Chapter 936 - 33: Socialite Splitting Group_2

Chapter 936: Chapter 33: Socialite Splitting Group_2

Yang Chen: "Really? Lord He’s home, huh? Lord He isn’t short on money, so it’s reasonable to have such a big mansion."

After touring the Prince Mansion, what impressed Yang Chen the most was how huge it was, comparable to the Forbidden City’s palaces.

No wonder He Shen, who hid 800 million taels of silver at home, had such an extravagant place.

Yang Chen suddenly had an idea and asked, "Do you think it’s possible to buy and sell these prince mansions privately? Like, could I buy this Prince Gong’s Mansion if I paid a lot of money?"

Li Yunxi laughed and replied, "Definitely not. All historical buildings now belong to cultural relic units, and property rights belong to the state, not allowing private transactions. Unless your offer is so high that even the state can’t refuse. Or maybe if you make some earth-shattering contribution, perhaps the state would make an exception. However, if that were the case, the whole nation would know you live here, and they’d definitely block your door every day, making your life here uncomfortable."

Yang Chen nodded.

It’s right not to allow private sales, otherwise those with money would have bought up all the large and small prince mansions and ancient buildings in Beijing as private residences, leaving ordinary people with no chance to visit these historical sites.

But truth be told, Yang Chen really wanted a prince mansion like this.

If not for what Li Yunxi said about people blocking the door, the privacy here is quite strong, and Yang Chen could choose any room to release the Gate of Space-Time.

However, now it seems this can only be a dream, unlikely to come true.

The two walked out of Prince Gong’s Mansion, and it was already lunchtime.

So, they found a nearby restaurant to have lunch.

As they were eating, Li Yunxi’s WeChat notified her that Wang Yuwei had added her to a group chat named "Beijing and Hai City Socialite Group."

Wang Yuwei was Li Yunxi’s classmate and roommate during her undergraduate studies at Beijing Normal University.

Wang Yuwei’s features were just average, but she was particularly good with makeup, especially the kind of innocent internet influencer look that guys loved, which made her love life quite colorful and full of entanglements.

After graduation, Wang Yuwei stayed in Beijing for an office job, while Li Yunxi went to graduate school at Hai City University, where her father worked.

Since then, they rarely kept in touch, only occasionally greeting each other in their class group chat.

So why did Wang Yuwei suddenly add Li Yunxi to this socialite group today?

At this moment, there were only a dozen people in the group, but Wang Yuwei kept adding more people, and soon there were over five hundred members.

Wang Yuwei then sent a message to everyone in the group.

"Hello everyone, this is a new group. The previous group had some infiltrators causing trouble, so I dissolved it. I’ve also invited some new sisters here. Everyone should help each other out in the future. If you have questions, you can read the group description or message me directly, and I’ll explain to you."

Li Yunxi quickly messaged Wang Yuwei privately.

"Yuwei, what is this group? What does ’Socialite Group’ mean?"

Wang Yuwei soon replied.

"Huh? How did I add you? I didn’t notice when adding people in groups just now. You might not fit in, maybe you should leave the group."

Li Yunxi got interested immediately and replied: "What’s the deal? Why don’t I fit in? What’s this group about? How come you just added me and now want me to leave?"

Wang Yuwei didn’t reply, but her lack of response only made Li Yunxi more curious to find out what this group was about.

At that moment, Yang Chen was eating, and a notification from the Bibi system popped up on his phone.

He opened it to find that the female passenger who drugged her boyfriend and then went to have an affair with another man had left a negative review.

"It’s all your fault, I told you to drive faster, but you wouldn’t listen! You’re a ride-hailing driver yet don’t know the roads, then why are you driving? If you had been one or two minutes earlier, things wouldn’t have turned out this way. The worst part is you actually showed the in-car recording to my boyfriend, you’re simply not human! I’m in the hospital now, if you have a conscience, you’d come see me. Damn!"

Reading the last line of the review, Yang Chen couldn’t help but laugh.

Although hitting someone isn’t advocated, who wouldn’t think drugging your boyfriend and having an affair deserve punishment?

If this were ancient times, she’d be thrown into a pig cage.

Luckily, modern civilized society saved her, yet she’s still ungrateful, not admitting her fault, and instead blaming Yang Chen for not getting her back to the hotel in time. Wow, this value system is really astonishing.

At that moment, the system suddenly sent out a reminder.

"Congratulations, Master, on receiving a negative review. The system rewards Master with a 60% share of SKP, making you the majority shareholder of the company."

Although Yang Chen hadn’t been to SKP, he’s seen many videos and news about SKP online.

In short, SKP is a place for the rich to shop, where over 80% are top international brands like LV, Prada, and so on.

Possibly, even a bag of fruit or a towel there would take ordinary people years to afford; it’s that exaggerated.

SKP is impressive for being profitable in its first year and its average annual revenue growth rate is as high as 30%.

According to luxury brand profit margins, the brands that open there definitely make a huge profit. It can only be said that there are indeed many wealthy people in Beijing, otherwise, it wouldn’t support a 30% growth rate every year.

SKP has two shareholders: the major shareholder is Radiance Investment Company, holding a 60% stake, the second largest shareholder is Beijing Longlian Supermarket Group, holding a 40% stake, and Beijing Longlian is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Longlian Group, of which Yang Chen is the major shareholder, so now it’s certain Yang Chen has achieved absolute control of SKP.