In the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the top-grade soundproofing material completely isolates the colorful neon lights and the roaring engine outside the window, leaving only the clearly audible breathing of the two people gently echoing between the leather seats. The air is filled with the elegant scent of Su Wanqing's gardenia perfume and the cedar fragrance in the car, but it seems particularly stagnant at this moment.
Su Wanqing's brain is almost blank at this moment. The delicate clavicle rises and falls slightly with the rapid breathing, and the fingertips holding the leather armrest are faintly white because of the force.
Chen Fan's last words contain too much information and have too strong an impact, which makes her business mind, which has always been calm and self-sustaining, and even a little cold, completely fall into a state of shutdown.
Zhao Jianhui will sell off Dongsheng Mining's shares...
Dongsheng Mining will announce the discovery of a super rare earth mine in five days...
The stock price will soar more than ten times...
Every word is like a depth charge, setting off huge waves in her heart. Those capital operation scenes that can only be seen in financial news are now closely tied to her own destiny in such an absurd way.
Reason tells her that this is ridiculous. This is like a fairy tale, the nonsense that only fortune tellers on the street would say. Business investment is a rigorous science, based on cold data, complex analysis and years of experience. What the man in front of her said has completely exceeded the scope of science and entered the field of theology.
But another voice in her heart was clamoring frantically, asking her to believe him!
Because just half an hour ago, this man, in the same almost "prophetic" way, accurately analyzed Zhao Jianhui's seemingly generous but actually sinister character, as well as his secret background of making a fortune in the gray industry, and used the incredible means of the bottle of "evidence" recording that suddenly appeared to rescue them from the tiger's mouth.
His eyes, calm and deep, seemed to hide a vast starry sky, and could really see through the fog of time and see the future.
Her red lips slightly opened, wanting to refute, wanting to question, but found that her voice was extremely dry, her throat seemed to be rubbed by sandpaper, and she couldn't say a word. Only the long and curled eyelashes cast a fragmented shadow under her eyes, revealing the turbulent waves in her heart.
The atmosphere in the car fell into a subtle silence. The faint classical music in the car stereo had long stopped, leaving only the faint wind sound from the air conditioning system, which made the silence even more heavy.
In the end, it was Chen Fan who broke the silence. He didn't urge her nor exaggerate, but just looked at her calmly, his eyes frankly as if he was looking at a future partner rather than someone who needed to be persuaded.
"Miss Su, I understand your shock and doubt." His voice was steady, with a soothing power, like the sunlight through the leaves of the sycamore trees in the early autumn afternoon.
"So I don't need you to believe me immediately, but you need to answer me a question. If, I mean if all this is true, how much are you or the Su family willing to bet on this 'what if'?" He threw the question back, like pushing a heavy chip to the center of the gambling table.
Su Wanqing's eyelashes trembled slightly. A trace of light red appeared on her fair cheeks, which was the trace of rapid secretion of adrenaline.
She had to admit that Chen Fan's question was extremely clever. He bypassed the unsolvable philosophical question of "belief or disbelief" and went straight to the core risk and return. This is exactly the proposition that businessmen are best at weighing.
What is the return? It is a profit of more than ten times, a tonic that brings the family business on the verge of despair back to life, and a hearty pleasure that makes villains like Zhao Jianhui fall into ruin! And what about the risk? It was to lose a sum of money that was already in jeopardy and the trust of a person who had just gone from a stranger to "suspected reliable".
She raised her head, and her beautiful eyes, as clear as a stream, stared at Chen Fan so seriously and attentively for the first time. She wanted to see even the slightest flaw on his face, the slightest greed or guilty conscience, the usual expressions of those scammers.
But she failed. Chen Fan's eyes were as calm as an ancient well. He didn't seem to care whether he believed it or not. He was just stating a fact and waiting for a choice. It was as if he was not talking about a gamble involving hundreds of millions of assets, but discussing tomorrow's weather.
This strong self-confidence, on the contrary, made the balance in Su Wanqing's heart begin to tilt violently. She remembered what her father often said: "Real opportunities are often covered with absurd clothes."
She took a deep breath as if she had made some major decision, her chest rose and fell slightly, and the confusion and struggle in her eyes were gradually replaced by a touch of decisiveness that a business elite should have.
"My personal liquidity is about five million." She spoke slowly, her voice was not loud, but every word was clear and metallic.
"I can give you this money immediately. This is my bet."
"But five million is just a drop in the bucket to shake Zhao Jianhui's plate. If I can convince my father and the board of directors to mortgage some of the group's non-core property assets, we can get 100 million."
One hundred million!
When this number came out of Su Wanqing's mouth, even Chen Fan couldn't help but move his heart slightly. He knew that the Su family's capital chain was tight recently. Being able to take out 100 million at this time meant mortgaging at least 30% of non-core assets, which was almost a fight to the death.
He knew that the Su family was a second-tier wealthy family, but he didn't expect that such a huge sum of money could be mobilized at such a critical moment. This made him look up to Su Wanqing and the Su family behind her.
"Very good." Chen Fan nodded with a hint of approval in his eyes, "Miss Su, your courage did not disappoint me. Now, let's talk about the specific plan."
"Plan?" Su Wanqing was a little confused. She thought it was just a simple purchase of stocks.
"Of course." Chen Fan's mouth curled up a meaningful arc, like a cheetah's smile before locking its prey. "We can't be as stupid as retail investors to buy stocks in the secondary market. Doing so will not only instantly raise the stock price and alarm everyone, but we can't buy many chips with the funds in our hands. Our target is the shares in Zhao Jianhui's hands. What we have to do is to cut off the firewood from the bottom of the pot!" Chen Fan said the plan in his mind with a tone of confidence.
Su Wanqing's eyes suddenly lit up, like a spark that was ignited, she instantly understood what Chen Fan meant.
Zhao Jianhui sold his gold mine (Dongsheng Mining) in order to raise money to attack the Su family. And they want to take all the money he used as ammunition (the money from selling the gold mine) and the gold mine itself before he attacks! By the time he discovers the value of the gold mine, he has no more ammunition and can only watch the Su family fight back with his "weapon". This strategy is so vicious and ingenious, it is simply the commercial version of "killing with a borrowed knife"!
"But... Zhao Jianhui just made a feud with us, how could he sell the stocks to us?" Su Wanqing immediately pointed out the key point, Zhao Jianhui is not a fool.
"So we need a middleman." Chen Fan was confident, tapping his knees with his fingertips, "An absolutely reliable brokerage or private equity institution that he can trust and has the ability to take on this batch of large transactions. You need to find this person, and he must be someone you can absolutely trust and has no intersection with the Zhao family."
Su Wanqing frowned, then nodded: "I understand, I have a trustworthy account manager at Credit Suisse. His father has been favored by my grandfather and is absolutely reliable. We can set up an offshore shell company and trading account through their private banking department, which is absolutely confidential and cannot be traced to us."
"Very good." Chen Fan nodded again. He found that talking to smart people is effortless. He has future information and Su Wanqing has real resources and execution capabilities. This is a match made in heaven.
"The second step," Chen Fan continued, "starting tomorrow, your Su Group must put on a desperate resistance and retreat. Let Zhao Jianhui feel that you are already at the end of your strength, and as long as he makes another effort, he can completely swallow you up. This will force him to sell off his Dongsheng Mining at a relatively low price as quickly as possible."
"I understand," Su Wanqing's eyes flashed with wisdom, "play hard to get, show the enemy weakness. Let him feel that time is running out and he must cash in his shares as soon as possible to attack us."
"That's right." Chen Fan smiled slightly with a hint of meaning in his smile. As if to say that this is just the beginning, every step to come will be as exciting and complicated as a chess game, and they are ready to control the overall situation.
The Mercedes-Benz stopped steadily at the gate of a villa area with strict security in the suburbs. The iron gate is entangled with precious wisteria flowers, and two stone lions stand majestically at the gate. This is Su Wanqing's home: the Su family's old house.
"I'll talk to my father right away!" Su Wanqing's face was filled with excitement and nervousness before the battle, and she almost knocked over the vase beside the door when she pushed the door.
However, half an hour later, when Chen Fan sat in the elegant and impressive living room of the Su family, he faced a face full of "suspicion" and "scrutiny".
The living room is decorated in a typical new Chinese style, with mahogany furniture exuding a warm luster. A landscape painting by Fu Baoshi hangs on the wall, a celadon vase in the corner is filled with fresh lotus flowers, and a faint sandalwood fragrance floats in the air.
Su Wanqing's father, Su Wenzhe, is a middle-aged man over fifty who looks elegant and steady but has an unusually sharp look. He is wearing a comfortable silk Tang suit and a warm Hetian jade ring on his finger. He is the chairman of the Su Group.
"Young man." Su Wenzhe pushed a cup of fine Dahongpao in front of Chen Fan. The tea soup was bright orange-red and fragrant, but his tone was not polite at all. "I don't care how you happened to save my daughter tonight, and I don't care what sweet words you used to convince her. But you want to use a fairy tale story to make our Su family bet all our wealth on it... Do you think it's possible?"
Su Wanqing beside him looked anxious and kept winking at him, like a little rabbit that was anxious, but Su Wenzhe ignored her. Decades of business career have taught him not to be swayed by emotions.
In his opinion, the young man in front of him wearing a cheap shirt (although clean and tidy) looked like a carefully packaged liar who first gained trust with small favors and then lured him into the game with huge profits.
Chen Fan knew that it was useless to just draw big cakes and cheer up with such an old man who had been in the business world for decades. You must produce real evidence that he cannot refute. He picked up the teacup and took a sip. The tea was mellow and sweet, and then he put it down slowly and calmly.
"Chairman Su, let's not talk about the illusory Dongsheng Mining for now." Chen Fan said calmly to Su Wenzhe's sharp eyes, "Let's talk about something that you are more concerned about."
"I want to ask, is there a contract for the construction of the Chengnan Logistics Park that you just signed with Tianhua Construction last week in the second drawer on the right side of your office?" Chen Fan said to Su Wenzhe in a very calm tone.
Su Wenzhe's pupils shrank suddenly! It was like being pricked by a needle! This matter is the core secret of the company! Except for him and the two vice presidents, there is no way that a fourth person would know so clearly! Even Wanqing only knew that there was a logistics park project, and didn't know that the partner was Tianhua Construction! How could this young man know?
Chen Fan ignored his shock and continued to say in a factual tone: "You thought you got a promising project at a low price, and even paid 50 million yuan in advance engineering fees for it."
"But what you don't know is that Wang Lijun, the chairman of Tianhua Construction, is already a gambler with a lot of debt. He owes at least 300 million yuan in high-interest loans in the Lisboa Casino in Macau, and the interest has reached the point where he can't repay it. He signed a contract with you just to defraud your advance payment to fill the huge gambling debt he owed in Macau."
"If my "prediction" is correct, the day after tomorrow, that is, Wednesday afternoon this week, this President Wang will take his last money from Binhai International Airport, take flight KA831, fly to Hong Kong, and then disappear completely."
"This news will not be revealed by the media until Thursday. By that time, your 50 million yuan advance payment will be completely lost and become a bad debt that can never be recovered. What's more troublesome is that the logistics park project will be stagnant and miss the best investment period." Every word of Chen Fan hit Su Wenzhe's heart like a heavy hammer! He could even tell the flight number. This was no coincidence!
His face turned from red to white and from white to blue! His fingers were tightly clenched around the jade ring until his knuckles turned white. He could no longer remain calm. He grabbed the phone on the table and called the company's financial director directly. His voice changed: "Lao Liu! Check it for me immediately! What is the current status of the money we transferred to Tianhua Construction! Are there any abnormal changes in the other party's account! Immediately! Immediately!"
After hanging up the phone, Su Wenzhe looked at the calm young man in front of him with a look of shock in his eyes. He had lived for more than 50 years and had never seen such a strange thing.
If...if what he said was true...
Then he helped the Su family recover a huge loss of 50 million in two days! This does not include the hidden costs of the project stagnation.
This ability can no longer be described as "well-informed"! This is...foresight!
After a long time, Su Wenzhe let out a long breath, as if he had unloaded a heavy burden. He looked at Chen Fan and said with complicated eyes: "Okay. I promise you. If the matter of Tianhua Construction proves that the 100 million funds are successful before Thursday, I will personally raise them. But now I can only give you the 5 million from Wanqing. This is the rule and the bottom line."
"Okay." Chen Fan nodded. He knew that this was the best result he could get. He could understand the caution of the old fox. The seeds of trust have been planted, waiting to break out of the ground the day after tomorrow.
...
It was midnight when he left the Su family villa. The moonlight sprinkled on the quiet streets like water, stretching Chen Fan's shadow very long. He declined the Su family's kindness to send a car to take him there. He walked alone on the quiet streets. The evening breeze blew his hair and made his chaotic brain clear a little.
He returned to the suite of the Grand Hyatt Hotel. Standing in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window and looking at the sleeping city under his feet, the lights of thousands of houses were like scattered stars, and an unprecedented sense of control arose spontaneously.
He opened his stock account, and behind the stock of Binhai Technology, a second red "+10.00%" was displayed. Today, it has reached the daily limit again.
His 30,000 yuan capital has now become 36,300 yuan. Although this amount of money is insignificant compared to the hundreds of millions of funds of the Su family, it is his first trophy and the first lever for him to pry the future.
Just as his heart was surging, the mobile phone in his pocket once again sent that unique and powerful vibration. Like the beating of a heart.
It is his future self!
He quickly took out his mobile phone and clicked on the familiar black dialog box. He thought it would be more specific trading instructions about Dongsheng Mining, such as the best time to buy.
However, the line of words that appeared on the screen was like a basin of ice water poured over his head, making him feel cold all over as if he fell into an ice cave!
"Warning: Your behavior has attracted the attention of 'him'. Changing the trajectory of others' fate will accelerate the backlash of one's own cause and effect, and your mother's condition will suddenly worsen tomorrow."
"Go to Binhai First People's Hospital as soon as possible. Remember, in this world, besides money, you need power more!"