Reborn with Consumption System

Everything that happened today has once again blown up the industry.

As soon as the leaderboards came out, the party responsible for the sell-off was clear. Anyone who has been watching recent market trends could guess—it’s definitely Han Lie making a move again.

"Wait, how does L-legend still have chips?"

Lingyu’s question in the group chat was the same confusion everyone shared.

Those gossip kings were frantically tagging the Pu Rui and Han He group members, but no one came out to say anything.

"Stop tagging them; they’re probably getting scolded in a meeting right now!"

Indeed, the entire Han He was shrouded in a fierce, oppressive atmosphere. Everyone was busy, glued to their screens without anyone moving around. They even wished they could sip water through a straw quietly.

Actually, Liu Hanhe had not even come out of the chairman’s office, but all employees knew that their chairman was on the verge of exploding.

A single limit-down didn’t bring overall losses to the Han He fund.

Looking at Yingkou Port alone, their cost is at 7.18, while the current price is 7.54, quite a gap.

But everyone knows if this matter isn’t handled well, the coming days would be extremely tough...

In the office, Liu Hanhe was having a small meeting with Hu Lei and Bao Bin, who rushed over.

"We got screwed over by that bastard Gao Fengbo."

A statement of fact, devoid of hatred, just the truth.

Hu Lei responded with a tired "Hmm," "I had someone check; Gao Fengbo divided his money into two parts, the larger part is with his nephew, and the smaller part with his woman. He definitely cashed out today, and won’t stand with us again... So what do we do? Go after him?"

"We have to take him down! Goddamn it!"

Bao Bin was immediately fired up: "If he hadn’t misled us, would we have been so caught off guard?"

This was actually shifting the blame a bit.

If Gao Fengbo hadn’t had ulterior motives and had honestly told them the amount of Han Lie’s chips, the outcome wouldn’t be that different.

They couldn’t gather enough money, couldn’t pick up that many stocks, and any struggle would be futile.

Ask themselves honestly, if they were in Gao Fengbo’s position, they would likely choose self-preservation too.

"We can’t focus on him right now."

Liu Hanhe saw clearly, therefore he entirely didn’t put any thoughts on Gao Fengbo.

"As long as we don’t collapse, there will always be a chance to pin him down. If we can’t withstand it... I reckon he’ll flee abroad, unstoppable.

The real question now is this: Should we continue to negotiate with Han Lie?

If so... what do we talk about?"

Hu Lei sighed melancholically: "My financing came in early, and my cost is lower than yours, so you decide. I’m fine with anything... But be prepared, Han Lie is more difficult to deal with than we expected, so young... truly wicked!"

Liu Hanhe fully understood what Hu Lei meant by "wicked."

Young prodigies aren’t particularly rare in the financial market, but their talents are mostly about sensitivity to trading behaviors, and they still have every flaw common to young people.

Like being thin-skinned, not ruthless enough, socially inept, naive, believing in and respecting promises...

Only by suffering enough losses in the financial world, witnessing human nature’s nastiness, and fully understanding the real rules hidden behind false appearances, could someone develop Han Lie’s style of conduct.

Ruthless, decisive, both patient and unyielding, showing no mercy to enemies...

Indeed, truly wicked.

Liu Hanhe stared at the wall in a daze, where a piece of calligraphy by Mr. Qi Gong hung— "Be cautious to the end, and no disaster will occur."

He curled the corner of his mouth slightly, shaking his head with a self-deprecating smile.

Was I not cautious enough?

Too trusting in Gao Fengbo’s insider information, failing to stay alert when volumes spiked?

But that was how the past month had been...

Facing someone so out of the ordinary, what use is caution!

In fairness, who can maintain 100% alertness all the time facing a 20-year-old kid without any sense of overconfidence?

It’s just meant to be a calamity!

"Play it by ear."

Liu Hanhe dared not dwell on retaining the initiative any longer, his mindset filled with negativity, yet he couldn’t help but hold onto a sliver of hope.

"Be polite when we meet, he’s willing to see us, which means there’s still a chance."

"Don’t worry, I know what’s important."

"Goddamn it!"

Hu Lei and Bao Bin spoke simultaneously, one calmly and the other cursing, but in reality, even the cursing Bao Bin was not disagreeing, just venting his helpless fury.

"By the way, should we ask General Manager Qiu to come?"

"I’ll check with him, he might not want to come."

Liu Hanhe made a call to General Manager Qiu, not mentioning anything else, just happily talking about having dinner with Han Lie today.

Old Qiu laughed it off throughout.

"Oh, I should come by rights, I promised you guys the other day, but really bad timing, I’m still at the office, blocked by a client, you go ahead, have your meal, I’ll finish here and then come find you..."

All useless nonsense.

Clearly, he didn’t want to get involved further, anyone with a bit of life experience could tell.

After hanging up, Hu Lei sneered: "He has a collaboration with Han Lie, even if we give him money, he won’t side with us, as expected!"

"Damn, he plays the middleman role well!"

Bao Bin gritted his teeth in anger: "Han Lie is so disrespectful to him, and he could still endure it!"

Liu Hanhe waved his hand: "The relationship just isn’t strong enough, what can we offer him? Forget it, we’ll handle it ourselves!"