Chapter 518: Yu Mo’s Big Move

When Su Mansu left the banquet hall and returned to school, she was in a complete daze, still struggling to process everything.

She’d originally thought she was joining a fast-growing company. Her imagined work life involved wearing professional attire, handling documents in bright offices, attending business meetings with her boss, occasionally working late into the night to prepare materials, and so on.

But reality?

It made her feel like she’d stumbled into a massive underworld organization.

Just hours earlier, she’d witnessed the shocking spectacle of over five hundred people shouting “Eldest Miss” in unison—and those five hundred represented only about half of the core membership.

She could barely imagine what it would be like if all thirteen hundred core members were present.

Yu Xin had also told her that Wanlong Society’s goal was to reach ten thousand members.

This number didn’t refer to total group employees, but core members like the black-clad figures she’d seen in the banquet hall—reaching tens of thousands in scale.

Upon hearing this, Su Mansu’s first reaction was: Are you trying to rule the entire underworld of Blue Star?

In neither movies nor reality had she ever heard of any organization reaching such a scale.

In her understanding, an organization with a thousand members was already terrifying.

It showed how ambitious her new boss truly was.

Su Mansu had no doubt that if her boss had been born in ancient times, she would absolutely have become a regional warlord.

Or more likely, a mountain-dwelling bandit queen.

Back in her dorm.

Su Mansu opened the laptop—the one that man called Yun Cheng had given her. It contained vast amounts of information about Wanlong Society Group.

Including current total employee counts, distribution of various group industries, and which companies the boss held shares in or positions at, and so on.

All of which she needed to familiarize herself with.

After today’s experience, even learning her boss was also chairman of several capital institutions wouldn’t surprise her much.

What truly caught her off-guard were two lines she saw at the very top of the motto section while reviewing company materials.

【Three knives, six holes for any who betray Wanlong Society】

【Cautious, meticulous, bold, law-savvy—unite knowledge and action】

When she saw that first line, her heart went cold.

“What kind of company have I joined?”

Scared? Indeed she was.

She’d never seen such a hardcore company motto.

But strangely, besides fear, a thread of indescribable excitement also surged within her.

That night, Su Mansu completely lost sleep.

After thinking for a long time, she still decided to resign the next day…

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Compared to last year, this year’s real estate market was noticeably depressed. Many enterprises, having previously hoarded land for development, faced capital chain ruptures and ultimately couldn’t withstand the financial crisis’s impact, forced into bankruptcy liquidation.

This time, Liu Yutong had acquired a shopping mall with future value exceeding one billion yuan—starting at the foreclosure auction price of two hundred million, ultimately adding just thirty million.

The price could be so low primarily because no one dared to participate in the bidding.

Many of these foreclosed fixed assets had significant disputes. They’d heard the original owner of this shopping mall had considerable influence and rather shady methods. Even if ordinary people were tempted, they didn’t want the trouble—naturally, no one competed with her.

Though Liu Yutong knew there would be trouble, she didn’t care. She only knew she’d acquired this mall through legal channels.

Whoever dared to cause trouble would first have to consider whether their skull was hard enough.

Yu Mo also took the opportunity to acquire two unfinished housing complexes nearby, similarly foreclosed due to debt problems.

These complexes and the shopping mall were actually part of a coordinated development model—one many domestic real estate developers favored: building large shopping malls while simultaneously developing commercial housing in the surrounding area.

If the mall operation succeeded, it could not only drive commercial housing sales but also push property prices much higher than other locations.

Yu Mo now basically followed in Liu Yutong’s footsteps—wherever her shopping center was built, he would find ways to acquire surrounding land plots or complexes.

One had to admit, this year’s financial crisis truly created opportunities for him.

From this year’s beginning until now, the number of land plots held by Yu Group had more than quadrupled compared to last year.

Of course, what followed was the company’s debt ratio beginning to soar.

Since loans this year were much harder to obtain than last year, Yu Mo had actually been crazy enough to pledge all the equity shares in his possession.

One could say it was quite insane.

Had Liu Yutong not been certain he didn’t plan to flee the country, she would have suspected this guy had suffered some kind of mental break.

This year, most real estate developers couldn’t wait to liquidate their land holdings to recover funds. Behavior like Yu Mo’s—adding leverage against the trend and crazily acquiring land—appeared completely mad in his peers’ eyes.

However, in doing so, he indeed had courage.

This courage came from a single sentence Liu Yutong had once said to him: The harsh winter is almost over, next year will definitely be real estate’s spring.

Yu Mo believed her words completely.

Liu Yutong indeed hadn’t deceived him. Starting next year, the real estate industry would enter a high-speed development period. Large numbers of rural populations shifting to cities would create enormous rigid housing demand.

Real estate developers would also crazily hoard land and build houses, plus various property speculation groups fanning the flames, housing prices would truly rise day by day.

However, as the old saying goes: When the moon is full, it begins to wane; when water is full, it begins to overflow.

Real estate’s prosperity only lasted a few years before beginning to decline. In later generations, many glorious real estate tycoons fell from their pedestals. The core reason lay in their unbridled expansion, unable to maintain that high-turnover, high-leverage, high-debt operation model.

Now that Yu Mo had adopted this model ahead of time, there were still no major problems at the current stage.

As long as he could survive until next year, continue maintaining this expansion speed, he very possibly would become a top-ranked domestic real estate developer.

Only, this guy had done something quite stupid during this period.