Volume 1: The Golden Years Chapter 020: Shorting the Stock Market Again
The living room of Room 520 of Park Hyatt Hotel.
The fruit machine rang. Zhu Suosuo put down the dishes in her hands and took out her mobile phone from her bag. The caller ID showed Mr. Ma. Zhu Suosuo's face changed slightly. She hesitated and looked at Yuan Xudong, who was eating breakfast beside her and operating his mobile phone with his head down.
Feeling Zhu Suosuo's gaze, Yuan Xudong looked up at her and asked doubtfully:
"What's wrong? Who's calling?"
Zhu Suosuo handed her phone to Yuan Xudong and said hesitantly:
"It's Master Ma's call, should I answer it?"
"He's a liar, and you're the victim, so why should you be afraid of him?"
Yuan Xudong said directly:
"Turn on the recording, then answer the phone and tell him that you already know that he is Ye Jinyan's driver, not some high-ranking leader of the Jingyan Group. He should give up the idea of wanting to eat swan meat!"
Zhu Suosuo's face turned slightly red, and she said in embarrassment:
"Mr. Yuan, can you help me reject him?"
"no!"
Yuan Xudong shook his head slightly and explained quickly:
"You have to reject him personally to make him give up completely. There is another reason. I will tell you later. Remember not to mention my name. Answer the phone first!"
"All right!"
Zhu Suosuo muttered, turned on the recording as Yuan Xudong instructed, and then answered the phone:
"Hello?"
"Suosuo, I'm Mr. Ma. Where are you now? I'll drive to pick you up. How about we go shopping together later?"
"Master Ma, I already know that you are Ye Jinyan's driver, not the vice president of Jingyan Group. I am having breakfast with my boyfriend now. Please don't bother me again in the future!"
"You know everything?"
"Yes, I know everything. Don't forget that Jiang Nansun's aunt, Ms. Daisy, knows Ye Jinyan. Just ask around and you'll know who your Master Ma is!"
"Suosuo, I..."
"Master Ma, please call me Miss Zhu. Hearing the word Suosuo from your mouth only makes me feel sick, very sick!"
"Ms. Zhu, since you have a boyfriend and you are so beautiful, your boyfriend must be very rich. Can you return the 30,000 yuan I spent on dinner yesterday?"
"What did you say? You are a liar and I am the victim, and you want me to pay you 30,000 yuan?"
"Ms. Zhu, please, I really like you and that's why I was so obsessed with you. Let me tell you the truth. The 30,000 yuan I spent on dinner yesterday was embezzled public funds. I..."
"What does it have to do with me whether you embezzled public funds or not?"
"Ms. Zhu, how can you say that? If it weren't for you, would I have opened such a big private room? And the golden crab set meal, the Margaux wine, weren't these all ordered because of you?"
"It was you who wanted to act rich and show off, but now you're blaming me for it?"
"If you had told me earlier that you had a boyfriend, would I have spent money to please you like this?"
"I won't compensate you, so just give up on this idea!"
"Ms. Zhu, please, I can't lose my current job. I have to make up for the embezzled public funds. I still have a mother to support and a sister who is in college. I know you don't have money, but don't you have a boyfriend? Ask him for 30,000 yuan. You are so young and beautiful, he will definitely be willing to give it to you!"
"Who do you think I am? Don't even think about borrowing money from your boyfriend. Even if I have money myself, I won't give it to you, a liar!"
"Zhu Suosuo, you don't understand feelings, you..."
"goodbye!"
Zhu Suosuo hung up the phone angrily and dialed the number of Master Heima. Seeing Yuan Xudong sitting aside and laughing at her, she couldn't help but said angrily:
"It's all your fault. I'm so mad at him, and you're still laughing. Why don't you help me answer the phone and reject him?"
"Do you know why I knew you and Master Ma went to Yiyuan for dinner, and why I rescued you from the fire pit?"
Yuan Xudong did not answer but asked instead. Without waiting for Zhu Suosuo to respond, he continued to ask and answer himself:
"I went to Jiang Nansun's house for dinner and met her aunt, Ms. Daisy. Through Ms. Daisy, I got to know Ye Jinyan. Yesterday afternoon, I was in the back room of Ye Jinyan's office and saw you and Jiang Nansun handing Ms. Daisy's documents to Master Ma.
Then I saw a girl being very attentive to Master Ma and even left her phone number. As soon as I saw Master Ma, I knew he was not a serious person, so I made a bet with Ye Jinyan, saying that Master Ma was just a fake nice guy who appeared to be honest on the surface.
Then he rushed to Yiyuan without stopping, ready to rescue a big fool. Unfortunately, the big fool had bad luck. He just escaped from the wolf's den and fell into the tiger's den. Do you need me to tell you the rest?"
"You are the big fool!"
Zhu Suosuo rolled her eyes at Yuan Xudong, thought for a moment and then asked in confusion:
"Why didn't I see you? Also, why didn't you stop Master Ma from deceiving me in the first place? Did you use me to expose Master Ma's true colors and win Ye Jinyan's bet?"
Seeing Zhu Suosuo bringing up the topic, Yuan Xudong admitted his mistake directly:
"Suosuo is really smart. I won't do it again. Please forgive me this time, okay?"
“Hmph~~”
Zhu Suosuo was very happy to see that Yuan Xudong did not deny it, and hummed:
"I'll forgive you this time, but it won't happen again!"
After that, she looked at Yuan Xudong who was playing with his phone from time to time and asked curiously:
"Mr. Yuan, what are you doing? Also, what is the stake of your bet with Ye Jinyan?"
Afraid that Yuan Xudong would misunderstand that she was prying into his personal privacy, Zhu Suosuo quickly added:
"If it's inconvenient for you to tell me, just tell me directly. I'm just a little curious. I don't know what you and big shots like Ye Jinyan are betting on!"
"Who am I?"
Yuan Xudong laughed in silence, put down his phone, and then looked at the curious Zhu Suosuo and said:
"There's nothing to hide. I just received nearly 1.1 billion yuan in my CCB account. Didn't I tell you before? I predict that the stock market will plummet, and now I have some spare money. I was just contacting my stockbroker and some people from the financing company to use this money to leverage and short the market index. After all, this opportunity is rare!
As for the bet with Ye Jinyan, if I win, he will allow me to join the Songjiang Hotel project. If he wins, I will buy more than a dozen houses in the Dongli real estate project that is about to open. Regardless of winning or losing, he will not suffer any loss, and neither will I. It's just a win-win cooperation!"
Seeing Yuan Xudong's understatement, a billion is like a few hundred thousand, and buying a house in Dongli Real Estate requires more than a dozen units. Zhu Suosuo was stunned and said:
"Aren't you a billionaire?"
"Worth several billion?"
Yuan Xudong shook his head slightly, hugged Zhu Suosuo and joked:
"Let's wait until the stock market really crashes. If the short selling is successful, I will be the billionaire you said I was worth billions. On the contrary, if the short selling fails, I will become a pauper with nothing!"
Hearing this, Zhu Suosuo couldn't help but worry:
"You have so much money that you can't spend it all in your lifetime, why take such a big risk?"
“Is it a big risk?”
Yuan Xudong shook his head slightly and said firmly:
"This is the most confident time for me, and it will also be the last time. Life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and honor are in the hands of God. Whether I will be an ordinary rich man or a so-called big shot in your words, it all depends on whether I can make enough capital by shorting the stock market this time!"
Serious men are the most handsome, especially those who are willing to give everything and die if they fail. In Zhu Suosuo's eyes, Yuan Xudong dared to bet his entire fortune of more than one billion on his own judgment. This shows his absolute confidence in his own judgment and the courage to bet everything.
Compared with him, Zhang Anren, who is always fussy about everything, is like a firefly that cannot compete with the bright moon. In the past, Jiang Nansun has always been the object of Zhu Suosuo's envy. Now, she feels that she is the happiest one, as she can have a man like Yuan Xudong who not only loves her but is also one in a million.
Thinking of this, Zhu Suosuo looked at Yuan Xudong with certainty and said:
"I believe you will succeed!"
"Then thank you Suosuo, you are my lucky goddess!"
Yuan Xudong smiled and stroked Zhu Suosuo's face and said:
"Let's eat. I'll take you home later. If a girl doesn't come home overnight, be careful that your uncle and aunt tell your father!"
Hearing this, Zhu Suosuo rolled her eyes at Yuan Xudong, her face flushed with shame, and she said angrily:
"You're still laughing. It's all your fault for doing something naughty last night. Otherwise, would I have missed the call from my uncle and aunt? "
I did this with your consent, Yuan Xudong thought to himself, but on the surface he said sincerely:
"Yes, yes, it's all my fault. Suosuo was the passive recipient of love. Come and eat quickly, or I'll feed you."
“Ah~~”
