Reborn as a landlord in Shanghai

Chapter 129 Targeting the Metal Electronics Firm

Since that day when Mao Xiaoyu and Liu Yuting had their conversation, their relationship had become a little better than that of ordinary classmates. In addition, their classes often overlapped, so they inevitably ended up walking together on their way to and from get out of class.

Mao Xiaoyu was even more shameless. Taking advantage of the opportunity to go to school, she would often ask Liu Yuting to go to class with her. Since Liu Yuting was too embarrassed to refuse, the two spent more time together in class, which led to more contact between them.

Such contact led others to misunderstand that Mao Xiaoyu and Liu Yuting had some kind of relationship, which caused envy and jealousy throughout the school, and even made some people green with envy. Mao Xiaoyu was very satisfied with this, after all, the misunderstanding was so deep that the truth would naturally come true.

As for the gossip from others, Mao Xiaoyu thought it was all just fleeting smoke and couldn't cause him any harm. In fact, these rumors only served to highlight his relationship with Liu Yuting.

Of course, there were also things she was unhappy about. Every time Liu Yuting finished her class, her own driver would pick her up and take her home, which made it impossible for Mao Xiaoyu to spend more time with Liu Yuting.

The longest time the two of them spend together each day is probably from the dance class to the school gate. Mao Xiaoyu has no choice but to leave it at that for now.

Of course, Mao Xiaoyu always had something to talk about, and even if she didn't have anything to talk about, she would still talk to Du Yue. Their relationship was progressing quite well and they were starting to move towards becoming ordinary friends. Mao Xiaoyu attended classes for two or three days in a row, and then Du Yue called her on Wednesday noon.

"What's wrong, Sister Du?" Mao Xiaoyu asked quickly, since Du Yue rarely called, and it was unusual for her to call at this time.

The fact that they've spoken means something has happened.

"Mr. Mao, I have some bad news for you. Tencent's Ma Huateng released an announcement at 2 PM today, and this announcement is very unfavorable to us," Du Yue said in a serious tone.

"What happened? What did Ma Huateng say?" Mao Xiaoyu couldn't see Ma Huateng's announcement, so she quickly asked.

"Tencent issued an announcement stating that due to the market's low perception of Tencent's value, Tencent's stock price has not met expectations. Therefore, starting next month, Tencent will periodically repurchase Tencent's shares in the market. This repurchase will involve acquiring at least HK$1 million worth of shares." Du Yue told Mao Xiaoyu about the announcement.

"Damn, he bought back so many shares, what are we supposed to do now?"

Mao Xiaoyu couldn't help but curse. After all, in Mao Xiaoyu's view, if Tencent had acquired shares, why should she acquire them? Wasn't this just stealing her shares?

However, Mao Xiaoyu had no idea that in her previous life, Tencent started repurchasing its shares in November. If it weren't for Mao Xiaoyu's intervention in this life, Zhang Lei would have taken until October to acquire Tencent's shares. It took more than a month to acquire $20 million worth of shares before he met with Ma Huateng and discussed some matters.

Finally, on November 6th, Tencent began a large-scale acquisition of Tencent's low-priced shares on the market. The acquisition continued until February of the following year, with a total acquisition cost of over HK$100 million, at a price of over HK$8 per share, for a total of over 10 million shares.

This share buyback directly boosted Tencent's stock price significantly until 2008, when the US subprime mortgage crisis hit and Tencent's stock price plummeted by 40%. As a result, Tencent began its second large-scale share buyback in September.

Moreover, Tencent spent over 420 million yuan on the second round of share buybacks, but only managed to acquire over 8 million shares, averaging around 50 yuan per share. This shows that even with a 40% drop in Tencent's share price, it is still not cheap.

Because of Mao Xiaoyu's interference, Zhang Lei's stock acquisition was so volatile that he ended up losing money in just a few days. This led to Zhang Lei meeting with Ma Huateng ahead of time and having him put pressure on him, which resulted in Tencent acquiring its own stock ahead of schedule.

"So we will face the awkward situation of not being able to acquire low-priced Tencent shares, even though Tencent has announced that it will start acquiring low-priced Tencent shares on the market next month."

However, for stock investors, there are only a few days left in next month, and the stock price is bound to rise during this period. According to our calculations, Tencent's stock price will rise to at least 8.5 yuan.

Moreover, Tencent's stock price will remain around 8.5 yuan for a long time until Tencent announces that it has completed the share buyback, at which point the stock price will not fluctuate significantly.

"So, Mr. Mao, I think it's no longer very meaningful for us to use our funds to acquire Tencent's shares. So, instead of continuing, we should consider investing in another stock," Du Yue reported over the phone.

"So, the Metal Electronics Exchange stock you wanted to exchange for?" Mao Xiaoyu suddenly remembered the Metal Electronics Exchange stock she had seen in her account last time.

"Yes, it's the stock of this metal and electronics exchange. Just this year, this company started a business transformation, shifting from metal and electronics to the lottery industry. And on June 29th, Zhongcai Online Company and Dongwan Tianyi, that is..."

The parent company of the Metals Electronics Exchange signed a cooperation agreement.

The agreement stipulates that Dongguan Tianyi will provide terminal machines for "Zhongfu Online/VLT" operated by Zhongcai Online Company nationwide, and Zhongcai Online Company will pay Dongguan Tianyi cooperation fees according to the sales volume of "Zhongfu Online/VLT" as agreed in the cooperation contract.

Since then, the company's stock price has risen from 30 cents per share to 1.12 yuan in September. If you look back further, you can see that the company's stock price on December 30th last year was only 3 cents per share.

In other words, by the time the contract was signed in June, the company's stock had increased tenfold. If calculated from the end of last year, it had increased more than fortyfold. Moreover, based on the current stock price, the company's stock price is still relatively low.

According to Peng Yu and my calculations, this company's stock price should rise to at least HK$2.50. After all, HK$2.50 is not a very high price in the Hong Kong stock market, but it is already very high for this company.

Therefore, starting last week, we have begun to accumulate shares of this company on a large scale. Next, we hope that Mr. Mao will give us more authority to raise funds again at a ratio of 1:5 to start purchasing shares of this company.

However, since this company was found by me and Peng Yu, and it's no longer closely related to our Tencent contract, we'd like to discuss our salary for this deal with Mr. Mao. Do you have the time?

Du Yue paused at this point, indicating that the other party intended to wait for Mao Xiaoyu.

Mao Xiaoyu's heart skipped a beat, knowing that things had finally come to this. After all, she had been using these people for free for more than a month. As these genius traders, they certainly wouldn't help others make money for free when they could. Now that they had their eye on a company, it was also due to their abilities.

So Mao Xiaoyu hesitated for a moment before saying, "How about this, after the Hong Kong stock market closes at four o'clock, you two come over here and the three of us can have a good talk."

Upon hearing Mao Xiaoyu's words, Du Yue immediately agreed, "Okay, I'll come over with Peng Yu tonight."

After saying this, the two exchanged a few polite words, and Mao Xiaoyu then told Du Yue her address in Wan Chai, asking them to call her when they arrived. After explaining everything, she hung up the phone.

Looking at the phone that had been hung up, Mao Xiaoyu chuckled self-deprecatingly. It seemed that her domineering aura was still insufficient; she simply couldn't intimidate others. But that was understandable.

After all, this kind of thing is perfectly normal. They've earned a hundred or two hundred million in just over a month, while the other person hasn't received a single penny. Anyone would be unwilling to accept that, but because of the contract, the two of them were too embarrassed to ask for it.

However, if they were to earn another one or two hundred million, and it were all thanks to the two of them, with little to do with their boss, then the two of them would definitely not agree. Therefore, a profit-sharing arrangement would be essential.

Mao Xiaoyu was quite philosophical about it. After all, she would have done the same thing, maybe even more extreme. Besides, she thought that Du Yue and Peng Yu were too honest to talk about it for so long.

Because she had something on her mind, Mao Xiaoyu was less inclined to tease Liu Yuting today. This made Liu Yuting, who had gotten used to Mao Xiaoyu's teasing over the past three days, start to overthink. She wondered if she had done something wrong that displeased Mao Xiaoyu, so she spoke less today.

"What's wrong with you today? Did I say something wrong?" As she was about to reach the front door and get into her car, Liu Yuting couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

"What? What do you mean?" Mao Xiaoyu was momentarily confused, not understanding what the other person meant.

"You look unhappy. Is something on your mind?" Liu Yuting asked again.

"Am I that obvious?" Mao Xiaoyu touched her face.

"It's obvious, your whole face says it all: I'm troubled, I'm annoyed," Liu Yuting nodded, confirming.

"It's nothing, just some business stuff. I need to take care of something later, and right now I'm just thinking about how to resolve it," Mao Xiaoyu said vaguely.

"Is it a big problem? Or are you short of money? If it's a small amount, I can lend it to you, and I won't charge interest."

The Liu family is a business family, and Liu Guangming cares a lot about the upbringing of his children from a young age. Every year, he makes his children manage the money they receive as New Year's gifts.

Therefore, over the years, Liu Yuting has actually become a moderately wealthy woman. She certainly doesn't have a net worth of over 100 million, but she does have a net worth of several million Hong Kong dollars.

Therefore, when Mao Xiaoyu mentioned business matters, he didn't think much of it. After all, he was also in business, and any difficulties in business were usually related to money. So he assumed that Mao Xiaoyu was short of funds.

Furthermore, since Mao Xiaoyu and Liu Yuting were about the same age, and Liu Yuling's business was only worth a few hundred thousand yuan, she assumed that Mao Xiaoyu's business was similar to her own.

So I figured it wouldn't be a problem to lend them some money to help them through this difficult time.

"You want to lend me money?" Mao Xiaoyu couldn't help but look at Liu Yuting.

Liu Yuting felt a little embarrassed by Mao Xiaoyu's gaze, lowered her head, and said softly, "It's normal to sometimes be short of money in business. Borrowing some money to keep things in order is also normal in the business industry. Our Liu family is a business family. We have been learning how to do business since we were young. Therefore, it is normal for the company to take out loans. So please don't misunderstand."

"You might be mistaken. My net worth is something I earned myself, so I'm not cut out for legitimate business. I'm in the capital business. The business I'm talking about is capital business, which has little to do with borrowing money. Our business is more about brains, so my worries aren't about money," Mao Xiaoyu said pretentiously.

"Capital business? You're in finance?" Liu Yuting exclaimed, somewhat incredulously.

"Yes," Mao Xiaoyu replied.

"Are you guys very good at stocks, securities, and futures markets?" Liu Yuting asked curiously.

"There's nothing special about it. In this world, big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp, and shrimp eat plankton. If retail investors are plankton, then we're just shrimp. We can only eat retail investors, and sometimes we have to be careful not to get eaten by the small fish," Mao Xiaoyu boasted.

"Ah, how could this be?" Liu Yuting was a little dumbfounded. It didn't feel like what she had imagined.

"Maybe it's because I'm not tall enough. After all, I come from an ordinary family, and I've gotten this far through my own hard work, bit by bit," Mao Xiaoyu said, trying to sound strong.

"That?"

Liu Yuting is really curious about what kind of ordinary family Mao Xiaoyu comes from, but there are some things she can't ask too much about, since the two of them aren't close enough to talk about everything.

"Your car is waiting for you. Go ahead, don't make your driver late. I have something to do today, I don't have time to go for coffee." Seeing that Liu Yuting wanted to ask, Mao Xiaoyu didn't give her a chance.

In Mao Xiaoyu's view, a woman's curiosity about a man is the beginning of her being hooked. Now that Liu Yuting is curious about him, he must maintain that curiosity.

It's like fishing. First, you smell the bait, then slowly swim over, waiting for the fish to become curious about the bait on the hook. Then, you slowly let it bite the hook, and finally, you just need to give it a little tug, and it will naturally be hooked.

"Oh." The question remained unspoken as Liu Yuting sullenly headed towards her car.

"Bye-bye, see you tomorrow," Mao Xiaoyu said with a smile, waving from behind Liu Yuting.