Chapter 110: An unexpected turn of events
Life went on like this, perfectly calm on the surface, but with turbulent undercurrents beneath. At Nanjing University, Su Can could feel how his circumstances had changed since his rebirth.
Before, life had seemed so placid that not a ripple could disturb it. Everything had always seemed a matter of course: graduating from secondary school, graduating from university, then entering society and scrambling to make a living. The National Development and Reform Commission adjusting fuel prices, vegetable and meat prices rising and falling, exchange rates being adjusted-all of that involved bargaining and compromise at the highest levels. None of it had seemed to have much to do with him.
Now, although Su Can's life still looked calm, it was anything but monotonous. He could enjoy the university atmosphere while leading his businesses into battle on every front, remaining the figure behind his economic aircraft carrier. The plan to acquire a stake in World of Warcraft, which could become world-famous in the future, for instance, was already quietly moving forward.
Those venture capitalists in Silicon Valley certainly would never have imagined that, while they waited with hungry eyes for Facebook to begin its second funding round, the people plotting to plunder American capitalists were merely two young men in their early twenties. One was even a Chinese university student studying at Nanjing University in Shanghai, an ocean away.
Raising the 150 million yuan needed to acquire shares in Blizzard's World of Warcraft presented considerable difficulty. The acquisition would be made in Facebook Chinese's name. Su Can had 80 million yuan in self-raised funds, expected to arrive by the end of the year, while the remainder would require help from United States Facebook. That was no small sum either: 95 million yuan was an enormous