Chapter 483: The Soundproofing in Your Office Is Pretty Good

Wu Yun was actually quite flush with cash. While his personal account only held a little over 40 million, Nirvana Investment’s funds were more than ample.

Kunpeng Games’ first-quarter revenue of 1.5064 billion Huaxia Coin had already been transferred from the Steam Platform into its account. After taxes, a little over 1.4 billion remained.

After setting aside development funds for Kunpeng Games, Nirvana Investment directly withdrew 1.1 billion.

So, even with the recent US$100 million investment in Pinduoduo, Nirvana Investment still had over 1.8 billion remaining in its accounts. Of course, this sum included the 900 million earmarked for the construction of Wu Yun’s new lithium battery factory.

As for the 1.5 billion in revenue from Kunpeng Games, the system had already credited Wu Yun with the experience points, so the funds didn’t need to pass through his personal account.

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In any case, Nirvana Investment was famous now!

The news about Pinduoduo’s financing round brought Nirvana Investment squarely into the public eye.

Netizens who had been following Wu Yun already knew he owned numerous companies, but this latest news about Pinduoduo’s financing round piqued the curiosity of many more, compelling them to click on the articles.

“Whoa, this Nirvana Investment is insane! Pinduoduo was valued at 4 billion US dollars and raised 500 million! Out of a total market cap of 4.5 billion, Nirvana Investment holds a whopping 66.22% of the shares!” an uninformed netizen exclaimed.

“The poster above doesn’t get it! Originally, the Pinduoduo shares were held under Wu Yun’s personal name. But later, it seems he consolidated all his company holdings under Nirvana Investment!” explained someone from the investment world who was already familiar with Wu Yun.

The person continued, “From what I understand, Nirvana Investment is Wu Yun’s personal sole proprietorship! It doesn’t solicit public funds, which means all the shares in the companies under Nirvana Investment belong to Wu Yun alone!”

A short while later, the same person from the investment world returned to comment on the thread: “Holy shit! I just looked up some info. Nirvana Investment controls several companies, including the recently hot Luckin Coffee! Looks like President Wu’s empire has expanded yet again!”

Nirvana Investment’s newfound fame brought a flood of people seeking investment to its door.

The day after the financing round was announced, Wu Yun received a call from Tang Hongjiang.

“President Wu, a lot of people have come by today with proposals seeking cooperation. Others are saying they have idle capital and are asking when we’ll be open for funding.”

“I’ve looked at a few of the projects. Their potential is decent, but their upside is limited.”

Wu Yun laughed and replied, “For now, turn down the ones with idle capital. Also, post an official announcement saying we aren’t currently fundraising.”

“As for those seeking angel investments, you can vet them yourself. And like I said before, you have my authority to sign off on any angel investments under five million. No need to run them by me.”

“Understood, President Wu! Once things with Pinduoduo are settled, I’ll start processing these projects immediately. You can count on me.”

After hanging up, Wu Yun looked at Xu Chenxi. Her style of dress and makeup had changed so drastically that he still wasn’t quite used to it.

When they had met up earlier, Xu Chenxi’s appearance had truly taken his breath away. If her previous style leaned toward cute and sexy, her current look was that of a powerful, metropolitan career woman, exuding an air of aloofness.

But this sense of distance melted the instant she saw Wu Yun. Under the surprised gazes of the other customers and staff, Xu Chenxi, like a returning Xiaoyan, instantly threw herself into Wu Yun’s embrace.

“If you didn’t send people to check the accounts so often, and occasionally reply to my WeChat messages, I would’ve thought you’d abandoned me!” Xu Chenxi’s voice cracked with emotion.

Wu Yun stroked Xu Chenxi’s head and said with a smile, “How could that be! I’ve just been incredibly busy lately. You must have seen the news.”

Wu Yun glanced toward the counter, noticing the occasional stares from all around. He adjusted the baseball cap on his head, loosened his embrace on Xu Chenxi, and said, “Let’s sit and talk. Everyone’s staring at us.”

Wu Yun led Xu Chenxi to a corner table. Noticing several large foreign men seated nearby, she asked in surprise, “Are these the bodyguards everyone’s talking about online?”

“Yes.” ‘Xu Chenxi really has been running all over the country lately,’ Wu Yun thought. He then asked, “Have you not hired an assistant or a secretary?”

Xu Chenxi straightened her blouse and said with a smile, “I have! I hired a young woman who just graduated last year. And she’s a beauty, by the way!”

Wu Yun instantly understood she was trying to reassure him and joked, “It’s fine, I wouldn’t mind if you hired a guy.”

Xu Chenxi put on a placating look. “How could I possibly hire a male assistant?!~ That would just be asking for trouble. I wouldn’t want you to get the wrong idea!”

‘Even though Wu Yun isn’t always around,’ Xu Chenxi suspected, ‘he must have planted spies to keep an eye on me. Luckin Coffee is on the right track now, and the company has so many employees. I have no idea which one of them might be his person.’

‘Besides,’ she thought, ‘I’m not a fool. I wouldn’t risk making Wu Yun unhappy over something trivial. I know this life I have now is all thanks to him. With a single word, he could take away everything I’m enjoying.’

If Wu Yun knew Xu Chenxi suspected he had spies watching her, he would have cried foul. He did have a spy, but it was just one: the System.

Under the System’s monitoring, the slightest disturbance or change in Xu Chenxi’s status would be flagged, allowing Wu Yun to notice something was amiss.