NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1:
Chapter 1: Picked Up a Stray Cat! The Company CEO is Missing!:
In the imperial capital, it was five p.m.
Lu Fei, carrying a bag, walked from the 22nd floor of the Mingyu Building to the underground parking lot.
“Time to get off work!” He said to himself.
Dressed in a blue suit with black stripes, Lu Fei cheerfully headed toward his car.
20 years ago, Lu Fei had transmigrated into this world. The body’s original owner had died when he was four years old at the time.
Since then, Lu Fei had lived in this world for two decades. It wasn’t until he graduated from college that his system unlocked, granting him the God-Level Investor System.
The system was simple: Lu Fei worked at a finance-related company, and every seven days, he received a reward. Weekends were included in the count.
After graduation, Lu Fei joined the Mingyu Group. Mingyu Finance was the largest private financial company in the imperial capital, with a market value of 410 billion yuan. But Mingyu Group was even more powerful.
In its early days, Mingyu Group had started in food processing. In just ten years, the founder integrated the supply chain and built the second-largest food company in China, transforming the business into a group.
Today, Mingyu Group’s divisions in finance, food, and pharmaceuticals each included some of the largest companies in the world. The group’s total market value exceeded 3 trillion yuan.
Lu Fei worked as an investment analyst at this massive company. Investment analysts didn’t have to deal with clients. Instead, they needed to gather information, analyze financial markets, and evaluate index projects.
Compared to employees working directly with clients, the pay was much lower. The more experienced employees handled dozens of clients, making over 80,000 yuan a month. Lu Fei, on the other hand, earned only 12,000 yuan.
In the imperial capital, there were many expensive places, and his salary wasn’t enough. But that wasn’t a problem for him. Lu Fei had the system. He was destined to become a financial legend, capable of outsmarting industry giants.
The most important thing for him was the ease of his job. He could enjoy tea after 3 p.m., leave work at 5 p.m, and never worry about working overtime unless there was a major shift in the stock market. It was the perfect arrangement.
As Lu Fei approached his car, he noticed a cat hiding underneath. It was a tabby cat with striking amber eyes. Lu Fei stared at the cat. The cat stared back at him.
He pulled out a piece of sausage he hadn’t eaten during lunch and placed it in front of the cat. The cat looked at him with an expression that demanded, “Is this really what you’re offering me?”
“It’s dangerous under the car. Come out, and I’ll buy you something better.” Lu Fei said.
The cat hesitated for a moment but eventually came out. Lu Fei picked it up by the scruff of its neck and smiled. “Alright, you’re mine now. Come home with me.”
Thanks to his financial talents and system knowledge, Lu Fei had saved a bit of money. Despite the imperial capital’s sky-high property prices, he rented a spacious three-bedroom, two-living-room apartment in the Second Ring Road area, with a monthly rent of 14,000 yuan.
Coincidentally, Lu Fei had been thinking about adopting a cat recently, and now one had come straight to him—well, he considered it a form of kidnapping rather than adoption.
Usually, cats calmed down when held by the scruff, but this little tabby was different. It struggled fiercely and nearly scratched Lu Fei.
“So, you don’t want to come with me?” He asked.
The cat meowed as if saying, “Let me go!”
Lu Fei sighed. “Alright, if you really don’t want to come with me, I’ll get you neutered and let you go. It’s for your own good.”
The tabby immediately stopped struggling, as if it understood him.
Clever.
Negotiable.
No need to bring out the knife.
“Wait, do you actually understand me?” Lu Fei asked with a surprised look. The cat meowed, but without any notable reaction.
Shrugging, Lu Fei grabbed a box from the car and placed the cat inside. “Let’s go,” he said, getting into the driver’s seat.
He drove to a veterinary clinic, where the cat got dewormed and had its nails trimmed. Then, he bought everything a cat might need: food, litter, bowls, and toys. In total, he spent 4,100 yuan.
The tabby cat cooperated the whole time, though it watched Lu Fei closely, a glimmer of vengeance in its eyes. Lu Fei wasn’t bothered. Stray cats were like that—just give it a few days.
He took the cat home. The apartment was well-decorated, with light wooden floors and soft lighting from the spotlights along the walls. The cleaning robot had already done its job, leaving the floor spotless.
Lu Fei ordered pizza for dinner, cleaned the tabby cat, and turned on the TV. Sitting on the sofa, he opened his laptop to check financial updates while the TV played in the background.
The tabby, meanwhile, explored the apartment, paying special attention to the door, as if plotting an escape. Eventually, it came to sit by Lu Fei, clearly hungry.
It meowed a few times, asking for food.
“I’m busy right now,” Lu Fei said, glancing down. “Wait until I’m done.”
“Xin’an Energy’s stock price is about to drop, and I’m shorting it,” he mumbled to himself. Shorting stocks was simple—sell at a high price, then buy back when the price drops.
At this moment, Xin’an Energy’s stock was at 175.44 yuan per share. Lu Fei planned to buy it back once it fell to 100 yuan, netting a profit of 75.44 yuan per share.
The tabby meowed again, this time sounding almost dismissive, as if saying, “Xin’an Energy won’t drop.”
Lu Fei chuckled and was about to explain when his phone rang.
It was Zhou Song, a colleague. “Brother Fei! I’ve got top-secret news!”
Lu Fei leaned forward. “What is it?”
“Our company CEO is missing! Xu Yan has disappeared!”