Sister Lin Fang sprinted across the polished marble floor toward the archives vault.
Within two minutes, she returned carrying three thick, embossed leather master deed binders. Her arms trembled under the physical weight of fifty land titles and two hundred apartment deeds.
“Chairman Lin,” Lin Fang said, her voice shaking with excitement as she set the binders on the glass table. “The master registry documents for Emerald River Island are here. All fifty freestanding riverside villas and both twelve-story residential towers are held under a single distressed developer portfolio.”
Lin Mo flipped open the first binder with a calm, practiced movement.
Architectural blueprints, municipal land permits, and structural engineering certifications were stamped with official red seals.
Shen Qiaoqiao leaned over the glass table, her yellow pencil flying across a legal pad. Her sharp eyes scanned every clause, zoning condition, and property easement in seconds.
“The legal title is completely clean, Chairman Lin,” Shen Qiaoqiao confirmed, her dimples showing. “The original developer completed construction six months ago with zero contractor liens. The entire island has independent water rights, private electrical sub-stations, and sovereign road access. There are no encumbrances.”
“What is the bulk acquisition price for the entire island and both residential towers?” Lin Mo asked.
Lin Fang consulted her property calculator with trembling fingers. “The original developer spent over four hundred million yuan building the development. Because of the citywide credit freeze, the creditor committee has authorized an immediate bulk liquidation price of eighty million yuan in cleared cash.”
“Eighty million yuan,” Lin Mo nodded. “A very reasonable price for an entire island.”
Around the sand-table, three real-estate speculators nearly dropped their porcelain teacups onto the glass railing.
“Eighty million in cash?!” “He is buying all fifty luxury villas in one breath?!” “And two hundred river-view luxury apartments too?!” “Who is this young man?! Is he the heir to an overseas sovereign wealth fund?!”
Several real estate moguls who had spent three weeks haggling over a single three-million-yuan villa looked at each other with pale, humiliated faces. Against Lin Mo’s absolute liquid capital, their leveraged bank credit looked like children’s pocket money.
Lin Mo drew his emerald-green [Benevolence Charity Card] and laid it flat against Lin Fang’s transaction terminal.
“Su Wan,” Lin Mo instructed. “Execute the acquisition under the Taichu Employee Welfare and Public Housing Endowment.”
Su Wan stepped forward, her stylus tapping across her tablet screen with swift efficiency.
“Acquisition designated: Taichu Free Executive and Model-Employee Family Dormitories,” Su Wan announced in a crisp, clear voice. “All fifty freestanding luxury villas are allocated as permanent family homes for our core management team, senior hospital specialists, and model logistics captains. Both residential towers are designated as free family dormitories for two hundred model couriers, nurses, and kitchen workers.”
The entire sales pavilion fell into stunned silence.
Using multi-million-yuan luxury riverside villas and river-view penthouses as free dormitories for delivery drivers, cafeteria cooks, and night-shift nurses? The sheer scale of generosity left every spectator completely breathless.
Lin Mo pressed his thumb against the biometric sensor on Lin Fang’s tablet.
BEEP!
[CENTRAL HOUSING REGISTRY CLEARING CONFIRMED!]
[TRANSACTION TYPE: BULK CHARITABLE HOUSING ACQUISITION.]
[AMOUNT DEDUCTED: ¥80,000,000.00 RMB.]
[PURCHASER: TAICHU BENEVOLENCE HOUSING TRUST.]
[ASSETS ACQUIRED: 50 RIVERSIDE VILLAS & 200 DELUXE APARTMENTS!]
[DIRECT SALES COMMISSION CREDITED TO AGENT LIN FANG: ¥6,000,000.00 RMB!]
The tablet chimed with a golden glow.
Lin Fang looked down at her screen. Her eyes widened, and her lips parted in disbelief.
Six million yuan!
In less than an hour, her sales commission totaled six million one hundred and fifty thousand yuan. For a widowed mother who had worried every evening about buying groceries and paying for her daughter’s medicine, this was an unimaginable ocean of security.
Tears streamed down Lin Fang’s cheeks. She sank to both knees before Lin Mo, pressing her forehead against her hands.
“Chairman Lin... six million yuan...” Lin Fang sobbed, her entire body shaking with gratitude. “You saved my child!”
“My little girl can have her surgery tomorrow! She will hear the birds sing!”
Lin Mo stepped forward and gently helped her to her feet with unbreakable strength.
“Stand tall, Sister Lin Fang,” Lin Mo said warmly. “You protected Teacher Zhou from a flooded basement when you had nothing in your pocket. An honest heart deserves to be rewarded with dignity. You earned every single fen of that commission.”
He paused, looking at her with a gentle, approving gaze.
“Furthermore, Taichu Group needs an honest leader for our property management division,” Lin Mo added. “I want you to serve as Director of Taichu Honest Housing. Starting annual salary: one million five hundred thousand yuan. Your first assignment is managing Emerald River Island.”
Lin Fang wiped her tears and bowed deeply with radiant joy. “Chairman Lin, I accept! I swear that no resident on this island will ever be cheated or neglected!”
In Lin Mo’s mind, the celestial system panel erupted with glorious golden light.
[DING! Monumental Pure-Heart Benevolence Expenditure Confirmed!]
[Recipient 1: Lin Fang (Goodness: 91/100) — Received: ¥6,000,000.00 Direct Commission & Executive Appointment.]
[Recipient 2: Taichu Core Staff & Model Workers (250 Families, Avg Goodness: 89.2/100) — Received: 50 Luxury Villas & 200 Deluxe Apartments.]
[Calculation: Total Spent: ¥80,000,000.00 RMB | Multiplier: 100x Pure-Heart Return.]
[Refund Amount: +¥8,000,000,000.00 RMB Transferred to Personal Vault!]
[Benevolence Merit Points: +8,000,000 BMP Awarded!]
[Personal Vault Current Balance: ¥99,203,180,000.50 RMB!]
[Good People Network Expanded: 4,605 Verified Righteous Allies!]
A vast, warm tide of golden benevolence qi flooded through Lin Mo’s dantian.
The energy was deep, tranquil, and limitless like a golden ocean under the noon sun. It washed through his internal organs, nourishing his marrow and bones until they radiated an imperceptible jade-gold sheen. His Rank 1 Absolute Peak Martial foundation hummed with absolute perfection, standing on the absolute precipice of Rank 2 breakthrough.
Ninety-nine point five billion yuan in liquid cash, Lin Mo observed with quiet satisfaction. Almost one hundred billion. Our team has fifty private villas, two hundred luxury apartments, and complete peace of mind. Providing real homes for good people is the ultimate hedge against market volatility.
Grandma Chen walked over, holding Little Guo’er’s hand. The elderly woman looked around the room with a wide, bustling smile.
“Fifty villas!” Grandma Chen exclaimed, chuckling warmly. “Xiao Mo, that means I can have a garden big enough to plant winter melons, sweet potatoes, and three rows of scallions! And Guo’er can run on real grass instead of dodging scooters in the alley!”
Little Guo’er clapped her tiny hands, bouncing on her toes. “A big garden! Big Brother Lin Mo, can we build a swing by the willow tree?!”
“We can build three swings, Little Guo’er,” Lin Mo smiled gently, patting the girl’s soft hair. “And a treehouse too.”
Dr. Gu Qinghe adjusted his glasses, his scholarly face beaming. “Our hospital’s top surgeons and pediatric nurses have lived in cramped hospital basements for five years. Moving them into these river-view apartments will revitalize their spirits completely.”
Shen Qiaoqiao snapped her leather binder shut, her dimples showing. “And my forty forensic accountants can have an entire villa on the point as a quiet legal research retreat. We can analyze corporate balance sheets while listening to the river breeze.”
Within an hour, word of the housing allocation spread across the city.
A convoy of fifty Taichu emerald logistics vans pulled up to the outer avenue of the development.
Old Ma led thirty model delivery captains and their families. Senior ambulance drivers, head nurses, and canteen cooks arrived with their suitcases, potted plants, and children, laughing and cheering as they stepped out into the clean afternoon air.
Nurse Zhang, who had worked seven straight overnight shifts during the typhoon, stepped out of a van holding her six-year-old son. She looked at the towering palm trees, the private riverbank, and the magnificent Spanish villas with wide, disbelieving eyes.
“Is this real?!” Nurse Zhang whispered, covering her mouth with both hands. “A private flat for our family? We don’t have to share a basement bathroom anymore?”
“It is completely real, Nurse Zhang,” Su Wan told her with a warm smile, handing her a brass key set. “Chairman Lin authorized full furnishing and utility connections for every staff apartment.”
Old Ma clutched the keys to Villa Number Twelve, his weathered hands trembling with tears. “My wife has chronic asthma... the mountain air here will save her lungs... Thank you, Chairman Lin! Thank you!”
Tie Niu organized the moving details, his deep voice directing the vans toward the private access bridge connecting the mainland to Emerald River Island.
However, as the lead moving van reached the stone arch of the island bridge, a heavy steel barrier swung shut across the roadway.
CLANG!
A thick iron padlock clicked into place around the barrier chain.
Standing behind the locked gate were twenty private security guards in black uniforms, holding wooden batons and riot shields.
At their head stood a fifty-year-old man with a greasy mustache, a heavy gold neck chain, and a clipboard. He wore an expensive gray windbreaker with the emblem of the Emerald River Property Owners Association.
The man was HOA Manager Wu.
Lin Mo stepped out of his Rolls-Royce Cullinan, followed closely by Tie Niu, Su Wan, and Shen Qiaoqiao.
Lin Mo looked through the metal bars at Manager Wu. “Why is this bridge locked?”
Manager Wu sneered, spitting a mouthful of yellow sunflower seed shells onto the asphalt. He looked at the line of delivery vans, the hospital nurses in work sneakers, and Grandma Chen’s vegetable carts with blatant contempt.
“Why is it locked?” Manager Wu mocked, puffing out his thick chest. “Because Emerald River Island is an aristocratic, high-end residential sanctuary! It was built for international banking elites, tech venture capitalists, and mining executives, not for greasy takeout drivers and hospital bedpan washers!”
He tapped his aluminum clipboard against the steel barrier with an irritating metallic clack.
“I am Manager Wu, appointed by the master developer and the Zhao Consortium Property Board!” Wu barked arrogantly. “Our homeowner charter strictly prohibits commercial delivery vehicles, loud children, and blue-collar rabble from entering this community!”
Behind Wu, twenty security guards banged their wooden batons against their plastic riot shields, attempting to look menacing.
Tie Niu looked at the twenty guards with flat, half-closed eyes. A low, gravelly chuckle rumbled in his chest.
“Wooden sticks and toy plastic shields,” Tie Niu muttered to Lin Mo. “Chairman, give me thirty seconds. I will dismantle that steel barrier and stack those twenty gentlemen neatly inside their own guardhouse like cordwood.”
“No need for physical violence yet, Commander Tie,” Lin Mo said smoothly, his hands resting easily in his overcoat pockets. “We are lawful property owners. We prefer educating the uneducated through proper municipal procedures.”
Shen Qiaoqiao stepped up to the barrier, her gold-rimmed glasses gleaming under the afternoon sun. She tapped the camera on her smartphone, taking clear photos of Manager Wu’s badge, the locked barrier, and the property company logo.
“Manager Wu,” Shen Qiaoqiao said cheerfully, her dimples deepening. “Are you aware that under Section 82 of the Municipal Property Management Law, locking out registered legal property owners constitutes unlawful denial of residential access and criminal extortion?”
Wu waved his clipboard dismissively, scoffing at her warning.
“Save your little law lectures for court, little girl!” Wu laughed. “In this development, my word is the law! If your Taichu Group wants to move these peasants onto our island, you must pay an upfront five-million-yuan ‘Aristocratic Hygiene and Road Wear Deposit’ directly to my property management account!”
He looked directly at Lin Mo with a greedy, extortionate sneer.
“Five million in cash, wired into my personal account by sunset,” Manager Wu demanded, holding out his open palm. “Otherwise, your drivers sleep in their vans on the highway!”
He turned toward the bridge control tower and shouted to his technicians:
“Shut off the island’s master water and power valves right now! Not a single drop of water or kilowatt of electricity enters those villas until Chairman Lin wires five million yuan into my personal account!”