Compared to Yang Nuannuan, Chen Yan's state of mind was much more peaceful and he felt much more wronged.

After all, although Yang Nuannuan's previous imitation of his "deliberate ambiguity" indeed caused him some trouble, Chen Yan really didn't think about retaliating with the "Golden Finger."

On the contrary, his only feeling was that using Yang Nuannuan was just too convenient.

Aside from saving him a lot of time as previously mentioned, he also found that trading with his own accounts was just too conspicuous.

Because both the account opener and trader were himself, a check on the transaction details of stocks, gold, and oil would reveal his involvement.

Financial company operations, on the other hand, could be hidden under multiple layers, making them much more secretive.

So, even though this was the time when Chen Yan cashed out the most and indeed caused a significant fluctuation in the global gold prices, it didn't attract much attention...

And in the meantime, over the past few months, leveraging his collaborations with Netflix and V Society, Chen Yan also began to gradually roll out his games and film and television works worldwide.

Due to the high quality of Chen Yan's company's productions, these series were met with great responses as soon as they were launched in the overseas markets.

Especially in East Asia, the sphere of influence of the Huaxia civilization, cultural kinship made the sales even more impressive.

With the continued popularity of the international version of Douyin, for a time, in the eyes of outsiders, the Chen Group's overall strategy had completely shifted overseas.

After all, compared to the booming overseas business, several of Chen Group's domestic businesses were in continuous decline.

Some of this was due to policy pressures, but it was also intentional on Chen Yan's part.

He wanted to create this effect to lull Zhao Qingtian...

And then pave the way for his upcoming plan to annihilate Zhao Group.

Meanwhile, in Tiandu, Zhao Group. Chairman's office.

Zhao Qingtian sat behind his desk, looking at a document in his hands with knitted brows.

Standing in front of him was his female assistant,

At this moment, she stood before Zhao Qingtian, trembling and not daring to speak much.

After a moment, Zhao Qingtian threw the document onto the desk and, with his sharp eyes fixed on his assistant, asked indifferently, "Is this the result of your investigation?"

"Chen Group has fully moved to overseas business?"

The assistant stuttered her reply to Zhao Qingtian, saying, "Chairman, we really have been investigating for a long time, and it does seem like he is now fully focused on attacking the overseas market."

"Over the past months, he has been continuously investing in overseas companies, expanding his entertainment industry."

"By contrast, there has been almost no progress in domestic business."

"Not only are there no variety shows, movies, or TV dramas being shot or broadcast."

"Even Douyin has cut back on domestic advertising over the past few months. It's only because their products are truly outstanding that they can still maintain steady user growth along with Slow Hand. Otherwise, they might have been left behind a long time ago."

"Moreover, we really haven't found any other suspicious activities from him."

"So... we speculated that maybe he feels he can't compete with us domestically, so he decided to give up the domestic market."

Hearing the assistant's words, Zhao Qingtian was silent for a long time. He just sat there with a dark expression, lost in thought.

In fact, after reading the document, he knew the assistant's words were true.

But... is Chen Yan such a simple character?

Zhao Qingtian hadn't forgotten the seemingly harmless facade that Chen Yan wore, behind which he had dealt Zhao Qingtian a severe blow.

If it weren't for his own quick thinking, Zhao Qingtian might have been caught by Chen Yan's tricks.

Thus, he truly didn't believe that Chen Yan would just give up on the domestic market and slink away defeated.

Thinking this, Zhao Qingtian motioned with his hand for the assistant to leave and carry on with her work.

After the assistant left, Zhao Qingtian stood up and walked to his floor-to-ceiling window.

Looking out at the bustling scenery of Tiandu, Zhao Qingtian's mind lingered on Chen Yan.

He pondered back and forth but still couldn't determine what Chen Yan was up to.

Could it really be a retreat?

After all, only the wise know when to retreat.

Seeing that he couldn't beat him, frustrated but not willing to fight to the death, so he went overseas to develop?

This explanation seemed quite logical...

Despite rationalizing everything, as Zhao Qingtian looked at the somewhat murky skies outside the window, he felt a sense of unease in his heart.

He always had this feeling... as if something bad was about to happen.

At the same time, the financial company that Chen Yan visited last time.

General Manager's office, which used to be Yang Nuannuan's office.

Now, however, it had been taken over by Chen Yan.

Sitting in the executive chair, he looked at Yang Nuannuan standing across from him and asked, "Nuan Nuan. How is the plan being implemented these days?"

Hearing Chen Yan's question, Yang Nuannuan quickly perked up.

She originally wanted to play coy, but then touched her face, which Chen Yan had "painfully slapped," and decided it was best just to say what needed to be said.

So... Chen Yan heard Yang Nuannuan's plan in full for the first time.

According to Yang Nuannuan, Zhao Qingtian was indeed a thorn in their side. He not only poached quite a few talents from the financial field, but he also chose to operate capital in oil futures, which were relatively low-risk compared to others.

After all, crude oil is a tangible commodity that can be delivered upon maturity.

Zhao Group has its own oil-related businesses domestically, so if they ended up with crude oil on their hands, they could buy it back and then sell it to Zhao Group as a safety net.

Moreover, the "senior funds" and "subordinate funds" strategies they previously employed meant that the potential for this fund to incur losses in its assets was very low.

But... even the most delicate software has bugs.

And even the most comprehensive plans can have their oversights.

And Yang Nuannuan had indeed found the loophole in this fund.

Because this fund mainly dealt in long-term investments, it didn't pay too much attention to short-term gains.

Combined with the fact that this fund was previously used by Zhao Group to invest in Hong Kong stocks, even though oil futures were traded 24 hours globally, this fund's working hours were ridiculously only 10 hours.

Moreover, no one was on standby or had authorization for closing out positions after hours.

Considering that the oil business has little fluctuation and requires leveraging to obtain relatively high profits, Yang Nuannuan discovered that if crude oil prices plummeted after the fund's staff had left work, Zhao Qingtian's fund would suffer massive losses.

At that point, whether they held on or closed out positions decisively, they would experience a significant reduction in their assets, damaging the proceeds that Zhao Qingtian had obtained illicitly.

At the time of hearing Yang Nuannuan's plan, Chen Yan was actually a bit baffled.

After all, he didn't understand any of these operations or rules relating to crude oil.

So, he resorted to his usual habit: to feign profundity and say nothing, giving no evaluation.

But after leaving the financial company and returning to the hotel, Chen Yan put in some hard work.

According to the methods Yang Nuannuan had recorded and the vulnerabilities she had found, he continuously searched online for related information, then understood and deduced Yang Nuannuan's plan.

Because the matter was extremely important, after Chen Yan had done his research, he also anonymously consulted several professionals to understand the feasibility of the plan.

And at last, his judgment was somewhat ambivalent: the plan was definitely feasible, but... nearly impossible.

Because, after all, crude oil prices had been relatively stable over the years, and even when Chen Yan was aggressively shorting before, the price hadn't actually fallen too much, and it had risen back up afterward.

For Yang Nuannuan's plan to work, the price had to fall too much.

Especially since it had to happen when the other party had no time to react, making it harder to achieve.

Having understood the full scope of the plan, Chen Yan frowned slightly, but he did not give up just yet.

In the end, he still had Yang Nuannuan write a plan report and hand it over to him.

He intended... to give Yang Nuannuan a chance: to experiment with "Xiao Ha's Instant Camera" to see how feasible the plan really was.

When the plan reached Chen Yan's hands, he personally made some slight modifications, changing this revenge plan into an investment plan.

In simple terms, he changed its purpose.

The original objective was to drain Zhao Qingtian's oil fund dry, but now Chen Yan changed it to betting against Zhao Qingtian's oil fund using the plan, shorting it and making enough money.

In this way, Chen Yan could see the system's judgment on the plan.

After revising the plan, Chen Yan hesitated no more. He photographed the plan with Xiao Ha's Instant Camera, then reviewed its potential.

The result surprised him.

Because... the plan was truly feasible.

In other words, the system believed it was possible to achieve the plan "given infinite time."

So, what remained was to find that time.

Thus, Chen Yan began to further fine-tune the plan and took photos one by one.

Now that he had the "Good Things Come in Pairs" buff from Yu Qiao Qiao and Lu Man's "Spotlight" buff, as well as ample happiness values saved up over time, the photos of the plan soon appeared on Chen Yan's desk.

The first photo, Chen Yan added a time frame to the plan, from now to 10 years later.

He wanted to first verify if the plan's fruition was in the distant future.

If it truly was several decades away, he would abandon it.

To his pleasant surprise, the plan was viable within the next 10 years.

So, Chen Yan began to progressively shorten the time frame: within five years, within 1000 days, within 500 days, within 300 days...

Eventually, Chen Yan roughly pinpointed the time for the plan, which was about seven months into the future.

And on that day, the price of oil would plummet. Plunge enough to destroy Zhao Qingtian's fund.

Chen Yan didn't know exactly to what extent it would fall, but... he had another ace up his sleeve: "Withdrawal."

As one of the system's most important features, Chen Yan never viewed "Withdrawal" merely as a tool for cashing in.

Ever since obtaining the system, Chen Yan had realized that apart from making money, the most important function of "Withdrawal" was to foresee the future and obtain information about it.

For instance, years ago, Chen Yan used withdrawal to know that the Qindao Fenghua Group's financial chain was about to break, or in Hong Kong, he learned that there might be a major issue with crude oil and possible global upheaval through withdrawals.

The feature had greatly influenced many of Chen Yan's decisions.

And now, using this "function" in reverse was just the same.

After learning that there would be a major drop in oil futures seven months hence, Chen Yan could keep withdrawing during that time, letting the system provide him with more precise timing and values, and use them for his plan...

Once he had the precise drop price and timing, Chen Yan believed that Zhao Qingtian and those around him would be brought to ruin for most of their lives.

Then, it would be seen if they could still manage to laugh.

Without that foundation to rely on, and by joining forces with their enemies, he believed the time to settle scores with them wasn't far...

Thinking this, Chen Yan's gaze once again became resolute.

'Just wait, with a little more patience, the time to turn defeat into victory will come....'

Chen Yan waited seven months.

Perhaps because he had something to look forward to, Chen Yan didn't feel the days were difficult.

Especially over these seven months, Zhao Group utilized the funds obtained from withdrawals for rapid overseas expansion, merging and acquiring multiple well-known companies, then continuing to withdraw, grow, and strengthen. He had no time to think about matters related to Zhao Qingtian.

And in the seventh month, about ten days away from the day Chen Yan had calculated, he began to withdraw several billion of his accumulated tens of billions in professional wealth according to the plan.

With Yu Qiao Qiao's enhancement, the withdrawal ratio for professional wealth was fourfold.

Thus, what Chen Yan withdrew was the equivalent of twenty or thirty billion—not a small sum.

Chen Yan felt that if nothing happened recently, the system would probably provide him with information on the upcoming crash in oil prices...

While Chen Yan was patiently preparing to wipe out Zhao Qingtian and his associates' foundations,

Meanwhile, in Tiandu.

In that decrepit office, the middle-aged man known as Lao Du was also holding a small-scale meeting,

"According to investigations, Zhao Qingtian has indeed formed close connections with many people over the years, including individuals with tremendous local influence."

"And through interviews and evidence gathering, we have also obtained a lot of critical evidence."

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