58: Sandwich painting

From Monday to Friday, in just five short days, gold prices went into skyrocketing mode again, and at a speed several times more exaggerated than last month.

The two lots of gold futures that Ye Su bought at the price of 701.8 yuan had already risen to 757.3 yuan per gram!

In five days, he made a whopping profit of 110,000 yuan!

The speed at which the money rolled in left even Ye Su dumbfounded.

Fortune favors the bold.

With gold prices skyrocketing all the way, the market sentiment was also bordering on madness, making it clear that it would continue to rise.

Ye Su also raised the take-profit point of his account to 11%, waiting for the gold price to rise to 778 yuan!

Earning 110,000 yuan in a single week pushed his total assets to a new peak of 270,000 yuan. Ye Su was in high spirits, and even during his routine program with Chen Xinyi on Friday night, he was much more energetic than before.

His extraordinary performance even made Chen Xinyi suspect if Ye Su had taken the wrong medicine today.

After feeling refreshed, and with the time already past midnight, Ye Su finally opened the system to check today's Tier 2 intelligence.

[Today's Intelligence (Tier 2): Lin Hongyuan wants to break off relations with the female college student he is keeping. He was threatened by her for a 200,000 yuan breakup fee; if he doesn't pay, she will use 'female' means to sanction him. Left with no choice, Lin Hongyuan can only accept his bad luck.

Worried that taking out 200,000 yuan all at once would be discovered by his wife, Lin Hongyuan plans to sell a hundred butterflies through flowers painting from his collection. After visiting several antique shops in a row, the offers he received were all around 150,000 yuan. Lin Hongyuan is currently hesitating, but he will likely make a decision tomorrow afternoon to sell the hundred butterflies through flowers painting.

Note: This hundred butterflies through flowers painting is actually made using a double-layered mounting technique. Hidden in the interlayer between the silk canvas and the backing silk is a golden beak holding pearl painting, which is worth about 120,000 yuan.]

Huh?

Today's refresh was Tier 2 intelligence, so why was it wasted on that manager again?

Brother System, are you addicted to gossiping?

Seeing that the beginning of the intelligence was related to Lin Hongyuan again, Ye Su couldn't help but complain to the system.

During their chats, Chen Xinyi had also mentioned to Ye Su what happened in the office with Lin Hongyuan on Monday.

Regarding Lin Hongyuan's attempt to cuckold him, Ye Su was naturally furious. If he had the chance to retaliate, he certainly wouldn't hesitate.

If he weren't afraid of causing trouble and didn't want to involve innocent children, Ye Su would have wanted Chen Xinyi to send the video directly to Lin Hongyuan's wife to turn their household upside down.

But wanting revenge was one thing; Ye Su didn't want to waste a piece of Tier 2 intelligence on someone like him!

"Wait, no, there's a pleasant surprise!"

After reading the intelligence carefully, the fact that Lin Hongyuan was being blackmailed for 200,000 yuan made Ye Su clap his hands in satisfaction. Only then did he notice the note at the end of the intelligence.

"A double-layered mounted painting with an interlayer inside, worth 120,000 yuan!"

Aside from the gold price-related intelligence that could yield a profit of over 120,000 yuan by betting his entire net worth, this Tier 2 intelligence today was the most valuable Tier 2 intelligence since he bound the system!

"Besides needing 150,000 yuan in capital, I also have to get in touch with Lin Hongyuan and then acquire the painting from him. The difficulty of this seems much higher than the previous Tier 2 intelligence."

Ye Su's valuation of Tier 2 intelligence had always been between 10,000 and 20,000 yuan.

But last week's stone-encased jade, the bullish gold price intelligence, and the profit from this double-layered ancient painting all far exceeded his psychological expectation of 20,000 yuan.

"It seems Brother System is still fair. For the same piece of intelligence, the higher the difficulty of acquisition and the risk undertaken, the greater the returns."

With 120,000 yuan close at hand, Ye Su looked back at today's intelligence.

Ye Su couldn't guess what the 'female' means the college student used to threaten Lin Hongyuan were, so he simply skipped over it.

"That hundred butterflies through flowers painting was priced at 150,000 yuan by several antique shops, so there probably isn't much inflation in that price. This is a bit troublesome."

Ye Su did have 150,000 yuan, but it was all in his gold futures account. Right now, he only had a bit over 30,000 yuan left on him, which was still a significant gap from the 150,000 yuan needed to buy the hundred butterflies through flowers painting.

He checked several apps on his phone that offered micro-loans, like Yellow, Green, and Blue. Excluding the 50,000 yuan he had already borrowed, the remaining limit was only 40,000 yuan, still leaving him 80,000 yuan short.

Not only was the limit insufficient, but Ye Su was also worried that if he borrowed and repaid it immediately, the limit would be cancelled as people online said, making it impossible to use these apps for quick cash next time he had an emergency.

Wait, isn't there a little private vault lying right next to me?

In an instant, Ye Su turned his thoughts to Chen Xinyi.

To contact Lin Hongyuan, he would need to rely on Chen Xinyi anyway, and he certainly couldn't hide the bargain-hunting from her.

Borrowing some money from her would just be a matter of convenience.

“Hey,” Ye Su nudged Chen Xinyi with his elbow.

Chen Xinyi pushed Ye Su's elbow away. "That's enough for today, wait until tomorrow night."

"Uh..." Ye Su's forehead was covered in black lines.

What on earth are you thinking?!

"Can you not think about dirty things all day? I'm talking about serious business."

Hearing this, Chen Xinyi finally turned around and stared at Ye Su suspiciously. "At this hour, what other serious business could you possibly have besides that..."

"Do you have any money? Lend me some."

"You? Asking me for money? This is the serious business you were talking about?"

Chen Xinyi never expected that the serious business Ye Su mentioned would be asking her for money.

A wealthy young master who could casually spend 12,000 yuan on a useless stone last week and make over 60,000 yuan in return, asking a corporate slave from Yangcheng like her for money?

How was this any different from begging a beggar for food?

"Are you kidding me?" Chen Xinyi still looked disbelieving, thinking this man was teasing her again.

"Do I look like I'm joking?" Ye Su asked the woman for money with confidence. "Hurry up, if you have a private vault or something, don't hide it from your husband. Bring it out for me to spend."

Chen Xinyi realized that Ye Su really didn't seem to be joking.

"How much do you want to borrow?"

Ye Su said nonchalantly, "About 120,000 yuan."

"120,000 yuan!" Chen Xinyi's eyes widened.

She had long guessed that when a young master like Ye Su asked for money, it wouldn't be just a thousand or eight hundred, but she didn't expect him to ask for 120,000 right off the bat!

"Did you peek at my phone balance?"

She had spent 50,000 yuan on gold funds on Monday. Seeing the gold price rise too sharply over the past few days, Chen Xinyi panicked and reduced her position by 30,000 yuan on Friday.

Right now, the money she had on hand was about 130,000 yuan, which was just enough to lend to Ye Su.

To be able to save 150,000 yuan on her own at the age of twenty-five, Chen Xinyi had already surpassed most of her peers.

Hearing this, Ye Su knew he had a chance. "Not bad, little rich woman. You really do have a private vault of 120,000 yuan."

"Why are you borrowing so much money? Did something happen?"

Suddenly borrowing such a large sum of money made Chen Xinyi worry if Ye Su had met with some accident.

The genuine worry on his bed partner's face warmed Ye Su's heart:

"I'm either in class, or on top of... uh... coming over to your place. What could possibly happen to me? I want to pick up a bargain, but I'm still 120,000 yuan short, so I wanted to see if you had any."