Therefore, current selling prices were generally lower than they had been a few months ago.

Because of his partnership with Yi Anguo, Zhuo Weidong had already transferred Blue Coast Times Square and the still-under-construction Blue Coast Century Center to Yi Anguo's company. This was done in exchange for Yi Anguo's investment in him. Although the profit wasn't huge, it was still a ten percent gain. Zhuo Weidong had been slightly dissatisfied before, but under the current circumstances, he was quite content.

What more could he ask for? In this economic climate, he had managed to secure a ten percent profit and ensure the company's smooth development.

"Times Square has already been handed over. Why hasn't your company started sales or leasing yet?" When the topic of the current real estate market came up, Zhuo Weidong couldn't help but ask.

Normally, once a building is handed over, you'd rush to sell or lease the properties to recoup funds as quickly as possible. But Yi Anguo, having already taken over the building, was not in a rush at all.

"No hurry. The market is terrible right now, and the New Year is fast approaching. Let's wait until after the holidays are over," Yi Anguo said nonchalantly.

Renting it out now would mean low rents, and selling would mean even lower prices. It was better to wait and see until after the New Year.

"As for Century Center, you need to push to get it finished. The sooner it's handed over, the sooner I can start making money," Yi Anguo reminded him.

"You're not in a hurry to make money from the already handed-over Times Square, but you're urging me to speed up progress on the Century Center," Zhuo Weidong said helplessly.

"You can't blame me for that. The New Year is almost here, so rushing won't do much good, right?"

Just then, someone else arrived, and Zhuo Weidong quickly went forward to greet them.

Yi Anguo thought the newcomer looked familiar but couldn't quite place him.

After a moment, Zhuo Weidong brought the man over and introduced him to Yi Anguo, "Mr. Yi, this is Mr. Xu from Hengda Group, Xu Pidai."

"Mr. Xu, this is the Mr. Yi I was telling you about—my good brother. He invested in Anjing Online Supermarket, Hua Xing Technology, and Huaxing Smartphones. An Country Property and An Country Rosewood Furniture are his companies as well."

"So you're Mr. Yi!" Xu Pidai eagerly extended both hands to grasp Yi Anguo's. "A pleasure to meet you, a real pleasure. I hope we have a chance to cooperate and make a fortune together."

Yi Anguo had never expected that the person Zhuo Weidong wanted to introduce was Xu Pidai. If he had known it was him, he really wouldn't have come. He would partner with anyone but Xu Pidai. The guy was a total fraud and a scammer, the kind who would rip you off without batting an eye. Whoever partnered with him, whoever invested in him, was doomed to suffer. At the moment, however, few people could see through Xu Pidai's true nature. In fact, many were quite taken in by him, willing to befriend him and invest in his Hengda Group.

Xu Pidai's personal abilities were quite strong. You couldn't say he only bluffed his way through; he had genuine skills. It's impossible to become the richest man in the country and grow a company into a trillion-asset conglomerate through bluffing alone.

Xu Pidai's father was once a hero of the war of resistance against Japan. His family was very poor when he was a child, and his mother died when he was two years old.

Despite his young age, Xu Pidai was extremely sensible. He walked over a dozen miles to school every day and could only fill his stomach with crude cornbread. In the summer, the hot weather would easily cause the cornbread to go moldy. But even when the cornbread got moldy, Xu Pidai couldn't bear to throw it away. He would eat it anyway, because if he didn't, he'd have nothing else and would simply go hungry.

It was this resilience that allowed Xu Pidai to successfully get into university.

Before the college entrance exams, the exams were temporarily suspended, so Xu Pidai returned home to farm for two years. After the exams resumed, he failed his first attempt. It was only with his high school teacher's help that Xu Pidai finally managed to get into a university.

After graduating from university, Xu Jiayin was assigned to a steel mill, fulfilling his father's dream of him becoming a worker.

He worked there for ten years, during which time he married and had children. But then, for some unknown reason, he suddenly decided to leave.

Xu Pidai left the steel mill not because of any grand ambitions, but because he felt he had no other choice.

He took his entire family to Shenzhen. In the beginning, their life there was incredibly difficult. Eventually, Xu Pidai found a job at a company and became the office director.

Once at the company, he made his boss a fortune by facilitating a partnership between the company and the steel mill where he had previously worked.

Later, Xu Pidai moved to Yangcheng and helped his boss develop a real estate project. Upon its launch that year, the project brought in 200 million in cash flow for the company. After this experience, Xu Pidai recognized the potential of the real estate industry.

At the time, his monthly salary was only 2,000 yuan. While that wasn't bad for the average person, for a man like Xu Pidai, who had to support both his elders and his children, it was not nearly enough.

The key issue was that Xu Pidai felt he had made a significant amount of money for his boss and the company. A monthly salary of 2,000 yuan was simply too little compensation for his contributions.

So, he went to his boss to discuss a raise, but the salary Xu Pidai requested was too high, and his boss did not agree.

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