Super Rich: Starting the game by going back ten years to buy Bitcoin

Ji Yanran stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the 28th floor of the Future Technology headquarters.

The people from the Pudong New Area Investment Promotion Bureau just left.

The land transfer contract lay open on the table, the ink still wet. One thousand acres of industrial land, a total price of four billion yuan, payable within a month. She picked up the contract, her fingertips lightly tracing the line about the payment deadline.

A knock came at the door.

"President Ji." Zhang Li, the financial director, pushed open the door and came in. Her high heels made little noise on the carpet, but her expression was somewhat stiff.

Ji Yanran put the contract in the drawer. "Speak."

"I just checked the company account balance." Zhang Li held a tablet in her hand, the numbers on the screen reflecting a cold light. "I found..."

She didn't continue.

Ji Yanran looked up. "What did you find?"

"There's no money left in the account." Zhang Li handed over the tablet.

Ji Yanran took the tablet. The screen displayed the company account balance of Future Technology. Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions. Seven figures. More than 1.2 million. This amount wasn't even enough to pay a month's salary. Not to mention the 4 billion land payment.

"Out of money?" Ji Yanran placed the tablet on the table, quickly recalling the events in her mind. The acquisition of Hongyuan New Energy cost over 8 billion yuan, and the purchase of equipment cost another 10 billion yuan. Add to that the miscellaneous expenses during this period—salary increases, social security payments, material purchases, and various project payments. The nearly 20 billion yuan that Li Yichen had invested in total had been completely burned up.

She leaned back in her chair. Had this hands-off manager forgotten about the land payment?

Ji Yanran picked up her phone, found Li Yichen's number, and dialed it.

There were three beeps in the receiver.

"Feed," Li Yichen's words came through the receiver.

"Boss," Ji Yanran said bluntly, "the company is out of money. The four billion for the land purchase needs to be transferred to the other party's account within a month. What do we do now?"

There was a two-second silence on the other end of the phone.

Tomson Riviera villa complex. Li Yichen had just parked his Yangwang U8 in the garage. Leaning back in the driver's seat, his phone pressed to his ear, he heard Ji Yanran's words and then remembered—he hadn't transferred any money to the company account in a long time.

After the company was registered, he deposited 20 billion yuan in one go. He never transferred any more money after that.

Li Yichen didn't say much, only replying, "I'll take a look first."

hang up the phone.

He exited the call and opened the mobile banking app. Fingerprint verification was successful. The screen then redirected to the account balance page.

A string of numbers unfolds on the screen.

48.

Four hundred and eighty-five billion six hundred and thirty-eight cents.

Li Yichen stared at the string of numbers for two seconds, quickly reviewing the data on the system panel in his mind.

The recent acquisition of Hongyuan New Energy cost 8.9 billion yuan. Adding in miscellaneous expenses—buying cars, houses, and bags and houses for Xiao Yuqing—the total expenditure exceeded 10 billion yuan.

That was the time when my wealth level rose from level six to level seven.

Passive income of 7.2 yuan per second.

Later, they spent over 10 billion yuan to buy the factory's batch of top-of-the-line equipment from Germany, Japan, and Switzerland. Total expenditure exceeded 20 billion yuan. Their wealth level rose from level seven to level eight.

Twelve dollars and eighty cents per second.

One million one hundred and five thousand nine hundred and twenty yuan per day.

Over the course of a year, it amounted to more than 400 million.

Li Yichen tapped his fingers twice on the steering wheel. Four hundred million a year is an astronomical figure for ordinary people, but for what he's currently doing, this passive income isn't even enough to fill a tooth gap. However, the further he upgrades, the more terrifying the exponential growth will become.

Li Yichen did not continue calculating.

Li Yichen looked at the more than 40 billion in the account. Future Technology would invest 30 billion in the construction of the super factory, plus other expenses. Therefore, Li Yichen decided to transfer 40 billion to the company account in one go.

He exited the bank app and dialed Ji Yanran's number again.

Future Technology Headquarters. Ji Yanran sat in the boss's chair, staring at the tablet computer on the table. The 1.2 million yuan balance on the screen seemed to mock her. Forty billion yuan in land payments, this amount wasn't even a fraction of what she'd received.

Zhang Li stood in front of the desk, barely daring to breathe. She had only been working there for less than a month and this was the first time she had seen Ji Yanran look so pale.

My phone vibrated. Li Yichen's name popped up on the screen.

Ji Yanran swiped to answer the call. Before she could speak, Li Yichen's calm voice came through the receiver.

"I will immediately inject 40 billion into the company's account."

Ji Yanran's fingers tightened around her phone. She sprang up from the boss's chair, her high heels clicking loudly on the marble floor.

"Boss, how much did you say?"

"Four hundred billion." Li Yichen's pronunciation was completely flat. "What's wrong?"

Ji Yanran froze completely on the spot. Her heart pounded against her ribs.

Four hundred billion.

She initially thought that Li Yichen's nearly 10 billion yuan acquisition of Hongyuan New Energy, plus the subsequent 10 billion yuan spent on equipment, was the limit of his cash reserves. In her view, Li Yichen's announcement of a subsequent 30 billion yuan investment in building a super factory was most likely a preparation for obtaining bank loans. After all, possessing disruptive technology like graphene solid-state batteries, banks would be eager to lend him even 100 billion yuan, let alone 30 billion.

But she never expected it.

This man had no intention of borrowing a single penny from the bank.

He said "capital injection." Not "financing," not "loans," not "financing investors." He meant transferring 40 billion directly from his own pocket into the company's account.

What kind of monster is this?

Ji Yanran took a breath. She suddenly realized a very serious problem—she had no idea how much money Li Yichen actually had. Every time she thought that was Li Yichen's limit, this man would casually drop an even more terrifying number, shattering all her estimates.

"Boss," Ji Yanran's throat was a little dry, "Can I ask you something?"

"ask."

"How much money do you have left?"

A very faint chuckle came from the other end of the phone. There was no reply.

Beep—the call ended.

Ji Yanran stood there, holding her phone, listening to the busy tone on the receiver. She threw the phone on the table, turned around, and exhaled a long breath at the skyline of Lujiazui outside the floor-to-ceiling window.

There was no answer. But then it seemed like there was an answer.

Zhang Li was still standing at her desk. She had just heard Ji Yanran say "40 billion" into the phone. This finance director, who had been with the company for less than a month, was completely stunned. 40 billion—real cash, not stocks, not valuations, not mortgages. It was liquid cash that was about to be deposited into the company account.

"President Ji..." Zhang Li stammered, "Is the 40 billion you mentioned earlier true?"

Ji Yanran turned her head and looked at Zhang Li's stunned expression, a strange sense of balance rising within her. She waved her hand. "Just wait to collect the money."

Five minutes later, the sound of rapid high heels clicking on the floor suddenly echoed down the corridor. An accountant from the finance department rushed into the CEO's office without even knocking.

"President Ji! Director Zhang!" The accountant held up her phone, the screen displaying real-time balance changes in the company account. "A huge sum of money has just been deposited into the company account!"

Zhang Li snatched the phone. The string of numbers on the screen was so long that she had to count it several times before she could figure out the number of digits: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions, tens of billions.

A full 40 billion.

Zhang Li's fingers began to tremble.

Ji Yanran glanced at the screen, then turned to look at CFO Zhang Li. "The money's received. Immediately transfer the 4 billion yuan for the land purchase to the relevant department's account. Don't delay a single penny."

Zhang Li nodded after hearing Ji Yanran's words, then turned and left.

After Zhang Li left, she sat back down in the boss's chair. Her gaze fell on the land transfer contract on the table.

A month? No, not even a month. I'll pay in full today.

Tomson Riviera villa area.

Li Yichen tossed his phone onto the leather passenger seat. He opened the car door, stepped out, and walked into the villa.

In the living room on the first floor, Zhou Dahai was chopping vegetables in the kitchen. The blade made a rhythmic thud as it hit the cutting board. Li Niannian was wiping the blue-and-white porcelain vase on the display shelf with a rag. Miao Miao sat on the sofa, hugging her half-person-sized plush bear, watching cartoons.

Hearing the door open, Miao Miao was the first to turn around.

"Brother Li!" She slid off the sofa, ran over in her cartoon slippers, and hugged Li Yichen's leg.

Li Yichen ruffled her hair twice, changed into slippers, walked into the living room, and threw himself into the large leather sofa.

His consciousness sank deep into his mind. His current wealth level was level eight. He had received two more wealth gift packs for upgrading from level six to level eight. However, he had been too busy lately and hadn't paid attention to the wealth gift packs.