20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3873 Comical Yet Logical
As a future world-class mining company, Luanchuan Molybdenum boasts the largest total molybdenum reserves in Asia and the third largest in the world. It is also located near Luoyi, which is next to Zhengzhou City. Laojun Mountain in the county is a nationally renowned scenic spot. Zhao Chang'an had some impression of it in his previous life.

Although he didn't know when the price of molybdenum would rise, the fact that this company was so successful in his previous life meant that even without a single nanometer of investment this time, the company wouldn't collapse.

This means that the turning point is very likely to come in the next two or three years, or even this year!
Zhao Chang'an wasn't thinking of profiting from the information gap he knew; rather, he wanted to leverage the company's deep foundation and its potential for growth in the next two to three years to transform it into a world-class mining group.

In fact, Zhao Chang'an's judgment was not wrong. Global molybdenum companies had been suffering through a six-year winter since 96.

If we just hold on for a few more months, by the second half of 02, we will usher in a period of high profits that will last for about 5 years.

Especially from April to August 2005, the price of molybdenum concentrate soared, reaching a historical high of 6250 yuan/ton, which is nine times the current price.

It didn't exceed that price again until twenty years later.

Of course, there is a lot of hype involved here. However, as long as the opportunity is seized and the high-profit period of these 5 years is taken advantage of, the profits can be quickly converted and the reach extended to mining resources such as coal, iron ore, copper mines, and gold mines.

The profits from other resources can then be used to make up for the losses in the molybdenum industry, allowing the company to lie low for the time being and wait for the next spring.

Then in 08, due to the global financial crisis, the price of molybdenum concentrate was driven down to a low of 700 yuan/ton, resulting in a loss where the selling price was lower than the cost.

It wasn't until 8 years later, 16 years later, that the global price of molybdenum metal began to recover, eventually fluctuating between 3000 and 5000 yuan per ton.

In other words, as long as Zhao Chang'an dared to be patient, by 05 he would have enough molybdenum concentrate and ferromolybdenum ore to make a fortune.

This gives them a preliminary ticket to participate in the global mineral resources qualification competition.

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The nights in Zhengzhou in March were still a bit cold. It was already completely dark. Besides Lin Xiaojie, Zhao Chang'an had also left Tian Xue at the Aviation Hotel.

I glanced at Lin Xiaojie and Tian Xue's hotel room; both rooms had their lights on.

Tian Xue's room curtains were only drawn with a sheer curtain, and you could see the colorful lights flashing inside, so she was probably watching TV.

Before going to treat Lin Xiaojie last night, Zhao Chang'an went to Tian Xue's bedroom to give her a good talking-to, so he decided not to provoke her tonight.

Because of Lin Xiaojie's special circumstances, Tian Xue needs to help look after her, talk to her, and buy her some things.

Don't leave her here alone for days on end, or you'll drive her crazy with all the nagging. Besides, having a gentle woman of the same age who has had a similar experience of being dumped makes it easier for her to understand the other person's pain and communicate with each other.

You see, because of Liu Shilin's infidelity, she had already staged a dramatic fall in front of Zhao Chang'an, and Zhao Chang'an was really afraid that she would do the same thing again.

There were several witnesses last time, and there was no relationship between Zhao Chang'an and Lin Xiaojie; she was just leading the way. This time, however, Zhao Chang'an brought her to Zhengzhou. If something happens, Zhao Chang'an will really have a hard time explaining himself.

Of course, based on Zhao Chang'an's understanding of women, including his knowledge that Lin Xiaojie hadn't done this in her previous life, and the fact that he had seen her naked and touched her private parts that night at Jiangda Red Building, he was pretty much certain that she wouldn't do it again.

She was just a young woman in her mid-twenties, negatively influenced by romance novels, TV shows, and movies since childhood. She was also easily embarrassed and concerned about what others might say. So, that day, after drinking a little, she acted impulsively and considered taking drastic measures. But when Zhao Chang'an pulled her back and held her in his arms, the sight of her vulnerable, tearful face revealed that she had already abandoned that idea.

Moreover, although Lin Xiaojie lost sensation in the treatment area last night, she knew what Zhao Chang'an was doing. Her tense body, rapid breathing, wildly beating heart, blushing face, and shy, evasive gaze did not lie.

For a girl like this, having taken her virginity, coupled with Zhao Chang'an's handsome appearance and powerful influence, and the submissive attitude of those principals and town mayors who were usually high and mighty in her eyes in front of Zhao Chang'an, all gave her a sense of satisfaction and intoxication that "this is my man".

That's why Zhao Chang'an was so certain that Lin Xiaojie wouldn't go to extremes again.

Having experienced life in his previous life, Zhao Chang'an, through the contrast and comparison of nearly four years in this life, can be said to have a more thorough understanding of human nature.

So much so that sometimes he felt that people as a species were really fucking meaningless.

Based on the information we have now, combined with some fragments we know from his previous life, we can roughly sketch out the life map of Lin Xiaojie, Liu Shilin, and Liu Shijuan before the age of twenty-seven or twenty-eight.

In his senior year of college, Liu Shilin broke up with Lin Xiaojie for the sake of his future. Lin Xiaojie continued to teach at Qiaojiashan Elementary School. Liu Shijuan was admitted to Jiangnan University. With the help of his wife's family, Liu Shilin found a good job and lived a comfortable life in Zhengzhou with a house and a car. Four years later, for reasons that are not clear, Liu Shilin felt that he was capable enough. Despite his wife being pregnant, he went to find Lin Xiaojie. With sweet words, he brought Lin Xiaojie to Zhengzhou and they became lovers.

Then his wife discovered their affair and, in a fit of rage, grabbed a bottle of water and tried to throw it at Lin Xiaojie. However, Liu Shijuan blocked the attack, and Lin Xiaojie suffered severe burns to part of her cheek and neck, disfiguring her.

This is the timeline of events that Zhao Chang'an knows and deduces. As for why Lin Shilin and his sister, Lin Xiaojie, and Liu Shilin's wife were all together at the time, and whether they were conspiring to force someone to abdicate, Zhao Chang'an has no idea. Moreover, the probability of this happening again in this life is very low.

Because Zhao Chang'an has already obtained Lin Xiaojie's red pill, it is equivalent to indirectly changing the trajectory of her life.

Of the four people in this group, Liu Shilin is definitely not a good person, and Lin Xiaojie is actually quite uninteresting.

To put it bluntly, she's a slut who stupidly supported her boyfriend through high school and college, only to be dumped. After that, the man was already married and his wife was pregnant, yet she still became his mistress.

Of course, it's more likely that this man wants to abandon his wife and marry Lin Xiaojie when the time is right.

Just thinking about it made Zhao Chang'an speechless. On the contrary, Liu Shilin's wife and Liu Shijuan were the innocent victims who were implicated.

The wife who cheated on her husband will face imprisonment, Liu Shijuan will be disfigured, and the adulterous couple will live happily ever after.

How ridiculous, yet it perfectly reflects the logic of the real world.

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Since Tian Xue will be taking up a post in Lin'an after returning to Mingzhu, she doesn't need to get involved in things here.

Zhao Chang'an decided not to go to Tian Xue's place, so as to avoid making her have to get up early to go to Luoyi tomorrow. He might as well take advantage of these few days of paid leave to rest properly.

Once she arrives in Lin'an, she'll probably never have such a leisurely time to sleep until she naturally wakes up again.