After divorce, I can hear the voice of the future

Chapter 790 Money Power and Return Money

As night deepened, after a passionate and joyful encounter...

Feng Xi sat on the edge of the bed, holding a blanket in her arms, and glanced at Lu Liang, who was browsing a tablet computer.

After hesitating for a long time, she couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Lu, do you think I'm a very casual person?"

"You just made the right choice at the right time. You have to believe that everything happens for a reason."

Lu Liang smiled as he intently browsed the stock market data for Panda, watching as the IG team crushed their way into the finals.

The topic is trending across the internet, with every post in the top ten on Weibo, Baidu Tieba, and Bilibili related to it, and Panda's stock price has also seen another surge.

The stock opened 8.23% higher and rose as much as 12.25% during the day, bringing its market capitalization back to over $10 billion after a year and five months.

"I don't believe it. Men's words are deceitful."

Feng Xi snorted coldly, a hint of regret flashing in her eyes.

She didn't immediately agree to Lu Liang's request. While she was in the restroom, she went to discuss it with her best friend.

As a result, after they talked back and forth, she agreed without really understanding what was going on, and followed Lu Liang to the hotel.

Looking back now, I feel like I must have been out of my mind to become the gold digger I used to hate the most.

Lu Liang couldn't help but chuckle. He put his arm around Feng Xi's smooth shoulder, tapped the screen with his fingertip, and opened an email.

The next second, a map of Shanghai appeared, with dozens of small red dots densely packed around Lujiazui and the Bund.

Lu Liang suddenly asked, "Your daily work as a host should be mostly in Shanghai, right?"

Feng Xi nodded, a look of confusion on her face.

Lu Liang pointed to the map on the screen and said softly, "These are all apartments or residential buildings. Pick one."

In early July, Tianxing Financial moved out of Shanghai, but the company still had more than 1 billion RMB in tax deductions in its accounts that it had not spent.

The mid-year bonus has already been paid out, but it's just a drop in the bucket. If the tax deduction is not used in time, the entire amount will have to be turned over to the national treasury next year.

However, with the company relocating to Hong Kong, the Shanghai branch is not expected to make any moves in the second half of this year, making it difficult to spend this quota.

Therefore, they purchased apartments and residential complexes on both sides of the Huangpu River and in popular locations, holding approximately eighty property ownership certificates.

They're usually idle, and we haven't had time to set up a property management company yet. It's a good opportunity to set aside a few units for him to keep his mistresses.

More than a decade ago, Lu Liang graduated and came to Shanghai, where he worked as a real estate agent for many years. He knew all too well that Shanghai was a big city and difficult to live in.

Especially for glamorous hosts like Feng Xi, although their salaries are certainly over ten thousand, it's just a drop in the bucket.

Because of the nature of her profession, she is destined to spend half, or even more than half, of her monthly income to maintain her glamorous appearance.

Although live streaming brings in some extra income, Lu Liang had asked Xiao Wang and learned that Feng Xi only joined the LPL this year and usually takes charge of the Korean region.

It was only because this year's World Championship was held in Korea that she, being fluent in three languages, was exceptionally promoted to the S-series.

He was not famous and his income was pitifully low.

The accommodation will definitely be very poor.
They are also more frugal when it comes to food.

In contrast, none of the houses provided by Lu Liang are smaller than 80 square meters, and they are all located in the city center or in bustling areas on both sides of the river.

Feng Xi stared wide-eyed, lost in thought: "I can choose from all of these?"

She had expected a generous reward for agreeing to Lu Liang's request, but she never imagined the reward would be so swift and so substantial.

Just as Lu Liang guessed, her main job and the extra income from live streaming, although her total monthly salary had reached more than 2 yuan, were simply not enough.

A decent set of cosmetics can cost several thousand or even tens of thousands of yuan, not to mention the cost of clothing and jewelry.

For example, she can only live in a small single room in the resettlement housing in Qingpu now, which costs only 1400 yuan per month. Although it is cheap, the room is very crowded and it takes at least an hour and a half to get to the city center.

Her biggest wish is to own an apartment in Shanghai before she turns thirty.

Unexpectedly, the surprise came so suddenly: a total of more than eighty units, the smallest being over eighty square meters and the largest over two hundred square meters, with all kinds of apartment types for her to choose from.

"of course can."

Lu Liang smiled, picked up his phone, and walked out of the bedroom wearing only his shorts: "Take your time choosing, I'm going to make a call."

"Okay..." Feng Xi replied.

She maintained a little bit of reserve at first, but once Lu Liang left the room, she began to focus intently on her selection.

Lu Liang took a bottle of mineral water from the refrigerator, drank it, and then called Sun Yutao.

He said, "After the US stock market closes, I will submit a report to the exchange announcing the reduction of my holdings of Panda shares, lowering my stake from 8.235% to below 5%."

Lu Liang is still a major shareholder of Panda Holdings with more than 5% of the shares. Major shareholders must make a public announcement before reducing their holdings, which is very inconvenient for him to sell off his shares after winning the championship next week.

The best approach is to reduce the shareholding to below 5% within this week and become a liquid market investor.

In this way, the good news of winning the championship can offset the bad news of Lu Liang announcing the reduction of his holdings.

Sun Yutao responded with a smile and said, "President Lu, this should be our company's first venture capital revenue."

Lu Liang was taken aback, then chuckled and said, "I hadn't even noticed until you pointed it out. It's been almost four years, and this is the first time I've seen money come back."

In fact, the first venture capital revenue came from OFO, but it did not go through a complete process from startup to listing. It was sold to GSR Ventures as early as the Series B funding round.

Panda TV was Lu Liang's second investment, going through four rounds of funding (A, B, C, and D) starting from the angel round, before finally going public in the US. Although the overall return wasn't high, even if he sold all his shares, the maximum return wouldn't exceed one billion US dollars.

However, the advantage lies in the relatively small investment, totaling approximately $1800 million, resulting in a return of about 55 times.

Lu Liang added, "I'll be going back to Hong Kong tomorrow afternoon. You should contact some institutions that hold Japanese bonds first."

Shorting a country's currency can be done with either a small amount of capital or a large amount of capital.

They hold over $2300 billion in cash, which is a massive amount of funds that no other forex platform in the world can handle.

The only option is to directly hedge against the Bank of Tokyo. First, borrow Japanese bond claims from institutions, then exchange them for US dollars or US Treasury bonds through the Bank of Tokyo. When the yen depreciates sharply, exchange the US dollars back for yen, and pay some interest to return the debt to the holding institutions.

The current exchange rate is 1 USD/JPY = 112.

When the yen falls to 1:135, the 23 yen generated during that period will be their profit.

This is the most basic way to play in the foreign exchange market. However, speculators with small amounts of capital do not have these channels, which is why foreign exchange platforms were created.

Users only need to pay a small handling fee to reduce the cumbersome procedures and directly participate in foreign exchange speculation.

"Are they going to short the yen again?"

Sun Yutao looked strange. Lu Liang seemed to have replaced the Americans and started intermittently harvesting the yen.

"This is an encouragement to them. If they can manage the economy well, how will we have any opportunity to take advantage of them?" Lu Liang said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll contact them right away."

After ending the call with Sun Yutao, Lu Liang thought for a moment and then called Xiao Wang: "Are you asleep?"

"Still having a blast!"

A noisy din came from the other side, but it soon quieted down. Xiao Wang teased, "Did you enjoy it?"

"Slightly refreshing."

Lu Liang smiled, paused for a few seconds, and said, "The announcement of the share reduction will be released tomorrow. You can decide what to do yourself."

Xiao Wang was taken aback: "Didn't you say you'd sell them after winning the championship?"

"When good news is implemented, it becomes bad news; the financial market will anticipate it," Lu Liang said calmly.

"Are you going to throw them all away?" Xiao Wang asked.

"There should be some initial holdings."

After thinking it over, Xiao Wang said with a forced smile, "How about I entrust my shares to your company? I don't understand these things."

"5 points."

"Holy crap, are you a black guy? Why don't you just rob someone?"

Xiao Wang started cursing. Although he didn't understand, he knew that if the equity was entrusted to an institution, the management fee would be at most 2% per year.

Lu Liang charged him more than double the price, clearly treating him like a sucker.

Lu Liang said irritably, "Tianxing Financial hasn't expanded into this business yet, so I'll be in charge of it personally. You think it's too much, and I think it's too little. Take it or leave it."

"With me, Lu Shen, personally overseeing the operations, a five percent management fee is definitely worthwhile," Xiao Wang said with a beaming smile, flattering him.

He suddenly changed the subject: "Brother Liang, we've known each other for so many years, how about a 20% discount? Or I can have Panda sign Feng Xi, and you can decide the signing fee."

When a company founder reduces his holdings in the stock market, the money he receives belongs to him. However, the signing fees paid to artists signed by the company are considered financial expenses of the company.

Therefore, even if you use the company's 100 million to get 10 back, it's still a worthwhile deal.

Besides, Feng Xi isn't famous, and his annual signing fee would be at most one or two million. He's definitely going to make a profit on this deal.

Lu Liang smiled and said, "Four points. You can decide on the signing fee yourself, just don't be too biased."

"OJBK."

After ending his call with Xiao Wang, Lu Liang returned to his room.

Seeing Feng Xi lying on the bed browsing the room types, he pounced on her like a tiger and asked, "Have you chosen yet?"

Feng Xi exclaimed "Ouch!" and cautiously pointed at the screen: "President Lu, is this set okay?"

A 135-square-meter apartment near People's Square in Shanghai has an average price of around 11.5 yuan.

"If you like it, it has to be done even if it doesn't work out."

Lu Liang then recounted his conversation with Xiao Wang, mentioning that Panda would be signing her after the S-series tournament.

He paused and said, "Feel free to raise any complaints about the contract, even if they are unreasonable, Panda will agree."

Xiao Wang holds 28.12% of Panda's shares, and this time he plans to sell 8%, which is $8 million, based on a market value of tens of billions of dollars.

Lu Liang reduced his commission by one percentage point, which is $800 million, equivalent to 5500 million RMB.

The company should have paid the lion's share, with individuals earning a smaller portion, but now it's the other way around, so no matter what demands Feng Xi makes, it's not excessive.

Feng Xi was stunned. All her previous concerns were now forgotten. She stretched out her arms and wrapped them around Lu Liang's neck: "Don't say anything, love me!"

(End of this chapter)