Chapter 431: Selling for a Big Profit

Seeing that one of them was focused on driving while the other was playing dumb, Wu Yue'er curled her lip and turned to ask Shen Yan for a gift.

The good girl got one, so it couldn't be that there wasn't one for her.

Shen Yan opened the armrest console and took out a gift box, inside which lay a pair of butterfly-shaped earrings with fluid lines and exquisite craftsmanship.

In any case, Wu Yue'er was so fond of them that she couldn't put them down and immediately put them on her ears.

"How is it? Do they look good?"

"Don't you have any self-awareness of what you look like?" Shen Yan was amused by her vain behavior.

Wu Yue'er cupped her cheeks happily; a wonderful day started with receiving a gift.

She then excitedly recounted the milk tea shop's performance from last night: from 7:00 to 10:00, they sold a total of 703 cups of milk tea in three hours.

The signature taro ball milk tea alone sold 360 cups.

Except for coffee, which sold very little, the sales of everything else were quite good.

The book revenue was 2,536 yuan.

The net profit was not yet known and would need to be calculated at the end of the month along with the procurement invoices.

She figured there would still be several hundred, after all, there was no pressure from rent.

Chen Shanni opened her small mouth in surprise.

Shen Yan, however, looked calm, knowing this was the result of the discounts; he expected sales to drop significantly once prices returned to normal, but revenue would likely increase.

Hangzhou University had over 60,000 students, and the Communication University of China had over 10,000.

There was only one competitor on the entire street, so as long as the milk tea didn't taste too bad, there was no worry about not making money.

After arriving at the classroom, many classmates asked Wu Yue'er about the revenue.

"We did sell a few hundred cups, but almost all of them were 'second cup half price,' and with all the miscellaneous expenses like labor, utilities, rent, and ingredients, we probably only made about a hundred yuan."

As shrewd as Wu Yue'er was, she naturally wouldn't tell the truth.

How did that saying go?

Except for your parents, almost no one wants you to do better than them.

Despite this, the classmates still couldn't help but feel a wave of envy.

At the very least, she had already started to be self-reliant, while they were still living off their parents.

And she had this much income during a trial run; who knew how much she could earn if she did it well.

Looking at the high-spirited Wu Yue'er, Lin Yang only felt that the distance between them was growing, to the point where he could barely even see her back; he wondered if he should find something to do himself.

However, there was a bloody problem right in front of him.

No capital!

He definitely couldn't count on his family.

Among all the people he knew, only Chen Shanni and Shen Yan had the financial means, but even with his eyes closed, he knew they wouldn't possibly put up the money.

Forget it! Better to just honestly be a salted fish.

At 9:30 in the morning, the stock market officially opened.

Back then, Shen Yan bought Guangsheng Nonferrous at 30 yuan per share; after more than twenty trading days, the stock price had risen to 98.3 yuan, and in his memory, this stock didn't start its downward trend until it hit 101 yuan.

Currently, there were nearly 230 million in funds on the books.

Greed leads to indigestion.

He didn't know if his intervention would cause the market to turn early, so for the sake of safety, it was better to get out early.

Judging by the current trading volume, many retail investors were already unable to sit still and had started selling their shares, but there were plenty of people willing to take them.

After all, the current market news was entirely positive.

In the face of the national trend, many people had great confidence in this stock.

After thinking it through, Shen Yan reminded Chen Shanni: "Sell all the stocks you have now."

Chen Shanni was slightly stunned, but she quickly understood.

It was finally time to close the net.

Heaven knew how anxious she had been lately; the stock had been soaring, and Chen Shanni had never seen such a situation before, truly fearing that the market would take a sharp turn for the worse at any moment.

Her own money was a small matter, but Shen Yan's was the real big deal.

Immediately after, Chen Shanni placed the 920,000 in funds on the books for sale in batches.

They were quickly snapped up.

Shen Yan didn't play any fancy trading games; he wasn't the real main force, so how could he possibly outplay them? If he messed up, he might end up playing with fire and getting burned.

He used standard operations, selling a portion every so often.

At first, the market was relatively stable, but as he sold more, the stock price inevitably showed a downward trend.

This was blatantly telling the main force that someone was selling off their holdings, and the share was not small; the main force had to think about their own holdings—if they didn't maintain the stock price, retail investors would see the situation was bad and refuse to take over, and their funds would be firmly trapped.

Sure enough, the stock price was quickly pulled back up.

The shares Shen Yan sold were all bought up, and Shen Yan even noticed that the main force had started playing games, placing a massive buy order of ten thousand shares at the second buy level to make people feel the stock was safe, thereby ensuring the price wouldn't fall.

With that, Shen Yan's heart was completely at ease; regardless of whether it rose or fell later, he was getting out first.

Just like that, Shen Yan sold off his holdings one after another and successfully cleared all the stocks in his hands before the market closed at 3:00 PM.

The principal for the stock trading was 14 million, with five times leverage, a 228% increase, minus the 56 million in platform financing and the daily interest.

In the end, there were 173 million RMB left on the books.

The investment principal had already been recovered.

After the dust settled, Shen Yan let out a long breath as if a heavy burden had been lifted, then twisted his waist and stretched his limbs, completely relaxing his body and mind.

Seeing this, Chen Shanni's anxious heart also relaxed, and she asked in a low voice: "Have you finished selling everything?"

Shen Yan nodded slightly and casually closed the stock interface on his laptop.

"You said before that as long as I was on top, you would tell me how much money you invested."

Speaking such intimate words, Chen Shanni's pretty face was dyed with a faint rosy glow.

Hey, hey, hey! You're breaking the rules.

Every time he saw this bashful and charming face, Shen Yan felt an unbearable itch in his heart.

He couldn't help but want to bully the good girl a little.

It was strange to say; even though the good girl had become much more cheerful and talkative, the habit of blushing at the slightest provocation in front of Shen Yan had not changed at all.

"Lean your ear over."

Upon hearing this, Chen Shanni knew Shen Yan was up to no good, but she still obediently leaned her head over, tilting it at a 45-degree angle to block the view from the front as much as possible.

What a truly clever little girl.

The corners of Shen Yan's mouth lifted slightly, and then, with lightning speed, he planted a kiss on her face.

It was fragrant, warm, and smooth.

Chen Shanni scanned the front with a guilty conscience, and only after seeing that no one had noticed did she heave a sigh of relief, then she heard in her ear: "Earned 1.5."

What the heck?

Chen Shanni's pupils shrank sharply; there was no doubt that the unit following 1.5 could only be hundreds of millions.

Although she had long known that Shen Yan's scale of operations was not small, this number still far exceeded her imagination.

Was he not afraid of capsizing in the gutter?

No! With Shen Yan's brain, which was perverted to the point of being hair-raising, so what if he capsized? Opportunities to make money were everywhere, and the worst-case scenario would be nothing more than starting over from scratch.