Reborn as a landlord in Shanghai

Chapter 106 Contacting Strangers

After a busy day, it was getting late, so Mao Xiaoyu found a place and had a Hong Kong specialty meal, which solved her dinner problem.

Because the outside world was a bit unfamiliar, Mao Xiaoyu went back to her room early after finishing dinner.

Back in the house, Mao Xiaoyu took a shower and then lay on the bed watching TV, but her mind was no longer on the TV.

Mao Xiaoyu pondered the arrangements for this afternoon repeatedly, trying to figure out what was wrong.

As for studying abroad at the school, that's another story. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision. I originally just wanted to stay in Hong Kong for a while longer, but it suddenly turned into studying abroad. As for what's wrong with it, we'll just have to wait and see.

As for registering two offshore companies, I've calculated the costs myself. It's a bit more expensive in mainland China than in Hong Kong. Of course, if you include accommodation and food expenses, it will definitely exceed the registration fees in mainland China.

However, although it cost more money, there was one important point: no one in China knew that the offshore companies registered in Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands were theirs. In Mao Xiaoyu's view, even if it cost more money, it was a good thing.

Moreover, since I'll be staying in Hong Kong for an extended period, I'll be spending more money. If I can actually get the documents for two offshore companies within three days, it won't cost me much more. In fact, it's a bit more expensive in mainland China.

So, regarding the two things mentioned above, I think I did a pretty good job today. Although I spent a lot of money, I still achieved my goal.

As for the matter of raising 5 times the amount of money from HSBC, Mao Xiaoyu hadn't initially thought about raising that much; she only thought about raising 3 times the amount, which was already quite risky.

After all, Hong Kong stocks don't have daily price limits, so if problems arise, a drop of 10% or 20% is possible. However, the problem I heard from Manager Ge is that recently, Tencent's original shareholders have been releasing a large number of shares, causing external Tencent shares to...

The increase in the circulation of shares.

In addition to various other factors, Tencent's stock price plummeted. Although the stock price has recovered slightly due to Tencent's public announcement, it certainly hasn't returned to its highest level. That's why Mao Xiaoyu feels there's profit to be made now!

If we acquire a batch of shares now at a low price, we can not only sell them to Zhang Wei later, but if that doesn't work out, we can also sell them on the market.

In addition, Mao Xiaoyu had some confidence in the four traders she had hired in China, believing that even if they didn't make money, they shouldn't lose too much money if they followed her plan.

At worst, we can hold Tencent shares at the current price for a year, wait for the A-share market to recover, and then withdraw funds to pay off the financing here.

Although Mao Xiaoyu was still a little uneasy, after all, there were too many uncontrollable factors, things had already come to this point, and there was no point in saying anything more. The next thing to do was to see if Tencent's stock would perform well.

However, in Mao Xiaoyu's view, even if Tencent's stock price is bad, it can't be worse than the original shareholders of Tencent selling off tens of millions of Tencent shares. Therefore, Mao Xiaoyu doesn't think there's much hope for Tencent's stock price to fall further.

After all, more than ten days have passed, and the price has fallen to its lowest point, which is acceptable to most people. Therefore, there is a greater chance of the price rising at this point.

After thinking about everything she had done that day, Mao Xiaoyu started to feel bored.

After all, it's quite boring to be in an unfamiliar place with no one to talk to or play with.

Mao Xiaoyu thought for a moment. It seemed that apart from Yang Ying and Lawyer Zhang, she didn't know anyone else in Hong Kong. She didn't have anything to talk about with Lawyer Zhang. So why not talk to Yang Ying?

Although this girl is often unreachable, and even when she is, she always makes excuses, saying she's too busy, sometimes only replying to a few QQ messages after half a day, and then going offline again.

Seeing the other person's attitude towards her, Mao Xiaoyu was sometimes speechless and wished she could stop contacting her altogether, but in the end, she would still send her a message or two from time to time.

It's not that Mao Xiaoyu loved him that much; after all, Mao Xiaoyu had been a lifelong bachelor for two lifetimes and had no intention of getting married. It's impossible for her to love a woman deeply. But the problem is, the grapes she couldn't have were picked by someone else, and she was always unwilling to accept it.

Mao Xiaoyu is now thinking about Yang Ying, which means she's thinking about this one grape, wondering when she can finally eat it.

Unable to contain herself any longer, Mao Xiaoyu pulled out her newly bought phone and started sending Yang Ying QQ messages.

Yang Ying saw the QQ message from Mao Xiaoyu on her phone, and lay on the bed, hesitating whether to reply.

Yang Ying actually had a good impression of Mao Xiaoyu.

Because Mao Xiaoyu's face was quite pleasing, and coupled with their serendipitous encounter and subsequent interactions, Yang Ying developed an indescribable feeling towards Mao Xiaoyu.

Although the two didn't reveal their relationship at the airport, Yang Ying actually felt that Mao Xiaoyu might be her boyfriend.

Unfortunately, upon returning to Hong Kong, Yang Ying had to face a harsh reality.

Seeing the pressure her parents faced living in Hong Kong, her younger brother crying incessantly, and their tiny apartment of just over ten square meters, Yang Ying knew very well that she and Mao Xiaoyu had no future.

After all, one lives in Shanghai and the other in Hong Kong; their living environments are different.

Even contacting someone is a luxury, let alone making money.

Although Mao Xiaoyu seems to be earning more money than her now, Yang Ying also knows that the money Mao Xiaoyu is earning is actually dead money.

Even if I want to earn more in the future, it won't be much more. But as long as I reach a certain age, the more men I work with, the greater my fame, and the more money I earn.

In terms of making money, the two are simply incomparable.

Moreover, their social circles are different. Although they both seem to live in big cities, Hong Kong and Shanghai are ultimately different, and the pace of life on both sides is also different. Being together in the future will definitely increase various difficulties.

Because of Yang Ying's pragmatism, she initially planned to gradually cut off contact with Mao Xiaoyu, wanting her to know that her feelings for him had slowly cooled, so that they could break up peacefully in the future.

Therefore, Yang Ying's replies became increasingly drawn out and perfunctory. And everything that followed was just as Yang Ying had imagined. More than a month had passed since she returned to Hong Kong, and the two of them had less and less contact.

Yang Ying had already sensed that Mao Xiaoyu was becoming increasingly distant from her, and she believed that in another two or three months, they would no longer be in contact.

Yang Ying received another QQ message from Mao Xiaoyu tonight, and as usual, she shouldn't have replied.

But because I felt wronged today, and I don't want to talk to my parents about it, I'm lying in bed sulking!

Suddenly, seeing the message from Mao Xiaoyu made Yang Ying feel an urge to talk to her.

It wasn't that Yang Ying wanted to reconnect with Mao Xiaoyu; after all, Yang Ying was very strong-willed and couldn't be swayed by just a little something.

At this moment, the main reason for wanting to contact Mao Xiaoyu was to find someone to talk to properly and vent some of the anger and resentment in my heart. This is like some people who can't find anyone to confide in, so they can only grumble to the flowers, plants and trees.

This is actually the tragedy of the lower classes in Hong Kong. Only by expressing their bitterness and resentment can people feel better. Otherwise, if they have anger bottled up inside and have nowhere to vent, they are prone to various symptoms.

Normally, Yang Ying wouldn't think of contacting Mao Xiaoyu, but at this time, when she was feeling down, Mao Xiaoyu sent her a QQ message.

The two things happened to come together at once, creating a subtle chemical reaction between them.

"I'm only resting now. Why did you suddenly decide to text me so late?" Yang Ying hesitated for more than ten minutes before finally sending the message.

Mao Xiaoyu noticed that Yang Ying hadn't sent a message yet and assumed that Yang Ying wouldn't reply to her QQ message again. While she was watching TV out of sheer boredom, she suddenly heard her QQ ringtone on her phone.

She picked up her phone and saw that it was a message from Yang Ying. Although the message was simple and seemed like a normal chat, Mao Xiaoyu quickly replied, "I haven't been able to talk to you every day, so whenever I have a break, I send you a message. How about it? You shouldn't be busy now, right?"

"I was quite busy when I came back recently because I needed to learn a lot of things, so I didn't have time to reply to you. I shouldn't be too busy anymore, but even though I'm not too busy, I might have more gigs and more filming commitments," Yang Ying replied.

"This is too much work!" Mao Xiaoyu quickly replied.

"In a big city like Hong Kong, this is normal. Everyone seems very busy, constantly making money in order to have the life they want."

You might not feel that way in Shanghai, since the pace of life there is very slow, and many people feel that earning a little money is enough. But once you come to Hong Kong, you'll find that the pace of life here is very fast.

Moreover, prices in Hong Kong are really too high. Whether it's food, drinks, entertainment, or leisure, everything is ridiculously expensive. But compared to housing, these things are much cheaper, since Hong Kong is famous for its expensive housing.

"If you want to settle down and make a living here, you have to work hard to earn money, to earn more money than others can earn, so that you can buy the house you want. Otherwise, you can only rent a house for the rest of your life." Yang Ying wrote a long paragraph of this lament on QQ.

Looking at Yang Ying's exclamation, Mao Xiaoyu was also quite impressed. Although she had only been in Hong Kong for a day, she could honestly feel that the cost of living here was really high.

Twenty years later, although Shanghai's economic level has surpassed that of Hong Kong, to be honest, many prices are still not higher than they are in Hong Kong now. Just today, Mao Xiaoyu experienced it: a bottle of water costs tens of yuan, and a meal costs more than 200 yuan. This is not so expensive even 20 years later!

After all, it was a hole-in-the-wall restaurant, a tiny little shop, not a big restaurant. Just a casual meal at such a small place cost Mao Xiaoyu over 200 yuan. It really felt like a lot when paying the bill.

"Sigh, that's how it is. Life is tough. If you want to live a better life in Hong Kong, you have to work hard to earn money, unless you're rich. But do you, Yang Ying, have money? No, so you can only tighten your belt and suffer," Mao Xiaoyu joked.

"Do you know what I want to tell you? You have no idea what I want to tell you, you have no idea why I work so hard to make money? You have money, you must have money in Shanghai, so it's easy for you to talk when you're not in my shoes."

But you have no idea what kind of life I lived in Hong Kong. Every day, from the moment I opened my eyes, I was busy with endless rehearsals. When I closed my eyes, all I could think about was how to dance, how to position myself, how to market myself, and how to earn more money.

And you, you're probably in Shanghai, working for a while in the afternoon, then taking your money, sitting comfortably in an air-conditioned room, playing games, drinking soda, and enjoying the fruits of your hard work.

But are you really working hard? Honestly, you're not working hard at all. The temperature in Shanghai isn't even as high as in Hong Kong, while we're out in the sun all day, shooting and posing, all for a mere few hundred Hong Kong dollars.

I feel like there's a huge chasm between us right now, so I think the best thing for us is to calm down, minimize contact in the future, and just be ordinary friends.

After venting, Yang Ying felt much better. Next, she directly confronted Mao Xiaoyu, intending to treat her as an ordinary friend. Whether Mao Xiaoyu agreed or not was irrelevant to Yang Ying, unless Mao Xiaoyu could come to Hong Kong, which Yang Ying thought was impossible.

Hearing Yang Ying's rapid-fire words, Mao Xiaoyu was a little stunned!

Did you eat a bomb? Or what? Why are you talking so rudely!

Could it be that he's been oppressed in some way, so he's trying to find a sense of self-worth through his own actions?

Otherwise, why speak so rudely, and then say at the end, what's the point of being ordinary friends?

Who would want to be just friends with you?

If two people have played a friendly match, it doesn't matter whether they become ordinary friends or not!

Of course, Mao Xiaoyu would never say this on QQ.

After all, Mao Xiaoyu still wanted to get one of their books.

Therefore, Mao Xiaoyu calmly said, "The gap you mentioned doesn't seem that big to me. After all, you've lived in both Shanghai and Hong Kong and you can adapt to life on both sides. Why do you say I can't adapt?"

Besides, you say life in Shanghai is too casual, and I admit that. But it's God who makes life in Shanghai so casual, not me. You need to understand that.

Since you think life in Hong Kong is good, then whatever! I can just come and live here for a few months to experience what's so great about life here! But once I'm in Hong Kong, you'll have to make time to keep me company.

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