433: Chapter 427: Remaining Balance 433: Chapter 427: Remaining Balance “Take me to the nearest city, thanks!”
With a smile on his face, Chen Hai nodded at the long-haired beauty and spoke.
“Get in, I’ll take you straight to Qin Island City, it will only take about half an hour!” the long-haired beauty replied with a smile.
Her voice was a bit rough, tending more towards a neutral tone.
From her mannerisms, she seemed to be quite outgoing and straightforward.
Where to?
Chen Hai didn’t care, as long as he reached the city.
It was rare to encounter a kind soul willing to give him a ride, so naturally, he had no complaints.
This convertible sports car only had two seats, so he walked around to the other side, opened the door, and took his seat in the passenger’s side.
“I’ve walked twenty to thirty miles on this road, flagged down quite a few cars, and you are the only one who was willing to stop and give me a ride, I’m really grateful!”
As he buckled his seatbelt, Chen Hai thanked her once again.
“I’m doing a car show, currently live streaming, testing out this sports car!”
“Giving you a ride is just convenient for me.”
“Look, many fans are giving thumbs up for my kind deed, and they’ve sent me quite a few gifts!”
“Actually, you don’t have to thank me, after all, we should call this mutual use, right?”
Pointing at the smartphone she had placed in front of her, the long-haired beauty covered her mouth and laughed.
While exchanging pleasantries, she teased Chen Hai, “My name is Nana, what about you, handsome?”
“My name is Chen Hai!” he hesitated for a moment before revealing his name.
Others were giving him a lift, and no matter their purpose, he certainly should accept their kindness.
While talking, Nana had already started the car.
Her driving skills were quite good.
Chen Hai, who considered himself an experienced driver, felt that his driving skills were slightly inferior compared to hers.
The only thing that surprised Chen Hai was that Nana seemed to have a bit more masculinity about her than expected.
When he inadvertently noticed she appeared to have an Adam’s apple, his face turned bemused, and he finally came to a realization.
Everyone has their own way of life, and for this, Chen Hai might find it odd, but he certainly wouldn’t meddle.
After chatting idly with Nana for a while, Chen Hai suddenly realized that even after arriving in Qin Island City, without identity documents, he might still have some difficulty getting around.
After all, in today’s era, almost everything requires real-name authentication.
Not to mention staying in a hotel or traveling, even buying a SIM card for a phone seemed impossible without an ID card.
Qin Island was not a short distance from his hometown Liuyuan County.
Not wanting to cause a spectacle with a frantic rush back home, it seemed his only option would be to buy a bicycle and ride it there.
“Nana, can I ask, how much did you buy this car for?
Are you willing to sell it?”
Looking at Nana, who had turned off the live stream and was focusing on driving, Chen Hai ventured to speak up and inquire.
“Sell it?
Why not?”
“This car, I just tested its performance and made a few episodes for the show, I’ll definitely sell it afterward and buy another performance car for testing.”
“Oh, you want to buy it?”
Slightly surprised, Nana quickly responded with a smile and a reply.
“Yes, I do want to buy a car, to drive all the way back home!” he nodded and said.
He had a driver’s license, but it had also expired.
If he bought a car to drive home and happened to encounter a checkpoint, he would just have to consider himself unlucky—at worst, he’d abandon the car!
That would be far more convenient than riding a bicycle all the way home.
“I bought this car as a second-hand vehicle, for two hundred eighty thousand.”
“The video of me buying this car was published in an episode a couple of issues back.”
“As long as the price is right, I’ll sell it to you!”
Outgoing as ever, Nana laughed heartily as she spoke.
“I can offer you five hundred thousand, but since my documents have expired, I can buy the car, but can’t transfer the ownership for now.”
“Once I go back to my hometown in Xiangnan Province and get all my documents sorted out, then I can handle the transfer paperwork!”
After hesitating for a moment, Chen Hai spoke up.
For him now, possessions truly did not mean much!
If he really wanted to make money, even robbing a bank would be unstoppable for him.
The reason why he had offered such a high price wasn’t just because the car couldn’t be transferred temporarily, but also to repay the courtesy Nana had shown by giving him a lift.
“Fifty thousand?” Upon hearing Chen Hai’s offer, Nana was clearly taken aback.
After buying a car and completing the test drive, although it was common to make a small profit reselling it, situations like the current one were definitely beyond his expectations.
As for the issue with the transfer of ownership, Chen Hai, who stood before him, seemed very sincere, not at all like someone involved in illegal activities.
As long as his car wasn’t used for any unlawful purposes, postponing the transfer of ownership didn’t seem like a big deal.
“Yes, fifty thousand, if you have no objections, let’s find an ATM and I can transfer the money to you directly!”
Chen Hai nodded affirmatively and responded.
“Wow, who would’ve thought I’d pick up a tall, rich, and handsome guy along the way!”
“If you’re willing to pay fifty thousand for this car, of course I have no objections!”
After a slight hesitation, Nana had already made up his mind.
While nodding, he joked with Chen Hai.
At this time, it was almost midnight.
The streets of Qin Island City had already become quite deserted.
Nana found a spot with a UnionPay ATM and parked the car by the roadside.
Since they had to do a transfer, he and Chen Hai naturally wouldn’t avoid each other but instead walked together to the ATM.
Chen Hai pulled out his bank card and inserted it into the slot.
How much money was in his account?
He could only be sure that it was at least several million.
Before he started the transfer to Nana, he casually checked his account balance.
“Ah…” Nana, who inadvertently caught a glimpse of the balance on Chen Hai’s card, couldn’t help but exclaim out loud.
Fortunately, he reacted quickly and immediately covered his mouth.
“One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand…”
“Just a random bank card in his possession has a balance of over ten billion?”
“Damn it, the guy in front of me, he’s the real deal…”
Although he covered his mouth, Nana’s eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
Those so-called business tycoons claim to have assets worth billions, but those valuations can be somewhat inflated.
But the funds on this person’s bank card were in cash, readily accessible and amounting to over ten billion.
Nana didn’t remember the whole string of numbers, but he clearly remembered the first digit was three.
How much could someone’s total assets be if their bank card balance alone was over thirty billion?
Aside from continually gasping in shock, Nana dared not imagine further.
He even started to regret not having saved money in the past few years because if he had, he might have already undergone sex reassignment surgery and truly become a woman.
In that case, he might have had a slim chance of getting a favor from this big shot…
“Nana, what’s your account number?
I’ll transfer fifty thousand to you right now!”
Despite being somewhat surprised by the balance in his account, Chen Hai remained very calm.
He held shares in as many as twenty or thirty companies.
These companies, if not among the global Fortune 500, were at least within the top 500 in the country.
With his Divination abilities, he wouldn’t accept shares of any company that weren’t valuable, even if he was given them for free—he would find them to be too much of a hassle.
Given these companies’ ability to earn profits, even if the share he held wasn’t large, it wouldn’t be surprising for a single dividend payment to see tens or hundreds of millions transferred into his account.
After twenty or thirty years, it would seem quite normal for his account balance to reach over thirty billion.
“Boss, my account is with the Industrial and Commercial Bank, the branch number is XXXX…”
“You don’t need to transfer fifty thousand; thirty thousand will do!”
Nana, whose eyes had almost popped out, was now stammering his words.
By voluntarily lowering the price from fifty to thirty thousand, he was clearly trying to get on Chen Hai’s good side.
After all, anyone with a brain would know that making a good connection with such a super-rich individual would be highly lucrative, just a crumb from his table could make one’s fortune.
“If I said fifty thousand, it’s fifty thousand.
Lowering the price on the spot, are you looking down on me?”
With a chuckle, Chen Hai swiftly completed the transfer using the account number Nana provided.
After waiting a bit longer for Nana’s phone to receive the notification of the money being deposited, Chen Hai greeted him and drove off in the sports car, leaving swiftly.