29: Prove your innocence

Watching Ye Su's incredibly confident expression from the side, Chen Xinyi felt her original urge to invest in gold stirring once again.

In Chen Xinyi's view, someone like Ye Su, whose family was in business, should have a better eye for the market than the average person.

The last time he sold the stamp to Wan Yuanliang, it showed that Ye Su really did have a good eye. Coupled with her growing affection for him, Chen Xinyi ultimately chose to trust Ye Su.

Anyway, the money was just sitting there, so she might as well follow his lead and buy some gold futures as an investment.

If she made money, it would be pocket money. If she lost, she would just do what those finance influencers did: post the losses to her account, start a livestream, go hard on PK battles, and find a few cyber-suckers to be the big spenders.

Who knows, maybe combining finance with positive energy would even help her grow her short video account. Then she could spoil a young boy toy and make the man beside her jealous!

Seeing Ye Su still playing on his phone, Chen Xinyi couldn't help but want to tease him:

"So it's for investment. I thought you were looking at gold because you wanted to buy some to trick young girls."

Ye Su retorted: "Yeah, that's exactly what I want to buy it for—to trick young girls. What's wrong? Jealous?"

"Heh, jealous of you?" Chen Xinyi turned ninety degrees, propped her head up with one hand, and lay on her side looking at Ye Su: "Anyway, you have to pay your 'public grain' to me on time. If you still have the energy to think about other girls after that, then that's your skill."

Hey— this woman, what wild words.

"So I'm pouring my heart out to you, and you treat me like a power bank?"

"What do you think?"

"Sigh, I knew it!" Ye Su said with a tragic expression: "Looking like I do, encountering things like this, it's all my own fault!"

"Stop being so full of yourself..."

Out of the blue, Chen Xinyi said to Ye Su, who was engrossed in his acting: "My 'relative' should be coming in a few days."

"Oh." Ye Su said perfunctorily: "Then give my regards to your relative."

"Hmm?"

"Oh!" Ye Su suddenly realized.

gold futures accounts can only be opened on business days, so there was plenty of time over the next two days to look into it.

Ye Su felt that he should focus on what he needed to do now.

...

The next day, the two of them didn't stay cooped up in the apartment all the time.

Taking advantage of the nice weather at the end of March, Chen Xinyi cooked lunch, and Ye Su did the dishes. In the afternoon, the two went out together, strolled around, and grabbed dinner before returning to the apartment.

After resting and recharging in the apartment for a few hours, Ye Su continued to learn about opening accounts and trading gold futures. Relying on the good credit he had maintained through years of cooperation, he borrowed 70,000 yuan from Old Ma.

The daily interest rate was 0.045%. Ye Su planned to borrow it for a month, and the interest would be less than 1,000 yuan, which was within his acceptable range.

Ye Su's requirements weren't high; as long as gold could continue to rise by 5% within a month, he would be satisfied.

One lot of gold futures is 1,000 grams. Based on the current gold price, as long as it rises by 5%, he could make over 30,000!

The system said the gold price would rise, so Ye Su figured it couldn't possibly fail to rise by even 5% after all that trouble.

As for the price of gold rising by more than 5%, Ye Su didn't dare to think about that.

A gram of gold was already over 700 yuan. If it continued to rise by 7% or 8%, that would be just too bizarre.

Everything was ready, just waiting for Monday to open the account. Ye Su temporarily put the matter aside and returned to their life as a couple in the apartment.

They had showered, brushed their teeth, and the atmosphere was just right. Naturally, it was time for their usual routine.

After a bout of physical activity, Ye Su lay in bed to recover and waited for today's intelligence to refresh.

[Ding!]

[Today's Intelligence (Level 2): A coffee table is for sale at the Yirong Second-hand Furniture City on Guanghong Third Road. There is a [qianlong tongbao·back dragon and phoenix lucky coin] hidden inside the table. Suggested selling price: 24,000 yuan.]

"24,000!"

Seeing this number, Ye Su's eyes lit up immediately, and he stared intently at the intelligence on the virtual screen.

Fortunately, Chen Xinyi was busy scrolling on her phone, checking the data for the video she posted in the morning, so she didn't notice the abnormality of the person beside her.

After experiencing the first few Level 2 intelligence reports, Ye Su's psychological expectation for the value of Level 2 intelligence had settled at around 10,000 yuan.

The last time he was able to pick up a stamp priced at 12,000 yuan, Ye Su was already overjoyed.

He didn't expect that this time, the intelligence would double that, reaching 24,000. This refreshed the upper limit of Level 2 intelligence!

As for yesterday's gold intelligence, although Ye Su guessed he could make a profit of over 30,000, that relied entirely on him taking a risk by borrowing money. How it would turn out still depended on the subsequent gold price trend.

If he didn't take this risk and just honestly used the money on hand to buy gold futures, he estimated that in a month, he would make at most a thousand yuan or so. Naturally, Ye Su didn't count this profit as part of the Level 2 intelligence.

Ye Su was also wondering whether he should upgrade Sunday's intelligence to Level 2 as well to further increase the value of the Level 2 intelligence provided by the system, or if the fact that he was able to refresh a 24,000 yuan intelligence this time was purely a coincidence?

With insufficient samples, Ye Su couldn't figure it out. He could only rely on the two intelligence reports next week to verify his guess.

"[qianlong tongbao·back dragon and phoenix lucky coin], huh? Let's see what's going on with that."

Ye Su also followed that bespectacled [Douyin's No. 1 Coin Appraiser] on Douyin and had watched him appraise all sorts of ancient coins, ranging from three figures to six or seven figures.

But he just watched for fun, swiping up and forgetting it. He couldn't even remember if he had ever seen a [qianlong tongbao·back dragon and phoenix lucky coin].

"Twenty-something thousand... thirty-something thousand... Su-mint large dragon and phoenix ones start at 80,000..."

After searching, Ye Su found that the prices for [qianlong tongbao·back dragon and phoenix lucky coin] were all over the place, and there were huge differences between versions. For example, the palace opening coins minted by the Baoquan Bureau could even sell for hundreds of thousands.

Before getting his hands on it, Ye Su had no way of knowing which version the [qianlong tongbao] in the intelligence was.

However, Ye Su also learned that for those ordinary small coins, because they were entry-level, there wasn't much difference in price between the North and the South.

But for special versions and large-sized coins, because the Southern market had earlier research on market segmentation, coupled with some people hyping them up, they could sometimes sell at a 10% premium.

In the North, people preferred high-end coins like palace coins and rare varieties.

"Forget it, I'll wait until I get my hands on it tomorrow to see what it's all about. If I can sell it at a premium like the stamp last time, that would be even better."

Ye Su didn't just "pull up his pants and not recognize anyone"; he still let Chen Xinyi know:

"I have some things to do tomorrow, so I won't wake you up when I leave."

"Things to do?" Chen Xinyi looked at Ye Su suspiciously: "Is it really things to do, or are you going to find some other vixen again?"

Could this woman have fallen for him? Otherwise, why would she be so concerned about whether he was seeing other women?

Sigh— being handsome, there are just so many troubles—

To prove his innocence, Ye Su threw off the quilt and spread himself out in a [big] shape: "Come on."

Chen Xinyi rolled over, staring down at Ye Su: "Bring it on!"

With these two sentences, the second half of the battle began.