Still, Wait For Me

Long ago, it was Indian land.

Four hundred years ago, it was a Dutch wall.

Two hundred years ago, it was the financial seed under the trees.

A hundred years ago, it created the rise of America.

Later, it became a financial net that spread to the world.

This net is powerful and fragile, bright and dark.

This network can both accelerate and stifle the economy.

It's Wall Street.

South of Manhattan, New York City, stretches from Broadway Road to the East River, a street just a third of a mile long and just 11 metres wide, and its name is Wall Street.

It can be a sleepless golden lighthouse, a stage of carnival, or, a desolate, wrecked... super graveyard.

2008, September.

Gray from Belleston didn't want to get up to work today, and came over and found out that the office coffee machine was broken, so he smashed it.

Strangely, the whole office, nobody thinks there's anything wrong with that.

Merrill's Bogdan threw a bunch of reports out the window...

It hit the head of Lehman Bank employee Edward.

Gray was holding a cardboard box and preparing to go home, thinking about whether to continue paying off the mortgage on the Florida villa. Maybe he should think about losing his job and then take something back.

Morgan Stanley's executive meeting lasted from 3 a.m. to the afternoon of the following day, and no one was allowed to leave.

……

The tragedy finally revealed its original face on Wall Street.

This was originally expected by Zhou Yuande...

Eventually, however, things slowly outstripped everyone's control and imagination. Including the Government of the United States… unless it fails.

Zhou Yuande had placed bets on both sides of this huge bet earlier, because of the odds and leverage, she could not find any chance of losing... Besides, she won and gambled correctly against the financial crisis sweeping the United States.

It's a gamble, the idle wins, but the grains are gone. Is that possible?

Perhaps there is only one answer - the dealer is bankrupt and unpaid.

After the CDO in her hand first turned into a pile of scrap paper, Zhou Yuande suddenly realized that her real bet, CDS, was the same fate. It's like you bought insurance, paid a lot of premiums, and when you get paid... the insurance company goes down.

This is not exactly the same as in previous generations. In previous generations, CDS phones existed until the last minute, and there were still people who succeeded in taking chestnuts out of the fire, and in this world, almost “no one survived”.

In previous life, more than 160 banks collapsed before and after the financial crisis in the United States.

Wall Street's top five investment banks survived only Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and both survived when the Fed took direct action and transformed traditional commercial banks.

In the process.

Acquired by * * * * on the occasion of the bankruptcy of Belleston;

Manage over trillion Merrill Forest securities and sell yourself to Bank of America for about $44 billion;

The fourth largest investment bank in the United States, the Lehman brothers, went bankrupt directly.

Is it bad enough?

The problem is, this world, it's worse.

This life, because of higher debt, * * * * refused to acquire Belsden, which went bankrupt directly. Merrill Forest Securities bond construction, completely lost the acquisition value, direct bankruptcy.

The Lehman brothers, who would have died, did not move a bit.

And Morgan Stanley, who had survived, also seemed to die this time.

Who made this happen?

Who threw it in the tank at the blast site?

The answer is Zhou Yuande himself. As she told Xu Tinsheng earlier, in more than a decade of rebirth, her assets were much larger than imagined… It was precisely as a result that she stepped in completely and took full advantage of the crisis.

Not only did she crush the last straw of the camel, but she also smashed the camel's body to pieces of rock.

……

22 stories tall with a little light on the glass exterior.

On the big screen TV hanging on the other side of the wall, the blonde hostess is recounting the final decision of the United States Government: the Fed is doing its utmost to rescue Goldman Sachs and wish Morgan Stanley luck, while stating that conquest will take the opportunity to completely re-establish the financial order in the United States.

Zhou Yuande removed her gaze from the wall TV and turned to Xu Yanzheng, who was sitting opposite her.

“I don't even have a cds from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, do I?” She asked.

“Yes.” Xu Tiansheng replied.

“So...” Zhou Yuande found out, everything was designed by Xu Tiansheng.

“Both roads are dead. The one I want to induce you to go, is the dead road, which I leave to myself, the back road that you will find, is also the dead road... whichever one, as long as you step in completely, there will be no return.” Xu Tiansheng looked at her and said.

His situation at the moment looks no different than it has been for more than a year, just sitting there alone… but he has actually reversed everything.

“So, Zhang Xingke's betrayal, your desperate suicide... is that the play, the last ring to induce me into the final full bet? ”

“You could say that. Until then, no matter how I behave, no matter how hard I say it, you won't believe it, much less put it all on the table... that's how human nature is, always more willing than others to believe in what you find... and the more tortuous, the harder, the more you almost miss it, the more convinced you are in the end. ”

“Besides, that time I gave you the truth… the most murderous lie in the world is the truth. ”

Xu Tiansheng leaned against the back of the chair, looked out the glass wall and stopped talking.

Zhou Yuande turned his head.

A figure suddenly jumped off the opposite roof.

Neither Xu Tiansheng nor Zhou Yuande knew who this person was and did not care. In these days and in the aftermath, in all corners of the world, the same thing happens countless times —— in peacetime, bankers kill the most, which is a total killing.

In fact, only the few jumped because of the economic turmoil, hunger and disease could plunder more lives.

At the same time, Lu Xuxin, far from Iowa, finally let go helplessly after shouting at his phone countless times... and then cried silently. Just now, after the last call, Lu Xin lost his father after losing his mother under the age of 10.

Lu Pingyuan is dead. He had just jumped off the roof opposite Xu Tiansheng and Zhou Yuandai.

These two men, one for his insanity and the other for his results - in a way, it was Xu Tinsheng who indirectly killed Lu Pingyuan, because he had the opportunity to persuade him not to enter. But at the time Lu Qingxin asked him, because of Lu Pingyuan's relationship with Zhou Yuandei, Xu Tiansheng chose to shut up because of fear of the plan being exposed.

Lu Zhixin will eventually come to understand. He may not resent Xu Tiansheng, but he is also doomed to no longer love.

Her path, how like a king's path, is absolute love, sees dead bones, and then she is alone and she goes nowhere.

* * *

Very depressed, too weak to withstand pressure.

If Zhang Xingke's betrayal and Xu Tiansheng's suicide, he did not write in the text at that time intentionally, nor did he explain at the end of the following chapters... The taste and impact of these chapters “Pingshan Hai" will be mostly less...

How much, wow, so that's it.

Too bad I didn't carry it.