46: Chapter 46: Statistics on Funds, Preparation for Market Entry

Having realized that "picking up the system's scraps is no easy task," Chen Sheng suddenly felt a sense of relieved melancholy, and the expression on his face slowly returned to normal.

Seeing that Chen Sheng's facial features had relaxed, Wu Lang knew he had figured some things out and finally asked, "Regarding what I just said, do you have any other questions on your end?"

Chen Sheng thought for a moment and shook his head. "None for now."

“Alright! Since there are no questions, you give it a try.” Wu Lang pushed the computer toward Chen Sheng.

Chen Sheng took the computer, picked up the mouse, and followed the steps Wu Lang had described—unskilled, but operating smoothly enough.

Seeing this, Wu Lang stood up and couldn't help but yawn again. "Alright, go back and study the rest yourself. Call me if anything comes up."

After stretching, Wu Lang pointed at the stack of materials on the desk that looked as thick as a book. "Remember to take the materials with you."

“Got it!” Chen Sheng gave Wu Lang an OK gesture.

Wu Lang laughed and punched Chen Sheng's shoulder. He raised an eyebrow and said, "If I put these materials in a group chat, they'd sell for several hundred. Your Buddy is being pretty decent, right?"

“Very decent. Say no more. When you're free one of these days, give me a call and I'll treat you to drinks.” Given Wu Lang's sleep schedule, which was the polar opposite of a normal person's, even treating him to a meal required coordination.

Wu Lang teased, "You said it! But when the time comes, make sure to call Qiangzi, Old Luo, and the others, or it won't be fun enough."

Hearing this, Chen Sheng felt a bit embarrassed. After all, when it came to drinking, he was a total lightweight compared to the others.

Chen Sheng patted his chest and said, "Don't worry! I'll definitely invite them when the time comes."

At this point, Wu Lang couldn't help but yawn again, this time with tears welling in the corners of his eyes. Chen Sheng immediately stood up and said, "Fatty! I won't disturb you any longer. Seeing how sleepy you are, you'd better go get some more sleep. I'm honestly worried you'll drop dead from exhaustion."

“Holy crap! If it weren't for you suddenly going crazy wanting to learn stock trading, I'd be sleeping soundly right now.” Wu Lang jokingly waved him away. “Go, go, go! Hurry up and disappear from my sight.”

“Bye! I'm out.”

Chen Sheng picked up the materials, left the room, and drove straight back home.

Upon returning home, Chen Sheng immediately downloaded the Flush APP on his phone, then followed the instructions to register an account and submit an application to open a brokerage account.

He applied for both domestic and international accounts simultaneously.

After finishing the account opening process, he pulled a sheet of A4 paper from the home printer and grabbed a pen to start calculating the funds he could invest in the stock market.

First, the bulk of it was the family fund managed by An Xiaonuan. As mentioned before, it was roughly around 380,000 to 390,000 yuan.

On his own side, since binding the intelligence system, through the system's rewards plus his earnings from ride-hailing, he had a total of a bit over 40,000, nearly 50,000 yuan.

Just then, his phone suddenly chimed with a notification.

【China Construction Bank: Your UnionPay card ending in 8677 received a transfer of 14,211.47 yuan from Qicai Technology on July 8th at 14:34! Remarks: Salary + all performance bonuses! Current balance: 24,932.79 yuan.】

“Huh? That's not right!” Chen Sheng couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

Qicai Technology deducted a portion of performance pay every month as a year-end bonus. Based on past calculations, over six months, his accumulated bonus alone should be over ten thousand. Adding his base salary and that month's performance pay, it should have been at least twenty thousand, if not thirty thousand.

Chen Sheng quickly opened the company group chat, intending to ask HR and Finance—who were assisting relevant departments in verifying salaries. However, he found the group was already in an uproar. Everyone was complaining about the incorrect amounts, and he instantly relaxed.

Learning from the lesson of being the first to speak out last time, he didn't say anything in the group this time.

Soon, under everyone's tagging, the HR person responsible for assisting the verification stood up.

HR - Manager Hu: “This is the statistical table I made. See for yourselves!”

Since Qicai Technology was gone anyway, he had zero psychological burden about posting the originally confidential spreadsheet.

The appearance of this spreadsheet immediately caused a sensation in the group.

“Holy crap! Old Ma, I didn't expect a guy with such honest features like you to be so full of it. You cry poverty in front of me every day, but your salary is thirty percent higher than mine!”

“Old Liu, don't play dead. Come out and explain. To think I actually gave those orders to you before!”

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“Ahem~” Looking at these posts, a slightly guilty Chen Sheng nearly choked on his own spit.

He used to claim to the outside world at the company that his salary plus performance only added up to about seven or eight thousand a month, and that life was very difficult.

He thought he was an isolated case, but it turned out to be universal.

Sure enough, flaunting wealth is no longer in style; pretending to be poor is the way to go.

At this point, Finance - Director Liang spoke up: “Total funds are insufficient, so we could only issue about 60%. If there are any problems, please resolve them with the relevant departments yourselves. I've finished my final shift. That's all!”

As soon as these words were spoken, the originally lively group fell silent instantly.

Just then, a notification popped up in the message box: Finance - Director Liang has left the group.

Director Liang's departure was like a signal. Following that, notifications of various people leaving the group kept popping up.

Indeed, since the company was gone, there was no point in this large group existing anymore.

Chen Sheng also left the large group at this time, and then disbanded the small group he had created when catching Lai Yong.

Anyway, he had already added the contact information of the colleagues he was close with.

The others weren't important.

Chen Sheng picked up his pen again, wrote the number 60,000 for pocket money, and added An Xiaonuan's 380,000-390,000...

You don't know until you calculate it, but once you do, it's a shock. Without realizing it, the family actually had over 400,000 in savings.

But how should he tell An Xiaonuan about this?

Chen Sheng needed to prepare his pitch carefully.

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Time reached the evening.

After dinner, the two of them sat on the sofa watching a soap opera. Chen Sheng wanted to tell An Xiaonuan about the stock trading several times, but he just couldn't bring himself to say it.

However, his hesitant appearance made An Xiaonuan tired just watching him. After Chen Sheng once again swallowed the words stuck in his throat, An Xiaonuan spoke first: "Hubby, if there's something, just say it. Don't keep wanting to speak and then stopping. It's making me uncomfortable just watching you."

“Haha~ You noticed!” Chen Sheng said, playing dumb.

An Xiaonuan rolled her eyes speechlessly. "Isn't it obvious?"

“Haha~ Is it really that obvious?” Chen Sheng scratched his head and plucked up his courage. “Wife! How much money do you have left on your end?”

“Didn't I tell you before? There's about 380,000 to 390,000. I put some of it into wealth management products, so I haven't calculated the exact amount.” An Xiaonuan realized belatedly, “Hubby, do you need money? How much do you need?”

“The more the better. For about two months, three months at most.”

Hearing this, An Xiaonuan sat up straight, stared at Chen Sheng, and asked seriously, “Hubby, what do you want to do?”

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