Chapter 161
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Chapter 161: Jiang Shuyan Takes The Initiative
In the end, the parcel of land was successfully won by Su Ruoxue for 3.2 billion Huaxia yuan.
Today, Su Ruoxue was representing *Jingjiang Real Estate, a subsidiary of the Su Group.
The auctioneer struck the final gavel.
Many attendees started murmuring among themselves.
“That piece of land went for 3.2 billion? That feels a bit overpriced!”
“Yeah, buying land at that price—even if they develop it into residential buildings later, the profit won’t exceed a billion. For Jingjiang Real Estate, spending that kind of money is a serious hit to their reserves.”
“Real estate isn’t what it used to be. Back in the day, a good land deal could multiply your assets many times over if you were lucky. But that’s not the case anymore—everything is transparent now. You can see exactly how much profit there is to make. On the other hand, the risk is lower too.”
Nowadays, urban planning and development followed standardized regulations. Information was mostly public and clear.
Dramas like a failed project suddenly becoming part of a school district—those plot twists just wouldn’t happen anymore.
Even if something like that did happen, word would leak out years in advance.
There’s no such thing as picking up a bargain for free anymore.
[10:30 p.m.]
The auction had officially come to a close.
But the cocktail party was just beginning.
For Ye Xiao, today’s auction was mostly just a sideshow. After Ye Chen ran out of money, she managed to purchase a painting at a low price—this was a gift for Old Master Lu.
It only cost her two million. Of course, the painting itself wasn’t worth that much, but it held a secret—a hidden artwork concealed within its frame.
Coincidentally, the inner painting turned out to be the original work by Tang Yin, the very one that Ye Chen’s earlier auctioned fake had tried to imitate.
Ye Xiao also picked out small gifts for each of her closest female confidantes, with prices ranging from one to two million yuan.
She pulled out her phone and sent messages to each of her big sisters, letting them know she had a little surprise coming for them in the next day or two.
She didn’t tell them what the surprise was.
After all, for the longest time she’d just been admiring their beauty and enjoying their company. She hadn’t really given them anything in return.
After the payments were settled, Ye Xiao asked the auction staff to have the purchased items delivered to her and Shen Yunchu’s residence in Jiangyuan Community by tomorrow morning.
All in all, she hadn’t spent much tonight—just a little over ten million yuan.
The most significant purchase, of course, was Jiyin Media & Entertainment.
She had boldly pounded her chest and promised Su Ruoxue that she had a plan and would handle the company well.
But deep down, Ye Xiao was far from confident. It was, after all, her first time buying a bankrupt company.
As the cocktail party got underway, people began to mingle and chat freely.
Despite Ye Chen’s embarrassment earlier, many wealthy businesspeople still gathered around him, hoping to curry favor.
After all, he was a member of the Ye family from Yanjing.
Even a little something slipping through his fingers could be enough to benefit them greatly.
But Ye Chen wasn’t in a good mood and showed little friendliness toward those who approached him.
Truth be told, he wasn’t comfortable in this kind of social setting and didn’t know how to handle it well.
After a few people came up only to be coldly brushed off, no one else dared to approach him again.
Still, Ye Chen remained surrounded—not by businessmen, but by layers upon layers of young socialites and debutantes from Binhai’s upper crust.
Ye Xiao didn’t pay much attention to what was happening around her. She was busy thinking about how to revive Jiyin Media.
What she didn’t expect was that Jiang Shuyan, someone she’d taken notice of earlier, actually took the initiative to come over to her.
The other socialites and wealthy wives all kept their distance from someone like Jiang Shuyan—her reputation was just too bad.
Some of them had risen to power themselves by being mistresses, but people like that were often the harshest critics of others in similar positions.
Because deep down, they knew—if they could climb up by replacing someone else, what’s to stop the next mistress from replacing them?
“Miss Ye, I’ve long admired your name. Starting today, you’re going to be my future boss. Let me toast you.”
Jiang Shuyan downed a glass of red wine in one gulp—polite, but clearly with a hint of flattery.
Back in her glory days, Jiang Shuyan had been radiant and commanding.
Now she looked utterly disgraced and defeated.
Ye Xiao casually stopped a passing waiter, took a glass of red wine from his tray, and sipped lightly in response.
Since transmigrating here, she’d only drunk once—and ended up blacking out and playing a three-person flying game.
Alcohol leads to trouble. She certainly didn’t want to get drunk in this kind of setting. Who knows—maybe Ye Chen, whom she just offended, would come along and turn her into a human weapon or something.
“I’m sorry, Sister Jiang. I’m really not good with alcohol.”
Jiang Shuyan nodded, understanding. Ye Xiao really did look like a kid.
Meanwhile, Ye Xiao had already asked System Sis to search the internet for detailed info on Jiang Shuyan.
Four years ago, Jiang Shuyan had been just 20 years old, still in college, when she was discovered by a talent scout and joined a production crew.
She rose to fame with a fantasy drama, quickly becoming a breakout star in the entertainment world.
But later, she offended a big-name director and got blacklisted—frozen out of the industry.
Scandals in the entertainment world came nonstop.
Jiang Shuyan’s reputation had hit rock bottom.
It was said she acted like a diva on set and was fired by a famous director on the spot.
Then rumors emerged that she seduced a married man—and got publicly torn apart by the wife on Weibo.
Her public image collapsed overnight.
The brands she endorsed sued her for breach of contract, and she lost 30 million yuan.
Ye Xiao, being a transmigrator, had no prior impression of Jiang Shuyan at all.
But based on the data from System Sis and clips from that old drama, it was clear that she was a very talented and spiritually expressive actress, with solid acting fundamentals.
She was a graduate of Yanjing Film Academy.
A legitimate, formally trained actress.
Even in a school full of beautiful women, she was considered campus goddess-level.
If nothing unexpected had happened, she would’ve become a huge star in the entertainment industry.
But instead, she completely disappeared—her downfall total.
That mistress scandal not only destroyed her career, it also forced her to drop out of school.
She was once on the fast track to walking red carpets and basking in glory, envied by all.
But practically overnight, she became someone the whole world hated.
“President Ye, it’s a little inconvenient to talk here. If you don’t mind, could we find a quiet corner to chat?”
Jiang Shuyan made a polite gesture.
Ye Xiao didn’t refuse and followed her to a secluded corner of the cocktail party.
“President Ye, do you think I’m the kind of person who would become someone’s mistress?”
Once they sat down, Jiang Shuyan asked cautiously.
Back then, she had been a signed artist under Jiyin Media.
She had come to the auction tonight after learning that Jiyin was going to be sold.
Even though the company had gone bankrupt, the ten-year slave contract she had been tricked into signing when she was young and naive was still legally binding.
Technically, she was still an artist under Jiyin.
Now that the company had been transferred to Ye Xiao, she had automatically become Ye Xiao’s signed actress.
