After the Divorce, I Could Hear the Voice of the Future-Chapter 288 - 287: Sign Holding Frenzy

In Tokyo until the third day of Lunar New Year, two couples went skiing in Hokkaido, and on the sixth day, they boarded the flight back to their home country.

As soon as Lu Liang returned home, he received good news: he seemed to have been nominated for the Best Newcomer at the Baihua Award.

Before the third day of Lunar New Year, "First Rich" and "Riding the Waves" were still neck and neck at the box office.

"First Rich" was the top grosser for two days, and "Riding the Waves" for one day; the battle was intensely close, and the victor was yet undecided.

However, from the third day of Lunar New Year onwards, "Danao Tianzhu" received continuous negative reviews, and not even Wang Bao could save it, as filming significantly decreased.

Wanda argued forcefully, shifting the reduced screening times entirely onto "First Rich," thus "First Rich" entered beast mode.

During the seven-day Spring Festival holiday, it aggressively raked in 1.255 billion in box office revenues, creating a gap of 313 million from the second-place "Riding the Waves."

It completely dominated,

becoming the absolute ruler of the Spring Festival period.

Maoyan and other film media predicted that the final box office might reach 2.452 billion.

The film was of high quality, packed with engaging content—enough to even turn historical figures into terms of deprecation.

The presence of Lu Liang was also a major factor.

Consequently, all major awards wanted to ride on Lu Liang’s popularity, nominating him for Best Newcomer.

If Lu Liang were to attend the ceremony to accept the award, it would definitely be his; if not, it was merely for amusement.

Since Lu Liang had acted in the film, the awards had the right to nominate him.

"I want to go, but I don’t have time."

Lu Liang sighed, well aware that they were leveraging his popularity, but there was nothing he could do.

If he had the time, it would be best to accept the awards personally and diminish their perceived value.

But he did not have the time,

on the first day back at work in the morning,

he stood at the doorway handing out red envelopes.

Lu Liang then received five phone calls, from officials from the commerce offices of Modu, Su City, Wuhan, and others.

Jinling, Wuhan, and Ningbo were the first to be eliminated, as compared to the others, they simply had no advantages.

As expected, Su City showed the most sincerity, approving 15,000 acres of land and offering a maximum of a 10 billion interest-free loan for five years.

This loan was not for Lu Liang personally but for the new energy-related companies that would soon settle in the industrial park.

Public funds could not invest in offline industries; they could only invest in the capital market, such as stocks, bonds, funds, etc., earning returns through these financial products.

However, Lu Liang could influence corporate decisions on the financial level, and bring them together to create a hundred-billion-level new energy industrial park.

Thus, he needed to find a suitable city for these companies and secure an ideal location for the future Tianxing Technology.

Of course, this location might not necessarily be for Tianxing Technology; it could be for Tesla or tailored for other businesses.

"Modu still bets on Tesla."

Lu Liang sighed. He was already leaning towards Modu, willing to choose it despite slightly worse policies.

But Modu did not favor him; for a project of a hundred billion magnitude, only 4,800 acres were approved, relocated to Jinshan Guard.

Neither here nor there, clearly sending him off to break new ground. And to make matters worse, they allocated so little land.

His heart instantly cooled.

"Daqiang, Daqiang, I’m here."

Lu Liang no longer hesitated, contacting Zhou Yi, the director of commerce in Su City, expressing willingness for further discussions.

After ending the call with Zhou Yi, Lu Liang contacted the responsible persons of the other four cities to express his regrets.

Throughout February, Lu Liang took no action; 300 billion lay dormant in the regulatory account of the Trade and Industry Department.

Meanwhile, the Hongguang Mini deluxe edition was launched, equipped with Tianxing OS, becoming the ultimate version of enjoyment for the elderly.

Wuling never considered developing their car machine on their own, unlike NIO, which didn’t even bother with a façade.

At the new version’s launch event, they openly stated that this was Tianxing Technology’s car machine and promoted it on their behalf.

Lu Liang endorsed it for free, and Tianxing Technology provided the car machine for free, along with future updates; they rightfully expected a reciprocal gesture.

Consequently, people began noticing how Tianxing Car Machine looked increasingly similar to what was showcased at the NIO ES8 launch event, the so-called NIO car machine.

Li Bing had no choice but to step forward and clarify that the NIO car machine was indeed a collaborative product with Tianxing Technology and acknowledged that it was an exceptional car machine system.

With authorization from Lu Liang, after bidding farewell to Mobike, Hu Weiwei once again emerged in the public eye.

This time, she appeared as the CEO of Tianxing Technology, hosting a new product launch event.

She stated that this was a mature car machine system, and that any interested companies could contact them.

Not only was it provided for free, but it also came with permanent after-sales rights, and priority use of their smart driving system would be possible in the future.

"LeTV Car is very interested."

After the conference, Old Jia remotely supported the event on Weibo, stating that he and Lu Liang were close friends and would support the Tianxing Car Machine no matter what.

The past six months had definitely been the hardest for Old Jia, with LeEco’s market value falling from its peak of 160 billion to now 60 billion.

The once first brother of the Growth Enterprise Market had become a thing of the past, entangled in various lawsuits, with rumors that the LeEco Empire was about to collapse.

In the financial market, Lu Liang was a golden signboard; he was shameless now, wanting to rub shoulders no matter what.

However, his so-called close friend soon brutally stabbed him in the back.

February 26th, it was a calm day.

Big A was playing around at over three thousand points as usual, hard to go up, but easy to come down.

At nine-thirty in the morning, the stock market opened, and the new energy sector suddenly erupted.

BYD, Tianqi Lithium, Jiangte Motor, Great Wall Electric, and other twelve stocks nearly instantly hit their price limit.

Following them was a massive influx of capital into the new energy market, with a net inflow of funds reaching 50 billion in just a few minutes.

The huge amount of capital continued to pour in, just in one morning, during two hours of trading.

The new energy index was thoroughly in the green, surging by 6.65%, with all stocks either hitting their upper limit or on their way to it.

It must be known that since the new energy policy was issued last month, the state had actively been degassing.

The new energy indices had fallen from 3300 points to over 2600 points, and had been continuously declining.

This round of market trends came out of nowhere.

"One should know, it has been a long time since Liangzi made any noise."

"Also, he holds 300 billion in capital."

"Furthermore, when this guy is silent, he is often up to something big."

The netizens of this generation understood Lu Liang very well; one could say, this was his consistent style.

Throughout February, Lu Liang had been very quiet, except for a sighting of him in Hokkaido at the beginning of the month, it seemed as if he had vanished from the world.

Not just him, but even the 300 billion public fund had entered a one-month lock-up period, with no one knowing what he was up to.

Once the public fund had successfully raised funds, to prevent the news of position building from leaking, it usually entered a 1-3 month lock-up period.

Hence, people speculated that this morning’s upheaval in the new energy sector was intricately linked to him.

With such a formation and the deployment of such massive funds, apart from the National Team, only Lu Liang had the capability.

But when the National Team usually joined the market, it only chose traditional sectors like banks, securities, and steel.

Considering Lu Liang’s consistent interest in the new energy industry, this suspicion was logical and convincing.

Time ticked away by the second.

The entire new energy sector was almost at its peak, only heading downhill.

Even the twelve stocks that drove the trends, the tremendous locked-up capital, also instantly retreated.

"Damn, the entire index is experiencing a Sky Floor?"

"A sight to behold, worthy of my Big A, this magical land."

"Stock disaster is coming, run~~"

A large number of uninformed retail investors, believing in the rumors that a stock disaster was really coming, began selling their chips frantically.

Yet the massive outflow of funds did not impact the overall market trends of the sector.

By the closing at three o’clock, the twelve stocks that drove the market trends capped the price limit once more.

This time, the attitude was more resolute than ever before.

Market retail investors were like fools, led around by the nose, crashing everywhere.

It wasn’t until four o’clock in the afternoon that the twelve companies leading the market trends published today’s explanation for the price limitation.

Announcements varied, but they all disclosed one message; they had been acquired.

The one taking over them was the Tianxing Mixed Fund managed by Lu Liang.

A single statement set off a thousand waves,

A one-time acquisition of twelve companies was an unprecedented feat.