DLWAV CH18

That day, Country Y’s financial circles held a grand victory banquet. So that afternoon, all of Country Y knew why their stock market had been so volatile over the past half month.

“Hahaha, well done, Country Y’s financial circles!” “Although I lost tens of thousands, I’m still very happy.” “Let’s see if those damn Chinese monkeys dare treat us as leeks again.” “This will let people from other countries know—this is what happens when you look down on us Y Country people.”

Soon, with their extensive publicity, most of Asia knew about this. Then, the new week—the first day Country Y’s stock market opened—the top ten tech companies’ stocks generally surged 15 points. Influenced by them, other companies also rose over 3 points.

Second day: surge of 10 points. Third day: surge of 7 points. Fourth day morning: another surge of 4 points.

Seeing this, countless Country Y ‘experts’ predicted that with the boost from defeating their Chinese enemies, Country Y’s stock market could definitely surpass its level from half a month ago. In other words, Country Y’s stock market could rise for at least three more days.

For a time, countless retail investors waved their just-received monthly salaries, rushing to buy the top ten tech companies’ stocks. But what they never expected was that at this moment, massive sell orders suddenly appeared on the market.

At first, they thought it was just some market makers urgently needing money, so they sold their holdings. Until an hour later, more and more sell orders appeared, with a total amount exceeding six hundred billion yuan. Note that Country Y’s three major stock exchanges had a total market cap of only seven trillion yuan.

“This is bad—someone’s massively selling stocks of major companies—”

By the time they reacted, Country Y’s retail investors had already taken most of these stocks.

“What’s going on?” “Who on earth secretly acquired so many stocks?”

Soon they learned where these sell orders came from. “We’ve traced it—most of the IPs controlling these accounts are from China.”

“What did you say—”

Before they could react, news had already spread throughout Country Y. It turned out that the wastrel rich kid from China really did lose over seventy billion yuan. But long before that, he’d already contacted other Chinese financial companies and reached cooperation agreements with them.

While Country Y’s financial circles united to fight him, other Chinese financial companies had been secretly buying over four hundred billion yuan worth of various Country Y companies’ stocks at low prices. When the news broke, Country Y was in an uproar. Country Y’s stock market—thousands of stocks fell simultaneously, with the top ten tech companies’ decline directly exceeding 20%.

“Damn Chinese people—”

The eyes of Country Y’s financial circles turned red. They never expected this was the wastrel rich kid’s entire plan. Not only had they failed to defeat him, but he’d harvested over three hundred billion yuan from them.

Over three hundred billion yuan— Most importantly, perhaps while they were mocking the Chinese, those Chinese were secretly mocking them too.

“I want to kill them, kill them—”

But now it was too late to say anything. Especially those tech companies—they were already stamping their feet in rage. Especially after their stocks plummeted another 10% the next day.

“Pull it back up—you must pull our stocks back up. This is what you promised when you decided to use our stocks as the battlefield to hunt that Chinese person—”

“It doesn’t matter much that you’ve lost face, but if citizens find out we were involved in this and lost so thoroughly, this will become a humiliation we can never wash away. Our corporate image will suffer devastating damage.”

With no choice, on the third day, these companies and Country Y’s financial circles could only grit their teeth and invest another large sum to go long on the top ten tech companies’ stocks.

But what they never expected was that a week later, just when the stock market was stabilizing, another wave of people began massively selling stocks—

Boom! The eyes of Country Y’s financial circles turned completely red.

“Hahaha, those Y Country people would never expect we’d kill our way back.”

At Huangming Club, Zhou Sheng and others couldn’t help laughing and slapping their palms. That’s right—after selling all their holdings the first time, they didn’t immediately withdraw all their funds. Instead, they switched to new accounts and bought large amounts of low-priced stocks when Country Y’s stock market crashed.

They just waited for Country Y’s financial circles to pull those stocks back up before selling all their holdings again. In this round trip, they earned another one hundred eighty billion yuan. All told, they made nearly five hundred billion yuan this time.

On the vast golf course, enjoying the comfortable sunlight overhead, Zhou Sheng stood up and raised his glass. “Now, let’s all toast Mr. Xiao together. To his foresight.”

Xiao Ruize tossed his club to an attendant beside him and took a glass from another attendant. “Cheers!”

Clink! Seven or eight glasses struck steadily against the rim of Xiao Ruize’s glass.

Meanwhile, the outside world was already in an uproar.

“This twist… how can this be real?” “No wonder when Xiao Ruize lost over seventy billion yuan, the three major banks only shouted threats but took no actual action. Turns out all of China’s other financial companies were already in cahoots with Xiao Ruize.”

“Xiao Ruize actually won!” “I heard that according to the agreement, those financial companies not only have to cover Xiao Ruize’s earlier losses but also give him twenty percent of every profit.”

“In other words, this time Xiao Ruize can get nearly ninety billion yuan in dividends.” “Ninety billion yuan…”

The eyes of China’s upper-class society also turned red. Because adding in the 28% of Xiao Corporation shares Xiao Ruize held, his net worth skyrocketed to one hundred twenty billion yuan—a figure enough to place him among the top ranks of China’s rich list.

“Hahaha, maybe this whole thing has nothing to do with Xiao Ruize at all—maybe it was all Jin Boshi’s operation?” “Don’t forget, Jin Boshi once held the position of Asia regional president at a certain software company. He has that capability.”

But don’t forget that before this, Jin Boshi had barely touched the stock market. So this reason didn’t hold water at all. Which meant—

“This was all Xiao Ruize’s doing.” “Isn’t he supposed to be a wastrel playboy?”

Only then did everyone react. Of course he couldn’t just be a wastrel playboy—could a wastrel playboy play an entire country like a fiddle?

Although they’d often mocked Country Y for being so small, with a population under one hundred million, yet daring to call itself Asia’s number one power. But no matter what, it was still a country!

“Thinking about it this way, when Xiao Ruize won over two hundred million yuan at Huangming in one go, then later made over thirty billion yuan with Bitcoin, and it happened right when Xiao Corporation was suffering heavy losses, perfectly solving their urgent crisis—was this really just his good luck? Really just coincidence?”

Everyone fell silent. Because they weren’t stupid—

The stock market wasn’t like Bitcoin. With Bitcoin, after buying, you just needed to leave it there and wait for it to rise. The stock market, frankly speaking, was a game between people.

So playing stocks required closely following market changes, making judgments at the first opportunity. One wrong move could lead to defeat and total loss. So how could this be summarized with a simple phrase like “good luck”?

After a while, someone finally spoke up. “Does anyone remember that back then, Xiao Ruize got into Qianshi University on his own and graduated successfully from Qianshi University?”

Qianshi University was one of China’s top three universities. They’d really forgotten about this. Because later, Xiao Ruize began indulging in eating, drinking, and entertainment, even able to hand over his family’s billion-yuan fortune to others.

So Xiao Ruize’s image in their minds gradually became that of a wastrel playboy. So by this point, things were already very clear.

“From start to finish, Xiao Ruize was just playing dumb.” “It’s not that he didn’t want to compete—perhaps he simply never cared about the Xiao family’s measly fortune.”

“After all, the guy’s got brains. He can casually make money we couldn’t earn in a lifetime.” “Qianshi’s number one young master, Qianshi’s number one playboy—why does it feel like the positions are reversed?”

One could imagine how many teeth Lin Gaolang ground down and how many phones he smashed hearing this.

On the other side, Xiao Ruize’s bad-influence friends were also dumbfounded. “We promised to be brothers walking together, playboys till our hair turns white. Yet now you’ve quietly gotten ahead.”

Gao Xiong couldn’t help recalling what Xiao Ruize said that day: “But the weather really has gotten colder lately.” He’d felt those words sounded familiar at the time. He never expected Xiao Ruize wasn’t joking.

The key was that others say “when it gets cold, the king goes bankrupt,” but with Xiao Ruize, it became “when it gets cold, countless Y Country stockholders go bankrupt”… So none of that seemed important anymore. What mattered was—

“Young Master Hai is awesome!” “First teaming up with Y Country market makers to harvest Y Country retail investors, then harvesting both Y Country market makers and retail investors together, finally harvesting another crop of Y Country market makers. Y Country’s stock market—Young Master Hai went in and out three times, three times!”

“Y Country’s annual GDP is only three trillion yuan, and now Young Master Hai has harvested two months’ worth of their GDP hahaha.”

“I can’t stand it—I’m going to Y Country’s social media to post, telling them to stop calling it Y Country’s stock market and rename it Y Country Club instead—the kind where customers come to play and get tipped money.”

“No need—Chinese netizens have already flooded Y Country’s social media sites, just to tell them that Y Country’s tallest building is the National Assembly Building, telling them to go jump from that one!”

“They used to step on Young Master Hai to mock us Chinese. How happily they laughed back then is how loudly they’re crying now.”

“Hahahaha.”

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