Tao Liangchen
Chapter 216 Misjudged, Perhaps?
This girl had once been mortified by an embarrassing moment in a chat room, but after half a year, she had gradually let it go.
She asked, "You don't go to school in Hong Kong, so why are you back here guarding the store?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Yin Liuli sitting there with her chin in her hand. Zhao Yimeng suddenly understood and added, "No wonder, so there's a beauty here. You really haven't changed."
"My school is close to home, so I can come back whenever I want. Isn't it normal to see me in the store? Miss Zhao, you have more trouble, having to take a dozen-hour flight. For the sake of old times, I'll treat you to cocktails tonight?"
After Su Yehao finished speaking, he looked at her friends.
He recognized them all, having seen them at Tung Fong Rose School before.
A girl with an oval face said with a smile, "Brother Hao is making a lot of money now. He's been in the newspapers one after another for playing the financial markets, and he's even developed a software. My classmates are always gathering in the chat room. AoL's fees are too expensive."
Someone next to her also said, "Yeah, my dad told me that Sihai International got the land in Pengcheng this time at a very cheap price. It's like a dragon crossing the river, and it's likely to make a big profit."
After leaving Tung Fong Rose School, everyone had different experiences.
The vast majority of the students were still studying steadily, enriching and improving themselves, while Su Yehao had quickly risen to prominence, branching out in all directions and starting a business.
Despite his seemingly idle appearance, he had actually made a name for himself in the younger generation circles of Casino and Hong Kong through several major moves, and was often talked about after dinner.
Su Yehao said cheerfully upon hearing this:
"tAt has been updated and you can add me separately. Remember to help me promote it. Speaking of which, I have to thank Zhao Yimeng for not competing with me back then, otherwise I wouldn't have been so determined to try starting my own business. I invested millions and got relatively mature technology in return. The next step is to seize the market, and it should already be worth some money now."
Since going to London to study, Zhao Yimeng had rarely heard news about Su Yehao.
Hearing her friends talk about it now, she realized that this guy had recently done some big things. She raised her eyebrows and asked, "Did you really get that program up and running?"
"Yeah, I've been busy for half a year. The company now has more than eighty employees, and we're planning to invest 100 million to open up the markets in Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, and the mainland. We're setting up a research and development center near Stanford University in the United States. If things go well, we should also try to develop in Europe and the United States."
Su Yehao wasn't just trying to flatter himself. He really had the idea of earning U.S. dollars, mainly because compared to the mainland market, the United States had more internet users and the market was relatively more mature.
With the new social concept of personal space and a free promotion strategy, there was a good chance of taking the market away from AoL and iCQ.
Since there was an opportunity, he naturally had to try it.
He couldn't just sit and wait for the mainland market to mature slowly, that would be a waste of time.
In his initial conception, the product would be divided into a mainland version and an international version, with separate servers and accounts to avoid future trouble.
Hearing these words, Zhao Yimeng felt a mix of emotions.
She didn't know how much effort Su Yehao had put into developing the new product, she only knew that she had also been optimistic about that chat room, but in the end, it was bought by Su Yehao...
After a short stay of a few minutes, Su Yehao wisely returned to Yin Liuli's side, no longer disturbing Zhao Yimeng and her friends' gathering.
Yin Liuli didn't ask, but he took the initiative to tell her in a low voice:
"I ran into some high school acquaintances. It was a great loss, so I comped their bill. The one with the short hair is the daughter of the Tung Fong Group. I used to like her quite a bit, and I almost arranged a marriage alliance. Now the Hong Kong stock price has plummeted, and real estate is also depreciating. My parents' total net worth should have surpassed her family's."
In the past, Su Yehao would probably have played dumb.
Now that his relationship with Yin Liuli was stable, and they had known each other for almost half a year, he thought it was better to explain things clearly than to let her overthink.
Yin Liuli glanced at Zhao Yimeng, who happened to be looking over as well. They nodded and smiled at each other.
"That's really rich. Marriages between big families can help each other and have the opportunity to reach a new level. Your parents must like her a lot, she's so beautiful." Yin Liuli's tone was calm. Since being with Su Yehao, she had already considered many issues in advance, such as entering the palace of marriage, and she no longer had any extravagant hopes.
Su Yehao shrugged and said, "The marriage alliance fell through a long time ago. I haven't contacted her since graduation. Others need to rely on alliances to shorten the development time, but that's useless to me. I treat doing business as a career, and as for earning money itself, it's actually easy."
His tone was so confident that it was hard for Yin Liuli to take it as a joke.
Since the two had met, Su Yehao had indeed earned a wealth of income in a short period of half a year that ordinary people could not achieve.
Yin Liuli said with a smile, "You have everything, which makes me quite distressed. I mean, what kind of Christmas gift should I give you? Even if I give everything I have, the gift I buy is still very ordinary. Can you tell me, what exactly do you want?"
"...Writing a card is fine, the important thing is the thought. We have so many traditional festivals, why should we celebrate foreign festivals? The cultural output of Europe and the United States is too strong, this is a form of invisible invasion, and we must pay attention to it and resolutely resist it."
Su Yehao solemnly changed the subject, trying to save himself from the "holiday crisis," and then said:
"I'll find someone to help you immigrate to Hong Kong, so you don't have to apply for a visa. We can take some time to go on vacation for a few days after I'm done with this period, probably around January of next year."
Not knowing Su Yehao's true thoughts, Yin Liuli thought he really didn't like Christmas.
She felt that the so-called cultural output made a lot of sense, so she didn't mention it anymore and asked along the topic, "Is it troublesome to immigrate?"
Su Yehao rubbed his stomach, saying, "It depends on the situation. It's easy if you have money. At worst, I'll give you a sum of money to apply for investment immigration. As long as you agree first, I'll find someone to handle it for you. It won't be too difficult."
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Before leaving the store, Su Yehao said goodbye to Zhao Yimeng again.
And Zhao Yimeng was really curious, so while going to the bathroom, she asked her mother's secretary to help collect information about Su Yehao.
Early the next morning, the Zhao family's eldest lady received a file bag. After taking out the information and reading it, she discovered that Su Yehao had not only founded an internet technology company called tAt, but also koko Venture Capital. He had also earned nearly 200 million through Hong Kong's current chief financial advisor, Zheng Yongwen, and had become the ninth largest shareholder of Yahoo, earning more than 200 million from Yahoo.
Seeing this information, Zhao Yimeng was simply stunned.
They were about the same age, so why could that guy take off all the way, making a series of fortunes in just half a year?
Zhao Yimeng's mother, Jin Yu, quietly appeared behind her daughter.
After secretly reading the information, she said to her daughter with a smile:
"You misjudged him, didn't you? Boys mature later, he just looked unreliable before. I've had dinner with CEO Su a few times and heard that the idea of investing in real estate in the mainland was also proposed by Xiao Hao. And his father seems to be a little addicted, and there are rumors that he plans to continue to acquire land in Taipa Island to build a cultural tourism real estate complex project in Casino. The financial crisis has had very little impact on his family, I'm so envious..."