Gaining Fame

Dressed in a protective suit, Tang Shizhe patrolled the factory floor surrounded by a group of Splitters.

"Boss, our ten production lines allow us to reach a daily output of 100,000 units, but I estimate this will fall far short of the upcoming sales demand."

"Once the first batch of Purification Trees reaches the customers, they will likely recommend them to friends and relatives after experiencing the benefits. Our sales could surge!"

"Should we consider expanding?" Tang Yi asked, holding a tablet and looking at Tang Shizhe with anticipation.

Including the 500,000 units produced before the pre-sale and the current production volume, Tang Shizhe now had a full 800,000 Purification Trees stored in warehouses across the country.

If all these trees were sold, it would bring him a profit of 510 million! Even after deducting costs, there would still be a net profit of nearly 500 million!

This money was enough to support their continued expansion!

"No rush, let's sell these 800,000 first." Tang Shizhe waved his hand. He wasn't in a hurry to expand; he intended to adopt a hunger marketing strategy. Only what is unattainable is the best, and he wanted to maintain the market heat for the Purification Trees.

At this moment, Tang Shizhe, who was inspecting the factory, did not know that he had become famous—super famous, incredibly famous!

Reporters outside had calculated that Titan Environmental could earn a net profit of 50 million from the pre-sale based on "insider" information about a "100 yuan net profit per Purification Tree," and this was just the beginning.

Most people were still in a wait-and-see mode, waiting for the first batch of early adopters to evaluate the trees.

According to media projections, if the reviews for the first batch were positive, Titan Environmental could achieve sales of 30 million units this year! After all, nearly half of the country's population was currently troubled by air pollution and secondhand smoke.

To achieve the best purification effect, it was recommended to buy two trees for houses over 100 square meters.

Therefore, the Purification Tree had a potential market of 300 million units, and that was just in the Xia Kingdom, not to mention neighboring countries like the Curry Nation, where air pollution was even more severe!

The projected sales for this year alone could earn Titan Environmental a net profit of 3 billion yuan.

Overnight, various economic experts and scholars gave Titan Tech a valuation of 60 billion yuan; if Titan Environmental were a listed company, that would be a price-to-earnings ratio of twenty!

Of course, this price was based on the satisfaction of the first batch of users. If they were dissatisfied, the company would become worthless.

But the media didn't care about that! They only focused on the 60 billion valuation.

What kind of concept was this? It was reported that the founder of Titan Environmental owned 80 percent of the shares, meaning his net worth had already reached 48 billion yuan!

And he was still just a student!

The eyes of these media personnel glowed with greed; they couldn't wait to strip Tang Shizhe down to the bone and study him thoroughly.

The Titan Environmental factory area became a stakeout spot for these reporters. Through drones, Tang Shizhe could see the dense crowd of reporters camping at the company gate.

If the factory walls weren't high and sturdy enough, and topped with electric fences, Tang Shizhe doubted whether these reporters would have already stormed the factory.

"What are these experts babbling about? Don't they know what it means to make a fortune in silence?" Tang Shizhe gritted his teeth in anger after hearing the news back in his office.

Some well-connected media outlets had somehow obtained all the information on the chairman of Titan Environmental, even digging up his grades from childhood to adulthood and publishing them!

People following Tang Shizhe fell silent as they read through his life story.

They had originally assumed that Tang Shizhe was some rich second-generation heir or that he had just stumbled into a stroke of luck.

But after reading his life story, everyone couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration.

The published information was as follows:

Tang Shizhe had been an excellent student since childhood, and his family was happy and complete.

However, on the day he became an adult, his parents were taken from him in an accident, leaving him all alone.

From that day on, Tang Shizhe's grades plummeted, he became a bottom-tier student, and he stopped communicating with others.

Then, a few months ago, he seemed to suddenly change. He began to self-study frantically, ordering a large number of biology books from various websites and borrowing numerous biological documents from the school library.

A few months later, Tang Shizhe used money earned from cryptocurrency trading to establish his first company and successfully developed an epoch-making air purification product!

How inspiring! How moving! The story of a boy who lost his parents and worked hard to emerge from the shadows to become a top student!

Of course, it was unknown how much of those grades were fabricated by the schools to polish their own reputations; in any case, Tang Shizhe didn't remember ever being that brilliant.

As for the books purchased online and the study records in the library, they were all added later by Tang Yi and the others after they hacked into the servers of those websites and the library.

To ensure authenticity, they even hacked into the servers of logistics and courier companies!

In this way, they forged the illusion of a genius who had closed himself off due to an accident but suddenly awakened and exploded with potential!

For a time, the society was filled with news praising Tang Shizhe, and he was held up as a positive role model for publicity.

The fact that Tang Shizhe had made his fortune through cryptocurrency trading—which was not considered "positive energy"—was glossed over.

"Boss, you're famous!" Tang Yi teased.

Tang Shizhe gave a bitter smile. He didn't want to be exposed at this time; after all, his goal was to monopolize all the major industries in the world, and being exposed now was far too early.

"Boss, I know what you're thinking. I think you can fully adopt the persona of a successful entrepreneur in the Xia Kingdom. It's good for your personal safety."

"As for our forces abroad, we can control them through offshore shell companies without anyone knowing," Tang Yi chuckled.

"True, we do need a protective talisman to shield us until we become strong enough. Therefore, I must continue to expand our influence." Tang Shizhe nodded and rubbed his chin.

However, tomorrow was the official launch day for the Purification Trees, so he decided to head upstairs and get a good night's sleep first.

As for the work of splitting the Splitters, Tang Shizhe had already handed it all over to the Brood Mother.

The Brood Mother had already begun splitting Tang Thirty-One in the Splitter Chamber on the third basement level of the office building. Although the name was a bit strange, it was easy to remember, wasn't it? Plus, it saved him the mental effort of coming up with names.

Closing the computer in front of him, Tang Shizhe stood up and walked toward the hidden door to the side. As soon as he stood still, the hidden door opened automatically, revealing an elevator.

Stepping into the elevator, it rose slowly, bringing Tang Shizhe to his six-thousand-square-meter "sky" mansion.

After such a long period of renovation, this mansion was finally complete, and all the furniture had been moved in.

Facing the elevator doors was the mansion's grand hall, and right next to this elevator was another dedicated one that led directly to Tang Shizhe's private parking garage on the basement level.

On either side of these two elevators stood two "sculptures" clad in black titanium alloy armor, holding sharp swords in a standing posture.

Of course, these two sculptures were actually Splitters created by Tang Shizhe; they stood here solely to safeguard Tang Shizhe's security while he was at home.

Only these physical-type Splitters, whose stamina far exceeded that of normal humans, could manage to wear simple armor forged from titanium alloy while wielding two 1.5-meter-long swords.

Furthermore, since they had almost no needs other than eating, excreting, and sleeping, they were the perfect candidates for "sculptures."

The layout of this sky mansion was very square; the entrance opened into the reception hall, with a living room located further inside.

To the left and right of the grand hall were the audio-visual entertainment room, the gym, the pet room, and the nanny room.

Walking further into the hall led to a long corridor, with guest bedrooms lining both sides—this was also where the Splitters responsible for his protection usually rested—and moving further ahead led into a two-hundred-square-meter lounge.

Next to the lounge were the kitchen and dining room, while the other side led to an indoor swimming pool.

Directly to the south of the lounge was Tang Shizhe's master bedroom, a massive space measuring a full one hundred square meters.

Through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the master bedroom, one could see the entire southern half of the factory!

The decoration of this mansion remained primarily modern in style, accented with some European-style silver ornaments.

The living room floor was made entirely of large slabs of black marble, while the walls were a mix of light coffee and blue-gray. Paired with ultra-minimalist black and white furniture, it gave off a cold, ascetic vibe, but there was no helping it—Tang Shizhe simply liked this style because it had more class.

In the southwest corner of the mansion, there was also a special area decorated exactly like his former home, which was his way of remembering his parents.

Yawning, Tang Shizhe took off his clothes one by one and tossed them to Tang Eleven, who was acting as his manservant.

Dressed in a black manservant uniform, Tang Eleven took Tang Shizhe's clothes, folded them carefully, draped them over his arm, and followed in Tang Shizhe's footsteps as he walked inside.

"It's so heartbreaking, why aren't you a woman!!!" Tang Shizhe looked at Tang Eleven with disdain and grumbled, wishing with all his heart that it were a few beautiful maids following behind him instead.

"Boss, if you're willing, you can just pretend I'm a woman." Tang Yi cracked a joke, earning an eye-roll from Tang Shizhe.

As beings who possessed Tang Shizhe's memories, they all had interesting souls.

"Come wake me up at nine tomorrow morning; let me get a good night's sleep." After washing up, Tang Shizhe waved his hand to dismiss Tang Eleven, then threw himself onto the large bed, rolled around comfortably a few times, and finally burrowed under the covers.

In his dream, he had Yin Qi on his left hand, Yanran Yan on his right, and was holding Zhao Yin in his arms in the middle.

Wait! Why the hell am I holding the Brood Mother! That thing was split from my own body! Just thinking about it gave him goosebumps, and his pleasant dream instantly turned into a nightmare.