Chapter 1155 - 464: Racing Ahead with the Times

That day, under Yu Yun’s shameless pestering, Brother Lie finally succumbed to her.

To be fair, who says women can’t strategize to win over men?

This is a prime example!

Yu Yun wreaked havoc on the handsome Lie, then lay down contentedly, while poor Han Lie had to get up early for work the next day—who would understand that?

Ahem.

With not a scratch on him, Han Lie leisurely strolled into the company, sat down, and brewed a cup of tea using Pan Shengwu’s set of teaware.

Yes, Han Yong returned it.

When old Han learned of its actual value, his whole body shook with fear—it’s no exaggeration, he was truly terrified!

There were several times before when he almost chipped the cup.

After finding out the truth, he nearly cried.

Then he couldn’t sleep for nights, getting up repeatedly to count the cups, only daring to lie down after confirming they were all intact.

Eventually, Ma Honglian couldn’t take it anymore and scolded him fiercely.

Then old Han cheerfully returned the teaware to Han Lie, saying with a pretty excuse, "Your mom thinks taking care of it is too troublesome."

Alright, I’ll use it myself.

And so Han Lie learned in advance to enjoy red tea, green tea, and kung fu tea.

God bless, in his past life, he didn’t know how to handle such a thing even into his thirties!

Master Pan Shengwu still doesn’t know about this, when he does, he’ll surely sneak over with those crafty eyes, looking for a chance.

Hmm, when the time comes, I’ll coax him to bring some good tea leaves...

The sly Lie clattered away on his calculator, then lay back on the boss chair, watching his account balance soar.

Yesterday, the stock market had a strong rally; today it continued the aggressive trend, with the main strength being in finance.

In the best single minute, the account increased by 180 million.

Now do you know why those in finance are all sorts of crazy and hype up the market?

Nothing else, it’s just too damn exhilarating.

When the market is good, money seems to blow in like the wind, every day waking up to find you’ve made more, spending normally, you simply can’t run out.

People, in this circumstance, easily overestimate their abilities.

Han Lie isn’t swayed that easily, but too many think the money they’ve made on the rising tide is due to their real skills; when the tide goes out, you can immediately tell who wasn’t wearing shorts.

The problem is, the money spent during the rising tide has already inflated the asset prices all around, so who’s there to bear it?

Can’t get into it too deeply, but in any case, it leaves a mess everywhere.

Sitting in the office until noon, Han Lie got a call from Liu Minghao.

"The Chengmeng Fund has been registered, when do you plan to go back for the roadshow?"

Han Lie calculated: "The market can probably remain bullish for another two days at most, after which it will start adjusting, so this weekend, everything’s just right."

"Alright, you go ahead and contact them, I won’t be accompanying you back."

Han Lie asked casually: "What are you busy with? I heard from Little Lu that you’ve been on the go lately?"

Liu Minghao laughed heartily: "Recently, through friends, I found several cash-strapped startups, quite core ones too, and am currently negotiating with them in turn!"

"What’s their focus? Tell me a bit."

Han Lie was just idly chatting with him, but when Liu Minghao began to speak... Oh damn!

"Recently, I’m really optimistic about a game company, recommended by my schoolmate, called miHoYo. Early this year, they launched a game that sold really well..."

Stop stop stop!

Don’t go off-topic, I know!

Han Lie hadn’t forgotten about miHoYo, but their only financing record is from 2012, a million yuan, after which they gritted their teeth to make Honkai 2, and haven’t lacked money since.

End of last year, before Honkai 2 was launched, was theoretically the only chance to invest in miHoYo.

But in reality, it was impossible.

The company’s founders Cai Haoyu, Liu Wei, and Luo Yuhao aren’t your typical easy-to-cajole simple college students, they’re quite idealistic and extraordinarily resilient.

Trying to buy them out with money?

Think again.

They used just a core team of three, with four more assisting, a total of seven people to create Honkai 2, do you think they’re unaware of their technical value?

Noodles for dinner, working late into the night, heads filled with the "techies will change the world" narrative.

What makes you think money could sway them?

So Han Lie considered it, then put it aside, not targeting them anymore.

But now, hearing the tone in Liu Minghao’s words... Could there be a chance?

Han Lie dared not believe, yet he was very much intrigued.

"How far have you progressed in your talks with them? Are they open to external investment?"

"Not very."

Liu Minghao poured cold water over him: "Their revenue is pretty good, expected to hit 90 million this year, they’re not really in need of money."

"Hmm, as expected."

Han Lie felt quite disappointed, but he didn’t lose his composure.

At this level, one should have this kind of demeanor, and it wasn’t Liu Minghao’s fault.

But then Liu Minghao took another big turn.

"But I did paint them a big picture, and you can tell, they are quite tempted..."

Damn!

Old Liu, are you performing a show today?!

Brother Lie rolled his eyes and asked: "How did you paint it? Relying on my fund’s performance alone probably won’t cut it, right?"

The same trick has different effects on different people.

MiHoYo needs to wait for Genshin Impact’s launch to suddenly burst with a strong financial ambition; currently, the money they’re making is barely enough for developing new games.