Chapter 1108: Chapter 143 Qiao Qiao_12

“Have you forgotten the shortcut I told you about?”

Zhao Yu smiled and said, “After I started college, I realized there were several second-generation rich kids in my class, especially Su Xinxin. Someone speculated that her family wealth even surpassed one billion…”

“So, I took the chance to get close to them…”

“By pretending to be a second-generation rich kid myself…”

Qiao Qiao didn’t quite understand, “What’s the point of that?”

“Of course there’s a point!”

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Zhao Yu continued indifferently, “Let me give you a simple example. If the rice in Shu City costs one yuan, and in West Sea, it’s five yuan, many ordinary people don’t know that. So, can the person who knows this information make money?!”

“Yes!” Qiao Qiao nodded without hesitation.

“Right!”

Zhao Yu said with a smile, “That’s the simplest way to make money using information disparities…”

“Nowadays, society has become more complex, and so have the ways of making money…”

“But one thing hasn’t changed; that’s a lot of the channels for making money are still in the hands of the rich…”

“But…” Qiao Qiao was somewhat puzzled, “But people like Su Xinxin are just rich kids; they don’t know how to make money, do they?”

“You’re right!”

Zhao Yu nodded slightly and said, “But the thing is, their parents do!”

“Their parents are all wealthy, all experts at making money from scratch…”

“Intentionally or not, they instill certain values in them…”

“For instance, a rich kid in class once said his dad told him that it’s better to set up a street stall than to work for someone else…”

“Isn’t that a value?”

Qiao Qiao listened, confused, “But even if they gain these values, what then?”

Zhao Yu pointed to his head, appearing somewhat proud, “For ordinary people, even if they know these things, they can’t do anything about it…”

“But for me, I can deduce what I want from all this complicated information…”

“And that’s the shortcut to making money!”

“The six hundred thousand I borrowed was just an initial investment…”

“A portion was used to get closer to them and acquire information from them…”

“The rest was my startup capital for entrepreneurship…”

Zhao Yu expressed regret, “It’s just a pity that the money I made came a little too late…”

“Before my earnings could be collected, the debt exploded first…”

“That’s what led to the exposure of my pretending to be a rich second-gen, utterly ruining my reputation!”

Qiao Qiao, as if hearing something totally foreign, was completely stupefied.

After a while, she finally asked, “So, your parents are actually farmers?”

“Yes!”

A sense of foreboding surfaced in Zhao Yu’s heart.

He had thought that his speech would move Qiao Qiao, but her question suggested otherwise.

Sure enough, her good impression of him plummeted, dropping to just over fifty points.

Zhao Yu sighed internally, having expected Qiao Qiao to go against the tide, but instead, her favorability took a nosedive.

“I’m sorry, what you’ve said has left me very confused; my mind is in disarray right now…”

Qiao Qiao stood up, her face looking a bit pale, “I want to go back and rest…”

“Alright!”

Zhao Yu watched as Qiao Qiao left; he didn’t offer to send her off, and she didn’t seem to want a ride.

“Ah!”

Zhao Yu sighed deeply.

This was his first setback.

With the examples of Hao Jingjing and Aijia before him, he thought he could always control the situation.

He didn’t expect to crash and burn with Qiao Qiao.

“But it’s not a total loss; I spent nearly sixty thousand on her, but I made back six hundred thousand…”

Qiao Qiao’s withdrawal limit was three hundred thousand, and Zhao Yu got her favorability up to 89 points at one point, cashing out twice, so it wasn’t a loss.

Just that, compared to expectations, it was less; in Zhao Yu’s mind, his speech could have moved Qiao Qiao, with her favorability skyrocketing to over a hundred, and he could have made another six hundred thousand.

Now it seemed he was too optimistic, “She’s put off by my humble origins after all…”

The next day, Zhao Yu sat in his rented house until noon, but didn’t receive any messages from Qiao Qiao.

Since she didn’t take the initiative to contact him, Zhao Yu felt no need to do so either.

“It looks like it’s time to find a new target!”

Before, Zhao Yu had thought that maybe, after a night’s consideration, Qiao Qiao would come around and seek him out again.

Now it seemed he had hoped for too much; she just wasn’t interested in someone from a phoenix man background, and only had eyes for a rich second-gen.

Or perhaps, Qiao Qiao also suspected that his money was borrowed.

“No matter what, I can’t waste too much time on her!”

Zhao Yu shook his head, stood up, and left his place, driving his BMW towards West Sea Academy.

With the example of Qiao Qiao, Zhao Yu realized that his reputation was still too tarnished.

He needed to improve his public image.

So, this time entering West Sea Academy, Zhao Yu didn’t hide; he drove his BMW right in, windows down.

Moreover, he drove slowly along the campus roads, timing his arrival perfectly with the end of class, and parked next to the largest cafeteria in the school.

Zhao Yu didn’t get out of the car but took out his phone to play a casual game.

“Look, a BMW!”

“It seems there’s a handsome guy inside…”

“I wonder if he’s from our school…”

“Could be a socialite…”

“No way, a socialite can’t get past the school gate…”

Passersby pointed and whispered, but Zhao Yu paid them no attention.

“Zhao Yu?”

Finally, a voice filled with surprise and doubt called out, prompting Zhao Yu to look up.

“Ah, Wang Tao, hey, how are you!” Zhao Yu greeted him with a smile.

This classmate of his was part of the reason he was being so ostentatious.

It was to let the whole school know that Zhao Yu now had a BMW, that Zhao Yu had savings of four hundred thousand, that Zhao Yu could make money.

That Zhao Yu, who had pretended to be a rich second-gen in the past, did so to learn the abilities of those rich second-gen, and now he had made money through his own efforts.

This way, he would have completely turned his life around, transforming from a fake rich second-gen to an inspirational story of enduring humiliation and striving for growth.

Zhao Yu had a brief chat with Wang Tao.

Wang Tao didn’t inquire much about Zhao Yu’s car, instead, he quickly walked away.

Moving out of Zhao Yu’s sight, he turned and sneakily took a photo, then sent it to his good friend.

“Look who this is…”

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