Reborn with Consumption System

Under Han Lie’s golden words, their operations were going smoothly and effortlessly.

When trading closed on Wednesday and the Dragon-Tiger list for Yingkou Port was just released, all the forums instantly exploded.

The top two selling positions were again institutional seats, dumping a full 800 million, but today no one was afraid—instead their fighting spirit was high and they were itching to charge in.

Because Brother Win held the line and locked the limit-up.

Even the institutional main force couldn’t smash it down, which proved that a considerable amount of external funds were optimistic about Yingkou Port turning from a flood dragon into a true dragon. Plus, the buy orders were quite scattered, a typical case of market synergy, and the upside space suddenly opened up.

"Brothers, charge in boldly!"

"The new top buyer is the well-known private fund Taifu, and number two is Ningbo Yinhe Brokerage; this fully shows the market has already reached a consensus, funds are Healthly handing off the baton, surpassing Beihe is just around the corner!"

"Beihe is actually still locked in a one-word limit-up, and there’s been no volume release till now. Just how bullish are the institutions on the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Free-Trade Zone?"

"Time to gamble on guts; win and it’s clubbing with hot models, lose and we go to the docks to do hard labor!"

"Yeah, go all-in till it’s dead!"

Liu Hanhe scrolled through the forum sentiment and for the Nth time reached up to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

Today, they missed failing to hold the line by just a tiny bit.

If Han Lie hadn’t slowed down his selling speed and frequency, that 800 million they scraped together with their lives on the line absolutely wouldn’t have been enough to lock the limit-up.

Once it got out of control...the consequences would’ve been unimaginable.

"That kid Han Lie is actually pretty damn trustworthy..."

Hu Lei was shouting loudly in the teleconference room, looking to be in a great mood.

"Damn it!" Bao Bin still seemed a bit pissed, but more than that, resigned. "A blessing in disguise... If that little bastard had played dirty with us and smashed even harder, I really wouldn’t have been able to hold on."

Gao Fengbo curled his lips, hiding his expression in the sunlight outside the window.

From the first time he delivered a watch to Han Lie, he had already started to envy this lucky kid.

Over forty, career successful, yet he had to lower himself in front of a 20-year-old young man—that really was hard to swallow.

And that deal hadn’t brought him any benefit at all.

He actually lost money; the bonus didn’t even cover the value of that watch.

The promotion and track switch, he failed to win that too.

So on the surface he was all warmth and enthusiasm toward Han Lie, but deep down he carried a tinge of dissatisfaction, which then grew more and more intense as Han Lie’s attitude stayed cold.

When drinking with Gao Yijun, the two of them often vented about Han Lie.

Asking for too much, too inhuman—those points really hit home for the two Gaos.

With this time’s crash in Yingkou, Gao Fengbo’s dissatisfaction directly turned into intense hatred.

Even though the one at fault was him, not Han Lie, this society doesn’t bother with reason to begin with—my position is high and my power great, I’ve always enjoyed all kinds of privileges, so why should I be reasonable?!

Even back in a time like 2023 there were little fairies dragging their entire alma mater down with them, all righteously; human nature has always been like this.

What really made Gao Fengbo suffer was...

He actually knew very clearly that after missing this time, he basically had no ability to hurt Han Lie ever again.

The gap in status and wealth would only grow wider and wider; they wouldn’t be in the same class anymore—who’s going to hurt whom then?

The more he thought about it, the more stifled Gao Fengbo felt.

Only this once, gathering all the Strength of Liu Hanhe, Bao Bin, Hu Lei, himself, and the leaders behind them, did they barely have the qualifications to arm-wrestle with Han Lie.

But damn it, why was Liu Hanhe such a coward?!

Just let Han Lie dump then!

The little bastard would be taking a real, hard loss on the way out, while they’d just be stuck for a while. The bull market is right in front of us—how long can we stay stuck?!

From Gao Fengbo’s perspective, his thinking wasn’t wrong; in theory, it was perfectly sound.

But he was thinking purely from his own angle: he’d bought less, his average price was lower, and his margin ratio and financing costs weren’t particularly dangerous—he could hold on.

Liu Hanhe and the others were never going to accompany him in going crazy.

"Sigh..."

The sigh puffed out along with the smoke, and he lazily added, "We did hold the line today, but tomorrow the pressure’s still going to be brutal..."

"Tomorrow?"

Liu Hanhe smiled with confidence. "Tomorrow we rest."

Hu Lei’s spirits lifted. "You really that sure?"

"Relax!"

Since they’d managed to lock the limit-up today, Yingkou Port would be temporarily suspended tomorrow due to abnormal price deviation, giving them a full day to catch their breath.

It’s worth stressing that the Shanghai market doesn’t have a fixed regulatory mechanism for abnormal price moves; it’s different from the Shenzhen market.

The reason both Liu Hanhe and Han Lie judged that the stock would very likely be suspended tomorrow was because they’d put a lot of thought into studying the current regulatory habits and were quite familiar with them.

CITIC had already received inquiries from higher-ups yesterday, proving Yingkou Port had been placed on a key monitoring list.

With today’s massive-volume limit-up, a suspension tomorrow was inevitable.

In fact, they guessed right.

On Thursday, Yingkou Port issued an announcement: trading suspended for one day.

The main index gave them face by holding above 2100 points and continued its push toward 2200.

Without the leader attracting all the attention, the entire Free-Trade Zone sector surged, with 17 stocks hitting limit-up, igniting enthusiasm across the whole market.

Han Lie took the opportunity to cut his position down to just one-third.

On Friday, the broader market was very weak, closing the day with a doji candlestick.

The overall momentum was gone, but a considerable chunk of funds flowing out of heavyweight stocks moved directly into the Free-Trade Zone sector, pushing the theme further up.

Quite a few retail investors were already shouting that "the laggards have at least 20 centimeters of catch-up" to go.

Yingkou Port looked very strong today.

To be precise: it didn’t soar wildly, always oscillating in a 3% to 5% range above the waterline, but it just wouldn’t drop.