Reaching the age of thirty, my income randomly doubled

The sun rose to another new day.

Chen Pingsheng got up from his room and finished his morning routine.

He opened his walk-in closet and picked out a fitted blue shirt.

He didn’t pay much attention to what brand it was.

Anyway, it was his wife who bought it, probably for over ten thousand each.

The belt was a golden H buckle from Hermès.

He definitely wouldn’t wear a tie, and as for watches, he still chose the Patek Philippe worth 17.6 million that the spoiled brat bought for him after glancing over a row of them.

This type of watch is very classic and will never go out of style on the wrist.

If you say it’s expensive, well, many stars who love watches have watches worth over ten million.

And the most expensive one in this series is valued at two hundred million.

The second most expensive one is roughly around seventy million.

The title of "King of Patek Philippe" is indeed well-deserved.

In the upper circles, basically everyone has a Patek Philippe, ranging in price from several hundred thousand to a few million.

A watch is a kind of decoration for men, which reveals their taste the moment they lift their wrist.

A watch is not a tool for showing off.

Because people in the same circle all wear them, usually owning quite a few.

Show off to the lower circles would make one seem tasteless and make others look foolish.

That would be quite awkward.

Song Yanxi also got up and stretched.

In another two months, the first batch of students from Water Cloud Space Academy would graduate.

Half of them would go to Magic City, and the other half would stay in Capital City.

By June, all thirty-two Water Cloud Space locations invested in Magic City will open simultaneously.

Currently, there are only two flagship stores in operation.

It has to be said that Water Cloud Space is super profitable.

In Capital City, there are twenty-five stores plus one super flagship store, the kind with an investment of over fifty million.

The annual profit can outdo 95% of the listed companies.

Reaching about over ten billion.

As long as the economy doesn’t go downwards and the real estate industry continues its flamboyance, luxury wellness industries like Water Cloud Space will keep on making money.

It basically won’t change much.

If you add Magic City’s profits, then the annual earnings could be roughly twenty billion.

That’s quite astonishing.

Song Yanxi still finished feeding Little Chubby Girl breakfast before going to work, whereas Chen Pingsheng drove the spoiled brat to the international school.

She is now in the second semester of the third grade, and aside from her unimpressive academic performance, her other hobbies and interests remain diverse.

Especially the Praying Mantis Fist and playing the erhu; she is quite famous at school for these.

Which is certainly due to starting from a young age.

When it comes to exams, she no longer cheats—mainly because there are too few people in the class, and the classroom is extremely large.

Once the seats are spread out, even if she wants to peek, she can’t see anything.

Every day, Chen An’an goes to school full of energy and comes home spirited after class.

When asked about her grades,

What did the teacher talk about today? She tilts her head, thinking hard for a long time.

Then she forgets again.

With such a miraculous constitution, Chen Pingsheng has given up paying much attention to her grades.

First-rate teachers have also exerted effort on her, but it turns out, the only thing that can be changed is the teacher themselves.

Chen An’an still likes to carry her massive yellow backpack that’s even taller than her—it’s quite exaggerated.

Little Chubby Girl is different, though. Besides liking to sleep with her little teddy, everything else seems quite normal.

Next month is her second birthday, and it will surely be celebrated grandly, along with inviting some relatives from her hometown to Capital City to have fun for a few days.

Tengying Entertainment, the headquarters building.

Soaring in the second ring of Capital City.

Chen Pingsheng parked his Phantom in his designated spot, greeted Chen Bufan after getting out of the car, and casually asked how he was adjusting to his job as a security guard.

Chen Bufan still smiled foolishly, scratching his head. He quite liked this security job.

Every day, he only had to stand for six hours and greet everyone with a beaming smile.

Chen Pingsheng patted his shoulder and then went upstairs to busy himself with work.

Today, Zhang Tao came. It’s been half a year since Tengsheng Fruits distributed dividends; all the profits have been invested in their own fruit industry parks.

Besides investing fifty million in Ningxia to establish a watermelon industry park, they’ve invested a billion in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for a seedless melon industry park.

Later, it expanded to Shaanxi apples, Hami melons, grapeyards, and other various fruits.

In one year, six hundred million was invested in fruit cultivation.

Eight major fruit cultivation parks were built, spreading across twelve major fruit varieties.

Tengsheng Fruits is also one of the group’s earliest entrepreneurial projects and can now independently expand throughout the country.

Zhang Tao’s early decision to abandon Tengsheng Fresh and fully develop the fruit business now seems very correct.

Times have changed, and especially in traditional industries, the competition is fierce.

In the fruit industry, any small neighborhood entrance has two or three large fruit shops.

A street with decent foot traffic can easily sprout seven or eight shops.

If he didn’t focus, putting his full attention on fruit and doing it well, he might be eliminated at any moment.

The times are too impatient.

Just among those fruit moguls Zhang Tao knows, after becoming wealthy, half of them went into building houses.

The rest either invested in this or that.

Our core business gradually fell behind in the competition.

"Old Chen, the fruit industry is fiercely competitive," Zhang Tao said. "Luckily, we took the initiative to develop our own industrial parks early on. In the future, competition in this industry will mainly focus on one aspect—price, price, and still price."

Mentioning ’price’ three times underscored that ultimately, everything about fruit comes down to this.

Simply put, everyone gets their fruit from the same wholesale market.

Your apples aren’t going to be tastier than mine.

In an industry with such severe homogeneity, when internal competition ramps up, it definitely becomes a battle over price.

What Zhang Tao said didn’t include those small fruit shops.

He was referring to those stores that had become the number-one brand either regionally or within a certain area.

Only such brands are worthy of competing with Tengsheng Fruits.

It had been quite a while since Chen Pingsheng had paid attention to the fruit industry. To tell the truth, it’s not hard to make money in this field.

But becoming some kind of industry mogul was hardly possible.

The barriers to entry are too low; the competition, too intense.

Most fruit stores stick to doing business within a five-hundred-meter radius of their location.

It’s impossible to conceive a nationwide fruit brand.

Even as Tengsheng Fruits grew to such a scale, it only covered major cities around Capital City and the surrounding areas.

Expanding any further was quite difficult.

Maintaining a solid foundation in this sector is already quite an accomplishment.

Zhang Tao himself had long since achieved financial freedom, especially after spending six hundred million on setting up eight major fruit industrial parks.

This lowered costs even further.

By holding onto the northern market centered around Capital City, that was already quite impressive.

Making seven or eight hundred million a year was almost casual.

He could also count on a hefty dividend from Tengsheng Fruits, amounting to tens of millions each year.

What more could he want?

Zhang Tao then mentioned Gao Hu, "Gao Hu called and said he found a girlfriend who wasn’t after his money. Did he ask you to check her out?"

"He did."

Chen Pingsheng showed him the message, "It was from yesterday. They’ve been dating for two months, and the girl is still renting her own place. He asked me to take a look and if she’s suitable, he plans to come clean and propose."

With a sigh, Zhang Tao said, "Among our old buddies, he’s the only one who’s not married yet. Zhang Qian is about to give birth soon. I’m really afraid that he’ll mess things up again when he goes there."

"You’re afraid that the girl is just pretending, right?"

Chen Pingsheng actually shared the same thought. Gao Hu was about the same age as them, well into his thirties.

Finding a pretty girl in her twenties, and to say she’s not after his money, what else would she be after?

Is she attracted to him because he doesn’t bathe in the summer?

Chen Pingsheng still decided to go and take a look, while Zhang Tao was too lazy to go.

Regardless, he still hoped that Gao Hu would settle down soon.

By their level, it was quite normal for women to approach for money.

Zhang Tao’s own wife was a recent graduate from a prestigious university.

And she was very pretty.

With a woman like that, if he wasn’t leveraging the resources of making a few hundred million a year from Tengsheng Fruits to woo her, why else would she marry him?

After getting married, his wife settled into being thrifty and diligent at home.

In two years, she even gave birth to a chubby boy for him.

Now, she’s pregnant again.

In the end, it’s perfectly normal for women to be materialistic. What’s scary are those gold diggers who don’t recognize their own reality.

Like those ugly women in their thirties who are still single.

The ones who demand that a man drive a BMW and earn a salary of half a million a year before they would consider marriage—that’s truly a moral decay and accident scene.

If you’re a university graduate from a top school and you were even a campus beauty,

If a woman like that isn’t materialistic, then she’s foolish.

Zhang Tao’s wife is exactly that sort, of course, marrying such a wife does come with risks.

If the business doesn’t do well, or if the family investments fail and there’s no money left, she would definitely leave without hesitation.

As the saying goes, a poor man should not marry a beautiful lady,

There’s a lot of truth to that.

Zhang Tao really didn’t understand why Gao Hu was insistent on finding someone who didn’t want his money. Stay connected through empire

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To seek a girlfriend ignoring their greatest strengths is something he simply couldn’t comprehend.

Just like when Zhang Tao pursued his wife, the girl didn’t want to find someone ten years her senior.

But what happened?

He drove a BMW worth a million, lived in the best community in Capital City,

and had a stable income of over ten million a year.

After thinking it over for a night, she decided to give it a shot.

And then, it all naturally led to marriage.

Now isn’t she living a happier life than anyone else? Every time there’s a class reunion, she’s the brightest and most dazzling one there.

That’s the love you get with a man ten years older.

Mature and steady, without giving her too many financial woes.

After spending the morning at headquarters, Chen Pingsheng took a flight to Greater Guangdong in the afternoon.

Compared to routine matters, the lifelong happiness of a brother was obviously more important.

On this trip, he also looked forward to taking a good look at Water Cloud Space in Guangdong.