Qi Tongwei certainly wasn't short on money. Recently, he had instructed Old Yi to convert all one hundred million US dollars under his name into Japanese yen and deposit them in the bank.
Ever since the Plaza Accord was signed in 1985, the exchange rate of the Japanese yen had been steadily rising, and this trend was going to last for a whole decade... It would be foolish not to make this money. Originally, there was only one money-guzzling beast at home, but now with a baby girl, that made two.
Qi Tongwei had done the math: the appreciation rate in the Land of the Rising Sun was about 5% annually, meaning his one hundred million US dollars would net five million in interest every year—more than enough to live on.
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