Chapter 338 - 314: What Is a True Rich Person?
Chapter 338: Chapter 314: What Is a True Rich Person?
If there’s one thing massive capital conglomerates fear most, it’s undoubtedly investment firms like this.
After all, being targeted by an investment firm like that is a terrible feeling.
Whether they were shorting or going long, it would have a severe impact on the company’s reputation and bottom line.
This was especially true for an investment firm like Celestial Dragon Investment Company, which had appeared out of nowhere and already amassed a stunning track record.
Anyone targeted by a firm like that would live in constant fear.
"Uncle, if you’re in, just wire the funds directly to Celestial Dragon Investment Company’s account. As for the exact timing of our move, that will be up to me to decide," Ye Ling said bluntly, making his terms clear.
Every move in this operation had to be on his authority.
It wasn’t that he didn’t trust Ning Tianliang. The risks were simply too high this time, so it was best to lay everything out clearly from the start to avoid any complications down the line...
...
After ending his call with Ning Tianliang, Ye Ling began to map out the detailed plan for the upcoming operation.
The capital involved in this operation exceeded twenty billion. It was a massive undertaking, and they were charging into the overseas stock market. Even Ye Ling had to be extremely cautious.
The sharks on Wall Street were no country bumpkins; every single one of them was vastly experienced.
They were the elite.
Facing such opponents, Ye Ling naturally wouldn’t let his guard down or become arrogant.
He never liked leaving things to chance. He preferred the feeling of being in complete control.
About half an hour later, Ye Ling got up and went into the bedroom.
Ning Ruoxi was lying on the bed, scrolling through Weibo on her phone.
"Babe, come quick! There’s something hilarious here!" Ning Ruoxi called out when she saw Ye Ling walk in.
In truth, she had been waiting for him, but she didn’t want to disturb him while he was working.
’What a sweet girl.’
"What is it?" Ye Ling walked over, sat on the edge of the bed, and took the phone curiously. After looking at it for a moment, he couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Ning Ruoxi was showing him the recent "socialite circle" scandal that had blown up online.
These so-called "socialites"—or rather, "social media socialites"—were being exposed as girls who faked their lavish lifestyles through group buying.
For them, everything was available for group buying.
A single night in a luxury hotel that cost over a thousand yuan would be split between seven or eight people. Even a fancy dinner costing a few hundred yuan could be group bought!
According to the accounts from these "socialites," the first people to arrive got the worst deal because they couldn’t eat anything—they had to save the food for the next person’s photoshoot!
But arriving later also had its problems.
By then, the food wouldn’t look as appetizing, which meant the photos for their social media posts wouldn’t turn out well.
"This is just..." Ye Ling was speechless. For a moment, he didn’t even know where to begin his roast.
He couldn’t quite wrap his head around their logic.
’All this just to post on social media? Was it really necessary?’
’Okay, I can maybe see splitting a five-star hotel that costs a few thousand to flex on social media once in a while... but group buying a dinner that only costs a few hundred? Isn’t that taking it too far?’
’Are these socialites from the slums or something?’
"Hahahaha, isn’t it hilarious? I’m dying! These people are really something else," Ning Ruoxi burst out laughing.
As the heiress of Ning International, she, like Ye Ling, found their behavior completely incomprehensible.
"I have a question, though," Ye Ling said with a completely serious expression.
"What’s that?" Ning Ruoxi asked, blinking.
"For that hundred-thousand-yuan dinner I had before, how many people would they need to split it?" Ye Ling voiced his question.
He found it truly puzzling.
"PFFT!" Ning Ruoxi burst out laughing again.
’This guy is too much!’
’How could he say something like that with such a straight face?’
’If those so-called socialites heard him, they’d probably cough up blood from anger.’
’A hundred-thousand-yuan dinner... they’d need at least thirty to fifty people to split that!’
"No, I’m serious. I really think I lost out," Ye Ling continued, his expression still earnest.
"Think about it. We were treating them to a meal anyway, and nobody was that picky about the food... If we could just snag the last spot in the group buy, wouldn’t we save a ton of money?"
Ye Ling declared that he had seen the light.
’So there’s a way to save money like this?’
’He finally understood how some people get rich. It’s all from being frugal.’
"Hahahahaha, you’re killing me!"
Ning Ruoxi couldn’t help but clutch her stomach, roaring with laughter at Ye Ling’s antics once more.
For some reason, even though she knew Ye Ling was just messing around, she suddenly felt like he almost had a point.
’It really is just twisted logic!’
’But if you twist it enough, it starts to sound logical.’
"Still, I just can’t understand why they do it."
After a demonstration of his Yin-Yang Speech Art, Ye Ling went back to his critique. "Do they not understand the principle that people tend to flaunt what they lack the most? Their whole approach is fundamentally flawed!"
These so-called ’socialites’ were constantly posting their location at five-star hotels. Their goal was simple: to fake a high-end lifestyle in order to attract high-value men.
But could they really attract high-value men?
Take Ye Ling, for example.
To him, a hundred-thousand-yuan dinner was nothing special. As for a five-star hotel, it was just a place to stay for the night.
Therefore, he would never post about such things on his social media.
’He felt it was completely unnecessary.’
That was the mindset of the truly wealthy.
Weren’t the people who felt the need to post on social media just to show off that they were at a fancy hotel just like Granny Liu visiting the Grand View Garden?
Ye Ling figured if he had someone like that on his friends list...
...he’d probably just laugh at them.
’It was just too embarrassing!’
"It’s true. People often fixate on the things they can’t have," Ning Ruoxi said, nodding in agreement with Ye Ling.
"It’s like people who chase after trendy, high-end brands. Aside from a small few who genuinely like the style, most of them are just doing it to gain ’face’."
"But that kind of ’face’ is really just for themselves. Normal people don’t really care that much..."
"Why do you see high schoolers wearing Nikes more than anyone else?"
"Are high schoolers the richest?"
"No!"
"No matter how you look at it, college students definitely have more spending money than high schoolers."
"It’s mainly because students at that age are the most susceptible to vanity, and they haven’t yet faced the pressures of real life."
"But once they get to college and realize how hard it is to earn money, they naturally start to understand a few things..."
"For most people, ’sneaker culture’ is an illusion. What they really need to face is life itself."
"When the pressures of life start piling on, a few pairs of sneakers aren’t going to solve their problems."