A perfect life begins with changing the timeline.

"Brother Li, welcome, welcome."

After Li Mu put his suitcase away and got into the car, Fan Bingbing immediately clapped her hands playfully:

"Welcome, welcome! A warm welcome!"

"..."

Li Mu was somewhat speechless and said:

"It's like a leader has come to visit."

"Haha, Brother Li's arrival will surely be an honor to our humble abode."

"Please don't."

He quickly shook his head.

He thought to himself, "This is Beijing, a place where you can kill a whole bunch of department heads and directors with a single brick. Who am I to him?"

"Where are we going?"

"Let's go eat. I've already booked a restaurant to welcome Brother Li back."

"How about we go straight to the Asian Games Village area? Didn't you say you found out about a few housing developments? Let's go take a look."

Fan Bingbing was taken aback and subconsciously asked:

"Does Brother Li have anything else to do?"

"without."

Li Mu shook his head and pointed to the clock on the BMW's center console, which was already ticking towards 12:

"I think this time is perfect, lunchtime, less crowded. If we go, we can avoid trouble as much as possible, what do you think?"

Fan Bingbing immediately understood what he meant.

Indeed, her concern today was what to do if some kind of scandal broke out, but then she thought that paparazzi wouldn't be camping out at the sales office, so she dismissed that worry.

But listening to Li Muyi's words now, he also felt that they made sense:

"That's fine, but I'm worried you might be hungry, Brother Li..."

"Haha, no rush. Besides, I ate some on the plane."

"Okay, shall I tell Brother Li about the properties I've been looking into these past two days?"

"Um……"

The BMW sped towards Yanjing, and in the car, Fan Bingbing began to explain the information she had gathered to him.

Actually, Li Mu wasn't sure what to do when he came to Yanjing to buy a house.

According to the wheelchair-bound man, given his current assets, investing a maximum of ten million yuan in real estate is a relatively reasonable range.

It's perfect for a backup plan.

The top investment choice is Yanjing, where housing prices have seen the fastest growth nationwide since the announcement of the Olympics.

That is beyond doubt.

But beyond that, even the wheelchair-bound man couldn't help.

His rise to wealth began with "HAO123" as his first pot of gold. He only knew about real estate through hearsay and its future trends, but he couldn't provide Li Mu with detailed information such as "XX Community".

Just like this time, he recommended Li Mu to go to the Asian Games Village because it was the area with the strongest housing price growth from 01 to 08 after the successful bid for the Olympics.

However, he didn't know which residential buildings were located in the Asian Games Village area, so Li Mu had to make his own judgment.

Only Li Mu himself can make that judgment.

"Brother Li, open the storage compartment; there's a map inside. I've marked it."

Li Mu took out a map from the storage compartment and unfolded it.

On the vast map of Yanjing, there are several notes in the area north of the Third Ring Road.

There are concentric circles, both large and small, with lines of text written on the side.

「风林绿洲---4570（60-90平米）、天居园---3750（60-120平米）、嘉铭桐城……」

There are seven or eight circles in total.

"Are all of these within the Asian Games Village area?"

"Yes, and none of them have been handed over yet; they're all under construction. I didn't draw any mature neighborhoods because... they're a bit expensive. For example, those older neighborhoods in the Asian Games Village, the prices are already six or seven thousand. All I looked at were these unfinished ones."

"..."

Li Mu nodded slightly.

After looking at these plots of land for a while, he pointed to the plot located between Anding Road and the North Fourth Ring Road:

"This is the National Stadium, right?"

"Yes, after I came back this time, I specifically checked. If the bid for the Olympics is successful, this area will be the planned site for the National Olympic Center. Those other places are right next to here..."

"Okay, let's go see them one by one then. Is Fan Bingbing planning to come with me?"

Words that outsiders might easily misinterpret actually elicited an affirmative response:

"Hmm. I trust Brother Li's judgment, and I want to... take a gamble."

She didn't say anything like "Brother Li, don't you dare trick me" or anything else.

After all, this is a gamble in itself.

The gamble is that the bid to host the Olympics will be successful next month.

The reason is quite simple: news about the Olympic bid has been gradually released over the past few months. News reports say that those involved in the Olympics have been full of praise for some of the proposals offered by Beijing. And most importantly, although Sydney hosted the Olympics last year, during the bidding process, Sydney only received two more votes than Beijing.

And the number of votes received by Beijing for each of its Olympic bids has been steadily increasing!

It was like a beautiful dream bubble, making Fan Bingbing unconsciously want to take a gamble.

Either the returns are mediocre.

Or...soar into the sky!

Compared to the latter, the mediocre returns are indeed, as Brother Li said, more like a safety net!

So she decided to take a gamble with this mysterious and sophisticated person!

Hearing her words, Li Mu nodded:

"Um."

……

Li Mu kept asking questions the whole way.

Ask about the planning, the roads, and the surrounding facilities.

Fan Bingbing gave the best possible answer.

If I know the answer, I'll say so; if I don't, I plan to ask at the sales office later.

Soon, the two passed through the bustling and noisy city of Yanjing, but Li Mu, who was visiting Yanjing for the first time, didn't even pay much attention to it. Except for glancing at Tianmen Square a couple of times, he spent the rest of the time staring at the map and thinking.

Around 12 o'clock, the car arrived at their first stop, Fenglin Oasis, located at the intersection of Beichen Road and Datun Road.

Li Mu's first reaction after getting out of the car was...

This place is really remote.

The surrounding area was desolate.

It felt like I was outside the city.

After putting on a mask and sunglasses, Fan Bingbing looked at Li Mu as soon as she got out of the car.

She had been to this place before.

Although she knew that if the bid for the Olympics was successful, this place would be only about a fifteen-minute walk from the planned Olympic Park, she still felt cheated the first time she visited.

Is this godforsaken place really... suitable?

This was how she felt when she first came here, so at this moment, she really wanted to know what Li Mu was thinking, or rather, to see his expression.

But when I looked over, I found that the other person's face was completely calm.

You can't see anything.

Thinking of this, she locked the car and went to Li Mu's side:

"Brother Li, how are you feeling?"

As she spoke, she pointed to everything around her:

"Doesn't it feel desolate?... To be honest, when I first came here, I couldn't believe it. It's so desolate. Can the Olympics... really bring about such a big change?"

The moment he heard her say that, Li Mu knew what she was thinking.

To be honest, he understands.

After all, this place... is really damn desolate.

However, he still vividly remembered everything the wheelchair-bound man had said.

This is indeed a gamble.

He had known all along.

But isn't that what investment risks are all about?

At this moment, this place certainly doesn't look very good.

But for some inexplicable reason, he thought of a sentence in "An Introduction to Go".

And so, his gaze shifted from the desolate distance to the beautiful woman before him.

Looking at the other person's sunglasses, he chuckled softly:

"Ha. Fan Bingbing, did you buy a Go set?"

Fan Bingbing was taken aback, then nodded subconsciously:

"I bought it. But I've been busy these past few days and haven't studied it yet. I just looked at the book and got a detailed understanding of the rules."

"What do you think of the 'strategic position' of this place?"

"Momentum?"

Fan Bingbing frowned, puzzled for a moment.

Seeing this, Li Mu shrugged and said:

"A skilled strategist focuses on the overall situation, while an unskilled one focuses on individual pieces. You think this place is desolate... indeed, it is desolate. But to me, this is a 'grand arena'." (Note 1)

"..."

Fan Bingbing remained silent once again.

Until Li Mu pointed to the sales office:

"Let's go."

He was in front.

She was behind.

Fan Bingbing followed behind him, watching his back...

Until that slightly mysterious breeze resurfaced in my heart.

Then, she paused and looked around.

Ooba...?

(Note 1: "Otsuka" is a Go term referring to strategically valuable points on the board during the opening phase, which can expand one's own influence or restrict the opponent's development.)