Chapter 16

That was a little too well-protected!

Tian Bao'er could not help but sigh. For a moment, she felt a little envious. This was probably the benefit of being immensely powerful, famous from a young age, and popular worldwide. He had never experienced the infighting within the industry, nor did he need to make extra efforts to fight for anything. Countless brands and production companies simply placed the best resources before him. Everyone fawned over and respected him, so the people who appeared in his world were mostly good people, people who liked him. In turn, he treated everything around him with the friendliest attitude.

This way of conducting oneself without calculating benefits and simply following one's preferences was truly enviable.

Thinking of this, Tian Bao'er could not help looking Wenren Yan over. It was no wonder someone with Wenren Yan's family background and influence would fall for Ao Qingyuan. If it were her, she too would be involuntarily drawn to someone strong, pure and transparent, yet dazzlingly radiant.

Perhaps she had been provoked somehow, but Tian Bao'er unexpectedly performed exceptionally well while filming that day. Scenes that had originally been expected to last until past eleven at night were finished by nine. The production team announced an early wrap. Ao Qingyuan happily floated all the way back to the hotel. After packing his luggage, he set off for the airport with Wenren Yan.

Given Ao Qingyuan's popularity and fame, whenever he went in and out for filming or returned to the hotel, he was usually surrounded by obsessive fans, paparazzi, and paid stalkers. Yet today, when he went to the airport with Wenren Yan, the entire route was remarkably clear. No one surrounded him to take photos, and no one followed their car. Ao Qingyuan could hardly believe it. He kept asking Wenren Yan, "Was this your doing? How did you manage it?"

Wenren Yan merely smiled without answering.

Ao Qingyuan did not press him further. He had been filming until night every day lately and was a little tired. He narrowed his eyes and rested, quickly falling asleep. When he woke again, the plane had already arrived in Yanjing. Ao Qingyuan said goodbye to Wenren Yan at the hotel and went inside on his own.

Wenren Yan returned home. Wenren Jing and his wife had not expected their son to suddenly come home so late, and they were both rather surprised. Since it was late, Wenren Yan did not want to disturb his parents' rest, so he claimed that something had come up at his company and he had returned briefly. He reassured Wenren Jing and his wife and sent them back to rest. It was not until after breakfast the next morning that he brought up the matter of issuing additional shares to Wenren Jing.

"You want Wenren Group to issue additional shares?" Wenren Jing was somewhat baffled, unable to understand why Wenren Yan had suddenly raised the matter.

"Recently, someone has been accumulating Wenren Group shares on the stock market. You know about that." Wenren Yan got straight to the point and told his father about what Jiang Wenshan had been doing. However, he did not mention Zhao Zhao's tip-off.

"I suspect this Jiang Wenshan wants to take control of Wenren Group while he has the chance. So I want to make preparations in advance."

Wenren Jing frowned. Of course he knew that someone was accumulating Wenren Group shares on the secondary market. But he had not taken it seriously. Only now, after hearing Wenren Yan lay out the dangers involved, did Wenren Jing begin to pay more attention to it.

But he still did not understand why Wenren Yan wanted to issue additional shares at this time. "Wenren Group's stock has been falling continuously since last year. Even if we issue more shares now, no one would buy them, would they?"

"That is because there is currently no good news." Wenren Yan was quite familiar with this kind of maneuver. "What if word got out that international capital was investing in Wenren Group right now?"

Wenren Jing's heart leaped with joy. "You've finally come around? You're ready to invest?"

Author's Note:

Thank you to all the little angels who gave me landmines or nourished me with nutrient fluid between 2020-05-25 22:12:19 and 2020-05-27 22:58:29~

Thanks to the little angel who gave a landmine: Feng Chu, 1;

Thank you all so much for your support. I will continue working hard!

Chapter 16

To save Wenren Group from the crisis of being acquired by capital, Wenren Yan had decided to invest in Wenren Group. In fact, from an investment perspective, Wenren Group was a very good project. First, Wenren Group was a massive enterprise. Aside from its pillar business, Wenren Heavy Industry, being trapped in an industry downturn, its other investments in fields such as real estate and department stores were still highly valuable. It was only because domestic concept stocks had soared wildly in recent years, squeezing industrial stocks until they had no room to rise, that it had not stood out in the stock market. For years, Wenren Group's share price had not increased, but its high-quality assets had steadily appreciated in value. This excessively undervalued industrial value was also an important reason why Wenren Yan had decided to invest in Wenren Group.

"I don't care how you assess it." Wenren Jing had no interest in stock market matters. In his view, those people feverishly investing in the stock market were all opportunistic lunatics. Every day, they hyped up so-called concept stocks in the media and newspapers. Many stocks he had never even heard of, simply because newspapers, media outlets, editorialists, and experts touted them—some messy high-tech ventures that had not even taken shape, things whose actual business scopes did not remotely match the concepts being promoted—were somehow talked into dozens of limit-up days. Those retail investors who followed the trend did not understand anything. They did not even investigate before blindly investing. Weren't they afraid that the money they had worked so hard to earn would go down the drain?

Don't ask. Ask, and the answer was that serious businesses got ignored, while swindlers who flaunted themselves and deceived people were eagerly pursued.

Hearing Wenren Jing vent his frustrations about concept stocks, Wenren Yan, who had long handled trading and mergers on Wall Street, found it both amusing and exasperating. When he had first returned to the country, he had thoroughly investigated the domestic stock market in order to familiarize himself with it. He truly had not expected the domestic market to be this insane.

On Wall Street, assessing the true value of a stock required due diligence in advance. One had to focus comprehensively on a company's underlying value, technological innovation, industrial upgrading, and other economic fundamentals. Yet the concept stocks rampant domestically relied on newspaper hype and extensive media coverage. The operators only needed to casually buy a shell company, hype up some new concept on that basis—such as high-tech or new energy fields that ordinary investors could not understand—then release a bit of supposedly positive news that the company was about to be acquired by a major group, and they could drive a stock to hit the daily limit for more than a dozen consecutive days. No one seriously verified whether the seemingly impressive concept stocks actually had any real technical support behind them.