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"Zhang Menglong, I now find that being friends with you is just too much pressure," Wang Ling said with a bitter smile and shook his head. From now on, his title of the richest second-generation in Huaxia was only in name.

"It\'s okay, don\'t feel pressured," Zhang Menglong patted Wang Ling\'s shoulder, "I don\'t make friends based on whether they have money or not. After all, definitely no one has more money than I do!"

"You, haha, I admit defeat!" Wang Ling saw Zhang Menglong use that same line he had once said to tease him, and he couldn\'t help but feel both annoyed and amused.

"Got anything else? Let me broaden my horizons," Zhang Menglong said.

"How would I dare show off anything in front of you? For all I know, it could be something one of your ancestors left behind. I\'d rather not embarrass myself," Wang Ling admitted, thoroughly daunted.

"This piano is quite nice!" Zhang Menglong walked up to the brown piano in the hall, "It\'s of a certain age, but surprisingly, the sound quality is still so intact, it must have been well-maintained."

Zhang Menglong pressed a few keys, and the piano emitted a clear and touching sound.

"An expert, I see!" Wang Ling remarked, his excitement picking up again when talking about the piano. "What, have you learned to play?"

"A bit, but it\'s just amateur grade ten level."

"This piano has been renovated many times. It\'s quite significant because its first owner was Chopin."

"You managed to get your hands on this?" Zhang Menglong remembered that his own family also had a piano used by Beethoven and Liszt; these two pianos, if we\'re talking about historical value, should be considered fairly equal.

"My old man loves collecting these things," Wang Ling chuckled, "But this piano is a bit different. Chopin used many pianos throughout his life, and this one was gifted to him by a Huaxia merchant who also carved his inscription on it."

Wang Ling lifted the lid of the grand piano, and neatly written in regular script on it was a line, "To my friend Chopin—Qing, Zhang Wenshan."

"Wait," Wang Ling\'s body abruptly tensed, then slowly turned toward Zhang Menglong, "This merchant\'s surname is Zhang, it can\'t be that much of a coincidence, can it?"

"You\'re right, it is indeed such a coincidence." Zhang Menglong found Zhang Wenshan\'s name in the family tree, and the era he lived in matched perfectly with Chopin\'s.

"Well, I\'m at a loss for words!" Wang Ling had nothing more to say. Anyway, it seems like everything belonged to their family!

"Now I\'m really starting to regret inviting you over," Wang Ling said helplessly, "I thought I could put on quite a show, but it turns out I was just setting myself up for disappointment."

"If you visited my house, I guarantee the shock you suffered today would be ten times worse!" Zhang Menglong laughed. The treasures stored in his three-story study could fill a national-level museum; any single artifact taken out could be considered a national treasure.

Not to mention Wang Ling, even he himself was indescribably shocked when he saw that study.

"Let\'s go, let me treat you to a simple meal," Wang Ling patted Zhang Menglong\'s shoulder, "My chef was specially brought in from overseas; not only is he proficient in a variety of Western dishes, but he\'s also quite outstanding at cooking our Huaxia cuisine."

"I\'m pretty hungry, too." Zhang Menglong patted his stomach, "By the way, I heard your live streaming platform shut down; what do you plan to do next?"n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"I think I\'ll move towards technology. After all, the Internet market is pretty saturated, and jumping in now would definitely lead to a bruising. Now that the Western countries are afraid of our Huaxia\'s rise, they\'re imposing strict technology restrictions; I think this could be a good opportunity."

"Sounds good, if you decide to go for it, I\'ll invest!" Zhang Menglong said. Working on technology is quite a nice way to spend money. If he had some connections, he could certainly look for ways to invest in scientific research!

"By the way!"

Zhang Menglong slapped his forehead. All those Ph.D. advisers and master\'s advisers in this school, aren\'t they the best investors he could ask for?

Zhang Menglong had already chosen his graduation project, and in a couple of days, he would return to school to start working on his graduation design. Before that, he had a chat with the senior in charge of supervising his experiment.

His supervisor was considered quite prestigious within the school. Every year, the scientific research funding for his group was calculated in tens of millions.

For those teachers engaged in scientific research, funding was the most headache-inducing issue. They ran back and forth between companies and schools all day long. Some of the lesser-known teachers couldn\'t secure much funding even in an entire year.

If he were to support their scientific research funding, that wouldn\'t be considered a donation! This was called investment! There were hundreds of teachers in their school, including professors, associate professors, and lab technicians. Zhang Menglong could absolutely spend a large sum of money!

"Hahaha, Old Wang! You really gave me an inspiration!"

"Huh?" Wang Ling was immediately puzzled. What had he said? How had he inspired him, "And please, don\'t call me Old Wang, it sounds a bit indecent!"

"Hahaha, you don\'t need to know exactly what inspiration you gave me, but I must really thank you for this. How about it? Want to pick any one of the cars I bought last time? But the Koenigsegg CCXR is off-limits!"

"Zhang Menglong, I find you to be a beast!" Wang Ling said through clenched teeth, "Even if I, Wang Ling, were to die broke, even if I jumped off the third floor, I would never take anything from you again!"

"Is that so? I was actually planning to have the factory make another CCXR for you!"

"What? Make another one for me? Do you think you own Koenigsegg or something?"

"You guessed right. I hold a majority of the shares in Koenigsegg through my people. Otherwise, why do you think they would stop all other orders to build cars for me?"

"Holy shit!"

"Since you don\'t want it, then forget it, to avoid the hassle..."

"I want it, I want it, who said I didn\'t!" Wang Ling quickly interjected, "Damn, that\'s sweet!"

"By the way, there\'s a gemstone appreciation event next week in Jiangnan City. Are you interested in checking it out?" Since Wang Ling had already become close with Zhang Menglong, naturally, he wanted to create more opportunities to strengthen their relationship.

"You\'re interested in that?"

"Hahaha, I heard that this appreciation event will have quite a few jade raw stones. Have you ever heard of stone gambling?"

"The kind that\'s been written to death in urban novels?" Zhang Menglong quipped.

"Exactly, but this is reality, so there\'s no such thing as X-ray vision or supernatural powers. I plan to buy a couple of pieces and try my luck too. Who knows, I might make a small fortune."

"No supernatural powers, but I have the power of cash!" Zhang Menglong\'s eyes lit up. He had heard that stone gambling often involved raw stones worth hundreds of thousands or even millions. Wasn\'t this a faster way to spend money than buying sports cars?

...

As the two chatted over their meal, Wang Ling, who had grown up in a wealthy family, really had a different perspective. After this conversation, Zhang Menglong felt that there might be a chance to accomplish his task of spending 100 billion US dollars within a year.

He also wondered what exactly the Super God Academy was like. Zhang Menglong\'s curiosity grew stronger. He believed that as long as he gained access to the Super God Academy, he would definitely find out where his parents had gone!