Reaching the age of thirty, my income randomly doubled

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"Damn… Fruit Channel has no shame!"

"Who airs a drama like this, two days a week!"

"Working my ass off and just when it gets exciting with the wife, it ends!"

Hua Qiangu, as the first weekly drama in the country, went viral online and at the same time, provoked endless cursing.

Primarily because it only aired two days a week, no channel had ever done such a thing.

It filled those in the midst of the exciting chase with righteous indignation.

They flocked online to curse Fruit Channel, shameless, utterly shameless.

But curse as they might, Hua Qiangu was exclusive to Fruit Channel, and when it aired, countless people still sat in front of their TVs.

Watching TV on cell phones wasn't so popular yet.

Mainly because the internet wasn't well-developed and mobile data was expensive; without WiFi at home, no one dared to use their data to watch TV.

The cost for data could easily buy you a new Xiaomi phone.

Hua Qiangu's popularity didn't just fuel Tengying Entertainment's success.

It also boosted online sales of a series of related merchandise; the same model of Hua Qiangu palace bells began selling thousands a day online as soon as the show aired.

At the same time, Bobo Milk Tea also officially announced their Hua Qiangu themed memory milk tea.

They were booming in no time.

When Tengying was valued at 5 billion, many questioned its worth,

doubting it was worth that much.

Now, lots of people started reaching out to Tong Zelan hoping to invest in Tengying.

Too bad, Chen Pingsheng directly appraised Tengying at 10 billion.

And he was only willing to let go of 10% of the shares, which silenced the capital firms wanting to invest in Tengying.

He wasn't short on cash, and with Tengying's profits so high, there was no way he would sell too many shares.

However, the news of his nearly 10 billion valuation still spread wildly in the entertainment circle.

Previously, some were skeptical of Yang Mi, such a top-tier celebrity, moving to Tengying as self-sabotage.

Now, who would dare to speak up?

What Tengying offered Yang Mi was noticeably much more than her previous company.

If Bobo Milk Tea manages to go public, she could easily earn three to four hundred million in a year.

Surpassing all the top-tier celebrities in the entertainment industry.

Not to mention, they even gave her a 5% stake, although it wouldn't be cashed in until 2024.

Netizens were daring enough to imagine the possibilities.

Most of them flocked to Yang Mi's account, praising her keen vision, truly the evergreen queen of top-tier celebrities.

The massive success of Hua Qiangu not only further inflated Tengying's valuation.

It also brought simultaneous fame to Bobo Milk Tea and Fei Yangyang.

Fei Yangyang simply started selling Hua Qiangu merchandise in their stores.

Remember that Zhao Liying is one of the bosses at Fei Yangyang.

If the boss is on fire, could the dining spot do any worse?

Following the explosion of the drama, the entertainment news was filled with four or five pieces about Hua Qiangu every day.

One thing was for sure, Zhao Liying, who had always been second-tier, leaped to top-tier superstardom with this drama.

Since then, Tengying had become an ultra first-rate entertainment company with two top-tier celebrity queens.

In the drama circle, there were only a few that could compare to them.

Only old established entertainment companies like Tangren and Zhengwu that had been around for more than five years.

The profits from the Hua Qiangu-related products would still take some time to reach his hands.

Online platform sales were skyrocketing daily.

During this time, a renowned gaming company approached them,

Seeking to buy the gaming production rights for Hua Qiangu.

Chen Pingsheng wasn't surprised; he had anticipated it—after all, the drama's success was evident.

Buying its rights for a game then surely appeared to be a great deal.

And not short of customers either.

The profits from games could be described as explosive.

Once successful, it could bring in revenue for many years to come.

Chen Pingsheng quoted a price of 120 million.

Their initial expectation was just 50 million; the quoted price was obviously much higher and completely unexpected.

After leaving and returning two days later,

The engrossing ongoing plot of Hua Qiangu made the gaming production rights worth 120 million seem acceptable.

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As soon as the news came out, the industry was shaken once again.

Tengying Entertainment had made five hundred million from the drama, and now they were raking in over a hundred million more from selling the game rights.

Indeed, you can always trust it to make money.

Of course.

The high price they paid had conditions attached, which required Zhao Liying to personally endorse the game.

That wasn't a problem.

They would just need to arrange for Zhao Liying to shoot the endorsement video once the game was released.

Chen Pingsheng called Zhao Liying and offered her twenty million from the 120 million as her endorsement fee.

That put her directly on par with the top-tier superstars.

The wildly popular Hua Qiangu and the profit-brimming Tengying Entertainment.

While everything on his side was flourishing.

The stock market underwent an earth-shattering change.

Thousands of stocks plummeted overnight.

The bull market that had surged for nearly two years seemed to have finally reached its darkest hour.

In just less than half a month, the Shanghai Composite Index fell by 35%, and the Growth Enterprise Board by 44%.

In the Lushen Markets, half of the stocks fell by more than 50%.

This meant that in just under half a month, the value of stocks in hand had halved or more.

What was once worth a hundred was now worth less than fifty.

This wasn't just a few people taking losses, but nearly half of the entire stock market.

Twenty million investors saw half of their fortunes wiped out in just half a month.

The impact of the stock market crash was evident.

High-leverage clients were mostly forced to close their positions.

It was a true stock market disaster; the more frenetic it had been before, the more miserable it was now.

The entire stock trading market seemed to have been cast into mourning overnight.

Most of those who had been hailed as stock trading legends over the last two years had their fortunes reversed to the pre-liberation era with this one wave.

No one knew how long the stock market crash would last, and no one knew how it started.

In any case, in just this short half month, countless people saw their wallets depleted substantially.

And then came the day of June 19th, towards the end of the month.

The spoiled brat graduated from Shijingshan Primary School, and their family officially moved to the Siheyuan in Nanluo Gu Alley within the second ring road.

The house was purchased for two hundred million, with another hundred million spent on renovations, and this didn't even include the cost of top-of-the-line furniture throughout the house.

Like Chen Pingsheng's own Elegant Pavilion Tea Room.

The tea set inside, including six wooden chairs, was all authentic Huali wood.

Just this set for drinking tea, the wooden table and chairs, was priced at over five million.

Add all the Chinese-style furniture placed throughout the courtyard, and the total comes to over thirty million.

Chen An'an's favorite was the huge mini aquarium outside the floor-to-ceiling window of her room.

This was something she had longed for.

Sixteen meters in length, three meters in height, and no less than two meters in width,

the mini aquarium spanned the floor-to-ceiling windows of four rooms.

The annual maintenance cost of just this mini aquarium would not be less than a million.

It could be called the epitome of extravagance.

Apart from her own beautiful room, Chen An'an also adored the pretty Crassula trees in the courtyard

and the extremely comfortable pavilions and terraces spread throughout.

The second floor of the west wing had been transformed into a full-view open-air balcony with artificial hills and ponds.

Spend some time planting flowers, tending the grass, and feeding the little goldfish, and what a leisurely small day it would be,

especially at night, listening to the evening breeze, and watching the birds fly south. Unimaginably delightful.

Chen An'an loved it here; it was even more beautiful than she had imagined,

and much more comfortable than their previous place in Shijingshan.

It goes without saying, really. One cost nearly four hundred million,

the other less than twenty million; how could they compare?

It can only be said that luxury houses abound in the country, but siheyuan always belongs to a class of their own,

costing hundreds of millions as a matter of course.

Their courtyard was not the largest, but it definitely had the highest renovation costs.

Just to make the spoiled brat happy, the giant home aquarium outside her window cost at least twenty million,

fulfilling her small wish to see the blue ocean without leaving home.