Compared to Su Yehao,

the lives of Toothy Jun and Zhugan seemed more normal.

These few good-for-nothing friends all came from well-off families and were currently in college, without needing to worry about their careers or future.

Every day, they ate, drank, and played the *World of Warcraft* game as a group, living an especially carefree life.

Only Zhugan was slightly unlucky, having been forced by his family to take the Certified Public Accountant qualification exam. It was said to be so difficult that he wanted to bang his head against the wall. His parents hoped he could join their accounting firm and take over the business in the future.

With an accounting firm that had an annual net profit of twenty to thirty million Hong Kong dollars, Zhugan's parents certainly didn't want to leave it all to the partners.

Without someone watching over the business, it could easily be hollowed out, and it wouldn't even take much effort to steal the core clients, causing the business to quickly go belly up.

Zhugan's parents didn't expect him to be particularly capable.

They just wanted him to understand the business of the accounting firm and learn how to manage it. The specific tasks could be handled by the employees.

If Su Yehao was still the old Su Yehao, he would probably be arranged by his parents just like Zhugan.

In the end.

These friends in their early twenties were already standing at the crossroads of life, still confused about their future, while Su Yehao had already taken the first step.

They had lunch and drank some beer.

Even He Shaofan, who had always loved to play and had no ambition, knew that if he continued like this, he would be abandoned by the rest of his family, including his parents.

There was no choice. With so many siblings, resources were bound to be skewed.

If he didn't strive for success, he would inevitably be marginalized. But even so, He Shaofan's life wasn't hard.

On the other hand, Toothy Jun was only getting a few shops in Casino, 1997 from his family, which was slightly better than his peers, but he had no idea what to do in the future.

So, after a few bottles of beer, Toothy Jun started clamoring to latch onto Su Yehao's coattails.

In the past, when everyone played together, no one thought anyone was a deadbeat.

But as Su Yehao made a fortune and achieved success, the damage caused by the comparison instantly became apparent.

A good meal and drinks turned into a complaint session in the end. He Shaofan said that his father and relatives often compared him to Su Yehao.

Zhugan also said that his parents had repeatedly told him to learn from Su Yehao and stop playing games all day long.

Su Yehao was amused by the scene. He punished himself with two glasses of beer to calm them down. Seeing that everyone was unhappy, he suddenly felt much better.

Thinking about it carefully, it was a case of gains and losses.

Even though he was troubled by how to handle the relationship between himself and Jiang Yu because of her influence, he had finally gotten his wish and won Jiang Yu over. As long as he could get through the current difficulties, the good days in the future would be long.

The reason he had called his friends for lunch and used alcohol to dispel his sorrows was simply because both Nangong Tian and Jiang Yu were dear to him. He was worried that if he didn't handle things properly, things would go wrong on both sides. This was something that others couldn't help him with too much; Su Yehao had to do it himself...

After the meal.

He took Toothy Jun and the others home to play mahjong.

Nangong Tian volunteered to take Su Yehao's place, and her mahjong skills were incredibly smooth.

In the underground chess and card room of the Big Wave Bay villa, there was an extra mahjong table produced by Meidi Group.

He had heard his father mention it when he met him the day before yesterday.

He said that Meidi's development department had bought several mahjong machines from Japan, and within two months of taking them apart, they had produced similar products. The technical threshold was very low, and they had modified them to launch an upgraded version.

The so-called upgrade referred to the larger size of the mahjong tiles, while Japanese mahjong tiles were smaller.

When the mahjong machine shuffles the tiles, it relies on the weight of the tiles themselves. If they are too light or too small when stacked, it is difficult to stack them neatly, so the mahjong tiles in the mahjong machine are larger than those used for hand-shuffled mahjong.

Considering the relatively high price, the first batch of products was exclusively for Hong Kong and Casino, 1997. As soon as this product was launched, it was met with rave reviews in the market, and sales had already exceeded 20,000 units.

With his father's connections in Hong Kong, it wasn't difficult to find newspapers to advertise and promote the product.

With such high market demand, there was no need to worry about sales after building momentum.

Recently, mahjong parlors all over the streets were purchasing them. If a parlor didn't use mahjong machines, it would quickly lose customers.

Su Yehao watched them play mahjong, sitting beside them in a daze.

He continued to plan ahead.

On the one hand, he was thinking about how to create an opportunity to be alone with Nangong Tian and Jiang Yu.

On the other hand, he was considering preparing a gift for Nangong Tian as compensation to alleviate his guilt.

Hearing Toothy Jun mention that his parents were going on a trip, Su Yehao suddenly had an idea. He thought that buying a private island seemed like a good idea.

He had seen news about islands for sale in magazines, and the prices weren't too expensive.

When the time came, he would think of a way to get Nangong Tian and Jiang Yu drunk and carry out a big plan to create an accident artificially.

Even if Nangong Tian got angry afterward, there would be nowhere to run on the island. In addition, the scenery on the island was beautiful, which would be suitable for calming emotions, and it seemed to be able to increase the probability of success to a certain extent.

Su Yehao, who always believed that "opportunity favors the prepared," immediately went to the study alone and contacted his personal assistant, Zhuang Wei, again, asking her to look for islands for sale in the Maldives, Tahiti, or the Bahamas, preferably private islands that had already been developed and had complete facilities for convenience.

There were companies that specialized in the high-end island sales business, similar to real estate agents.

At a little past three o'clock that afternoon, Su Yehao received a call from Zhuang Wei, saying that the information had been sent to his email.

Through American Express, she had found some information on private islands, but they might not be willing to sell, so she was giving him a reference for now.

He went upstairs again.

After opening the computer and checking, he found a total of more than sixty islands listed, with detailed information.

It seemed that some wealthy people had previously requested Amex to find islands, otherwise how would there be such ready-made information? The islands were ranked according to their location, hotel rating, environment, and other factors, making it easy to understand.

Su Yehao held the mouse and flipped through the pages. Islands with too low a rating were skipped, and he only looked at the top twenty. Unfortunately, there were no pictures.

But that wasn't difficult for him.

He copied the island names and used Yahoo to search.

Websites for online hotel reservations had already appeared on the market, and Amex itself also provided this type of service, so he could find pictures related to the islands.

The top twenty islands were mainly concentrated in the Bahamas, Tahiti, French Polynesia, and the British Virgin Islands, which were all popular vacation islands for Westerners.

To Su Yehao's surprise, from tenth place to twelfth place, they were all in the Maldives.

They all belonged to a company called Universal Resorts, namely Coconut Island, Kuramathi Island, and Velaa Faru Island, the filming location for the movie *The Blue Lagoon*.

After looking at the photos, Su Yehao had an idea. He stopped focusing on the islands themselves and began to search for information on Universal Resorts.

From an English travel journal, he found that an island called Baros, which opened in the Maldives in 1973, also seemed to belong to this company, meaning it might own four islands there.

Out of a desire to be good to Nangong Tian, Su Yehao began to consider trying to contact this company. Ideally, he could acquire it, or at least take a stake in it through financing.

Owning an existing hotel management company was much easier than buying a small island and managing it himself. It would save him a lot of trouble.

As for spending money, he wasn't afraid of spending money now, but he was very afraid of his fishpond blowing up...