Chapter 19

When Adrien returned home, his staff left to attend to their private affairs. Adrien lay on the bed and thought about the news about Corestar Group that Sylvia mentioned to him. He checked on his phone but couldn’t find any related information. No domestic media had reported the news. Perhaps he could find something on foreign news channels.

Just as expected, foreign media reported the news. The Corestar Group had imported cosmetics, food, electronics, and luxuries and put them on two cargo ships. When the ships arrived at the Eden Ocean, there was a hurricane. Then, the ships sank, and several people died.

Adrien turned off the phone and contemplated for a while. He was sure Lilianne would come to him if she couldn’t handle it herself. However, it had been several hours since the incident happened, and Lilianne still didn’t contact him. It would mean either she already took care of everything or she didn’t want Adrien to know about it!

Adrien didn’t mind if Lilianne took care of everything without reporting to him. However, if Lilianne couldn’t handle it and hid it from him, Adrien would do something! He was only a sleeping partner of the Corestar Group and didn’t even go to the company once. The worst scenario would be to sell all his shares that the System endowed Adrien!

Adrien had 79% of the stock shares of Corestar Group. The company’s stock price would plummet and drop 90% if Adrien. sold his shares! That would be a loss no shareholder could bear except Adrien. It didn’t cost a dime for him to get those shares in the first place!

Meanwhile, Lilianne was in a three–story villa on the outskirts of Reburg.

“Lilianne, I haven’t seen you for almost a month! How are you doing?” Roland said while greeting his downcast daughter.

“Dad, let’s eat first. What do you want to have? I’ll cook.”

“You can cook whatever you want. I’m not picky,”

Roland and Lilianne did some small talk over the meal.

“Now, what’s going on, Lilianne?” Roland said abruptly.

“Nothing is going on, Dad. What do you mean?”

“You are still hiding it from me. You didn’t tell me when the company was merged, and now you are not going to tell me what happened in the trading company. I am retired, but I still know stuff”

*Fine. I’ll tell you, Dad. We just lost a patch of goods worth 315 million dollars, and that money was a loan from the bank. We only have 130 million dollars of cash flow in our account, and that’s not enough. I’ve already contacted all the media people and asked them not to report it. If anyone learns about this, we will have to pay back the debt and compensate for the loss of our partners. That’s pretty much it.”

“When did it happen?”

“It has been over 7 hours since I got the news and 19 hours since the shipwreck.”

“Did you tell this to Mr. Higgins, the new president?”

“Why would I tell him? He’s just a…”

“Lilianne! You are no longer the president of the group. Your shares are less than one–tenth of his. You can’t call the shots in the company. If you don’t tell him what happened and handle the situation yourself, which may cause the stock price to plummet, Mr. Higgins will suffer a great loss. He may file a lawsuit against you, and you could end up in jail! How could you be so stupid? You should know better than this!”

*It’s not like that, Dad! No one cares about Corestar Group better than me. I won’t sit back and watch our group fail. Mr.” Higgins has never come to the company since he purchased it. That’s how little he cares about the company. Mr. Higgins is an unreliable man. All he cares about are profit and performance. He only used his family wealth to chip in and share our profits!

“Lilianne, let me remind you of one thing. Corestar Group is no longer our company. Do you have any idea how wealthy at man must be to buy most shares of Corestar Group?”

“Dad, you don’t have to say anything. I know what I’m doing.”

Roland looked at his daughter and said nothing more.

Adrien thought Lilianne would call him, so he waited until 10 p.m. However, Lilianne didn’t call. Adrien just forgot about it. Meanwhile, the System upgraded again, and he received another seven million dollars. Nevertheless, Adrien cared nothing about money. All he cared about was the four keys on the control panel.

“System! I want to use the key of Predictions!”

“Ding! The System is predicting now. Please wait for a second. Ding! The stock price of Daniel Technology in the Postport Security Exchange will plummet 93% in April. 22. Please seize the opportunity, Host.”

“Holy shit! That’s another chance to get rich!”

Adrien grew excited. He was thinking of leveraging ten times, twenty times, or even fifty times the capital he would invest from the bank and using the fund to short the shares of Daniel Technology.

Adrien looked at the calendar. April 22 would be Thursday. He still had time to open an account and contact the bank and securities trader!

“Sylvia, I need to make a trip to Postport in April. 20. Please book an air ticket for me. I’ve already had my passport applied. Darcy, Angus, and you will come as well.”

“Postport? Why are you going there?” Darcy was curious.

“I’m going to short a stock there. However, I don’t have an account in the Postport Security Exchange.

So, I have to arrive. there earlier and get it ready.”

Sylvia thought about Adrien’s words for a moment and said, “I know people in this business. May I ask how much you are going to invest, Mr. Higgins? I may help you with that.”

“Great. Sylvia” I’m thinking of raising a fund 20 times or 50 times my principal, but I’m not sure about the amount limitation of the Postport Security Exchange.”

“Okay, I’ll contact my former boss for you tomorrow, Mr. Higgins. His family is in the stock market business and has a subsidiary company in Postport.”

“You would do that for me? Thank you, Sylvia.”

“You are most welcome, Mr. Higgins.”

Adrien returned to his room and lay on the bed. He initiated the second skill. Adrien was surprised that his second skill was flying an airplane, and the System also gave him a Pilot’s License! This small blue license was proof that Adrien could fly airplanes. “In such case, perhaps I should buy a plane. Never mind. I’ll see if it’s necessary later. Adrien thought to himself.

“System, I want to click the Blessing key!”

“Ding! You have received a great blessing. Host. I wish you Never Get Sick!”

“What? Seriously?”

“It’s most certainly true!”