Chapter 983
The Future Fifth Family of Hong Kong
Lu Yang intends to take the secrets of the reborn to his grave.
Therefore, it's impossible to disclose this to anyone.
When he acquired the Boss House at No. 10 Plow Road on Victoria Peak, he got a real bargain.
If it is not demolished and rebuilt.
If you act now, you could probably earn tens of millions, or even 1 million Hong Kong dollars.
Now it has been demolished and rebuilt.
According to Du Lingling, the return on investment will be more than six times, which means that even if you spend more than HK$200 million to buy the mansion and then demolish and rebuild it, you can eventually recover more than HK$12 billion.
Just listen to what she says!
That's a really good return!
If Lu Yang hadn't been a reincarnated person and hadn't returned from the future, he might have actually agreed, and might even have praised this Sister Du for being capable.
But the reason lies in the fact that he is a reborn person.
The Boss House at No. 10 Plow Road on Victoria Peak was also renovated twice in its original historical context.
The first time was in 1996, when the owner bought it for a record HK$3.75 million, demolished the magistrate's house, and built five townhouses on the original site, which was named Sky High Project.
Ultimately, the entire Skyhigh project became an unfinished building because its owner's wealth shrank significantly during the financial crisis.
The second demolition and reconstruction took place from 2004 to 2009.
Lu Yang, who bought these unfinished buildings, used to be a fan of his and had seen countless of his comedic films.
That's right, he is Stephen Chow.
Because Stephen Chow had been involved in this project, Lu Yang, before his rebirth, also had a deep understanding of the project's final rate of return through some newspapers and media.
After these unfinished buildings were demolished, they were not rebuilt all at once, but were rebuilt gradually, which saved a lot of initial start-up capital, but the subsequent rate of return varied.
The most famous example is a luxury home transaction in 2011, where the buyer of number ten of these newly built villas spent a whopping HK$800 million for this one villa, setting a record for the highest transaction price for a detached house in Asia at the time.
This news caused a great stir at the time and was reported by media outlets throughout Asia.
That's why.
It was only then that Lu Yang, who was just an ordinary person at the time, learned about it.
Now that he has been reborn, and knows this important information—that one of the villas in the future rebuilt mansion could be sold for such a high price!
HK$8 million!
The price is eight times higher than the current proposed price of HK$100 million, exceeding it by a full HK$700 million.
What's the cost?
If we push the timeline back, it will be at most another 10 years.
Lu Yang can afford to wait 10 years.
Moreover, this real estate company in the port city was originally established by him to settle Sister Du and his son An'an, and it seems that he intends to pass it on to his son An'an.
And what about An'an now?
He's still a baby, not even weaned yet. It will take at least another twenty years for this little guy to come of age and take over the company.
ten years!
Twenty years!
The former can increase fixed assets by eight times.
The premise is that the status quo remains unchanged.
The latter, their son An'an, will be able to take over the company when he comes of age, which will coincide with the former, and he will have plenty of time. In other words, he can get his current wealth without having to do anything!
"At that time,"
"If the little guy can work hard, he might be able to build another fifth family in Hong Kong and achieve mutual support with the Century Group that I passed on to Xiao Fanzi on the mainland. Tsk tsk tsk... Let's work together to make the Century Group bigger and stronger and create new glories."
hang up the phone.
Lu Yang was happily lost in thought.
"Oh, right."
"There's one more thing."
Over the years, Lu Yang has only had a handful of female confidantes who have borne him children.
Yin Mingyue!
Xu Siqi!
Du Lingling!
Money flows freely!
Yin Mingyue was his first wife, and she bore him a daughter, Lu Xin'er, and a son, Lu Fan.
Xu Siqi was his former secretary and is now the female president of Sifei Media. After discovering she was pregnant, she went to Singapore and gave birth to his daughter, Lu Feifei, there.
Du Lingling was once the woman he respected most, his benefactor, and someone who had helped him. The two had addressed each other as brother and sister for several years, but eventually broke this taboo and came together during a mudslide disaster.
After discovering she was unexpectedly pregnant, this Ms. Du also resigned from her public office and went to a foreign country to give birth to her son, Lu An, in Frankfurt.
Finally, there's Qian Youyou, the long-legged girl with a ponytail, who left a very deep impression on Lu Yang during their university years.
But at that time, Lu Yang never had any romantic feelings for her.
Until several years later,
The two sides met again in Shenzhen.
At that time, Lu Yang had already gained momentum, holding tens of millions in cash flow. She was cooperating with her half-brother Xiao Jun, preparing to make waves in the newly established Pengcheng Securities Market. In the end, she did indeed win the first prize, making a fortune and shaking the entire Pengcheng business circle.
When they met again, Lu Yang was preparing to recruit Xiao Jun to invest in a factory and enter the nascent domestic consumer electronics industry. Their first major consumer product was the Subor learning machine, which was popular all over the country at the time.
It was on this basis that Little Prodigy Electronics was born, which went public in the United States and climbed all the way to a market value of over 10 billion US dollars!
Qian Youyou also saw a business opportunity at that time. Through her brother Xiao Jun, she found Lu Yang and intended to take a stake in the business on behalf of the Qian Group!
Lu Yang agreed.
Because he was new to the area, he did need the support of local powerful families like the Qian family.
Xiao Jun was, after all, just the adopted son of the Qian family patriarch; Qian Youyou, the long-legged ponytail girl, was the true heir of the Qian family.
Even at this moment, Lu Yang had no intention of having any romantic relationship with the other party.
But what happened next was something he hadn't anticipated.
The Qian family needs an heir, and the heir needs to have descendants. However, Qian Youyou is a girl and cannot marry outside the family. If she does marry outside the family, she will lose the possibility of inheriting the Qian family business.
The most basic principle. No one can tolerate a family business ultimately falling into the hands of outsiders.
On that day, everyone will oppose her.
At that time, the old master of the Qian family was already in poor health, and his control over the entire family business was declining. Many of his brothers in the clan wanted to usurp his position, and the selection of the successor had also expanded from Qian Youyou, the only candidate, to several of her cousins in the same clan. If a decision was not made soon and the support of other neutral people in the clan was not won, then when the old master Qian passed away, the family business he had built with his own hands might really fall into the hands of a younger generation in the clan who had no direct blood relation to him.
The old man gave his daughter an ultimatum.
Qian Youyou didn't want to settle. There weren't many men her age that she could find acceptable. However, in order to inherit the family business, she couldn't marry out and had to find a live-in son-in-law. The reputation of a live-in son-in-law was not good. What truly capable man could tolerate that?
She doesn't want misshapen or deformed fruits.
In the end, she took a liking to Lu Yang.
Lu Yang was a rising star in the business world of Pengcheng at the time, a business prodigy who appeared out of nowhere. Although he had a family, this was not a disadvantage, but rather an advantage.
The solution is to remove the father and keep the son!
This beloved daughter of the Qian family, at one point, had the absurd idea of having a child through artificial insemination.
And this idea actually made her successful.
Although Lu Yang never had any intention of getting her, he simply admired this tall, ponytailed girl. However, when a girl who offered herself to him was the type he liked, he couldn't bring himself to push her away.
She has absolutely no sense of restraint.
The two quickly completed the "deal".
Qian Youyou quickly became pregnant and gave birth to their son, Qian Xiaohao, the following year.
This is also the only son among Lu Yang's many children who does not share his surname.
From the moment this child was born, the entire Qian family business was waiting for him to inherit.
That is precisely why.
Over the years, Lu Yang has taken great care of all his women and children.
But he showed absolutely no care for the mother and child.
Is it because they lack nothing?
Maybe!
But now, after making amends to all his women and children, Lu Yang finally came to his senses.
Over the years, I have paid too little attention to this mother and son. It's not that they lack nothing, but because the child has never taken my surname since he was a child. He lacks a sense of patriarchy. In traditional culture for thousands of years, surnames have always been regarded as a symbol of bloodline inheritance and family continuation. Growing up in such an environment, because the child did not take my surname and had little contact with me, and was raised by his mother, he subconsciously regarded her as an "outsider".
This is wrong!
But he hadn't realized it before.
Instead, this child was treated differently from his other children.
Now he realized, well, he couldn't just do nothing.
He called Qian Youyou.
He made a decision to divide the company shares into four, transferring 35% of his shares to his wife, Yin Mingyue, and their two children.
He told the other party in detail about the cause of the matter and the subsequent arrangements during the phone call.
After hearing this, Qian Youyou was clearly stunned for a moment.
I waited for a long time.
Hesitantly, she said, "You're not saying all this to brag to me, are you? It's good to be your son and daughter, they can inherit your estate. My son isn't bad either, he can inherit the entire Qian Group in the future. Our Haohao will definitely not lose to anyone in the future. Or have you finally remembered me and our child?"
She had a child with Lu Yang back then.
To some extent, it stemmed from pressure within the family.
But wasn't it also because she had her eye on this person?
If she didn't care about him, she could have easily looked for someone else, or even gone to an agency to extract the best male sperm from around the world for genetic testing...
It was just a case of making the best of a bad situation.
But her pride wouldn't allow her to steal someone else's husband.
So even though she had truly taken charge of the Qian family business over the years, their relationship remained awkward.
Lu Yang was rebuffed by her.
She said somewhat innocently, "Back then, I was the one who was coerced. It was you who suggested that the child take your surname."
Over the years, I admit I haven't paid enough attention to Hao Hao, but isn't that what you've always wanted?
When your father was still alive, he was even worried that I would make Hao Hao change his surname to Lu in the future, and even after Hao Hao inherited the Qian family, I would change the entire Qian family to the Lu family.
"Isn't that what you said when we used to share a bed?"
Qian Youyou's mind went blank.
She blurted out, "You scoundrel, when have I ever said such things to you in the same bed? Fine, even if I did, my dad's dead, and nobody can take care of us anymore. Do you still need to care about these things? Isn't it only natural for you to be good to your son? Even if he wants to change his surname back to Lu because of your kindness to him, that's something that happens after he inherits the Qian family business. In the end, it won't be us who suffer. As parents, do we need to think so much?"
What she said makes a lot of sense.
just,
Lu Yang hesitated and said, "Your son's surname is Qian, which was something your father always hoped for. Now that the old man is dead, haven't you thought about respecting his last wish? What if, I mean what if, our son really changes his surname to Lu in the future, won't you regret it?"
Qian Youyou paused for a moment, but still spoke the truth: "I have thought about respecting my father's last wishes, but I am just a woman. My father's surname is Qian, my mother's surname is Jiang, and I take my father's surname. I don't take my mother's surname. Whatever my son's surname is, if he wants to take his father's surname, that is his right."
Hearing her say that, Lu Yang felt relieved.
“Then the things I was worried about before are no longer a problem. Since you don’t care, I certainly don’t care either. I will visit the child often in the future and will not let him realize that he is different from other children. He is my son, Lu Yang’s son. Whether he has the surname Qian or Lu, he is my child. I will treat him the same as I treat my other children. As for the future, that’s something for when the child grows up.”
"Ok!"
"By the way, there's something I need to tell you. Didn't we collaborate on a few commercial street projects before? Right across from my Century Building, there are several hundred street-front shops in that area, which belong to the real estate company we jointly registered, right? I'm planning to transfer my share to Hao Hao. He's still young, so you, as his mother, will hold it on his behalf. Consider it compensation for all these years."
Shopfronts in commercial streets are incredibly valuable, especially in the heart of Futian District, known as the city's CBD, opposite the Century Tower. Even half the ownership of hundreds of shops would be enormous. While its total value might not seem high now, in a decade or two, its total value could be staggering. (End of Chapter)