My Virtual Girlfriend-Chapter 355: New Special Item

After deciding to invest in the company, Chen Yan began to meticulously examine the situation of the company.

The company was named Headline Technology, and their biggest project was the Headline app named after their company.

Since its establishment, the app had developed rapidly, and in just three years, it had already amassed tens of millions of daily active users. Moreover, the app had an explosive reputation and its traffic was highly sticky.

This time, they were raising funds not only to continue promoting this project but also to fund another app being developed by the group.

The other app was a short video app called Douyin.

The app had been online for less than six months, and, thanks to the traffic from the Headline app, its development wasn’t slow.

Despite holding two major traffic-generating apps, the company still needed external funding to support it, as their profit model wasn’t fully developed yet.

This was commonly referred to as burning cash.

After understanding the entire background of the company, Chen Yan looked into the information provided by He Meng Xue.

Just like a diamond always shines, Chen Yan’s system wasn’t the only one to spot the potential of this enterprise.

Many well-known investment institutions both domestically and internationally were very interested in this enterprise.

This had led the company to always be on the market, discussing with multiple investors.

After reviewing all the materials, Chen Yan felt that the situation wasn’t simple.

After all, the valuation of this enterprise was higher than his own net worth, and his own venture capital firm was merely a small one, capable of providing funds but no other assistance.

Thus, if he wanted to negotiate with them in the usual way, it probably wouldn’t work.

Thinking this, Chen Yan pondered for a while and returned to his safe, from which he retrieved two cards he had obtained earlier.

Both cards were extremely precious, and Chen Yan had been reluctant to use them after drawing them.

But now, faced with such a valuable project, Chen Yan felt it might be time to use them.

[Strong Buy Card: Allows the user to forcefully purchase any asset up to a limit of five hundred million dollars.]

[Opportunity Card: If you have met someone, you can use this card to create an intersection with that person]

Both cards were top-tier treasures, one of which Chen Yan had recently acquired and the other he had possessed for a while but hesitated to use.

But Chen Yan thought... in front of this project, they could be used.

Because he had calculated.

Currently, the company’s valuation was 10 billion, and his investment of 500 million would represent a 5% share.

Three years later, even if his shares were diluted, it was projected to dilute to about 90% at most, which would leave him with 4.5%.

And by then, the market value of the enterprise would reach 1800 billion, calculated at 4.5%, that would be 81 billion—a nearly 18-fold increase.

And five years later? Eight years later?

Chen Yan believed that as long as he could hold on to this portion of shares, just the value of these shares would make him, Zhao Ying, and He Meng Xue, billionaires!

Therefore, thinking this, Chen Yan decided that he must secure the shares in this enterprise!

As for the system’s suggestion about "obtaining this enterprise," Chen Yan hadn’t thought that far.

After all, a trillion-dollar enterprise isn’t something you can just decide to operate successfully.

What if Chen Yan, in a moment of rashness, ousted the founder and then ran the company into the ground?

So, at least at this moment, Chen Yan did not entertain this idea.

After reviewing all the venture capital projects, Chen Yan opened his computer and organized his thoughts into words, and wrote down his reviews of these projects.

He decided to hand over this information to He Meng Xue tomorrow so that she could formally make offers to this Internet company, as well as the ride-hailing software.

Although he already had two trump cards in his hand, Chen Yan didn’t want to play them right from the start.

He planned to first let He Meng Xue and the new company’s team gain some experience.

If the negotiation was successful, he could save on using the tools. If it failed, then he would step in to salvage the situation.

The aces were to be played at the end, after all.

Chen Yan indeed held the trump cards...

After handling the venture capital firm’s affairs, Chen Yan tidied up the items in his safe, stored them properly, and was just about to go back to sleep when his phone suddenly vibrated.

Chen Yan picked it up to look.

It turned out to be a notification from the game.

[New items in the Game Store!]

Chen Yan: ...

He looked around to make sure no one noticed him, then turned back to his study and closed the door.

After closing the door, Chen Yan opened the Game Store to see.

He discovered that the Game Store had refreshed three items again.

[Constitution Potion] and [Skill Proficiency Potion], the regulars, don’t need to be mentioned.

The third item was something strange...

[Stamina Exchange Bottle]

Ability: Holding this bottle and thinking about exchanging allows you to use your next hour’s stamina to exchange for a pill that is white on one side and black on the other.

The pills will remain inside the bottle, and when consumed, if the white side is up, you will receive an extra physical boost for the next half hour.

If the black side is up, you will receive an extra intellectual boost for the next half hour.

The specific boost effect depends on the stamina of the user who extracted the pill.

Limit: This bottle can only be used once a week.

Price: 50 happiness points.

Note: Who says martial artists have no intelligence! At least... I can have my IQ doubled once a week! Wow~!

Seeing this latest item appear in the store, Chen Yan was stunned for a moment.

It had been a long time since he had seen any useful products from the system. Most of them were one-time cards or instant photos.

This seemed to further confirm that the system was exceptionally lackluster.

But, it must be said, this caused each new item that the system released to be very useful.

Like [Xiao Ha’s Instant Camera], which had now become one of the most important items in Chen Yan’s business empire. Like [Inner Headphones], which was the most essential item for Chen Yan to navigate among a few girls.

And now this...

In an instant, Chen Yan thought of how to use this item.

For example... Chen Yan could draw an hour of stamina before going to sleep.

Then, when making significant decisions, enhance his intelligence.

Or, during a fierce battle with some unnamed little fairy, boost his stamina a bit to further demonstrate his prowess!

Moreover, the most important thing was that this item was a permanent item.

One-time purchase, lifetime use.

These items were always worth buying as they don’t backfire or deceive!

The only problem was... this item seemed a bit expensive... actually requiring 49 happiness points!

To know, in the past half month, the happiness points had been completely drained several times by the system’s restocking.

He glanced at his happiness points.

Only one point was left.

This meant that Chen Yan couldn’t even afford this "permanent item," not to mention those two potions.

Chen Yan was a bit bald.

However, now that things had come to this, there wasn’t any other way, so he had to calculate his happiness points for the next month again.

Yu Qiao Qiao and Lu Man both have a maximum affection rating of 200 points. They can provide 40 happiness points.

And these past few days, because of Chen Yan’s "nonviolent non-cooperation," and actively refusing Zhao Ying’s "Dual Cultivation"... Um, dual practice requests, Zhao Ying’s affection rating had remained at 61 points. This meant she could provide 6 points next month.

1+40+6=47.

So, next month, Chen Yan could get a total of 47 happiness points.

He still needed 3 happiness points to buy the special item...

Chen Yan pondered while stroking his chin.

So... if he wanted to purchase this fixed item next month, the best way was... to boost Zhao Ying’s affection rating to 90?

This way, could she provide an additional 3 points of affection?

After pondering again for a while, Chen Yan found that this might indeed be the best method.

"Jeez. Didn’t expect that one day I’d actually need to think about ways to boost Brother Ying’s affection," Chen Yan shook his head.

"I’m really just after this special item."

"Brother Ying. Don’t misunderstand. I’m really not interested in you... Really."

After making this decision, Chen Yan returned to the desk and took out his long-unused [Game Strategy] notebook and began to make plans...

An hour later, Chen Yan closed the notebook, stored it away, and left the room again.

This time, no new prompts disturbed Chen Yan.

He returned to his room and fell into a deep sleep with Lu Man...

...

A quiet night passed.

The next day, Chen Yan went to work early again.

This time, when he got up, Lu Man’s face was full of tiredness. She repeatedly insisted she must go home today to rest properly, acting as if Chen Yan had forced her to stay and serve him, which was ridiculous!

Arriving at the company, Chen Yan first followed his original plan to operate some stocks.

Then, following the plan he had set the previous night, he made an internal call and called Zhao Ying and He Meng Xue up...