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412: Chapter 412 First Prize!
Soon, he found out about Chen Wu's company's trade products.
"Huh? The scope of his business is quite broad. Not only metal products, but also semiconductors."
Shen Yan leaned over to take a look.
Just as Chen Guangke said, Chen Wu's company had a very wide range of businesses.
Basically, he did everything that could be done domestically and internationally.
It was precisely because he did everything that his company became so large.
"I know. Your next task is to investigate the business deals they are currently discussing. The bigger the amount, the better. Once you find out, find someone to intercept this deal."
Chen Guangke's eyes widened.
"You want to steal his business?! But we don't have the conditions for that!"
Shen Yan shrugged his shoulders, "If we don't have the conditions, we create them. He played dirty against me, so I have to slap him back a couple of times, right?"
Chen Guangke and Wu Ya fell silent.
Although Shen Yan's request was rather domineering, they felt what he said made a lot of sense.
Thinking this, the two of them said solemnly, "Understood, we guarantee to complete the mission!"
...
Nine-thirty in the evening.
Shen Yan sat down precisely in front of the television.
"Stop sitting here, move over to the side."
Shen Ya looked up at Shen Yan and shifted slightly to the left. She asked him, "Are you going to watch TV?"
Shen Yan grunted an affirmation and sat directly next to Shen Ya.
He picked up the remote control, connected to the internet with his phone, and switched the TV to the channel broadcasting the Super Lotto drawing.
Seeing him watching the lottery, Shen Ya, who was scrolling on her phone nearby, smiled, "What? Does a tycoon worth hundreds of millions still have an obsession with getting rich overnight?"
Shen Yan ignored her and pulled out a lottery ticket from his pocket.
Seeing that he actually pulled out a lottery ticket, Shen Ya's eyes widened, and her voice instantly went up an octave.
"You really want to get rich overnight?!"
Shen Yan replied while tightly watching the TV channel, "I'm already very rich, so it doesn't count as getting rich overnight."
Shen Ya pursed her lips.
"Come on. Haven't you heard? If the probability of winning a scratch-off ticket is one in a hundred, then the probability of winning the Super Lotto jackpot is zero point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero one percent."
"I advise you to stop dreaming of making money with the lottery. Let's just work steadily and honestly."
"I think you already have a lot of potential now. As long as you keep working like this, you'll reach financial freedom sooner or later. Wait, it seems like you've already achieved financial freedom..."
Just as Shen Ya was muttering beside him, the staff on the channel had already begun shaking the balls inside the transparent glass.
"Rumble, rumble, rumble..."
One lottery ball rolled to the bottom.
The number on the TV screen displayed the first ball—Eight.
Shen Yan looked down. His first number was exactly the same as the number on the screen: Eight.
Because he hadn't made a sound, Shen Ya assumed his first number was wrong.
She patted Shen Yan's shoulder and said to him, "Although you've always had good luck, something like winning the Super Lotto jackpot is still too..."
Before she finished speaking, Shen Yan directly handed her his lottery ticket to look at. "Don't say anything, keep watching."
Shen Ya blinked, closed her mouth, and continued watching with Shen Yan.
"Rumble, rumble, rumble..."
The second ball came out.
The number was Sixteen.
Shen Ya looked down.
Hiss! It matched again!
Although she felt that matching all seven numbers was a bit too exaggerated, she still felt a sense of anticipation.
In the silent living room.
Shen Ya's breathing started to become a bit heavy.
On the screen, the balls in the transparent glass were already rolling again.
"Rumble, rumble, rumble..."
The fourth ball came out.
The number was Thirty-four.
Seeing that another number matched, Shen Ya couldn't help but start screaming.
"Ahhhhhh! It matched again, we matched four numbers! Oh my god!"
Shen Yan raised his hand and covered Shen Ya's mouth.
"Don't scream yet, keep watching."
Shen Ya took a deep breath, suppressed her excitement, and continued watching.
The fifth ball... Forty-eight.
The sixth ball... Thirty-one.
The seventh ball... The last Double Color Ball...
Twelve!
It matched!
From beginning to end, the sequence of the seven numbers was flawless, and there were no issues with the numbers either. They truly matched all of them!
The surprise was too great!
Shen Ya was so shocked at the end that she couldn't even scream.
She held the lottery ticket with trembling hands.
The whole person looked like she was about to faint.
"You, you, you, you, you, you didn't use a recorded video to trick me, did you?!"
Seeing that Shen Ya's hands were shaking like she had Parkinson's, Shen Yan couldn't help but laugh, "Yes, I used a recorded video to trick you. This isn't a live broadcast."
Shen Ya shoved Shen Yan away and shouted, "Nonsense! This is a live broadcast on the TV channel, where would you get a recording?!"
"Ahhhhh! We really won! And we won the first prize! Heavens, how much is the prize money? Let me check!"
Saying that, she turned her head to watch the staff announce the amount of the first prize.
Because no one had won the first prize for over two years, and coupled with the double-betting on the Double Color Ball, the prize money had rolled over and over. The current first prize was eighty-six million.
Seeing that the first prize was that much, Shen Ya's hands started shaking again.
It wasn't that she lacked this money; it was just that she had never won such a large prize in her life.
After being excited on the spot for a while, she turned to look at Shen Yan, with a light shining in her eyes that Shen Yan couldn't understand.
Shen Yan: "...What are you trying to do?"
Shen Ya looked unconvinced, "I'm not uglier than you, so why do you have the physique of a lucky charm (Jinli) while I'm an unlucky African chief?!"
Hearing this, Shen Yan thought for a moment.
Although the **tycoon system** was responsible for his win, even before the **tycoon system**, his luck was better than most people's. Perhaps he really did have the potential for the lucky charm physique...
Thinking this, he said to Shen Ya, "Alright, stop being happy about this for a moment. We need to discuss some serious business."
As soon as he finished speaking.
Shen Ya nodded, "That's right. We should discuss the formalities. When are you going to claim the prize? I'll go with you!"
Shen Yan: "... I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the public opinion issue."
Shen Ya looked completely bewildered.
Seeing that she was so excited that she forgot what she was discussing with him today, Shen Yan shook his head and said to her:
"The public opinion regarding our company isn't very good right now. I want to use the matter of winning the first prize to buy some trending topics for myself and conduct some marketing."
Shen Ya then suddenly understood.
Immediately, she gave Shen Yan a thumbs-up.
"No wonder you can make the company so successful. You're thinking about work matters every moment. You truly live up to your reputation!"
Shen Yan found it both funny and frustrating.
"Alright, stop bantering with me here. Let's discuss one thing right now: how to maximize this sum of money."
Shen Ya sat back on the sofa, tucked her legs up, and rested her hands on her chin.
"Let me think... You just want to do some good marketing, right? Actually, I think you don't even need trending topics; you can just go claim the prize."