Time-Travel: The Tragic Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Character Makes a Comeback
CHAPTER 95: The Eldest Sister of the 90s Quits Sacrificing Herself (7)
The subscription certificate craze spread quickly, and people in Haishi were buying them too.
Inside the neighborhood, once news got out that the Yang family had made a fortune, jealousy started to creep in. One by one, people rushed to Shanghai to buy them as well.
Among them were Liu Kai’s parents.
As demand surged, the price of the certificates climbed at a terrifying speed.
By the time Liu Kai’s parents bought in, the price had already jumped to 300 yuan each.
In just half a month, it soared again to 550, and it was still climbing.
When it neared 600, Yang’s father decisively sold them off. He felt the rise was too aggressive and feared a drop. The hundred certificates he had bought for 3,000 yuan were sold for 60,000 yuan instead. The whole family was overjoyed, like it was already New Year.
Zhao Fuyao didn’t rush to sell. She waited another week, and by then the price had climbed past 1,000 yuan. Taking advantage of the weekend, she made a trip to Shanghai.
The next day when she arrived, the stock and subscription certificate market was booming. The entrance was packed with people lining up to buy, but now each ID was limited to just one certificate.
There were also plenty of scalpers roaming around, and the price had already been pushed up to 1,100 yuan.
The certificates in Zhao Fuyao’s hands were all blank sheets, which were now hard to find on the market. She sold a few dozen to test the waters.
Immediately, people noticed her. They bluntly said they wanted all she had, willing to buy them back at a high price.
She tested the waters by selling 100 certificates first. The buyer didn’t hesitate at all, immediately paid in cash, and even brought her to the bank to complete the transfer.
She walked away with 110,000 yuan in hand. Combined with the smaller earlier sales, she had basically already made her capital back.
As the two of them stepped out of the bank, Zhao Fuyao hesitated, wondering if she should sell a bit more.
Just then, two men in neat suits approached the buyer and started speaking to him.
They huddled together, muttering in low voices with thick regional accents.
But after her body had been strengthened, Zhao Fuyao’s hearing was sharper than most.
She caught bits and pieces of their conversation, something about mass buying, dumping everything once the market was saturated, and telling each other to move quickly.
Her brows faintly furrowed as she sensed something was off.
These people clearly looked like they were acting as a group. They were aggressively collecting certificates and must be holding a huge amount already. Once they started dumping, it would definitely cause chaos in the market.
She still had over 3,000 certificates left. If she didn’t sell quickly this time, she might not be able to offload them later. If things went wrong, she could end up stuck holding the bag.
Keeping her expression calm, she walked to the entrance and waited. When the man came out, she smiled and said, “You seem pretty reliable. Almost every household in our neighborhood bought these certificates, there’s at least a thousand of them combined. Are you still buying? If you are, I can go back and tell everyone.”
Since she had taken out such a large batch on her own, it would naturally raise suspicion or even attract bad intentions. That was why she deliberately said it this way.
The man’s eyes lit up immediately. The more he collected now, the more profit he would make later. Next week, they were planning a massive sell-off anyway, so an extra one or two thousand certificates meant a lot more cash in hand.
“Of course I’m buying. I’m based right around here. If anyone in your area wants to sell, just gather them up and bring them to me directly. I’ll even give you a commission.”
Zhao Fuyao deliberately showed a hint of excitement and replied, “Alright then, let’s meet tomorrow morning. I’ll definitely bring a lot of certificates with me.”
“Of course, feel free to come anytime with them.”
Back at the hotel, just in case, Zhao Fuyao first exchanged for a self-defense ability, a “Diamond Body.”
As the name suggested, ordinary weapons would not be able to harm her, and her diamond-like physique could hit just as hard.
The next day, she kept the appointment on time, bringing with her 2,000 subscription certificates.
The man was slightly surprised when he saw such a large batch. It was no small amount anymore, the transaction alone was already in the millions.
He immediately made a phone call. After explaining the situation and confirming that the sellers were all from nearby neighborhoods and thus relatively trustworthy, he finally got approval from his boss.
Only then did he process the payment through company accounts.
2.2 million yuan.
Zhao Fuyao stayed fairly calm on the surface, but inside she was practically celebrating. One successful move and she was set for life.
The man walked out and joked, “First time seeing this much money?”
“Yeah, first time seeing it. But I still had to distribute it door to door later, so it’s not really mine anyway,” she said with a thoughtful expression, even glancing at him.
“Oh right, didn’t you say there was a commission? I did put in quite a bit of effort.”
The man choked slightly, then casually pulled 500 yuan from his pocket and handed it over.
“I almost forgot. Take this and have a good meal, consider it a thank you.”
Free money was still money. Zhao Fuyao didn’t mind at all. She smiled, thanked him, and left without hesitation.
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Back at the hotel, Zhao Fuyao decisively changed her clothes, put on heavy makeup, and even took a wig out of her space to wear.
Then she headed straight for the securities office.
After all, she still had several hundred subscription certificates left in her inventory, and she needed to sell them quickly.
The securities office was still packed as always. Each ID could only buy one certificate, and there were plenty of scalpers buying and selling on the spot.
Finding individual buyers was too troublesome, so Zhao Fuyao directly approached a few scalpers instead.
The price had already climbed to 1,200 yuan today. Some scalpers didn’t have enough cash and could only take a few pieces.
Others had the money but were pushing the price down, trying to bargain it to 1,000.
After some back and forth, Zhao Fuyao negotiated it to 1,100 yuan. In the end, seven or eight scalpers pooled their money and took 500 certificates together, since they simply couldn’t raise more cash.
This only made Zhao Fuyao even more certain of one thing. Even though the price was still rising, most of it was being driven by scalpers and people deliberately inflating the market. At this rate, it wouldn’t be long before everything came crashing down.
She still had over 300 certificates left in her hands, so she decisively headed to the overseas Chinese shop. Using the same method as before, she sold them slightly below market price, undercutting by one or two hundred yuan, to people who were hoping to profit from the spread.
After more than an hour of back and forth, Zhao Fuyao finally cleared out everything she needed to sell.
She returned to the hotel to wash up, but instead of going straight back to Haishi, she headed directly to the Shanghai property developments.
Time to buy a house.
As a future international metropolis, Shanghai property prices in this era were practically dirt cheap. Now that she had money in her account, there was no reason not to buy.
After all, prices rose every year. The earlier you bought, the more it appreciated.
Compared to apartment buildings, standalone villas and courtyard houses in Shanghai had even greater appreciation potential.
Zhao Fuyao found a reliable housing agent and asked them to help look for standalone villas, or even row houses with street-facing shop units.
The agent actually found something suitable.
It was located right in the city center. The owner was planning to move overseas and had listed the property for sale directly.
The house had been passed down through generations and covered a fairly large area. In front was a spacious courtyard, behind it was a garage, and along the street side there were five connected shopfront units. The total land area was around four to five hundred square meters.
In Shanghai’s city center, better properties were priced at over two thousand yuan, while more ordinary apartments or single-storey homes were much cheaper, ranging from six to seven hundred up to around a thousand.
Zhao Fuyao toured them one by one and found everything quite satisfactory.
A standalone courtyard house like this was quiet and private. There was a lawn in the front yard, and a row of street-facing shop units outside that could be kept for future rental income.
The villa itself was three stories tall and very luxuriously decorated. The previous owners were not taking any of the furniture with them, so the moment she stepped inside, she was hit with an overwhelming sense of wealth and elegance.
Crystal chandeliers hung from the ceiling, the interior was styled in an European design, and there was a set of spacious leather sofas in an elegant Western style. Even the windows were arched. It was likely a home that had servants, and even though it was being cleared out, it was still very well maintained.
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