Chapter 120: Disregarding Obstacles, Acting Willfully
Time passed minute by minute, and Gu Keqing's heartbeat grew faster and faster. She kept looking at her watch, anticipating the results after 20 minutes.
"Keqing Jie, you don't need to be so anxious. Relax and don't worry too much."
Gu Keqing replied, "A Lang, you didn't notice just now, but the male trader who helped you open a position and buy 17 million chinese yuan worth of copper futures contracts had a subtle sneer on his face."
Lin Lang asked, "What do you mean? Did that male futures trader look down on me?"
"It's not necessarily looking down on you, but he definitely doesn't favor you going all-in and buying with all your chips right away."
Lin Lang replied calmly, "Jie, you don't need to care about what others think. You should believe that I am the Son of Fortune~"
Gu Keqing replied with a hint of worry, "You're a professional at appraising antiques, and you even blindly gambled and cut out Imperial Green when gambling on stones. Can you really be as accurate in futures trading as you are in stock trading?"
Lin Lang said jokingly, "Who told me I have such good luck with women? Even the Fortune Goddess favors me!"
"Hehe… A Lang, stop bragging here~"
"Keqing Jie, if I make a lot of money trading futures later, will you be tempted to join in?"
Gu Keqing replied proudly, "Don't tempt me to trade futures. Jie is now a small rich woman with a net worth of one billion, and she has already achieved financial freedom. Isn't it good to be content with a little wealth?"
"If Jie deposits one billion chinese yuan in the bank, she can earn 35 million chinese yuan a year just from the interest on large-denomination certificates of deposit. She has nearly 100,000 in pocket money every day, so why would she take risks to trade futures?"
"Jie, what you said makes sense. Contentment brings lasting happiness."
"In this day and age, with one billion chinese yuan coldly sitting in a bank account, that's not just being content with a little wealth. Jie, you are super rich, aren't you~"
Gu Keqing said with a touch of playful pride, "A Lang, why are you still acquiring internet companies and starting businesses?!"
"Wouldn't it be better to travel the world with Jie?"
Lin Lang dramatically tossed his hair and replied, "A good man's ambitions lie in all directions; how can he long remain subordinate, lingering in a gentle embrace?"
"A Lang, you really have some backbone~"
Lin Lang replied, "Jie, you misunderstood. It's not that I don't want to be a kept man living off a woman, but being a kept man cannot last a lifetime."
"Women have a time when their beauty fades, and men also have a day when they are no longer handsome. As long as a man has money, he can be awesome, and he will always be awesome if he always has money."
"A Lang, Jie will also have a day when her beauty fades. Will you dump me then?!"
Lin Lang replied sweetly, "Keqing Jie, your beauty is in your bone structure, not your skin. Time never defeats a beauty."
Gu Keqing smiled charmingly after hearing this, "A Lang, your mouth is so sweet. Is this mouth of yours born to coax women?"
"This mouth of Jie is born to coax you."
"Hehe..." Gu Keqing smiled happily.
As they chatted.
Gu Keqing noticed that the price of copper futures on the large display screen in the futures trading hall suddenly began to soar by 15%, and she couldn't hide her excitement as she said, "A Lang, look quickly, copper futures actually rose!"
"It's only been ten minutes since you bought, and A Lang, you've already earned 2.55 million!"
Lin Lang, however, replied without a ripple, "Didn't I say I have good luck with women, and the Fortune Goddess favors me?!"
Gu Keqing said with a beaming smile, "Jie doesn't like your good luck with other women, but Jie absolutely loves that the Fortune Goddess favors you!"
"A Lang, you've already earned 2.55 million. Do you want to quit while you're ahead and sell your copper futures?"
Lin Lang glanced at his Rolex watch and replied, "Don't rush. It hasn't been 20 minutes yet. I'll sell when it hits 30%."
Gu Keqing said somewhat excitedly, "A Lang, your psychological fortitude is really good. You earned 2.55 million in ten minutes, and your expression didn't even change. Do you also not blush or skip a beat when you're lying to girls?"
"Uh... Jie, you're joking. I'm an honest and well-behaved child, I'm very obedient!"
Gu Keqing teased, "Are all honest children supposed to die from a plague, leaving only you, a playboy, pretending to be an honest child in front of Jie?"
"Uh... Jie, you're slandering me!"
"Keqing Jie, you're defaming me. Although my purity isn't obvious enough, I'm not that bad, am I?!"
Gu Keqing gave a sneering look after hearing this, not looking at Lin Lang kindly, and suddenly questioned, "Tell me honestly, have you slept with Chu Yiren?"
Lin Lang wiped away cold sweat after hearing this, shaking his head like a rattle-drum, denying vehemently, "No! Absolutely not!"
Gu Keqing asked suspiciously, "Really not?"
Lin Lang replied truthfully, "Really not!"
"I don't believe you haven't slept with Chu Yiren."
Lin Lang raised his hand and swore, "Jie, I can swear to heaven that I really haven't slept with Chu Yiren. If I'm lying, may I be struck by lightning!"
Lang Ge dared to make such a venomous oath because he really hadn't slept with Chu Yiren, or rather, he really wanted to, but hadn't succeeded yet.
Gu Keqing smiled happily after hearing this, then narrowed her eyes and said, "A Lang, don't say I didn't warn you, Chu Yiren is not someone you can provoke. I'll just tell you one thing, and you'll be scared."
Lin Lang couldn't help but ask curiously, "What is it?"
Gu Keqing replied, "When Chu Yiren was 6 years old, her mother bought her a cloth doll before she passed away. Chu Yiren slept with that cloth doll every day. She held it from childhood to adulthood, and that cloth doll she slept with never changed. Now it's tattered into rags, but she still can't bear to throw it away."
"Chu Jincheng had a new, identical cloth doll custom-made for her, but Chu Yiren didn't want it. She only wanted the cloth doll that was already tattered into rags, like a kind of dependence, a kind of sentiment, a devotion that was almost obsessive."
"Now Chu Yiren is 26 years old, and every night when Chu Yiren sleeps, she still clutches the rags of the cloth doll in her hand before she can sleep peacefully."
"A Lang, if you provoke Chu Yiren, and if she falls in love with you, then you'll be like that cloth doll. If you want to get rid of Chu Yiren, then you'd better buy your coffin in advance!"
"Uh..."
Lin Lang wiped away cold sweat, thinking, "It's too late to say anything now! I've already provoked Chu Yiren, she's already fallen in love with me, and I've even fallen in love with her. What the hell am I going to do?!"
After thinking, Lin Lang laughed awkwardly, "Keqing Jie, don't worry! I don't have that much charm. How could the arrogant Chu Family Consortium's young lady, Chu Yiren, easily fall in love with me?!"
Gu Keqing replied after hearing this, "That's good!"
"Otherwise, what if one day you are physically 'disappeared' by the Chu Family Consortium, wouldn't Jie cry herself to death?"
"Uh... Keqing Jie, what you said is so scary!"
Gu Keqing couldn't help but laugh and said, "If I don't scare you a bit, how will you realize the seriousness of the problem?"
"A Lang, you are an orphan. If you are physically 'disappeared' and become a missing person, no one will report it except me. You don't want the country to waste police resources looking for you, do you?"
"Uh..."
Lin Lang quickly changed the subject, pointing at the large screen in the futures trading hall and saying, "Keqing Jie, look quickly! In less than twenty minutes, the increase in copper futures has already reached 30.6%!"
Gu Keqing excitedly stood up from her chair, shocked, "No way? Copper futures actually surged by over 30.6% within 20 minutes!"
Gu Keqing was so shocked her mouth couldn't close.
"nice!" Lin Lang snapped his fingers.
"See? I told you copper futures would rise!" Lin Lang said triumphantly to Gu Keqing.
Gu Keqing quickly reminded him, "A Lang, what are you still doing? Go find the futures trader and immediately sell all the long positions in copper futures you hold!"
Lin Lang quickly found the male trader who had helped him buy copper futures earlier and gave the instruction to clear his position and sell.
The male futures trader quickly complied, operating the sale on the computer system according to Lin Lang's authorization.
After the successful trade, the male futures trader exclaimed, "Oh my god!"
"Mr. Lin, you bought 17 million chinese yuan worth of N lots of copper futures, held them for less than 20 minutes, and made a net profit of over 5.2 million chinese yuan on the sale. Your luck is simply too good!"
Lin Lang merely smiled calmly.
Gu Keqing, standing by his side, was even happier than Lin Lang, cheering excitedly, "A Lang, you just earned 5.2 million~"
Lin Lang smiled without speaking.
People in the futures trading hall, hearing that someone had earned 5.2 million chinese yuan by going long on copper futures in less than 20 minutes, gathered around enviously to watch.
Seeing that the person who earned 5.2 million chinese yuan from a single futures trade was just a young man in his early twenties, everyone was surprised.
Just as Lin Lang and Gu Keqing were being watched by the onlookers in the futures trading hall, the system's prompt sound rang in Lin Lang's mind again.
Ding! "Congratulations to the host for completing the first futures transaction and obtaining excess profits. In the next 8 minutes, the long positions in rubber futures will be trampled, triggering capital outflow, and due to speculative selling pressure, it will plummet by 47.8%..."
After seeing the prompt for shorting rubber futures on the virtual system's light screen, Lin Lang immediately issued a trading instruction without hesitation.
"Immediately help me buy 30 million chinese yuan worth of short positions in rubber futures, use the remaining 15.4 million chinese yuan in the account as margin. Quick, quick, quick! Speed!"
The male futures trader exclaimed in surprise, "Mr. Lin, I must remind you that rubber futures have been steadily strengthening and rising for over half a year, with only small fluctuations."
"You just opened a futures account today and you're going all-in on shorting rubber futures. The risk of liquidation is very high. We futures traders have an obligation to remind you of the huge risk of liquidation!"
Gu Keqing frowned slightly after hearing this and said, "A Lang, you should listen to advice! Futures traders are very experienced. The risk of shorting in futures trading is usually greater than the risk of going long."
Lin Lang, however, ordered without hesitation, "I will bear all risks alone. Buy, buy, buy, buy quickly!"
The male futures trader could only rush to comply, buying N lots of short positions worth 30 million chinese yuan for Lin Lang and paying 15.4 million chinese yuan in margin.
In the futures trading hall, the onlookers who were watching Lin Lang and Gu Keqing were all shocked.
"Whoa..."
"Young man, you're too young. Futures trading isn't played like this. With your style of play, if you get liquidated, you'll be jumping off a building!"
"Yeah!"
"Rubber futures have been strengthening for almost a year, with only minor fluctuations. The bulls have been singing all the way, and there must be a big market maker behind them. If you go against the trend and short, you could be liquidated by the bulls at any minute."
"Exactly!"
"This year, I followed the trend and went long on rubber futures, earning 1.2 million in just 2 months. I bet rubber futures will remain strong until at least the end of the year."
"Young man, if you don't listen to advice, you might suffer a huge loss!"
"Look, young man, you just bought a short position in rubber futures, and it's already gone up by another 0.35%. Going long is still more reliable. If you cancel your order now, your loss will be smaller."
Gu Keqing, who was beside Lin Lang, heard this and said with a hint of worry, "A Lang, just listen to them. If you cancel the order now, you can still lose less money. Don't be so willful anymore!"