In the rented room, the lights were dim.
Shen Yan's eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at the screen of the old laptop in front of him.
The 270,000 yuan borrowed from the underground bank, plus the 20,000 yuan he scraped together, totaled 290,000 yuan!
This was his entire gamble! It was his hope to defy fate!
His fingers trembled as he opened the virtual currency trading platform he was so familiar with in his previous life.
Time was short!
Tomorrow, that "Mars Cult Leader" Elusk, who loved to boast online, would start hyping and promoting products.
He had to convert all his money into cat coin tonight... At the same time.
On the outskirts of the city, in the back office of the underground bank.
The boss of the underground bank was listening to his subordinate's report.
"Boss! We found it! That kid threw all his assets into the virtual currency platform and is now buying something called... what was it, cat coin!"
cat coin?
The boss frowned. Why did that name sound so... unreliable? Like a joke.
But then he thought about Young Master Lu's instructions... Who cares! Even if it was a trap, he had to jump in now.
Otherwise, displeasing that person would be even more terrifying than losing money.
"I don't care if he's buying dog shit coin or cat shit coin!"
He slammed the table and roared at his subordinate.
"Withdraw all the money we can move from our accounts! Immediately! Right now! Go buy that coin too!"
His trusted subordinate next to him couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Big Brother, is this thing... reliable? I've never even heard of it. What if it's a scam?"
The man in the Tang suit snorted coldly, "What do you know! We have a big shot backing us up. Just do as I say!"
With that command, a large amount of capital belonging to the underground bank, like a silent undercurrent, began to quietly pour into the cat coin market, frantically placing orders for acquisition!
The reason Lu Cheng did this was simple.
For a niche market like cat coin, with a capital volume of only a few hundred million, the most direct way to reduce Shen Yan's profits was for someone to raise prices and follow suit, especially if their capital volume was hundreds or thousands of times yours...
However, this small amount of money had not yet reached the level for Lu Corporation to get involved.
It was better to throw it to these new subordinates he had recently acquired; on one hand, it was to let them get a taste, and on the other hand... once the underworld tasted sweetness from you, would they let you go?
Moreover, they still held a leverage against Shen Yan... It was just that this poor Son of Fortune hadn't discovered it yet... Shen Yan was fully focused on the trading platform, operating step by step.
His plan was to first buy coins from small individual investors; although the quantity was small, this part was cheap.
After buying from individual investors, he would then purchase in bulk from large merchants.
Building his position this way would allow him to achieve the lowest price and extract maximum profit.
He couldn't help but sigh, if he hadn't been held back by Tang Yurous in his previous life, he probably would have established his own business empire long ago.
Everything he lost in his previous life, he would get back in this life!
But before he had bought much, he suddenly noticed something was wrong!
What's going on?
The platform's trading area suddenly saw a large number of high-value acquisition orders!
Moreover, the asking prices for those acquisition orders were directly more than double the current market price!
Holy crap!
Shen Yan's head felt a bit fuzzy.
There were still more than ten hours until Elusk's tweet, so why would anyone be buying in such large quantities at this time? And with such an outrageous asking price?
In his previous life... there was no such thing in his previous life!
Could it be Elusk or the people behind him, entering the market early before the official hype?
That's not right!
In his memories of his previous life, he hadn't heard of this event!
However... in his previous life, he was merely an observer, still trying to make money through part-time jobs to be Tang Yurous's simp... He only learned about the surge later from news and conversations with classmates.
So, he wasn't clear about the inside details of these transactions.
He tried to continue buying at the previous low price, but he couldn't buy any at all!
With high-priced acquisition orders ahead, the system wouldn't let him buy at a low price...
"Damn it!"
Shen Yan cursed under his breath, his heart filled with anxiety.
How could he make money like this?
His original estimated profit of at least twenty-five times was directly cut by more than half!
Buying at this price now, even if it reached its peak later, he would at most earn about ten times.
As he hesitated, those large acquisition orders on the screen went crazy, as if they had unlimited funds, buying as much as there was, and even the acquisition price was slowly rising.
Shen Yan looked at his account; he hadn't bought much cat coin at all yet.
He realized he couldn't wait any longer!
If he didn't follow now and waited any longer, let alone ten times, he might not even get a taste!
Shen Yan gritted his teeth, a hint of helplessness and ruthlessness flashing in his eyes.
Ten times it is!
It's better than no profit at all!
At least he could earn around three million!
That should be enough to "redeem" Qing He from that scoundrel, right?
He no longer hesitated, raising his acquisition price and chasing those large orders, pouring all his remaining funds into it!
...A sleepless night.
Shen Yan, like a red-eyed gambler, guarded the computer intently.
He kept operating, buying, buying, and buying again!
It wasn't until dawn that he finally converted all his money into cat coin.
Looking at the long string of numbers representing the quantity of cat coin in his account, he let out a long sigh of relief.
Although the final position-building price far exceeded expectations, and the planned super-profit shrank to about ten times.
But he calculated that even so, as long as cat coin could rise to its peak, he could still net nearly three million!
Three million!
"Qing He... wait for me!"
"I'll be there... to save you soon!"
But for some reason, he always had a vague sense of unease in his heart.
He always felt that this surge in cat coin seemed to have deviated subtly from the trajectory in his memory.
It was as if an invisible hand was secretly interfering with everything.
Shaking his head, he attributed this to being too nervous.
After all, this event wasn't something he personally experienced in his previous life, so maybe this was how it was.
Reborn, the first battle must be a success!
...Time passed by minute by minute.
Finally, it was noon on June 1st!
Shen Yan kept refreshing Elusk's social media page on his phone!
Here it comes!
Finally!
Elusk posted his first tweet about cat coin!
"Cats can fly to the moon too! #maomaobicoin"
Almost instantly!
It was like lighting a powder keg!
The price of cat coin began to skyrocket like a wild horse unbridled!
Immediately following!
Elusk then posted several more highly inflammatory tweets!
"Cats are so cute, why not make them a currency!"
"GOGOGO Take off, how fast is cat coin rising?"
The market went completely insane!
Countless individual investors and speculators, drawn by the news, swarmed in!
The price of cat coin surged all the way!
The numbers in Shen Yan's account also skyrocketed at a visible rate!
A cost of 300,000... quickly turned into 1 million! 1.5 million!
And it was still rising!
"Hahaha! Rise! Rise fiercely for me!"
Shen Yan trembled with excitement as he looked at the astonishing numbers in his account!
An unprecedented sense of control, a thrill of dominating his own destiny, instantly swept over his entire body!
"I succeeded! I succeeded!"
"Millions! This is just the beginning!"
"Is this what it feels like to grasp the future?"
His eyes gleamed with greedy and fervent light.
According to his memories from his previous life, this last wave of market activity was far from its peak; there was still a higher point!
What he needed to do now was endure.
Endure until the highest point before selling, maximizing profit!
...Underground Bank Back Office.
The man in the Tang suit looked at the real-time price trend of cat coin displayed by his subordinate, and then at the long string of value in his own account...
"Holy crap!"
He couldn't help but blurt out a curse, his voice somewhat distorted.
"It's truly incredible!"
"One day! Just one day! It rose so much?"
He was instantly filled with awe for Young Master Lu, whose name he knew but had never met!
Forget being a subordinate, now if he were asked to be a grandson, he would agree... This Young Master Lu... was simply a living God of Wealth!
No wonder they say these rich big families make money so fiercely... He worked hard lending money, even usury, but it wasn't this fast!
But then, a hint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes.
He coldly instructed the subordinate next to him:
"Keep a close eye on that kid's contract."
"When the time is right."
"You can get ready... to close the net."