The Billionaire's Hidden Affection-Chapter 542 - 539: Wretched Maid, Give Up Hope 3_1

She had never been interested in him before, had been too lazy to ask about him, and simply hadn’t cared.

But now, she had to at least know what he did for a living, right?

"If you want to know, let’s have lunch together. I’ll come pick you up right away."

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"Miss, if you don’t eat some more ’crap,’ your brain’s going to conk out. Did you know that? The brain might not be big, but it demands thirty percent of the body’s energy. Eat well, get smart."

Yan Xixi was also hungry and, after a moment’s hesitation, agreed.

The food at this restaurant was delicious. Yan Xixi was famished, so she ate and drank heartily. Finally, full and satisfied, she stared at him. "Alright, you lout," she said, "spill it. What exactly do you do?"

"Guess."

Wan Donglin laughed heartily. "Silly girl, are you finally interested in my job?"

"I highly doubt you even have a proper job."

Wan Donglin ignored her provocation. "Miss, have you heard of an industry called finance?"

"Of course, I have."

"What are the two most profitable avenues in finance?"

"Domestically speaking, would they be credit and funds?"

He praised her generously. "Smart. Miss, it seems you haven’t just been idling away your days."

"TCH! It’s so simple. Who doesn’t know that?"

Upon hearing he worked in this field, Yan Xixi immediately understood. For large families like Wan Donglin’s, amassing wealth typically involved three steps.

She was curious. "So, you deal with things like equity funds?"

"I used to, but not so much anymore."

Zhou Ting’s family had run into trouble because of this. Initially, her uncle and his partner bought a small company for a few hundred thousand and flipped it for nearly one hundred million to a conglomerate. This conglomerate later had a market value of over one hundred billion. However, they, in turn, managed to obtain absolute controlling shares in that same conglomerate. This meant they were essentially cycling money, making something out of nothing. They gained assets worth over one hundred million using only tens of millions.

This was an open secret within their circle; everyone played this game.

However, Zhou Ting’s family had played too big a game. Two years ago, they targeted an even larger project with very promising prospects and little competition. This naturally attracted the envy of others in their circle, leading her younger brother to arrange for the elimination of their rivals. At the time, the competitors could only swallow their anger. But this was the beginning of the end, the point where their problems started to unravel.

The company grew and strengthened, and its product sales were high. Consequently, the family increasingly became a formidable force in the business world.

Such prominent wealthy figures naturally attracted intense scrutiny from the outside. Moreover, their sometimes startling pronouncements also made them objects of widespread envy, jealousy, and resentment within their industry.

Shareholders’ money became the plaything for their reckless schemes.

Especially in recent years, with the stock market in steady decline, the outcries of distress were incessant.

Liu Daqing, ever cautious, had already sensed that continuing down this path would inevitably lead to their downfall. Thus, he decisively rejected this so-called ’lucrative deal’ and immediately withdrew.

Wan Donglin was a top graduate from Harvard Finance and had been involved in this line of work for over a decade. However, following Liu Daqing’s strategic shift, he had gradually changed direction over the past two years. His focus subsequently shifted to large-scale stock trading, private insurance, and other high-tech industries.

This was the first time Yan Xixi had heard him speak about his career—it turned out this man was quite formidable.

Indeed, he wasn’t just some run-of-the-mill president or tycoon, but someone with a genuine grasp of corporate strategy.