when it was acquired.

Seeing that the two had exchanged business cards, Su Yehao remembered another thing.

He continued to say to Kinshiro Kento:

"Oh, that's right, I'm planning to increase leverage recently and continue to be bullish on the NASDAQ index. If you can handle it here, then I'll give you the order. I'll be allocating about two hundred million US dollars, with five to ten times leverage, to bet that the NASDAQ index will continue to go crazy."

The two hundred million US dollars that Su Yehao planned to take out came from his plan to clear out and cash in his Qualcomm stock.

In addition to that, he also intended to sell his Cisco stock.

The stock prices of these two companies were already very high. The same was true for Yahoo and Amazon. In his opinion, the profits from simply profiting from the stock market were not as good as increasing leverage to go long on the NASDAQ stock index, or on individual stock options.

Unlike before when he didn't have enough chips in his hand, now he was rich and powerful, and taking some risks wouldn't hurt. It was suitable for a little light gambling...