Reborn as a female internet celebrity in a county town

Chapter 256 Between you and Yan Li's family, who is richer?

Lin Lang, using the account of his assistant, posted the video.

The main point is to tell netizens that Mr. Yan has been busy lately and has not been able to manage the fund, so it is inevitable that the net asset value will experience negative growth.

This not only provided an excuse for Tianjin Capital's green card, but also reinforced Yan Li's importance within Tianjin Capital.

After all, Yan Li was busy with other things, and the fund's net asset value immediately collapsed.

Yan Li realized what was happening immediately and turned her head away.

She didn't know if Lin Lang had planned this script in advance or if he had come up with it on the spur of the moment, but either way, it was quite terrifying.

If it was arranged in advance, it means that he already knew that the net asset value would have a negative growth today. He didn't go to the company, didn't look at the reports, didn't know the specific positions, and may not have even watched the market. Yet he predicted the net asset value of Tianjin Global Selection in advance.

If it was something he came up with on the spur of the moment, the fact that he could come up with such a script that kills two birds with one stone and has such a perfect plot suggests that Lin Lang has lied a lot in his daily life, and that even anything he says could be part of a script.

A person who only has a script will never know whether he is real or fake.

"I... I'd like to go to my uncle's house to rest first, otherwise it wouldn't be appropriate to go to your house..."

After the car started, Yan Li spoke.

She slept in the car for a while, but only for two hours.

I can't sleep soundly when I'm thinking about something.

I'm about to visit someone's house, and it's already a bit inappropriate to go in the afternoon. If I go there and then immediately go to sleep, it's even more inappropriate.

"Go home, my mom has prepared dinner. Have a quick bite first, and I'll find a time for you to rest."

"OK then."

Yan Li really couldn't refuse any longer.

For her, this time was completely different from before.

At least she had never taken the initiative to kiss Lin Lang before.

In the past, boyfriend-girlfriend relationships were more of a formality; no one ever officially acknowledged them.

But now, it's not just a matter of the situation anymore.

However, since she hasn't met Lin Lang's parents, she doesn't yet know what they're thinking.

If Lin Lang's parents hadn't been pushing him too hard, things would have been fine, and things might have stayed the same as before.

If Lin Lang's parents pressure her too much, she will have no other choice.

Before today, she thought that she and Lin Lang could just be partners, or have a close and ambiguous friendship, since she had never thought about dating anyone.

But starting today, many things have changed.

From the moment her net asset value began to decline, she knew that there was an insurmountable gap between her and Lin Lang, and that Tianjin Capital was completely inseparable from Lin Lang.

She can't leave either.

About half an hour later, the car arrived at Lin Lang's house.

Yan Li got out of the car immediately, saw Ms. Xu, and went over to give her a hug, saying, "Auntie, I missed you so much..."

Lin Lang, on the other hand, filmed a video from inside the car.

They definitely didn't film people directly, but rather filmed Yan Li getting out of the car. The camera stayed on the passenger side, but you could hear what Yan Li was saying.

Finally, Lin Lang added some narration, "Brothers, President Yan is here for a blind date. I'll report back to you all as soon as there's any progress!"

……

The negative net asset value of Tianjin Global Selection has been a hot topic online. After all, it's already generating a lot of buzz, and any slight touch on this issue can cause the buzz to rise rapidly.

The internet has always been all about "piggybacking".

A social media influencer who doesn't know how to capitalize on trends isn't a good influencer.

Some internet celebrities gain tens of millions of followers by plagiarizing internet jokes and then performing them.

Some online celebrities accumulate millions of followers in a short period of time by copying other people's video scripts and doing whatever others do.

Some internet celebrities will jump on any news that comes up, then stand on a moral high ground to criticize it, and unknowingly turn themselves into news anchors with tens of millions of followers.

Even worse, some official media outlets have no bottom line when it comes to their fans, cutting out details, creating conflicts, and enriching themselves by eroding public trust.

In this wild age of the short video industry, few people are innocent.

Lin Lang himself was not innocent either; many of the things he used were summarized by many people in later generations.

Regarding Tianjin Capital, many people believe that the company has run out of ideas and its luck has run out.

It wasn't until the account of "Yan Zong's Little Assistant" posted two videos within half an hour that a new direction was brought out.

"Holy crap, the goddess Yan is actually going on a blind date? Which young master has such an honor?"

"I was stunned when I saw this video. What level of celebrity is Yan now? And Yan is only 23 years old after the New Year, right? Going on blind dates so early is just too outrageous."

"Dude, I can only say that you guys are a bit naive. The real big shots in this world don't show their faces. Goddess Yan is certainly amazing, but there are many people who are more amazing than her. The person who can make Goddess Yan put down her work to go on a blind date must be no ordinary person."

"That's right. There is a Heavenly Palace in this world. You can't even imagine what it's like inside. What is Yan Li? Even if her value increases tenfold, there will still be a group of people above her who can suppress her."

"Upstairs, stop spouting nonsense about the Heavenly Palace. You have the same mindset as those who talk about special supplies all the time. There are definitely really powerful people, but they are powerful because they have real strength. Do you think someone with real strength would deliberately hide themselves and do something like special supplies that makes people talk nonsense? I don't know where you heard the term 'Heavenly Palace' and just use it on its own."

The comment section of the assistant's account was filled with all sorts of opinions, and an argument broke out shortly after the video was posted.

Their argument ignited public interest in the matter, and many of Yan Li's fans began to retaliate under the previous videos that were pessimistic about Tianjin Capital. "I'll never forget you, you bastard! A couple of days ago you were the one badmouthing Tianjin Capital, and after the net asset value of Tianjin Global Selection came out, you immediately deleted the video and ran away. Do you really think the internet has no memory? Now you're back, jumping around like this. I want to see when you're finally going to delete the video!"

"Yan Li was just busy with other things and didn't manage the trading herself. After all, the US stock market opens so late, it's normal that she couldn't handle it. There's no need to make a big deal out of it, and overall, we didn't lose money."

"No one says anything when you make 50%, but you start complaining when you lose less than 1%. Does your fund have to transfer money to you every day? Tell me, which fund company did you buy from? Tell me, which fund in the world has never had a negative net asset value for more than a month after its launch? Tell me, besides Tianjin Hybrid Selection, which other fund has that? Even Buffett can't do it, so how dare you bring it up and talk about its failure?"

"I used to think you were quite fair and objective, but in the last few days, your comments on Tianjin Capital have been absolutely outrageous! Even if you took bribes, you didn't have to be so tactless. At least wait until things settled down before jumping out, right? Why are you in such a hurry to jump out? How much money did your backer give you?"

"Anyway, I've always been on Tianjin Capital's side. Let alone losing money for one day, even if I lose money for ten days in a row, I can accept it! I basically don't need to look at other funds, they're bound to lose money. But since I bought Tianjin Capital's fund, I've never felt so good! They help us make money, and we still treat them with a harsh attitude. Besides, we haven't really lost money, just a slight pullback in profits. Have you guys lost your conscience?"

Tianjin Capital brings huge profits to fund investors, making most of them very tolerant.

If the company keeps losing money and it gets exposed that Yan Li is going on blind dates instead of working for the company, then most fund investors will be unable to help but criticize Yan Li, saying that she doesn't care about them and that if she can't be a good fund manager, someone else can be done.

However, it's because Tianjin Capital has been helping everyone make money.

Normal people will have a much better mindset if they make money in the long run. Only a few people with extreme personalities will start to target the person who has been making money for them over the smallest things.

Did Yan Li go on a blind date?

Shouldn't the focus be on how the blind date went? And who the blind date was?

Does it matter whether I checked the market last night or not? Anyway, it only dropped by less than one point. You have to pay to watch the market gossip online, so just consider it the cost of watching the gossip.

Everyone needs a personal life, right?

……

After having dinner at Lin Lang's house, Yan Li didn't say she was tired; instead, she chatted with Ms. Xu for a while.

He even specially gave Ms. Xu the jewelry he had brought.

Of course, there are other gifts as well.

The clothes and such had already been sent over. The gifts in the suitcase this time are all the kind that are perfect for children.

For example, jewelry, luxury clothing, and precious nutritional supplements.

Including the bracelet worth over a million yuan, the total value of the items in Yan Li's suitcase is close to three million yuan.

Over the past few months, she has sent nearly ten million yuan worth of gifts to Lin Lang's family.

Lin Lang left after dinner and was gone for about ten minutes. When he returned to the living room, he saw Yan Li still chatting with his mother. He quickly said, "Mom, Yan Li didn't rest last night. Why are you still chatting with her? Let her go to sleep for a while."

Ms. Xu was startled, but before she could speak, Yan Li immediately said, "I want to chat with Auntie a little longer, and I'm not that sleepy right now."

"Hey, there's no rush to chat, anytime is fine. Lili, come with me, the room's all ready for you. Get some sleep first, we'll have dinner a little later, after you wake up." Ms. Xu had no idea about this, and Lin Lang hadn't mentioned it either.

"Oh? Auntie, you don't need to worry about me."

"It's nothing, we just ate, so we're not hungry for a while. We'll prepare the food whenever you wake up."

"Well... okay, but if I wake up late, please don't wait for me."

"It's alright, it's alright. If they're really hungry, let them eat first."

Ms. Xu pulled Yan Li upstairs; the room prepared for Yan Li was on the second floor.

Lin Lang sat down on the sofa and watched his father admiring a watch. He asked, "How much does this watch cost?"

"A little over 100,000."

“I’ve discussed it with your mother. We haven’t touched most of the things that Lili sent, except for cigarettes and alcohol. We only opened some of them because you said you could use them.”

"Didn't I say that we should use them when necessary? Those nutritional supplements should be taken regularly, otherwise they'll go moldy if left unused."

"Isn't it because I'm afraid of being laughed at? After all, Lili gave us so many gifts. Your mother and I couldn't even save enough money in our whole lives to buy this watch. We can't repay this favor."

The gift Yan Li gave was indeed valuable, but it was of little use to Lin Yuliang.

He really found it hard to imagine that the money he had worked hard all his life to save was not worth a watch or a bottle of wine.

"You don't need to repay the favor. I've already repaid the favors for these things!"

Lin Yuliang glanced at Lin Lang and asked, "I think I saw you on the Forbes Young Persons List too. You were sixth, with a net worth of over two billion. Do you really have that much money?"

Lin Lang said, "That stuff is nonsense. It's like an acre of land that produces 3,000 yuan a year in two seasons, with a net profit of 800 yuan. When people estimate a person's worth, they include the output of that acre of land over the next 20 or even 30 years. That way, an acre of land would be valued at 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. That list is the same. In reality, the money that belongs to me is very little, and it belongs to the company's assets. If it's under my name, the total is estimated to be around 400 to 500 million yuan."

It's hard to say for sure; if we're extrapolating, Lin Lang's net worth is definitely more than 2 billion.

However, the only money he could actually get back to spend was from his personal studio, where he saved over a million yuan in a month, plus his investments in Tianjin Mixed Selection.

He doesn't want to take out the money for investment in the short term, so the amount of money he can really freely spend on his family is only a little over one million.

But he doesn't need money normally; he can use the company account for everything he does, since it's all for work.

"So, how does your family compare to Lili's?"

"Huh? What's the point of comparing these two?"

"We definitely have to compare, otherwise people will say we're marrying above our station."

Lin Lang said with a smile, "Dad, if we can't compete with Yan Li's family, then we won't marry Yan Li?"

"That won't do! These are two different things! If you are better off than Lili's family, or at least about the same, your mother and I can be a little more assertive. But if you are not as good as them, or far behind, we will have to bow our heads and do whatever Lili's family says. We will not make decisions on our own."

"What's there to bow down to? If her family doesn't agree, don't force it. She's just a girlfriend. I'll just find someone better than her."

Lin Yuliang: "It's even better. After your mother found out about Lili's situation, she hasn't slept well for the past few days. She even called your sister to ask about the female teacher, worried that the female teacher might have found a boyfriend."

(End of this chapter)