Chapter 158
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Chapter 158: Even His Underwear Has Been Stripped Off
As item after item was swept up by Ye Chen,
Professor Wang Gang’s face bloomed like an old chrysanthemum in full bloom, radiant with joy. Ye Chen had practically monopolized the entire middle section of the auction.
Items that originally would’ve gone for, at most, a few million had been driven up to tens of millions by Ye Xiao, the plant.
Items that were already in the tens of millions were now being bid off by Ye Chen at prices counted in the billions.
Over twenty items in a row—Even Ye Chen was starting to feel the strain.
To show off his wealth and strength, he had insisted on paying for each item immediately after winning the bid.
This had the socialites and young heiresses in attendance swooning with excitement—
Wasn’t this exactly the kind of rich, handsome man they’d dreamed of finding?
They began tossing flirty glances in his direction.
Everyone knew from the start that Ye Chen was a young master from the Ye family of Yanjing.
But there are different kinds of young masters—
The kind who could control this much cash so freely was clearly someone deeply valued by the Ye family.
Marrying him would be the ultimate rise to riches, a phoenix ascending from a common perch.
So far, Ye Chen had already spent close to three billion.
Even he, dim as he sometimes was, could now see that Ye Xiao had been messing with him on purpose.
The feeling was deeply unpleasant—like he’d been played for a sucker.
And all these bottles, jars, calligraphy and paintings weren’t even of much use to him.
Glancing at his remaining balance, he saw there were only a bit over a billion left.
Ever since he got that card, he’d gotten used to spending big.
Back in Yanjing, he’d been on a nonstop spending spree.
With land so expensive there, Ye Chen naturally followed the deeply ingrained instinct of Chinese people—to buy property.
He bought cars by the fleet, four or five villas, even picked up a Siheyuan courtyard home.
As for what he’d spent on women—he couldn’t even begin to remember.
Sometimes, he would walk into a luxury brand store and simply tell the clerks to pack up everything.
Naturally, the hundred-billion yuan credit on that card was quickly burned through.
The ten or so billion he had left seemed like a lot—
But compared to his real goal tonight, it wasn’t nearly enough.
He’d come to this charity gala for one purpose: the piece of land that was going up for auction at the end.
He wanted to win it and lay down roots in Binhai City.
But now he didn’t have the money.
This was a city-planned project—an open bidding land parcel.
Even if people gave him face, the price wouldn’t go below a certain threshold.
That minimum was two billion.
Ye Chen had never intended to stay in Yanjing. He didn’t want to be a useless rich second-gen. Since fate had handed him this chance, he wanted to make something of himself.
With some time still left, Ye Chen decided to go scrape together more funds.
During his time in Yanjing, he’d gathered a few little underlings—
Borrowing a few billion from them shouldn’t be hard.
After all, the Ye family name still held weight.
Ye Chen quietly left the auction, not drawing much attention.
The auction was running long, there were a lot of items, and people had to use the bathroom—no one would think much of it.
Ye Xiao, however, slipped off after him.
She was petite and easy to overlook—following Ye Chen was a breeze.
He casually found an unused private room and stepped inside to make some calls.
Ye Xiao entered the room next door and activated her eavesdropping device.
“Hello? Uncle Shou? Can you help me raise some funds for now?”
“Young master, I’m sorry. Before the old master sent me out with you, he gave strict orders— Once you take that hundred billion, whatever happens outside, I’m not allowed to interfere. Unless you voluntarily give up the competition for the 20% group shares, I can’t help you.”
Ye Xiao grinned. She didn’t know what Ye Chen was trying to do, but just from her earlier moves, she’d managed to drive this Yanjing prince into a cash crunch.
As long as Ye Chen was struggling, she was happy.
She listened in a bit longer, then hurried back to the auction room before Ye Chen came out.
“Ye Xiao, where’d you go just now? You were gone so long.”
“Guess what I heard, Sister Ruoxue?” Ye Xiao replied mysteriously, teasingly.
“What did you hear?”
“I heard Ye Chen’s trying to win that final plot of land tonight and build his roots in Binhai.”
Hearing that, Su Ruoxue frowned.
If Ye Chen was just trying to interfere, that would be one thing.
But if he was a chess piece of the Ye family, fully representing their interests—then that was a much bigger problem.
There’s only so much room in Binhai City—only so much cake to go around.
If someone came in trying to snatch a slice, it meant less for everyone else.
The real issue was: what would the others think?
If Ye Chen waved the Ye family banner around, many of the other wealthy guests might just bow out of the bidding entirely.
In that case, Ye Chen could win the land at a fraction of its true market price.
Which would be bad news for everyone else.
“Xiao Xiao, this is a big deal. How’d you hear about it?”
“I just went to the restroom, and overheard Ye Chen on a call trying to borrow money. Don’t worry, I recorded it. Ye Chen is acting alone—the Ye family won’t be giving him any support in the short term.”
To be honest, a hundred billion in capital—Even if you gave it to a couple of nobodies, they could still build something respectable.
But Ye Chen, this clown, had nearly burned through it all before doing anything useful. In a way, that was impressive too.
“Just saying it won’t convince people. If only we had solid proof.”
“Oh, I’ve got proof,” Ye Xiao said with a smirk, shaking her phone.
She’d transferred the recording from her listening device to her phone.
It had the full conversation between Ye Chen and that Uncle Shou, plus his follow-up calls asking others for money.
Su Ruoxue listened through an earpiece. She had known Ye Xiao was capable—
But she hadn’t expected her to be this sharp in a situation like this. A pleasant surprise.
After finishing the recording, Su Ruoxue asked Ye Xiao to copy it over to her phone.
Then, phone in hand, she began approaching the various businesspeople interested in bidding for the land.
Tonight, her goals were twofold—Help Ye Xiao pick a suitable gift for Elder Lu,
And secure that land on behalf of the Su family.
The Ye family’s influence was massive.
So massive that even from thousands of miles away, they could sway the mindset of Binhai’s business elite.
Ye Chen returned after borrowing eight billion from his underlings and some lady friends.
Not much, but combined with what he had, he now had 25 billion.
With the Ye family name as leverage, he might not even need that much to win.
He returned to the auction with his usual overconfident swagger—Unaware that someone had already stripped him down to his underwear.
Translator’s Note: I have a feeling that the MC is the Ye family’s missing daughter. I wonder when will that be revealed in this Novel because the Ye family seems really powerful and the MC might have a chance to become the Heir?
