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"Mmm, that feels nice. A little lower."

Ye Ling nodded, closing his eyes and simply enjoying Ning Ruoxi’s shoulder massage.

Her hands were soft, kneading his shoulders gently. Under her massage, Ye Ling felt his whole body relax.

Ning Ruoxi looked at Ye Ling’s kingly demeanor and couldn’t help but snort.

’Does he really think he’s the boss?’

At that thought, a sly smile crept onto Ning Ruoxi’s lips. She suddenly tightened her grip, pinching the flesh on his shoulder and giving it a vicious twist.

"What the—!"

Ye Ling yelped and immediately pushed her hand away.

"Miss, are you giving me a massage or trying to murder me?"

Ye Ling looked at Ning Ruoxi, at a loss for words.

"Hee hee, a massage, of course. Didn’t you say you wanted it harder?"

Ning Ruoxi said with a giggle.

"I..."

Ye Ling opened his mouth, but then closed it again.

’Fine.’

’Come to think of it, I guess I did ask for more force.’

"I’m going to go cook."

Ye Ling said before heading to the kitchen, thinking, ’I’ll make sure she pays for all of this one day.’

’Trying to bully Brother Ling?’

’Hmph!’

’Sooner or later, she’ll pay the price.’

After dinner, Ye Ling contacted his good bros in the "3222 Demon Lord of Chaos" group chat.

’Ye Ling: @All Members, Bros, by the way, how was your Christmas party?’

’He Jian: Don’t even talk about it... It’s a tale of woe.’

’Yang Yu: I must study. I refuse all forms of entertainment!’

’Yang Yefeng: I also refuse entertainment!’

Seeing this, Ye Ling found it strange. He absolutely didn’t believe a word these guys were saying.

’This bunch of guys, thinking about studying hard?’

’That would be more shocking than the national soccer team winning the World Cup!’

"Ruoruo, do you know about He Jian and those two other guys having a mixer with a dorm from your school?"

Ye Ling suddenly thought of something and looked at Ning Ruoxi.

He’d heard He Jian and the others mention before that the dorm they were having the mixer with was from the School of Arts.

"Er... I think I actually have heard about that."

Ning Ruoxi paused, then took out her phone, swiped a few times, and handed it to Ye Ling.

Ye Ling took it, glanced at the screen, and couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

"These guys are really something else."

Ye Ling couldn’t help but shake his head.

On her phone was a photo of He Jian and the other two, passed out drunk on a table.

The three of them had indeed gone out to a party that day, but they were all drunk under the table by the girls from the other dorm!

’Ye Ling was well aware of their low alcohol tolerance. They couldn’t even hold their liquor as well as Brother Ling, and yet they went out for a drinking contest?’

Ye Ling felt that he couldn’t tell anyone he was from dorm 3222 anymore. It was just too damn embarrassing!

"How did they get back afterward?"

Ye Ling suddenly thought of something and asked curiously.

"Apparently, they called your class monitor, who brought some people to drag them back."

Ning Ruoxi couldn’t help but let out a chuckle. Then, as if suddenly remembering something, she looked at Ye Ling.

"If you ever dare to go out and have a drinking contest with some random girls, don’t even think about calling me!"

"How could I possibly go out for a drinking contest with other girls?"

Ye Ling said immediately, his survival instinct kicking in.

...

「The next day.」

At eight in the morning, an hour and a half before the stock market opened, a post began to circulate across the internet. It started on a site like Zhihu, then spread to Weibo and other major social media platforms...

Bauhinia Energy Did Not Engage in Subsidy Fraud; Incident Confirmed to be Based on Rumors.

Regarding yesterday’s viral rumors of Bauhinia Energy and Shenzhou Company conspiring to commit subsidy fraud, an investigation has revealed it to be a malicious, secretly orchestrated event aimed at undermining the development of our nation’s new energy giant.

Bauhinia Energy did indeed sell new energy vehicles to Shenzhou Company. However, the rumored term ’buyback’ is inaccurate; it should be ’maintenance.’ The two companies have a signed contract, and the after-sales service includes a clause for returning vehicles for maintenance.

As for the matter of circular subsidy fraud, it is completely baseless. One only needs to compare the subsidy acquisition times.

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Clearly, these subsidies were obtained in new transactions that took place after the vehicles were returned for maintenance, so there is no issue.

...

This article seemed very official and spread rapidly, quickly dominating major news sections.

Meanwhile, most of yesterday’s condemnatory articles had vanished overnight.

Most internet users who saw the persuasive article were naturally convinced.

Of course, a small number of people might still have their doubts. After all, Bauhinia Energy hadn’t said a single word yesterday...

If there was really nothing wrong, why didn’t they come out and say so sooner?

Why wait until the losses were so severe before revealing these details? However, such doubts were fleeting, and soon, no one gave it much more thought.

At 9:30 AM, the stock market opened on time. Influenced by the news, Bauhinia Energy’s stock price began to rebound the moment the market opened, once again showing a scene of soaring prices.

Ye Ling watched the stock market’s reaction, a faint smile playing on his lips.

’Good thing I wasn’t too greedy yesterday and decided to jump in. Otherwise, with the way things are today, there’d be no chance to get in anymore.’

The morning session had only been open for half an hour, but the order book for Bauhinia Energy was already flooded with buy orders. The stock price was shooting up, having risen by nearly three percentage points per share.

In other words, over the course of a single night, Ye Ling had made a three percent profit!

You have to understand, this was in just one night. It was, without a doubt, a massive profit.

Of course, stocks are risky.

Just look at all the sell orders yesterday. Many people were trying to cut their losses, liquidating their positions at a loss. Who knew that it would surge first thing in the morning today!

Without a doubt, the people who had panic-sold were probably losing their minds right now. But there was nothing to be done about it. Isn’t the stock market all about playing the information gap?

A certain Boss Ma once said that the reason for his success was his reliance on the information gap. This just goes to show how terrifyingly powerful an information gap can be.

Some people might not understand what an information gap is. To put it simply, it’s about predicting or receiving certain information ahead of others and then profiting from that information asymmetry!

"But the Jiang Family really did act fast," Ye Ling couldn’t help but marvel. He did a quick search online and found that news about yesterday’s incident was basically gone.

He deduced that it probably wasn’t just the Jiang Family acting alone. The Jiang Family wasn’t that powerful; otherwise, they wouldn’t have let public opinion fester for so long yesterday.

Of course, he couldn’t be bothered to think too much about how exactly the Jiang Family had operated.

Yesterday, he’d gone all-in, buying a full position with his two billion. As long as the price went up, he was making money!

"Two billion, three percent... tsk tsk, that’s a profit of nearly 0.6 ’small goals’ right there."

Ye Ling’s lips curled into a smirk.