Chapter 800 - 328: Master Li, I Truly Understand You

Chapter 800: Chapter 328: Master Li, I Truly Understand You

In fact, in his previous life, the international version of Douyin also faced risks twice.

The first time was in 2020, and the second was in 2024.

In 2020, because of Xinguan, the international version of Douyin gradually exposed its discourse power in the media sphere, and once the West realized this, they wanted to forcibly acquire it.

In the end, although no one knew exactly what happened, in Li Yang’s view, it was definitely the "parents" stepping in to negotiate terms.

He didn’t believe that a platform boss full of endless counterfeits and all kinds of money-grabbing tricks would suddenly grow a conscience.

And be able to withstand that much pressure.

That year, Wall Street was willing to pay 30 billion US Dollars.

The 2024 incident was even more serious: they directly introduced a bill demanding the international version of Douyin be taken down, but in the end it was still smoothed over by the "parents."

The "parents" were very protective of these companies, especially ones with a media attribute; they would rather pay a huge price and still find a way to settle things.

As long as it wasn’t the company courting death on its own and it was wronged abroad, even if the "parents" sometimes failed to reach a deal on the spot, they would later provide compensation.

The fact that Jiang Baichuan could call meant they were already prepared.

...

Jiang Banxia flicked her hair and quietly ate.

After hanging up the phone, Li Yang suddenly said, "Master Jiang, I was just thinking—last night I did lose to you, but I was a bit careless at the time. I can agree to all the other conditions, but reducing the number of times is off the table. Not even once!"

Jiang Banxia raised her head and asked, "So basically you just feel that you’ve been with me too long and you’re a bit tired of me, right?"

She knew it herself: it really had been a long time. The two of them had been together for six years; although in the first year they still had some boundaries, after that they were completely gone.

No matter how close two people are, after five or six years of being together day and night, the novelty will fade.

"You want the truth or a lie?"

"Hm? There’s even an option for the truth?"

Jiang Banxia was grinding her teeth in anger.

At times like this, shouldn’t he say a few nice lies to comfort her?

Otherwise what was the point of her going to all that effort, secretly learning those things?

"Oh, then there’s no truth, only lies!"

"No! I want to hear it!"

"Truth or lie?"

"Truth!"

Li Yang drafted a quick script in his head and said, "We’ve only been together a few years. With such a short time, it’s impossible for me to be sick of you. It’s just that I’m the kind of person who hates trouble."

"Hates trouble? Doesn’t look that way to me—on a lot of things you’re the one taking the initiative."

"Those are things that have to be done. You can’t just throw away a situation we laid out with so much effort because of a few small issues, right? Originally I also wanted to tough this thing out, but I could feel that you’re afraid too, and you really want to avoid it. So I thought, since that’s the case, we might as well take the easiest route. It’s better for both of us."

"Hm hm hm? This has something to do with me?"

"Who else would it have to do with?"

"Oh... I don’t want to get divorced anymore."

"In your dreams! We have to get divorced!"

...

For Li Yang, right now it didn’t really matter whether they divorced or not, but in another year or two, they definitely had to divorce.

Jiang Banxia was bound too deeply to Wanliu Capital, so the 69% stake she held in her hands was basically impossible to cash out.

The so-called richest person in the world was just an empty title.

Divorce would allow Jiang Banxia, in a perfectly reasonable way, to transfer her Wanliu Capital shares to him, and he would just need to wait until the lock-up period ended to sell them on the market.

He couldn’t have worked this hard for so many years and not make money, right?

A losing deal was something he would never do.

He had started thinking very early on about how to cash out Wanliu Capital’s chips, because in a few more years he wouldn’t be able to control the future...

In fact, even now, many things had already deviated from his original expectations.

Take Bitcoin, for example: right now Jiang Banxia had several million coins in her hands, and who knew how many contracts...

The current situation was still stuck in a stalemate. Their opponent wanted to crush the platform, while Jiang Banxia wanted to swallow the 20 billion US Dollars in annual interest their opponent was paying.

Unfortunately, the opponent didn’t have enough strength. Even though they kept stirring up trouble, both on and off the books, they still couldn’t shake things.

The price of Bitcoin had stabilized!

What happened next would depend on how Jiang Banxia played the board.

Lose money? That was unlikely. Worst case, they’d just abandon the Huobi Platform and lose one profit channel.

Besides, Bitcoin itself wasn’t worth that much; at most they’d lose a bit over 20 billion US Dollars, which given his current family fortune really wasn’t a big deal.

After they finished eating, the two of them went back to their place.

The next two days were relatively relaxed, and US Stocks were closed.

However, the market being closed didn’t mean this matter was on pause.

Over on Wall Street, countless people couldn’t sleep because of this.

Although Boeing was just a single stock and their overall layouts weren’t heavily affected, judging from the current situation, their profits were definitely going to be lower, and they might even end up losing money.

This was something they couldn’t accept.

They weren’t at a dead end yet; they still had a chance to turn things around.

For example, they could keep slamming the price down!

The brokers were all their people, so borrowing all the chips the brokers held and dumping them on the market wouldn’t be a problem.

They could even wait a bit longer, wait until those retail traders got more and more excited and pushed Boeing’s market value above 400 billion US Dollars; that way they could maximize the value of their chips.

They could even rope in some more shareholders; all told, scraping together 20% of Boeing’s stock would absolutely not be a problem.

The issue was, if they kept going like this, how were they going to buy back the chips they sold?

Not buy them back?

That would just hand the market an opportunity: as long as someone had money, they could scoop up all of Boeing.

They couldn’t exactly roll out some new bill at that point, could they?