My Virtual Girlfriend-Chapter 310: Net Worth of 2 Billion

"What’s going on?"

"How come there’s so much profit all of a sudden?!"

Yang Nuannuan, who hadn’t gotten up early that morning, was somewhat confused.

She even thought she had become muddled from sleep and was seeing the wrong numbers.

So she hurriedly rubbed her eyes and looked again at the numbers on the screen.

It was still +11%, with a profit of 1,027 yuan!

Yang Nuannuan was stunned for a moment, then aimlessly opened the stock, intending to see what exactly had happened to it today.

Turns out, the stock had started high at opening, +4.8%.

Then, after the market opened, it kept rising until it hit the daily limit of +10% at 11 a.m.

Together with yesterday’s 1%, it made exactly 11%.

Yang Nuannuan blankly stared at the stock page for a while, and the only thought in her mind was: Could it be that uncle really didn’t lie to me?!

Could it be... he really is a big shot in the financial industry?

Even though she had been completely skeptical before, the facts were now right before Yang Nuannuan’s eyes, and she couldn’t help but believe it.

But... that’s not right.

Aren’t financial industry workers forbidden from engaging in stock trading?

Moreover, this sort of manipulation of stock buying and selling is illegal, and if caught, one would be fined and even sentenced.

So, leaking this kind of high-level insider information to me...

Isn’t he afraid I’ll spread it?

Is this person foolish, or just overly confident?

Yang Nuannuan, who had always been ruled by rationality from childhood, found it hard to believe that someone would trust her, a stranger, this much and without any apparent motive.

Now she felt a strong urge to have a heart-to-heart chat with that scammer uncle, to ask him about his thoughts.

Thinking this, Yang Nuannuan did as the scammer uncle had said and sold the shares she held to secure her profits. Then she opened QQ, collected her thoughts, found the scammer uncle’s QQ, and hurriedly typed a line of text,

"Uncle, so you really are a financial mogul?"

After typing, Yang Nuannuan, with her heart pounding, quickly deleted the message—she almost forgot about her own persona.

She thought for a moment and reorganized her words.

"Hello. I looked at the stock, and it actually hit the daily limit just as you said. It’s really surprising. I didn’t expect you to truly be a bigwig in the financial world."

Although she felt a bit contrived after saying those words, Yang Nuannuan didn’t have a choice, as she was genuinely curious about the uncle now.

"Whoosh~"

The QQ message was sent, and Yang Nuannuan clutched her phone, staring unwaveringly at the screen, waiting for the uncle’s reply.

And so, one minute, two minutes... five minutes passed...

No reply came from the other side.

Yang Nuannuan got a bit bored waiting and then lay down on the bed, still holding her phone, waiting.

While waiting, Yang Nuannuan’s gaze inadvertently fell on the scammer uncle’s QQ nickname.

"Bad Woman...Number One in the World?"

She muttered the name, puzzled, "Does this uncle like bad women?"

"Or... does that signify something else?"

Contemplating this, Yang Nuannuan typed the name into her browser to search.

To her surprise, she found a bunch of stills from "Hidden Guardian," mostly featuring Lu Man.

Yang Nuannuan didn’t really understand the connection between the two, so she clicked through the web pages to take a look.

She then discovered that over the past year, "Hidden Guardian" had been growing in popularity, which also meant several characters in the game had become deeply ingrained in people’s hearts.

And among them, the most liked were Lu Man and Yu Qiao Qiao.

Because of Lu Man’s role that was both righteous and wicked, her portrayal turned her into a "Bad Woman" in the mouths of fans.

So, this nickname turned out to be a term of endearment from Lu Man’s fans.

Unexpectedly, it was used by this "uncle" as a QQ nickname.

Yang Nuannuan muttered to herself, "Lu Man...Hidden Guardian..."

"What a coincidence."

"He actually likes the games from Chen Yan’s company."

Yang Nuannuan felt the world was really small.

But what confused her was, would a forty-year-old uncle like such a game?

Well... even if all men like girls in their twenties, isn’t it rare to use such a "slogan" as a nickname?

Thinking of this, her interest in the uncle momentarily... grew stronger.

Outside of the finance industry, so trusting towards her, and still possessing a childlike heart. What an odd man...

After looking at the uncle’s nickname, Yang Nuannuan clicked on his profile and continued her investigation.

That’s just how people are. If you’re not interested in something, you don’t pay attention.

But once you become interested, you start to focus on and research it...

And so, Yang Nuannuan spent the whole day researching.

But despite her efforts, by evening, she still hadn’t received a reply from the uncle...

...

Chen Yan was exhausted today. The massive success of the new game had other platforms smelling opportunity, and they all reached out, wanting to introduce it.

And Chen Yan, who had already started working on the adaptation, certainly wouldn’t miss this chance, negotiating with each to try forging the most favorable terms he could.

While juggling negotiations, he also had to keep his mind on the stock market, which almost led him to buy the wrong stocks.

Thank goodness his trades were done in a foolproof manner; otherwise, with his level of distraction, he figured he could lose everything.

After the stock market closed, and after wrapping up the game company talks, Chen Yan had to go downstairs to deal with the affairs of the film company.

As the lead of the company, Yang Rou wasn’t around, leaving a pile of paperwork.

Ordinarily, Yang Nuannuan could handle these, but these days, the usually diligent Yang Nuannuan had taken several days off, leaving Chen Yan no choice but to step in personally.

Thus, he stayed busy until 8 p.m. before heading home.

Home at last, he collapsed exhausted on the sofa.

Even with a "Constitution +5," such high-intensity mental work made him feel rather drained.

So he had no time to deal with that "mature woman writer."

After all, strictly speaking, this writer was at best a net friend. During busy times, Chen Yan, of course, made his career the top priority.

This left Yang Nuannuan feeling somewhat uneasy.

Her fervent enthusiasm had been met with nothing but the other person’s offline grey avatar, making for quite the letdown.

But this also made Yang Nuannuan trust the uncle even more.

If he really were a scammer, he would have struck while the iron was hot, trying to gain her trust further.

But the fact that he didn’t contact her after making a successful "prediction" actually suggested he had no ill intentions and was just an earnest book friend.

As to why he wasn’t online, Yang Nuannuan figured: being busy in the finance industry is pretty normal, right?

So in the end, Yang Nuannuan just added a special alert for that scammer uncle, planning to have a good chat with him once he was online.

As for the financial management matter, she wasn’t in a hurry. There was still plenty of time in the year. With his abilities, a 10% profit was just a matter of days. She could patiently wait...

...

In the following half-month, nothing much happened.

Game sales remained steady, and in line with Chen Yan’s expectations.

One month later, the total sales reached a staggering record of 1.6 billion!

Nearly 1.3 billion of that went into Chen Yan’s pocket.

The game was truly a global sensation.

And agreements for porting it to various platforms had been finalized, with preparations already underway, meaning it would be online after a while longer.

With the game’s explosive popularity, Chen Yan had thoroughly harvested the platforms’ "capital crops."

For the PS4 platform, Chen Yan sold the buyout licensing rights for 700 million yuan over two years. In the future, "Mudman Battle" would become a free PS4 member game. Members could play the game for free.

But... they would still have to pay extra for items.

As for platforms like Xbox and Nintendo Switch, they too had finalized porting agreements with Chen Yan. Though the terms weren’t as favorable, they each showed genuine sincerity.

Besides these platforms, after handling the immediate flood of business, Chen Yan was planning to hire again shortly and prepare to port the game to mobile.

Beyond the game, the transfer of two properties and a car given to Yu Qiao Qiao by Chen Yan had been finalized.

Chen Yan’s fixed assets value successfully reached 29.87 million!

And this could be cashed out at 8-15 times the amount.

The 340 million Chen Yan had previously cashed out had already been deposited.

Adding that to the 1.28 billion from the Steam platform,

Chen Yan’s net worth quietly surpassed 2 billion.

His cash on hand exceeded 1.7 billion!

He truly became a young wealthy individual.

His reputation soared.

And once everything was in order, the day before Qin Island University’s break, before the holidays started for Yu Qiao Qiao and Zhao Ying, Chen Yan dialed the number given to him by Zhao Xuan for He Ruifeng and decided to schedule a meeting with the current richest man of Qin Island...

"Beep beep beep..."

The phone rang three or four times before it was answered.