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Chapter 492 - 492 492 Let's Make a Bet!

492: Chapter 492 Let’s Make a Bet!

492: Chapter 492 Let’s Make a Bet!

The setting sun was like blood!

The magnificent color reminded Tang Xiao of the complexions of the three hooligans.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, she gazed into the distance, leaning on the railing.

Tang Xiao felt as if she were dreaming.

Why?

Because just a few minutes ago, she had gotten a call from Wu Jie to come down and collect money.

The three international giants, each had transferred a staggering fifty-six billion Gold Coins.

Among them, fifty billion was the first settlement sum and six billion for buying three system vulnerabilities.

She reaped a total of one hundred and sixty-eight billion Gold Coins!

What did that even mean?

Tanglong Industrial Group’s total profit last year wasn’t even this much.

And in the next three months, she would receive three more settlement payments.

Although it was in the shares of the three international giants, according to their stock price, it was worth fifty billion Gold Coins!

By September, would the Group even have six hundred billion Gold Coins in revenue?

Suddenly, Tang Xiao remembered a saying.

Murder and arson earn you a gold belt, repairing bridges and roads leaves no trace!

Working hard to manage a business, in the end, was not as profitable as Wu Jie’s ‘scams’.

This was no longer merely profiteering, even robbing a bank wasn’t this effective.

Of course.

This opportunity was indeed too coincidental.

No one expected the three international giants to be so vicious and ruthless in the SAM project in East Africa!

They not only won the technical competition, but their project bid was startlingly successful.

Facing the aggressive power of the three hooligans, Wu Jie was like a lone warrior, breaking into their security systems.

He stole what could only be described as an immense amount of confidential data and held their fates in his hands.

So…

All of this was like a dream.

Tang Xiao believed that Thomson and the others felt like they were dreaming too.

Just like before they left, when they demanded back the three system vulnerabilities of their own company.

Wu Jie didn’t give them any data but asked them to provide notebooks,

and right before their eyes, he completed three successful breaches.

It was the same for each one.

Such ‘overwhelming’ technical strength left the members of the negotiating teams from the three companies without any confidence to bluster.

If Wu Jie had sought outside help or used specialized equipment, perhaps they could have disputed it.

But what they witnessed was Wu Jie alone,

speedily carrying out the breaches using the notebooks they provided.

The technical directors and chief engineers of their teams, after witnessing the hack, were all dispirited and had no opinions to offer.

Of course!

Before leaving, they still left some harsh words.

Their system vulnerabilities were not as Wu Jie said, numbering in the hundreds.

They declared that within four months, they would complete the search for system vulnerabilities and upgrade fixes.

Moreover, it’s only polite to respond in kind!

One day, perhaps they would also break through the security system of Tanglong Industrial Group and make Tang Xiao cough up the money.

What goes around, comes around.

Tang Xiao simply pretended she didn’t hear these threats.

The telecommunications business was just one of the Group’s many industries.

Before securing the East Africa SAM project, it had a very small share in the global market.

Besides, the Tang Family had always operated legally and legitimately, with a clean foundation.

Even if they broke into the company’s office servers, what of it?

This was truly a case of ‘the barefooted not fearing the shoed.’

…

Phew!

Tang Xiao let out a long sigh.

As if to chase away the dreamlike sensation of sudden wealth, she wanted to be more clear-headed.

This lingering feeling was all thanks to Wu Jie’s doing.

That guy really was an enigma of a man!

How many tricks did he have up his sleeve?

He breezed through the security systems of the three hooligans, making them willingly pay a huge compensation…

With such capability, why had he been so ‘poor’ before?

He was just a small pre-sales engineer in the marketing department of the Group.

It was too modest, too low-key!

Tang Xiao turned to look back and saw the Group’s Chief Technical Director, Cao Guanxu, ‘watching the battle.’

Wu Jie, in front of the three hooligans, completed the breach lightning-fast.

With such formidable technical strength, it was naturally impossible to keep it hidden from the company’s senior executives.

So, Tang Xiao simply called Cao Guanxu over to let Wu Jie show him in practice which vulnerabilities the Group’s security system had.

She glanced at her wristwatch; it was almost six o’clock.

Wu Jie didn’t have such patience with the three hooligans, making them leave as soon as he finished the breaches.

But with his own people, after completing the attack, Wu Jie also provided technical guidance.

Listening to a barrage of high-level professional jargon, Tang Xiao was completely confused.

Thank goodness, it was finally coming to an end.

“…

Once we patch up these flaws, there won’t be any issues for at least two or three years, but it’s hard to say for the future.

Maybe the best defense is to figure out a way to develop artificial intelligence!”

Wu Jie said no more, stood up, and looked at Tang Xiao with a smile.

“Don’t look at me with such a weird expression—I don’t have anything on my face!”

Tang Xiao chuckled and said, “I’m just wondering what’s different about your brain, how you can be so clever.”

Wu Jie smiled faintly, and after Cao Guanxu left, he changed the subject and asked:

“What were you thinking about standing by the window just now?”

Tang Xiao turned around, gazing into the cityscape.

“I was thinking about how to spend such a large sum of money.”

Wu Jie laughed, “Isn’t spending money easy?

Charity, shopping, investing…

as long as you’re willing to think, there’s never too much money to spend!”

Tang Xiao turned halfway, smiling lightly as she asked:

“How to spend the money, I can think about slowly, but what I can’t stop thinking about is all this money, and the stock income for the next three months, it’s all earned by you!”

“You’ve handed it all over for me to manage, aren’t you afraid that I’ll turn my back on you, kick you to the curb, and enjoy the life of a wealthy lady by myself?”

Wu Jie reached out to pull Tang Xiao closer to him, threatening with a fierce face:

“You wouldn’t dare, would you?”

Tang Xiao snorted with a laugh, “Ho!

What wouldn’t I dare?

If one day you offend me, I might just pocket it all!”

“You truly are my profligate wife indeed!”

Wu Jie hugged her tightly, and just as he was about to tease her properly, his phone rang inopportunely.

On looking, it was a call from his father, which immediately put out his fire.

“When are you two getting home?

We’re about to start cooking!”

“We’ll be there in twenty minutes!”

Tang Xiao replied on behalf of Wu Jie before slipping away.

“Alright then!

We’ll wait for you guys!”

Wu Jianguo shouted, and then hung up the phone.

Damn it!

Wu Jie was momentarily stunned.

Tang Long treated his son-in-law just like his own son.

And his own parents treated Tang Xiao as if she were their own daughter.

In the end, who was the biological child of whom?

Putting away his phone, Wu Jie quickly caught up with Tang Xiao.

Driving to Tianyuan Haoting, Tang Xiao was ‘working’ all the way there.

Although Tang Xiao has never been short of money to spend, suddenly having so much wealth was still puzzling for her.

She was busy figuring out how exactly to spend over ten billion Gold Coins!

Shopping?

With that much money, she could buy dozens of the world’s largest airliners, the Airbus A380.

If the latest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier were for sale, she could also afford a brand-new one, but obviously, that was not possible.

As for luxury cars, brand-name watches, makeup, clothes…

She might shop at every luxury brand, and still not spend it all, right?

Investments?

The group’s various businesses were operating normally, and the businesses she wasn’t involved in didn’t appeal to Tang Xiao.

If it wasn’t that the investment risks were too high and the return cycles were too long, then the industry competition was already too fierce, unnecessary to get involved in.

Charity?

She had already taken two billion yuan to set up the Tianyuan Benevolent Charity Fund, specifically to care for children.

Additionally, every year the group established scholarships to support students in school.

Thinking it through.

Tang Xiao really couldn’t find a satisfactory way to spend the money.

Seeing her so troubled, Wu Jie boldly made his own suggestion.

“Actually…

why not invest in new energy sources!”

Tang Xiao shook her head decisively:

“Forget about it!

Just this afternoon, I was chatting with Fang Qingya, and her electric car business is practically half-dead now.

Even importing the best power battery modules from abroad can’t meet her needs!”

“Plain battery research is like a bottomless pit.

The global battery industry spends billions of Gold Coins on research every year, but what’s the outcome?

Ultimately, there’s no particularly significant breakthrough!”

“Experts say electric cars save energy and reduce emissions, but that’s only because there are no emissions during their use.

Doesn’t generating electricity still pollute the environment?

If I were to invest in new energy, I’d rather work on cleaner, more efficient electricity generation, transmission, and energy storage research!”

…

In business, Tang Xiao was very assertive.

Wu Jie had barely spoken before she launched into a long spiel.

Falling back to the next option, Wu Jie simply proposed:

“How about we split the money given by the three thugs in half and see who can earn more in the future?”

Tang Xiao was delighted, “Great!

Let’s compete!

How long is the term?

What’s the wager?”

Wu Jie smiled, “Let’s wait until the end of the year!

Let’s see who gets the biggest investment returns!”

“If you lose, you have to obediently resign, return home, have children, and become a full-time wife!”

“And if I lose, I’ll agree to let you go back to the army, whether you want to be a War King again or an instructor, it’s up to you!”

Tang Xiao giggled incessantly, “Competing with me in investment and wealth management?

You’re bound to lose for sure!

Haha!!”

With a bet set, Tang Xiao was even more excited.

She immediately started planning where she would invest her money.

As for Wu Jie…

Getting the formidable Tang Xiao to bear children wasn’t easy, so he had to gamble.

But how could he possibly lose?