My autobiography is definitely not a tragedy!-Chapter 822 - 493: No time like the present

Chapter 822: Chapter 493: No time like the present freewebnøvel.coɱ

You want to talk about feelings with people, but they just want to talk about money with you!

Knowing Mr. Lin’s situation all too well, and yet you still rush to be "looked down upon" again?

Meng Lang explained that he’s just in a normal "early split personality phase," definitely not a masochist.

Problems that can be solved with money aren’t really problems for him now.

We’re all nouveau riche, who looks down on whom!

If it weren’t so heavy, Meng Lang wouldn’t have just brought a suitcase of cash as a meeting gift. He would have surely hired an armored truck to bring a few million and slap it in front of Mr. Lin, to let him experience what "visual impact" means!

With cash paving the way, the negotiation atmosphere was harmonious.

In less than half an hour, Meng Lang fulfilled his wish to leave with Lin Haitang from her future father-in-law’s house...

Lin Haitang stopped and looked back at the little building where her family lived, asking somewhat confusedly.

"Are we... leaving just like that?"

"Ah! What else? Unless you want to stay for dinner? The kitchen pots must be rusty by now, right?"

"I didn’t mean that..." Lin Haitang felt something unspeakably odd, and suspiciously stared at Meng Lang.

"Did you guys talk about something after you avoided me and went into the bedroom? Why did you both come out looking so delightfully happy?"

"It’s nothing, I just borrowed something from your dad..."

"What thing?"

"Of course, your household registration book!"

Meng Lang chuckled, took out a red booklet from his pocket, and shook it proudly...

Lin Haitang: "..."

She widened her eyes, are you serious?

We haven’t even gotten to the point of discussing marriage, and you got my household registration book? What do you mean?

"You..." Lin Haitang gritted her teeth. "Do you not think this way is despicable?"

Things developed in a way completely unexpected for Lin Haitang, different from what she had imagined.

Rather than being angry, she was more panicked...

"Despicable?" Meng Lang looked innocently at Lin Haitang.

"Are you saying there’s a problem with my communication method?"

"Isn’t there? This seems... seems like just a transaction!"

"How can you say that? The bride’s family receiving a bridal gift is a tradition in Country Hua for thousands of years, how come it’s a transaction when it’s me?

Others send cigarettes and wine, calligraphy, or antiques to cater to tastes.

I give money, and it’s also catering to tastes. Who said it can’t be cash?

Oh! Others send cigarettes and wine with sincerity, but I send money and it’s a love transaction?"

"You... you’re twisting things!"

"How is that twisting things? Although there’s a move against exorbitant bride prices now, the country can control everything, but surely can’t control our family’s mutual agreement, right?

Both parties willing, see, isn’t everyone happy now?

You oppose so much...you don’t seriously hope that I and your dad have a falling out, do you?"

Lin Haitang was suddenly at a loss for words.

She couldn’t answer "yes," could she?

No, no! We only agreed on meeting the parents, how did this suddenly become a dowry discussion?

Isn’t this unplanned development happening too fast?

"Even if you wanted to please him, you didn’t have to give so much all at once..." Lin Haitang said helplessly.

That suitcase was packed full, at least half a million to six hundred thousand in cash...

She suddenly thought of something.

"No way! Even if you gave him five or six hundred thousand, he wouldn’t possibly give you the household registration book, right?"

With his appetite, five or six hundred thousand wouldn’t be enough...

"Of course not, I also gave him a bank card with 13 million, more than enough to pay off the debts."

Upon hearing this, Lin Haitang’s eyes instantly widened.

Thirteen million?! Where did you get...

Wait!

"Mr. Hu said yesterday... you made over ten million in the stock market, is that true?"

"Yes! To be precise, it’s 14 million."

Meng Lang didn’t hide it.

Wanting to throw money at people means such huge assets can’t be hidden. Otherwise, when Mr. Hu mentioned it last night, he wouldn’t have let Lin Haitang be present.

"So, previously you couldn’t afford Weiwei’s rent and all that... was all an act?"

"Hey! Absolutely not! I swear, that was truly the lowest point of my life before my dramatic comeback!"

Lin Haitang looked at him with a complex expression for a moment.

"I heard you also invested a million in Gao Yuan’s Changqing Biological. How much are you actually worth now?"

"That million was a ’loan’, not an investment. It wasn’t long before Chairman Gao returned it to me. If you don’t believe me, I’ll show you the transfer records.

I just made a small profit of a few hundred thousand in interest, hehe..."

Meng Lang was telling the truth. Ever since his life trajectory became increasingly absurd, he realized the importance of "clear boundaries between public and private", and that his private little savings must be separated from Gao Yuan’s side.

A million high-risk loan just for tens of thousands in interest?

Who are you trying to fool!

Lin Haitang was a bit skeptical. "This over ten million of yours... Are you sure it’s not your organization’s money?"

When they first met, Meng Lang’s poverty really did not look like an act. It was called bare to the walls, even taking the bus everywhere.

But suddenly making a precise investment and earning a big hit without any prior finance industry experience...

To say it’s purely luck, Lin Haitang would absolutely not believe it.

Who doesn’t know in the stock market, the only guaranteed win is "information asymmetry"?

Investors who dare to go in without mastering the information asymmetry, 99% of them are just the ones being taken advantage of...

And intelligence organizations are best at exploiting information asymmetry, right?

So this ten million or so... could it be organizational funds issued through special channels by the other party?

As for why it was through the stock market...

Hmm... Money from secret organizations like this usually can’t be disclosed publicly. Tens of thousands can still be in cash, but if you want to issue over ten million legally and reasonably, don’t you need to launder it first?

Who said that a formal platform like this can’t be used for laundering?

Low-level players can only rely on underground banks and have to pay a significant commission. High-level players have long abandoned that method.

She once handled an economic dispute case. It was about a big shot who used dirty money to set up a shell company, inflated profits on paper by throwing money at it, then greased the right palms to package it for going public. The last step was to boast and inflate the stock price to cash out...

See, with the complete set of "wash, blow, cut," the money immediately becomes clean.

Not only does it incur no extra costs, but they can also take advantage of the situation to reap more profits from others...

Of course, Meng Lang didn’t know that in such a short time, Lin Haitang had already imagined a detailed "asset capitalization route" for the All Things Return to One Union in her mind.

He touched his nose.

"Ahem! In a certain sense, you could say so!"

Trading for it with a brother’s Miserable Life... If it isn’t organizational funds, it’d be hard to justify.

Lin Haitang’s eyes widened at once.

"Then your behavior today... does it count as embezzling public funds?"

"Uh... well..."

For a moment, Meng Lang didn’t know how to explain it away.

Can I say that within the organization, the distinction between "public funds" and "private funds" is actually quite blurry?

The entire organization is just me, a lone commander, so there’s no need for such clear separations, right...

"Ahem! Our organization is actually very humane, focusing on trust rather than suspicion!

This funding can be used for office work, or for personal matters; you’re free to use it as you wish.

Besides, which company doesn’t have a budget for team-building events? The extra can be considered employee benefits, quite understandable, right?"

Understand what!

How can embezzling public funds be equated to employee benefits?

How has your organization managed to not go bankrupt up until today?

"Then why didn’t you tell us earlier?" Lin Haitang asked in a melancholic tone.

"You never asked, did you? Should I be shouting everywhere that I’ve become a millionaire through stock trading?

That’s completely against the national call for prosperity through hard work.

Besides, Xiao Yu said, your most despised type is the nouveau riche..." Meng Lang winked at her.

Lin Haitang: "..."

"Then why are you willing to tell me now..."

"Well, that’s because... I have finally returned to poverty..."

With an easygoing expression, Meng Lang made a gesture of turning his pockets inside out.

"Lawyer Lin, I am truly penniless now, can’t even afford a ticket home.

You must be responsible for me, don’t just leave me after messing up!"

Seeing Meng Lang with his roguish cheeky grin, Lin Haitang’s expression turned complex, her heart flooding with a mixture of feelings.

Making someone willing to give isn’t hard, what’s hard is getting them to give when they have nothing left.

Giving when you have nothing left isn’t hard, what’s harder is giving everything once you’ve gained everything, returning to having nothing...

In that moment, it seemed as though something was cracking open the ice in her heart.

Lin Haitang felt an impulse as if she wanted to throw herself into the man’s arms unconditionally and accept him wholeheartedly!

But she opened her mouth, and the words that came out were...

"The money... I will pay you back slowly!"

Meng Lang wasn’t surprised at Lin Haitang’s response, he casually waved his hand.

"Alright, alright, take your time to repay. Let’s go! Next stop!"

Next stop?

Looking at the household register in his hand, Lin Haitang’s face flushed red, feeling flustered and confused, she blurted out.

"To... today?"

"Of course! There’s no better time than the present!

By the way, my prospective mother-in-law’s place isn’t far, right?"

Lin Haitang: "..."

Meng Lang didn’t care about Lin Haitang’s strange expression; he simply pulled her into a taxi.

With a plan in hand, Meng Lang had a clear target.

He had just explained his private savings to Mr. Lin, finally acquiring a key mission item... the household register!

Everything was ready, just waiting for the right moment!

The next step, naturally, was to trigger Lin Haitang’s ultimate affection mission.

Mission trigger keyword... old photos!

Thinking of this, Meng Lang couldn’t help but sigh.

After so much painstaking effort, wasting several accounts, he thought it would take all his charms and various trials to finally achieve the perfect outcome.

In the end, with a simple "could this be destiny," you surrendered...

If only I’d known you were so "superstitious," I wouldn’t have waited until today to see the shortcut to our relationship story!

Who said you need a hundred lifetimes to share a boat and a thousand lifetimes to share a bed?

Master Intelligent, it seems even you can sometimes miss the mark...

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