Chapter 76: Malice Surges Like a Tide
"Only $6.2635 million?"
By dawn, Lu Liang had completed his trades and closed his positions. After a detailed calculation, his total profit was $6.289 million. Deducting $25,500 in fees, he pocketed $6.2635 million.
Investing $10 million and achieving a 62.63% profit in less than a week would seem like a remarkable success, but Lu Liang still found it underwhelming. Such modest gains didn’t match the spectacle of witnessing a nation's leader fall from strength to decline under dual economic and political pressure.
This time, Anshan had gone from a "mighty man descending from the heavens" to a "faded egg man." Lu Liang felt a tinge of melancholy, a “when the rabbit dies, the fox grieves” sentiment.
"The real issue is that my capital is too small," he muttered.
If he had the hundreds of billions of dollars of a quantum fund, he could have been the leading actor in this international drama. With only $10 million, he was left to watch others take center stage, feasting on the big profits, while he could only nibble at the scraps.
Humming a tune, Lu Liang left his office for the bathroom to wash up. After an all-nighter, he was oily-haired and haggard. Just then, he ran into Tang Caidie.
“President Lu, were you at the office all night?” she asked, astonished.
"China's God of Speculation"
Japan’s domestic conglomerates? They had already slammed the door on citizens trying to exchange foreign currency, trapping and slaughtering them, and might even have been part of the short-selling force. But Anshan wouldn’t point fingers internally—suicidal eight-gun salutes weren’t his style.
Anshan needed a scapegoat to divert public outrage, just as Soros and the Quantum Fund had been in ’97.
Back then, Soros, known as the “Western Poison,” had been the public face of the assault. Yet, his actual profits had been modest. The real winners remained hidden, basking anonymously in their success.
This time, the ideal target was someone from a "certain great power." The Russians were out of the question—their financial systems were practically nonexistent.