How can I justify myself as a Magnate if I don't indulge myself?

Located on the seventy-seventh floor of the Hushang Financial Center Tower, Gu Heng was sitting alone at the center of his office, which spanned over a thousand square meters.

As the former tallest building in Shanghai, the Hushang Global Financial Center covered an area of 14,400 square meters and had a total construction area of 381,600 square meters, comprising 101 floors above ground and 3 below, reaching nearly 500 meters in height.

Floors 7-77 served as office areas.

The seventy-seventh floor was once the headquarters of Hushang Global Financial Center. Now, with the departures of Mori Building Corporation and American Real Estate Capital, the entire seventy-seventh floor had been cleaned up and renovated.

An almost 3000-square-metre usable area could not possibly all be used for Gu Heng's office alone. Among them, the best 1200-square-meter location was selected and turned into an office for Gu Heng. Inside this 1200-square-meter office were nearly two hundred square meters of lounge, a private gym, an indoor golf entertainment hall, a tea room, and a series of other facilities. The remaining over 2000 square meters were revamped into the chairman's secretariat, the board of directors' deliberation hall, the board of directors' meeting site...

Lavish...

Extremely lavish...

It's no exaggeration to say that typically, this entire floor would be enough for several companies to share, accommodating the office needs of hundreds of employees...

But what about Gu Heng?

Apart from the chairman's secretariat's dozen or so secretaries, he was the only boss who worked there daily...

Those companies worth tens of billions or even hundreds of billions often didn't even have their own headquarters building; how could they afford the luxury of using an entire floor of a super-building that ranks among the top ten nationwide for both the chairman's office and secretariat?

According to market prices, one floor of the Hushang Global Financial Center was worth about three hundred million, but the seventy-seventh floor, being the top and most premium office floor, was valued even higher, around 500 million and above...

And the result? An entire floor worth 500 million, just for a dozen people to work in?

The practical value was way too low.

Averaging out, it was about 50 million in office resources per person...

This kind of extravagant approach to office space wasn't even achievable by ordinary public companies, let alone giants like Tencent and Alibaba with trillion-dollar market caps; if other companies were to visit and see this, they'd probably green with envy.

However, Gu Heng was utterly unaware of his prodigal tendencies.

In his mind, wasn't money meant to be spent?

Though renting out this floor could potentially earn him tens of millions in yearly rent, so what?

He wasn't short of such petty sums...

Turning his chair around, he looked out at the scene of The Bund through the huge floor-to-ceiling window behind him. With his legs crossed and eyes slightly squinting, although his expression was calm, his heart was surging with excitement...

One year...

To be precise, less than a year...

He had transformed from an absolute nobody to the chairman of a conglomerate valued at hundreds of billions...

This kind of leap from the dirt to the clouds, he suspected, was something no one else in the world could experience apart from himself...

Without exaggeration, he was now definitely one of the very elite in Hua Country's upper echelons...

Not only did he possess endless wealth granted by the "system," but he was also under the highest scrutiny; to put it bluntly, as long as he followed the law, there was no one in Hua Country, or even the world, who could pressure him in business...

This was the benefit the mass production technology of the 2nm chip and the entire associated technology chain brought him...

Just then, there was a knock at the door of the office. Gu Heng turned around and said, "Come in."

Following Gu Heng's command, a secretary dressed in professional attire, with gold-rimmed glasses and her long hair pinned up, exuded the charm of a mature woman as she entered...

The chairman's secretariat was a department directly under Gu Heng's sole control. Jiang Ruxue held the position of the director of the secretariat which was further divided into two groups: a public affairs secretary group and a life affairs secretary group.

The role of the public affairs secretary group was akin to an international think tank.

These individuals were top business elites from around the world, usually tasked with handling Gu Heng's miscellaneous trivialities, and strategizing for him during significant events.

The life affairs secretary group was a notch lower, simply assisting Gu Heng with personal matters, guest reception, and scheduling.

And this charming woman before him was Zheng Jiayi, the leader of the life affairs secretary group...

Yes...

She was the same person who had briefly served as Gu Heng's personal butler at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel...

Previously, Zheng Jiayi had an annual salary of less than a million. After Gu Heng recruited her, her salary reached 2.4 million, double what it once was. Although the former Gu Heng had money, he could not conceal the mediocre quality about him, but now things were different...

The current Gu Heng was chairman of the IDE Group, with a net worth of hundreds of billions...

Backed by such a powerful identity, there wasn't a hint of mediocrity about him; even if he were wearing big shorts and flip-flops, people would perceive it as Gu Heng having a unique style, rather than associating him with mediocrity...

Zheng Jiayi also abandoned the notion of how she knew the old Gu Heng, speaking with full respect, she softly said, "Mr. Gu, the reception department called. The Mayor of Shanghai, Mr. Chu, the Mayor of Jingcheng, Mr. Li, and the Minister of Industry, Mr. Hua, will arrive within 10 minutes. The reception department is asking whether you need to personally receive them?"

Gu Heng nodded his head and immediately stood up.

Of course, he needed to receive them...