February 10, 2000.
On a flight to Hong Kong, the protagonist of this book is resting.
“The flight is about to land at Hong Kong International Airport.” A broadcast voice echoed from the first class cabin.
Hearing the announcement, a handsome man removed his eye mask.
“Finally back in Hong Kong.” The handsome man looked out the window. “It’s been over a year since I’ve been back. I wonder how my little sister and mom are doing?”
After the plane came to a stop, the flight attendant helped him retrieve his luggage.
“Thank you.” He smiled at the flight attendant.
The flight attendant handed him a slip of paper.
He didn’t say anything more and took the paper, grabbing his luggage and exiting the plane.
As he approached the exit, he saw two people waiting for him.
“Big brother, big brother, I’m here.” A lively young girl, seemingly around ten years old, waved her hand, hoping he could see her.
“Ah Zheng, Ah Zheng.” The woman standing beside her also called out his name.
“Mom, little sister.” Kang Er Zheng smiled as he walked towards them.
“Big brother, I missed you so much.” The little girl jumped into his arms.
“I missed you too.” Kang Er Zheng patted her head.
“You’re finally back. Didn’t you get your diploma in June?” The middle-aged woman asked with a puzzled expression.
“Making money.” Kang Er Zheng said. “Coco, did you listen to Mom?”
“Of course I did. I’m the most obedient.” Coco, the little girl, proudly raised her head and said.
Hearing her words, Kang Er Zheng shook his head.
He knew his little sister was a wild child. Even her mother sometimes couldn’t control her. Only he could.
“Stop talking here. Let’s go home. I’ve cooked your favorite dishes.” Kang Er Zheng’s mom said.
“Okay.” He nodded.
They walked out of the airport and got into a car.
This car was their own.
Kang Er Zheng, twenty-four years old.
He was a time traveler, transported to the world of “Wai Lai Xi Fu Ben Di Lang” (Foreign Daughter-in-Law and Local Son).
Initially, he was unsure of the time. But as he grew older, he realized the world was different.
Both he and his sister, CoCo, Kang Er Li, were adopted by their mother from an orphanage.
Although he couldn't figure out why he was there, he had heard his mother say she originally intended to adopt a little girl, so she would have someone to care for her when she got old. But when she went to the orphanage, she saw him and decided to adopt him as well.
Kang Er Zheng was eight years old when he was adopted.
Back then, he had just arrived in this new world and was completely clueless.
It wasn't until he was seven that he fully processed the information in his mind.
After he caught up, he didn't have any plans to make money.
A seven-year-old trying to earn a living was more challenging than climbing Mount Everest.
Even though he knew many opportunities, he couldn't grasp them.
Even getting food was a struggle. He spent his time in the orphanage reading, doing whatever he could, waiting for someone to adopt him or for him to grow old enough to work and earn his first pot of gold.
When he was nine years old, his stepmother came to the orphanage. She adopted CoCo. At that time, he felt a sense of familiarity when he looked at her. She was stunned when she saw him staring at her, thinking he wanted to be adopted too. She felt a little moved and adopted him along with CoCo. He was named Kang Er Zheng, while the girl he adopted was named Kang Er Li.
After he was adopted, he began to make plans.
First, he studied hard. He couldn’t expect to start earning money at eight years old. He also helped with household chores and took care of his two-year-old sister.
He excelled in his studies, topping his class every year and earning scholarships.
At seventeen, he was admitted to the University of Hong Kong.
This university ranked third in Asia and twenty-fifth in the world. It was a prestigious institution.
After three years of studying, he started investing in the Hong Kong stock market.
Then he became an exchange student between Hong Kong and the United States, attending Harvard as an exchange student and obtaining an MBA from Harvard.
While in the United States, he sold the location of an oil field in the United States, earning one million dollars in revenue.
He had accidentally learned about the oil field location from news he saw before his time travel. It was discovered in 2017. He also wanted to exploit it himself.
But it was too difficult. He might even lose everything.
The Rockefeller family, Morgan family, and other major tycoons controlled the oil fields in the United States.
If you dared to reach out, you’d be killed.
So he could only sell the location to these oil companies.
He had thought of other ways.
Like buying the land first and then selling it at the price of an oil field.
But he couldn’t afford to buy the land.
Although he had made some money over the years, he couldn’t afford to buy this oil field land.
Even if he applied for a loan, the American banks wouldn’t lend him any money.
So he could only sell the location to these oil families.
He would get a sip of the soup.
This oil field could produce billions of dollars worth of oil, but he only received one million. He was truly miserable.
He took that million dollars, plus the ten thousand dollars he had accumulated over the years, a total of over one million dollars, and joined Soros to short Thailand.
He made a profit of over seven million dollars from Thailand before withdrawing.
Then he returned to Hong Kong. Before Soros shorted Hong Kong, he invested in the stock market, and the Hong Kong stock market rose steadily.
In August 1997, the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index reached a record high of 16,820 points.
With leverage, his million dollars doubled to thirty-three million dollars.
Then he withdrew from the stock market and shorted it.
When Soros attacked the Hong Kong stock market, he was prepared to short.
The Hang Seng Index fell from over 16,000 to over 6,000.
His thirty-three million dollars turned into over one billion dollars.
After making money, he immediately withdrew from the stock market and didn't stay long.
When the authorities came to rescue the market, he invested ten billion dollars into the stock market to help Hong Kong.
It was inevitable for the stock market to crash. If he didn’t take advantage, the international speculators would. He might as well keep it for himself.
After his ten billion dollar investment ended, it became eleven billion, three hundred million dollars, a small profit.
He also gained some goodwill.
It was not a bad deal.
He then took that money to the United States and established a five-colored stone foundation.
He heavily invested in the internet industry.
Before the internet bubble burst, the stock prices of these industries soared.
In March 2000, the bubble burst, and the internet entered a cold winter.
At the beginning of the new millennium, he withdrew all his funds from the stock market.
During the internet’s final frenzy, his billions of dollars doubled to over twenty billion.
He left some money with the five-colored stone foundation in the United States to short the stock market.
Because after the internet bubble burst, the stock market plummeted, it was another good opportunity to make money.
He took ten billion dollars back to China to invest, establishing a domestic five-colored stone foundation to invest in future giant companies.
He also took advantage of the consequences of the internet’s cold winter to acquire future internet giants at low prices.
At this time, many of the internet giants that had not yet grown were struggling to survive, tightening their belts to weather the internet’s cold winter.
If they needed investment, they would be very welcome.
In addition to investing in these internet companies, there were other industries.
For example, real estate. In the next twenty years, real estate would explode.
He wrote down all the industries he remembered.
Whether he could invest or not, he didn’t care. He was the boss, controlling the overall direction. The rest was up to his employees to handle.
A villa on the hillside of Hong Kong’s Victoria Peak.
Kang Er Zheng bought this villa after he made money.
His stepmother and CoCo didn’t know how much money he had made.
Kang Er Zheng only said he had made tens of millions.
He was very low-key about his wealth, and few people knew.
He controlled the five-colored stone foundation through multiple offshore companies.
It was difficult to trace it back to him.
Kang Er Zheng didn’t like being high-profile.
He was afraid of attracting trouble.
A certain century-old gangster had been arrested not long ago.
“Big brother, how much money did you make?” CoCo asked curiously.
“How much do you think?” Kang Er Zheng smiled and said.
“What does it matter to you how much your brother made.” His stepmother glared at CoCo.
CoCo pouted in grievance.
“You just focus on studying. Don’t worry about how much money your brother makes. I promise you won’t go hungry. If you want something, your brother can buy it for you, but you have to be obedient.” Kang Er Zheng reassured her.
He was worried that Coco would become spoiled.
In the original plot, Coco was very willful.
Her stepmother couldn't control her either. With her age and gender, no one in the Kang family dared to scold her.
Even now, you could see Coco's spoiled and stubborn personality.
“Really? Then I want the latest Walkman.” CoCo immediately made a request.
“Okay, but you have to study hard, okay?” Kang Er Zheng nodded and agreed, but he still set conditions.
“Okay, I’ll study hard. Thank you, big brother.” CoCo was very happy.
“Ah Zheng, don’t always spoil Coco. She’s been spoiled by you.” His stepmother reprimanded him.
“Mom, it’s fine. CoCo is a good girl, even though she’s a little willful.” Kang Er Zheng patted Coco’s head.
“That’s right, Mom. I’m a good girl.” Coco proudly raised her chin.
At this time, it was not yet time for Kang to go to Kang’s family. CoCo was still in high school then.
She was still a child.
“Stinky girl.” His stepmother glared at CoCo. “Look at you, so smug.”