So many things happened in the sophomore year of high school, and it did not affect Zhuo Ziyuan's study, and Zhuo Ziyuan was still the second in the class in the final exam, only behind Tong Xue, which is also the norm, basically the two of them are competing for the first and second, and the third place has a gap with them.

What worries Zhuo Ziyuan is Li Xinyuan, the first year of high school is over, but her grades have gone from the top five in the class when she entered the school, and now she can't even rank in the top 20, which makes Zhuo Ziyuan know very clearly that everything that happened this year has a great blow to Li Xinyuan and has a far-reaching impact, although Li Xinyuan has changed back to the cheerful little girl who loves to laugh on the surface, but the knot in her heart has not been untied, Zhuo Ziyuan still has nothing to do about it, he can only try to pay attention to Li Xinyuan and make every effort not to let her be hurt in any way.

Zhuo Ziyuan's plan to write and make money was carried out in an orderly manner, and even more time was invested than the original plan, in addition to the temptation of the current U.S. stock market, there was also a list of investment suggestions for Internet companies given by Xu Ziqiang.

This list is Xu Ziqiang at the end of June, summarized to Zhuo Ziyuan, is the result of his efforts in the past six months, it lists the Internet companies that he thinks are valuable and can be invested, and makes a brief introduction to each company, these companies Xu Ziqiang has conducted preliminary communication, some have the intention of accepting investment, and some directly refused, among which Baidu and Ali, the two Zhuo Ziyuan specially confessed, are in the list of rejections, which makes Zhuo Ziyuan very disappointed, but Xu Ziqiang said that he will still keep an eye on it, as long as there is an opportunity, he will definitely inform Zhuo Ziyuan。

Xu Ziqiang listed only 8 companies with financing intentions, most of which Zhuo Ziyuan knows, but 7 of them have no investment value at all in Zhuo Ziyuan's opinion, and there is no need to say that Zhuo Ziyuan has never heard of it, and the other 5 companies are portals, games, and shopping networks, but after more than ten years, they are still in that state of being high and low, and some have even disappeared completely, so that Zhuo Ziyuan has no desire to invest at all.

The reason why he was included in the list was that it was the only company that took the initiative to find him, but it was the company he was not optimistic about, but Zhuo Ziyuan was like a treasure, and it also made Zhuo Ziyuan speed up the progress of writing.

This company is called Chengda Network, at this time Chengda Network is indeed making cartoons, but now this website has no ability to make a profit at all, and the funds it has are almost about to be cut off, as the founder of Chen Tianjiao is looking for new access, that is, online games, Chen Tianjiao found Xu Ziqiang, and even brought his strategic plan, he has now aimed at South Korea's role-playing online games, although it has not yet been decided which online game to represent, but as long as the agency is obtained, Chen Tianjiao believes that with the current domestic role-playing online game blank market, coupled with good publicity means, there will be room for development。

Chen Tianjiao doesn't know which online game he is acting for now, but Zhuo Ziyuan knows that in his previous life, when Zhuo Ziyuan was in his third year of high school, he lived in school at that time, and often heard that so-and-so went out to the Internet café to play online games at night, and he played this online game that became a big agent, a bloody legend, the madness of that period, and now Zhuo Ziyuan can't understand it, it is said that an artifact dragon slayer knife was fried to more than 100,000 yuan, what an unimaginable thing, at this time, hundreds of thousands can buy a house.

Zhuo Ziyuan really admires these people who work hard from scratch, you must know that in this era, the most popular is still stand-alone games or Internet battle games, such as Red Alert, StarCraft, Age of Empires, Diablo, etc., and even many people are still stuck in playing game consoles, and have never been exposed to computer games at all. And Chen Tianjiao, these leaders, have already stood on a high place early, daring to gamble with all their net worth to lead an era.

The successful agent of the legend also made Chen Tianjiao from an embarrassed state to the existence of the richest man in China for a time, of course, that was after the successful listing of Chengda, but before the listing, Chen Tianjiao was also a legendary figure in the minds of Zhuo Ziyuan's students of that generation, and it was rumored that he had posted tens of millions of RMB photos on the Internet.

At this time, if he can take a stake in Chengda, it is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Zhuo Ziyuan, so he must seize it, you must know that Chen Tianjiao can become the richest man, not to mention tens of billions, there must still be billions, if you can take 20% of the shares from these billions at this time, then you can at least earn a billion, although more than ten years later, Chengda has gradually declined, and only one novel website is the first in China. But as long as Zhuo Ziyuan transfers the shares after listing, the profit obtained must be at least ten times more, and the investment of five million US dollars is calculated, which is 40 million, and when the time comes to change hands, it will be 20 times the profit, how terrible.

Zhuo Ziyuan directly instructed Xu Ziqiang that at present, he would only talk to Chengda and delay the time, and he could arrange for the law firm to conduct due diligence and value Chengda's existing assets, which is also what can be done before financing, and he can be worthy of his own money when the time comes.

It's not that Zhuo Ziyuan doesn't want to invest in Chengda as soon as possible, but Zhuo Ziyuan only has a million dollars in his U.S. knife account now, all of which are the publication fees of Twilight's additional issuance in various countries, and now if you want to buy shares immediately, you have to use the four million reserved by Youdao Capital for Yingdong and IDG, but this is not what Zhuo Ziyuan wants.

In view of the strong temptation of money, Zhuo Ziyuan almost half of the time every day is completely occupied by writing, and Twilight 3, which was originally planned to be completed in mid-August, was completed on July 16, and the next day, Zhuo Ziyuan gave the e-book manuscript to Lu Tao and asked him to arrange follow-up things.

The matter of publishing the book has not yet been settled, but the matter of investing in Chengda has already been eyebrow-raised, so that Zhuo Ziyuan did not expect that the existing funds of Chengda plus the total assets are less than 1.5 million US dollars, and theoretically Zhuo Ziyuan can account for 50% of the shares as long as he invests 1.5 million US dollars, of course, in fact, it will not be calculated like this, the value of the founding team, The value of the strategic direction of the enterprise and so on must be included in the valuation, but the current situation is that the cartoon strategy before Chengda has completely failed, and the current period is just out of the transition period, and the valuation of intangible assets must not be high.

At the beginning of August, Xu Ziqiang reached an agreement with Chen Tianjiao to invest in Chengda with 2 million US dollars in cash, accounting for 35% of the shares, and has a board seat, of course, Zhuo Ziyuan does not want to interfere in the management of the company, and the director seat is temporarily represented by Chen Tianjiao, and Chen Tianjiao himself owns more than 51% of the company's equity, Zhuo Ziyuan might as well sell a favor.

At this time, the publishing house already had clear news, Twilight III will be published in August, and the publication of the first two volumes will be increased at the same time, so Zhuo Ziyuan authorized Xu Ziqiang to use the current reserves of Youdao Capital to deal with the shareholding agreement of Chengda, Zhuo Ziyuan did not participate in the whole process, he just signed a name and stamped the agreement, in Zhuo Ziyuan's opinion, Chengda's shares, in the end, he will resell it without leaving any left, and, to be honest, the online game company in this period, for the majority of students, parents and friends, is like poison, Zhuo Ziyuan feels that at this stage, it is better to keep a low profile。

And Chen Tianjiao also followed the trajectory of fate and took a fancy to the online game produced by a Korean game company, Legend, and is already negotiating the issue of agency. In the end, compared to Chen Tianjiao's lack of funds in his previous life, and finally had to sign a profit-sharing contract with the game company, this time, under the premise of sufficient funds, Chen Tianjiao directly bought out the distribution rights of the game in China at a price of 1.05 million US dollars.

Youdao's successful investment in Penguin and Chengda has already completed the mission in Zhuo Ziyuan's heart.

Penguin's shares must be held all the time, Zhuo Ziyuan will never be transferred to anyone, it can be regarded as a long-term investment, Zhuo Ziyuan believes that in the next 20 years, no matter which company is invested, there will be no high return on Penguin.

Chengda shares, Zhuo Ziyuan will definitely change hands after the listing, although I don't know the specific listing time, but Zhuo Ziyuan believes that Chengda listing should be after the end of the Internet crisis, there are many Internet companies listed during that period, Penguin, Baidu, Google, etc., with the good performance of Chengda agent legend, I believe it will also be the first wave of listed companies, which is considered a high return in the short and medium term.

As the saying goes, everything will not be as expected, Zhuo Ziyuan tasted the sweetness at this end, but the equity of the penguin was inserted horizontally, and on the 3rd day after signing the agreement with Chengda, the news came from the penguin's side that South Africa's Millard Investment Company directly acquired the remaining 15% of IDG The price is nine million US dollars, which is a price that Zhuo Ziyuan cannot afford, even if he gets the publishing fee, Zhuo Ziyuan still does not have the strength to absorb this part of the equity, and the other party is a big consortium, even if he has nine million, he can't compete, 25% of the equity is enough, Zhuo Ziyuan can only comfort himself silently.

When Zhuo Ziyuan received the publication fee from the American imperialists, it happened to be the day of school class, and after deducting taxes, Zhuo Ziyuan had more than 10 million US dollars in his account, which was also the last publication fee income this year, and even if there was one in the future, it was estimated that it would not exceed one million.

Zhuo Ziyuan directly transferred 10 million whole funds to the account of Youdao Capital, and asked Xu Ziqiang to immediately transfer all the balance of the previous agreement to Yingdong and IDG, although there is still about 1 month to expire, but Zhuo Ziyuan does not like this way of calculating, since he already has abundant funds, there is no need to owe others, and early payment can also show the cheerfulness of Youdao, which is convenient for dealing in the future, although it is not sure whether it will be dealt with again in the future, it is convenient for others and himself.

In this way, after deducting the funds from the equity transfer of penguins, Xu Ziqiang's available funds are only 8 million US dollars, and Zhuo Ziyuan himself has left more than 2 million US dollars in case of emergency.

Zhuo Ziyuan only gave Xu Ziqiang one instruction, as much as possible to buy as many shares of Yiwang, a certain wave and a certain fox, how many to want, Zhuo Ziyuan has been paying attention to these three stocks, compared to when he was worried about money before, the current stock price has decreased, a certain wave and a certain fox are now hovering around 1 yuan, and Yiwang directly fell to about 0.7 US dollars, Zhuo Ziyuan is a little doubtful, whether there are other variables in this life. Zhuo Ziyuan also gave an order that if there are no stocks to sell in the market, he can buy them at an appropriate price increase of 10% until the eight million are used up.

During the summer vacation, Zhuo Ziyuan's pen pal Dongdu's dashing brother sent him the last letter, and for more than two years, Zhuo Ziyuan has maintained a correspondence with the three pen pals, these letters are generally in the form of questions and answers, mixed with some interesting life stories.

For example, the Dongdu girl Maple Leaf will even write in the letter that a boy is chasing her, but she doesn't have a trace of heart for that person, she doesn't know how to refuse, she has also received love letters before, but she didn't see it, and now she has met a face-to-face overture, although she didn't say it explicitly, but a clear-eyed person knew at a glance that it was the meaning of pursuit, and she was also deliberately estranged, but the other party was still the same, she didn't know how to solve it, Zhuo Ziyuan was a boy, so she asked Zhuo Ziyuan how to deal with it without hurting the other party, and it could solve the trouble.

Zhuo Ziyuan's idea to the other party was the same as what he said to Xu Tian, and he would talk about it after college. In addition, he also told Maple Leaf that if he really doesn't have a good impression of the other party, it doesn't even matter if he maintains a relationship with friends, then it's straightforward, you're not my dish, boys aren't so fragile, if it's a vigorous love, it's estimated that it's hard to forget, and even some people have to spend half a lifetime forgetting their first love, but Maple Leaf hasn't started yet, and it will be directly strangled in the bud, if the other party is a person of good character, I believe that this relationship will only be regarded as a good memory. If it is a person of poor conduct, it is better to say that either the other party changes face, or the target is diverted.

Brother Chic's last letter, roughly means that the brother has passed the college entrance examination, the first catastrophe in his life, and he will no longer write letters in the future, he feels that for more than two years, Zhuo Ziyuan is still more authentic and reliable, and has maintained the agreement of 1 letter in the previous 2 months, and he is also happy to write a letter to communicate, and he is willing to make friends with Zhuo Ziyuan in reality, if he goes to the Eastern Capital in the future, he can contact him, and he must invite Zhuo Ziyuan to have a good meal, if necessary, he can also introduce the beauty to Zhuo Ziyuan.

This is also the norm of the chic brother, the correspondence with Zhuo Ziyuan in the past two years, basically the topic is inseparable from the beauty, as far as he said in the letter, there are already 3 girls he chases, three in two years, Zhuo Ziyuan admires his speed, and judging from the gifts he talked about chasing girls, this chic brother also belongs to the kind of master who is not short of money.

However, from the questions and answers in the letter in the past two years, Zhuo Ziyuan knows how this dashing brother knows how to understand women, in fact, he is also a junior brother, and he has not succeeded in chasing a girl in two years.

Brother Chic left a string of 5-digit QQ numbers at the end of the letter, for which Zhuo Ziyuan also deliberately applied for a QQ number, applied for dozens of them, and finally got a six-digit number, the two added friends, Brother Chic's screen name is called Dongdu Brother Chic, Zhuo Ziyuan also learned from Brother Chic to use the sycamore leaves directly, and did not continue to use the screen name of the previous life.

The reason why Zhuo Ziyuan likes to use names like sycamore, leaves, and phoenix is inseparable from his rebirth, Zhuo Ziyuan thanked God for giving him this opportunity, deep down, Zhuo Ziyuan wants to complete the transformation in this life, just like the phoenix nirvana.

The phoenix is born of nirvana.

At the same time, he sometimes feels that he has no roots in this world, a passerby, like a leaf falling with the wind, leaving the original sky tree, falling into mud, and looking for the meaning of existence again.