Chapter 26: Tycoon System (26)

On May Day, Xie Yang casually stuffed a few property certificates into her bag, brought four bodyguards, wore casual clothes and sunglasses, and flew to Nancheng in a relaxed manner.

As for the other bodyguards of the Tycoon Bodyguard Team, two were assigned to Xie Shuling for her daily protection, and two followed her cousin to Beijing to establish a security company.

In the future, she intended to use the bodyguards from her own company for all her properties.

The remaining bodyguards stayed in Xiaoling County to help her keep an eye on those projects. With their high combat power, they were better suited to hold down the fort.

Bringing four bodyguards when going out was enough.

The original owner had attended a school in Nancheng that was located at the intersection of urban and rural areas during middle school.

This school did not have very good student sources; local student enrollment was never full each year, and there was always a batch of students with outside household registrations transferred from other schools.

The student body was broad and mixed, and the teaching staff was also uneven, so the teaching quality was always at the bottom of the city.

But even in the most ordinary school, there would always be a few outstanding alumni.

For instance, there was a boy in their class named Cheng Zhuo. He was thin and small, and very quiet, but his math was superb. In middle school, he participated in math competitions and achieved first place in the city and second place in the province. He got into the Computer Science department of Hua University through the College Entrance Examination, was confirmed for admission to the university's graduate program before he even finished his undergraduate degree, and was now in his second year of graduate school.

This year's May Day was an auspicious day suitable for weddings. Cheng Zhuo flew back to attend his cousin's wedding, went to a bookstore the next day, ran into his middle school deskmate Zhang Ouming, and was enthusiastically dragged to the gathering spot by him.

When Xie Yang arrived, except for Cheng Zhuo and Zhang Ouming who were sitting in the corner cracking melon seeds and chatting, everyone else was surrounding Mao Sitong and Lu Kai, making jokes:

"Xie Yang actually didn't come to the wedding yesterday, Mao Mao, aren't you angry?"

"Compared to that, I'm more curious, when Xie Yang comes later and sees that Lu Kai can't take his eyes off her, will you be jealous, Mao Mao?"

"How can you ask that? You should ask Xie Yang if she will be red-eyed with envy when she sees Mao Mao."

"Hahahaha... uh! Xie, Xie Yang?"

Xie Yang crossed her arms over her chest and looked at this group of people with a half-smile: "Hello everyone! It's been a few years, your mouths are still as sharp as ever."

"..."

"..."

"Pfft—"

Zhang Ouming was almost choked by a melon seed. Until Xie Yang looked over, he let out a "Holy crap" and jumped up from his chair in shock.

"Xie Yang! You, you, you are actually that Xie Yang... My god—"

"Zhang Gouming, are you sick? Jumping around like that! Can't you even speak properly?"

"It's not that, she's that, that..."

Zhang Ouming wanted to say that he had seen Xie Yang on the trending searches a while ago...

No! To be precise, when he saw the news about Xie Yang on the trending searches, he thought it was a rich woman with the same name as his old middle school classmate.

After all, a girl changes eighteen times by adulthood, not to mention it had been eight years; how could he have imagined that this Xie Yang was that Xie Yang.

Holy cow!

The news flashed through his mind quickly. What did it say? It seemed to say she was the only owner of a certain residential complex in Nancheng and also owned a one-kilometer-long Snack Street under her name...

Never expected it, never expected it! A rich woman sitting on billions in assets was actually right by his side, and she was his old middle school classmate!

Zhang Ouming couldn't close his mouth in surprise and looked around at everyone: "Don't you all know?"

"Know what? Zhang Gouming, what exactly are you trying to say?"

"It's Xie Yang, she..."

However, the girls were eager to see Xie Yang make a fool of herself and didn't want to listen to Zhang Ouming's nonsense at all. One by one, they surrounded Xie Yang, eager for drama, and asked:

"Xie Yang, why did you only just arrive?"

"Exactly. Mao Mao got married yesterday. She waited and waited but didn't see you. She even cried. You two used to be the kind of people who would hold hands to go to the bathroom together in middle school. How did you become so distant after graduation? Could it be because of Lu Kai?"

Xie Yang glanced at the people present nonchalantly, too lazy to dig their names out of her memory, and replied perfunctorily: "Oh, maybe I was more innocent back then."

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"Pfft—"

It was Zhang Ouming again.

He held it in, but couldn't help it: "Hahahaha..."

"Yang Yang..." Mao Sitong's expression soured. She glared at Zhang Ouming and turned her head to question Xie Yang, "What do you mean by that?"

"It doesn't mean anything." Xie Yang looked around the circle, "Where are the teachers? Didn't you invite the teachers over?"

"We did, we did." Zhang Ouming said quickly, "The class teacher clearly said he and the teacher's wife would be late. We invited other teachers too, but we aren't sure if they're coming. By the way, Xie Yang, you don't know who our teacher's wife is yet, right? Hehe, it's our math teacher! Never expected that she and the class teacher would become a couple, right?"

"..."

She really hadn't expected that.

"Come, come, come! Sit on my side, I'll tell you more gossip about our school."

Saying this, Zhang Ouming enthusiastically pulled Xie Yang over.

A golden thigh! A shiny, blinding golden thigh! If not now, when to hug it!

"Golden thigh... no, great beauty, you really are hiding your true colors!"

After Xie Yang sat down, Zhang Ouming enthusiastically poured her a cup of tea, picked out a few plates of snacks and nuts that girls liked to eat, moved them in front of Xie Yang, and joked with a grin:

"You're even a step ahead of Zhuo. Oh right, you two don't remember each other, do you?"

Xie Yang carefully sized up the boy. Tall and thin, wearing glasses, he looked like an honest and upright child at first glance, much better than that greasy Lu Kai.

She asked with interest: "Cheng Zhuo? The Cheng Zhuo who got into Hua University and was recommended for graduate school early?"

"Hey, Xie Yang, you know?" Zhang Ouming was clearly a bit surprised.

"Of course!" Xie Yang smiled, "I'm still very interested in talented people."

As she spoke, she rummaged through her bag for the business card holder Fang Huai had prepared for her, pulled out a gold-stamped private business card, and handed it to Cheng Zhuo: "If you need to raise investment for a project in the future, come find me anytime."

Seeing Zhang Ouming staring at the business card holder in her hand as if he were staring at a big piece of fatty meat, she found it hilarious and handed him one as well.

Zhang Ouming's hands trembled with excitement: "Oh my god! I actually got the private contact information of a rich woman!"

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Before Cheng Zhuo could say anything to help his former desk-mate save face, he saw Mao Sitong walking over, pulling along a displeased-looking Lu Kai: "Yang Yang, are you handing out business cards?"

The other few girls saw this and gathered around as well:

"Xie Yang, where are you working?"

"Carrying business cards around, you're either a boss or a salesperson. Xie Yang, are you a boss or a salesperson? Hahaha! Sorry, you won't blame me for being direct, right?"

The Shenhao System jumped up furiously: 【Host! Slap her face! Slap her face hard!】

The next second, a series of crisp electronic beeps rang out in Xie Yang's mind:

【Ding! Detected that the environment the Host is in is suitable for face-slapping, activating Shenhao System Side Quest.】

【Ding! The Shenhao System is at your service! Now issuing Side Quest: A Shenhao must start as a CEO! Please invest in a viable project worth 500 million within 6 hours. Reward for completing the task is 5 billion in investment funds (limited to project investment only). Countdown begins!】

Xie Yang: "..."

She covered her forehead and laughed.

"What are you laughing at!" The girl who spoke just now felt that Xie Yang was mocking her and instantly pulled a long face, "Did I say something wrong? You finished vocational high school, then junior college, then looked for a job; you've only been working for two years at most. If you're not a salesperson, could you possibly be a boss?"

Xie Yang ignored her and turned to look at Cheng Zhuo: "I heard that graduate students usually have to work on projects with their supervisors. Do you have any projects you are currently following?"

"Huh?"

"Are you short on investment?"

"???"

Xie Yang glanced at the time; she had to sign an investment agreement within six hours for the Task to be considered successful, so time was a bit tight. She got straight to the point: "Is it convenient to contact your supervisor? I have some spare cash on hand recently and want to find a project to invest in. I don't have much, but 500 million is available."

"!!!"

Everyone was suddenly struck dumb.

How much?

500 million?

You call this "don't have much"?