{"id":12958,"date":"2020-10-24T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betwixtedbutterfly.com\/translations\/?p=12958"},"modified":"2020-12-05T11:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T16:25:28","slug":"epiphanies-of-rebirth-37-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betwixtedbutterfly.com\/translations\/epiphanies-of-rebirth-37-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Epiphanies of Rebirth 37.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"12958\" class=\"elementor elementor-12958\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2f035568 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2f035568\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column 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data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chapter 37.2<\/span><\/h1>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67aa1986 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"67aa1986\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32971be7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"32971be7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fang Wenhao remained deeply confused. He really couldn\u2019t figure out what Lin Jingzhe was implying.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lin Jingzhe owned two pieces of land at Shiku Lane. One was around 100,000 square meters, bought with over 20 million yuan, and the second one, which was around 300,000 square meters, was purchased for 30 million yuan. Because the location was good, these two plots were now highly coveted. If Lin Jingzhe agreed to sell them according to the price Fang Wenhao was proposing, he\u2019d make a net profit of no less than sixty million!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sixty million! Fang Wenhao\u2019s company might not necessarily earn this amount even after two years of painstakingly developing multiple projects! Why was Lin Jingzhe still hesitating?<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If it was up to Fang Wenhao, he definitely would\u2019ve sold them. Now that the market was hot, many companies with land in their hands had removed them from listings, leading to a large short-term gap between supply and demand. It was a seller\u2019s market now; whoever was willing to sell land could pretty much dictate terms at will. This meant that it was best to quickly take advantage of the current environment to sell\u2014if those companies who were still holding back their land decided to let go, this wonderful phenomenon would end.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the end, only money was real. If you didn\u2019t have cash in hand, something like \u201cworth\u201d was just an abstract concept.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Lin Jingzhe didn\u2019t seem to be joking when he said <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere\u2019s no hurry.\u201d<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> After that conversation at the Fangs\u2019 house, he really didn\u2019t bring up the matter of selling his land anymore, as if he hadn\u2019t noticed the situation that was getting more and more heated in Yan City\u2019s real estate market.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeing this, it was hard for Fang Wenhao to avoid worrying. However, every time he found Lin Jingzhe to advise him, the youth\u2019s attitude was as calm and leisurely as if he had not a care in the world, and Fang Wenhao only ended up with a stomach full of tea and no useful information gained.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In early spring, after a series of record-breaking land auctions, Yan City welcomed a new wave of \u201cnew rich,\u201d attracting widespread attention.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, a 400,000-square-meters plot of farmland in the north eventually sold for an unprecedented, sky-high price of 110 million yuan.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over a hundred million yuan!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This figure, despite being a true fact, seemed completely fantastical. It was apparent that the real estate market in Yan City was about to enter a new era. Businessmen who participated in the auction all appeared to be in a frenzy; Fang Wenhao could only see constantly raised bid cards with rapidly increasing numbers in the venue. In the end, every piece of land ended up sold at prices far higher than the industry\u2019s original estimates.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He left the auction venue in a daze, infected by everyone\u2019s enthusiasm, and his boiling blood didn\u2019t calm for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1bf77df elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1bf77df\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then, another bombshell came, driving his emotions to the peak again.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Beginnings Real Estate finally put their land up for sale!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It wasn\u2019t the triangle-shaped plot by the 2nd Middle Road, priced by the industry at 22 million yuan, nor was it either of the two individual plots at Shiku Lane.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">both<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the plots at Shiku Lane, together! A combined area of half a million square meters!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The newly crowned \u201cland king,\u201d who had sold a 400,000-square-meters piece of land at the last auction, was overthrown with lightning speed, making his \u201creign\u201d the shortest in history. The new \u201cland king\u201d who was poised to ascend the throne scalded everyone\u2019s eyeballs with the 500,000-square-meter figure.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sure enough, this shocking news quickly spread through real estate developers throughout the country\u2014after all, the \u201cland kings\u201d were what insiders paid the most attention to. And so, a simple listing of land for sale, an event which couldn\u2019t be more ordinary, suddenly became extremely special. Even those property developers who couldn\u2019t afford to swallow such a huge piece of land talked about it enthusiastically, repeatedly evaluating and discussing it in private. This was a piece of cake that everyone wanted to have a taste of.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At this point, the true giants began to stir. This was no longer a level of competition that Fang Wenhao\u2019s Boundless Realty Group could participate in.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this one move, Lin Jingzhe pushed the unknown New Beginnings Real Estate into the limelight!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fang Wenhao had imagined countless possibilities, but he never thought that Lin Jingzhe\u2019s appetite could be so big! With the metaphorical balls to match! The other man\u2019s tactics completely exceeded the scope of what he had predicted, and he could do nothing but watch from the sidelines.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, besides those who were shocked and awed, there were also some naysayers. The figure of half a million square meters was well beyond most people\u2019s imagination, after all. Sure, the \u201cland king\u201d gimmick was a crowd-puller, but how many developers could in fact swallow such a large plot of land?<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the storm of discussions, questions, and doubts, Lin Jingzhe never made an appearance. He arranged for Deng Mai to go through the listing procedures for him, and he himself, on the contrary, carried on like a completely uninvolved person. Fang Wenhao bumped into him several times at school, and each time the youth was as cool as a cucumber. He never even missed a single class.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Someone who could remain so calm in such a situation could no longer be called human, alright?!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fang Wenhao questioned his beliefs in tears, nearly unable to eat and sleep from the agitation.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3de3039 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3de3039\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the day of the auction, despite the fact that it was impossible for him to eat this plot of 500,000 square meters, Fang Wenhao still came to the auction venue. Similarly, representatives from almost every real estate company, known and unknown, all appeared at the scene. Although they didn\u2019t have the means to participate in the bidding, they didn\u2019t want to miss this extraordinary sale.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fang Wenhao sat among the representatives of small and medium-sized companies. Before the auction began, he could still hear many voices doubting whether anyone would dare to bid. Such a huge event had gathered almost all the real estate giants; if the auction flopped and the land failed to sell in the end, New Beginnings Real Estate would become the laughingstock of the industry.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As he kept listening, he couldn\u2019t help but worry. This anxiety reached its peak when the reserve price was revealed.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The whole venue fell into a dead silence for a few seconds\u2014the reserve price of the two pieces of land at Shiku Lane, consolidated into one plot, was 110 million yuan!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though the value estimated by the industry was higher than this, this unprecedented starting price still made Fang Wenhao choke. As he and the small business owners around him tried to get their breath back, in the rows ahead, the first bid card rose.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOne hundred and ten million.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was like sitting in an auditorium before a performance as a crimson <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Front_curtain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">front curtain<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> unhurriedly drew open.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Fang Wenhao left the auction venue, he was light-headed, and he wasn\u2019t alone. By the end, several bigshots were going toe-by-toe as they engaged in a fierce bidding war, deeply shocking the onlookers. Every time a bid card was lifted up, the price turned more and more unbelievable, and the previous record of 400,000-square-meters of land selling at 110 million was broken over and over again. At the same time, it also smashed everyone\u2019s fossilized, conservative predictions about the future prospects of the real estate market.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It wasn\u2019t until he almost arrived home that he suddenly remembered something and told the driver to turn around and head to school.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As he suspected, Lin Jingzhe was actually in class, sitting in the front row. He propped up his chin on his hand and took notes as he listened to the professor giving a lecture on the dais. He never looked away even though Fang Wenhao stood at the door for nearly thirty minutes.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What an earnest and conscientious student! He didn\u2019t get distracted even once!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fang Wenhao felt as if he was about to self-immolate from the nerves. He couldn\u2019t understand how Lin Jingzhe could be so calm. Had he mistaken the date and forgotten that today was the day of the auction which would make New Beginnings the new \u201cland king\u201d?<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He barely endured until the class was over. Then, not even waiting for the professor to exit, he rushed into the classroom, drawing everyone\u2019s stares, and slammed his hands on Lin Jingzhe\u2019s desk.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLin\u2014\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Lin Jingzhe\u2019s raised hand. The youth glanced around, motioning to the classmates who were looking over with concern that everything was all right. Then, while gathering his notes, he pulled out a newly bought pager from his pocket and dropped it onto the desk. \u201cI\u2019ve received the news.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fang Wenhao stared at him blankly, his lips opening and closing like a fish. Seeing that Lin Jingzhe\u2019s expression looked no different from before despite knowing the news, he fell speechless.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lin Jingzhe wrote down his name in the lower right corner of a new notebook. After packing everything, he looked up and was confronted with Fang Wenhao\u2019s dumbfounded gaze.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He gave him a tranquil smile, commenting calmly, \u201cOne hundred and sixty million is not bad, a little more than what I had estimated it would sell for.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This ordinary smiling expression seemed to hide unfathomable depths.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time, Fang Wenhao felt a deep reverence for this young man he had always regarded as his little brother.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a892889 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"a892889\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45b7275 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"45b7275\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The land belonging to the new \u201cland king,\u201d New Beginnings Real Estate, sold at the auction for a new record price of 160 million, unprecedented in the history of domestic real estate. With such a dazzling performance, Flux Realty\u2019s sale of two plots at 60 million and 55 million respectively was barely worth mentioning. What they had in common, however, was that those plots were also located in the northern part of the city.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the successive record-breaking sales sent a clear message to everyone: the northern district was truly about to soar!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with this, New Beginnings Real Estate rapidly rose from obscurity to prominence.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the nineties, sales histories were still almost completely transparent, so anyone could easily figure out how much New Beginnings had spent and earned since the time it was established. This land trade could be considered as the company\u2019s \u201copening move\u201d\u2014and with this first undertaking, it made over 100 million yuan!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This huge number left any similar-sized company in the dust. No one was willing to believe this sensational deal was a simple coincidence; for a time, the background behind New Beginnings Real Estate became one of the most hotly discussed topics in the real estate industry.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, despite many discreet investigations into this matter, nothing was ever discovered.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from the initial connection with Fang Wenhao, this company was completely clear and transparent, just like any other typical small company. There was not a single snag to catch onto. New Beginnings Real Estate didn\u2019t even have an office! It appeared to be very poor!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the more innocent it looked, the more unfathomable it seemed.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hearts of insiders were filled with awe and caution in equal measures. Though no one\u2019s inquiries had yielded any results, they didn\u2019t dare to investigate any further.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That aside, there was a new object of ridicule in the industry.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One person\u2019s happiness was another\u2019s misery. New Beginnings Real Estate, which made a huge profit, was the ultimate winner. And Dominion Properties, which had sold almost two-thirds of the land it owned in the northern quarter to this new \u201cland king,\u201d undoubtedly became the biggest loser.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In just a few months, the piece of land sold for 30 million yuan nearly tripled in value. At the time, Dominion Properties\u2019 management had been so happy to get rid of that worthless land, they actually threw a company-wide celebration party; now, it was clear that they couldn\u2019t have been any more foolish for letting it slip from their hands. Furthermore, the Dominion Properties\u2019 boss, Qi Kai, was reckless and arrogant and had made a lot of enemies, so as soon as this matter was made known, countless people ridiculed him behind his back.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time in his life, Qi Kai discovered that anger could rise three octaves up, like the voice of a professional opera singer.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He\u2019d felt vaguely uneasy when the news of the highway construction first came out. The news about the location of the highway\u2019s entrance and exit, announced a few days later, had been a staggering blow to the head; he was so frustrated that he couldn\u2019t sleep well for several days.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the announcement of the central business district\u2019s establishment followed soon after, he got so angry that he couldn\u2019t see straight, and directly vomited blood.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before he managed to pull himself together, there came news of the auction and the new \u201cland king.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qi Kai felt like dying. As he was given an IV, he kept having the urge to drink the saline solution in the hanging bag and stab himself in the eye with the IV needle.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A close friend and business partner who had accompanied him to the hospital advised him not to be so hung up on this matter. \u201c\u2018If you successfully get something, it\u2019s due to luck. If you lose something, it\u2019s just not your fate.\u2019 You shouldn\u2019t take things like this so seriously or you\u2019ll only make things harder for yourself. What\u2019s more important, money or your health? That dumb sucker from New Beginnings Real Estate\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qi Kai turned his head and looked at him blankly. \u201c\u2018Dumb sucker\u2019?\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The friend swallowed saliva. \u201c<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cough<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As they stared at each other, the man wondered if it\u2019d be better to remove the hanging bag? With how foolish Qi Kai was currently looking, perhaps he might really drink it&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d0bbc86 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"d0bbc86\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2fef132 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2fef132\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soon, there was a rumor that Qi Kai had been sent to the hospital because of the matter regarding the new \u201cland king.\u201d Once it reached her ears, Xiao Miao let the book rest on her knees and sank deep into thought.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She decided to stop reading and to go worship the Bodhisattva first.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It wasn\u2019t that she had suddenly become pious, but the Bodhisattva enshrined in their family\u2019s prayer room seemed to really be imbued with divinity.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How long had it been since her brother started wearing that blessed leather jacket? 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