"Master, you have something to attend to..." Tian Cheng murmured, her ear pressed against Su Xuan’s back, having overheard the voice on the phone. She slid off his back with a touch of melancholy. "Yeah." The warmth from her hug lingered on his back. "Well then, goodbye, Master!" Tian Cheng said understandingly. She gave him a wave, clasped her hands behind her back, and skipped into the building. Heh, this girl is pretty sensible! Su Xuan chuckled to himself. He settled into the driver’s seat and was just about to drive away when a fragrant breeze wafted through the open window. That little vixen Tian Cheng had actually come back. She poked her head through the window, puckered her lips, and planted a quick kiss on his cheek. "Haha, Master, I had a super happy day! Have a great day at work!" Tian Cheng declared brazenly before finally turning and going home for real. She was indeed ecstatic. Su Xuan had taken her shopping and used his shareholder status to get her clothes at an unbelievable discount! If he hadn’t revealed his identity, she’d still be in the dark. Plus, she had "poached" tens of thousands of fans from that livestream shopping host! The value those fans represented would more than cover what she’d spent on clothes. She decided she might as well become a promotional streamer herself and help Su Xuan sell Caranda products! The livestream shopping host was in tears. "You made a profit, but I took a huge loss! I didn’t just lose tens of thousands of followers; I also spent five hundred thousand yuan on Caranda clothes and lost my top three simps... I didn’t even complete my sales quota for the day... I’m so miserable! Waaah!" As soon as Tian Cheng got home, she eagerly started her livestream to connect with her new followers. "Tian Cheng, why did you buy those clothes with your own money?" "You should have let that rich guy buy them for you!" "He could feed you until you burst with just a single hair off his body!" "Yeah, Tian Cheng, you’re a fool for paying yourself!" "You should always let the man pay!" Tʜe sourcᴇ of thɪs content ɪs 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩~𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖~𝙣𝙚𝙩 To her surprise, this was the advice her new fans were giving her. Their values were completely skewed! So, she began to explain patiently. "Listen to me, my new Sweeties," she said. "Men actually have it very tough. Don’t be fooled by their strong exteriors; deep down, they’re just as fragile as us women. "Have you never seen them crying in the rain because they couldn’t earn enough to support their family? "Have you never seen them drunk, pouring their hearts out to a tree? "Have you never seen them get on their knees just to save a relationship? "As women, we should be affectionate when the time is right, but we should also be sensible when needed. Men and women are the same; we all need to be loved, cared for, and understood! "A woman shouldn’t just take and take without ever doing anything for a man. If you were a man, would you love a woman who only knows how to receive and never how to give? "Even if Brother Su offered to pay for me today, I couldn’t let him. That’s because Brother Su and I are independent individuals. We respect each other, and we are equals. Our relationship isn’t measured by money or material possessions..." Tian Cheng did her best to correct the worldview of her new fans. After a long moment, membership subscriptions, planes, rockets, yachts, Super Chats... and all sorts of other gifts started flying across the screen in her livestream... 「On the way to Lycar.」 While waiting at a red light, Su Xuan pulled out his phone and looked up China’s TQ Asset Management Company. It was a top-tier capital management firm with substantial financial strength and professional resource integration capabilities. Its business segments included asset management, equity investment, M&A funds, post-investment value-added services, venture capital, and more. The company had already established strategic partnerships with nearly a hundred listed and unlisted companies and had branches in multiple provinces and cities across China. Its own market value was around 30 billion yuan. This meant his net worth had just increased by at least another 15 billion, because the system had generously awarded him 52% of TQ’s shares. This is exactly the company I desperately need! When the light turned green, Su Xuan slammed the gas pedal. A moment ago, while tallying up his assets with Tian Cheng, he had felt a twinge of a headache along with the satisfaction. The dividends alone from his shares in companies like Lycar, Kangnai, and Meisi were a massive fortune. Was he supposed to just let all that cash sit in a bank account? No way. He desperately needed to put that wealth to work, to make money generate more money. But he’d never studied finance and knew nothing about investing. He was sitting on a mountain of gold with no idea how to use it! But now, everything had changed. He owned TQ Asset Management Company. He could confidently entrust his wealth to them for management and operation. His own company was certainly trustworthy, and TQ definitely had the capability to handle his assets, putting his wealth into motion so it would grow more and more. I really feel like having a smoke right now, haha! Su Xuan, a man who never smoked, felt an urge to light one up out of sheer excitement. Su Xuan walked straight into a conference room, where Liu Ming and Gao Zhitong were waiting for him. "Everyone, on your feet!" "A round of applause for Mr. Su!" The moment Su Xuan entered, before Liu Ming could even speak, Gao Zhitong shot to his feet and started clapping enthusiastically. The entire conference room erupted in thunderous applause. "What’s the happy occasion?" Su Xuan asked with a smile, motioning for everyone to settle down. Seeing how cheerful they all were, it was clear they weren’t here to cause trouble. "Mr. Su, I’m Liu Lei, the owner of Juxin Hotel. I came specifically to thank you for the limited-time discount event sponsored by Meisi. It was a fantastic event! Our revenue from a single day nearly surpassed the entire previous six months. Thank you, thank you!" "Mr. Su, I’m Sun Tao, owner of Wanjiahe Hotel. In addition to thanking you for sponsoring the event, I also want to thank you for directing lower-end clientele to us. It pushed our revenue to a new level. Thank you so much!" Gao Zhitong had brought over a dozen people, all of them owners of hotels in the vicinity of Lycar. They all shared a single purpose: to thank Su Xuan. "Boss, we’re actually the biggest winners here," Liu Ming whispered to Su Xuan after he sat down, cupping a hand over his mouth. "They also funneled their high-end customers to us. Our number of high-end guests has doubled, reaching a historic high. Just wait until you see this year’s financial report! If you aren’t grinning from ear to ear, I’ll jump off the roof of Lycar myself!" "Mr. Su, I have something to report as well." Gao Zhitong leaned in close. "I shamelessly told them in great detail how miserably you crushed me," he whispered. "Now they all respect and fear you. No one will dare to mess with Lycar again, not that they’d want to. You’ve genuinely made everyone rich!" Su Xuan smiled. "It was all thanks to Brother Gao’s excellent plan." Gao Zhitong shook his head. "No, it’s all because you’re broad-minded and magnanimous, Mr. Su!" Su Xuan laughed. "Hardly." He felt deeply gratified. It seemed that putting Gao Zhitong through the wringer hadn’t been for nothing. The results were already showing, and so quickly. This was a fantastic development. That night, the meeting stretched on for a long time. By the end, they had formed a hotel alliance. Unsurprisingly, they elected Su Xuan as their leader. It was inevitable. In terms of financial power and sheer influence, Su Xuan was the undisputed number one. In the courtyard of an extremely luxurious villa, a young man with a cold expression opened the hood of a supercar. He admired the engine that had been installed today and murmured to himself, "A Velociraptor engine, freshly air-freighted from overseas! It can command a terrifying 1,500 horsepower! Cen Haonan, how are you going to compete with me now?"