Nathan and the Twelve-Year Gamble Chapter 55

As the rent of the beauty salon increased so much, Ava simply sold the shop. She wanted to reopen the dance school, but Bella had already gone to the United States and co-founded a children's dance training school in Houston with her classmates. The school is currently in its infancy.

I have been trying to do something practical. The stock market was pretty calm in 2012. I had been trading for a while but had been making profits and losses with no improvement. I became anxious, but I couldn't find any project that was sure to make a profit, and I didn't dare to invest blindly.

I visit Gabriel every month. Given his explosive temper, I'd be thankful if he didn't get into trouble or get into a fight or get sentenced to extra time in prison. Although we only said a few words each time we met, I felt at ease when I saw that he was safe and sound.

More than a year passed, and in 2013, a girlfriend of Ava who married to Hong Kong suddenly contacted us. Her husband is a very powerful Chinese American. A few years ago, he won two projects from the court auction in Beijing. One is a real estate project in the south of the city. After the auction, many residents in the building occupied the houses and refused to move out. The other is an underground property parking space in the south of the city. There are as many as 1,000 parking spaces used as collateral by the developer. The parking spaces have been transferred to her husband's name, but after three years, they have not been cleared and sold because of the occupation of the owners of the community. Ava's classmates asked us if we could help.

We all thought this was a good opportunity to make money. I am a native of South City. Although I have not been working properly over the years, I have accumulated some connections. So I immediately contacted a few buddies and asked Dapeng to be my assistant. I also asked Ethan Zhou and Fourth Brother if they could borrow a few dozen people from their subordinates. They said it was no big deal. We have plenty of people, all of whom are over 1.80 meters tall and can be used at any time.