70: This information came just in time!

"Use [Intelligence Upgrade Opportunity] to upgrade tuesday's Level 1 intelligence to Level 2 intelligence."

[Ding!]

[Upgrade Successful!]

The sooner it's upgraded, the sooner you enjoy it.

Seeing that it was only a dozen minutes until midnight, Ye Su immediately used the [Intelligence Upgrade Opportunity] on the approaching tuesday.

"With three Level 2 intelligence reports a week, it's hard not to get rich!"

Besides the three free Level 2 intelligence reports per week, the system also offered a paid upgrade service.

Ye Su had thought about paying to upgrade the Level 1 intelligence, at least to make it more stable and ensure the refreshed intelligence would be valuable.

However, the money in his hands came and went, and he never had enough spare cash to upgrade the intelligence.

Ye Su made up his mind that once the family's debts were cleared, he would start spending money, aiming to upgrade all seven weekly intelligence reports to Level 2 as quickly as possible.

[00:00:01 until the next intelligence refresh, please wait patiently, Host!]

Just as Ye Su was planning for the future, the midnight intelligence was about to refresh.

"The first fresh and hot intelligence report after the upgrade, you better give me something punchy!"

[Ding!]

[Today's Intelligence (Level 2): Half a month of continuous gains has led to an overheated market. It is expected that after experiencing another surge tomorrow, gold prices will begin to fall. Detecting that the Host currently holds two lots of gold futures, it is recommended to clear positions at an appropriate price tomorrow.]

Gold prices were going to fall!

Ye Su had just been struggling with when the right time was to clear his gold futures.

Now, the system had directly solved this trouble for him.

"It will start to fall after another surge tomorrow?" Ye Su rubbed the stubble on his chin in hesitation:

"The problem is, what price will it reach before it starts to fall? Since it's going to fall, can I continue to short gold prices?"

Tossing and turning, Ye Su couldn't figure it out: "Anyway, I know I need to clear my position tomorrow. Time to sleep."

He pulled up his quilt and didn't care about anything else.

Fearing that if he kept thinking about it he would get insomnia, Ye Su closed the system interface, put the gold price matter to the back of his mind, and gradually drifted off to sleep.

...

"No, it's time to clear the position. Earning a little less is fine; don't lose all the profits from this period just to be greedy for the last penny."

At yesterday's close, the gold price was 805 yuan. Ye Su had originally planned to stop when it hit 810.

But when he woke up today, the gold price had already risen to 810, causing Ye Su to raise his psychological expectations further.

Until the gold price soared all morning, rising from 810 to 820, and the global market fell into a frenzy. Ye Su could no longer stay calm and chose to sell his two lots of gold futures.

Even though it was already at a high of 820 yuan per gram when he sold, it still couldn't stop the enthusiasm of investors.

It didn't take long for Ye Su's two lots of gold futures to be taken off his hands.

"236,000!"

On April 7th, following the intelligence's prompt, he entered the market again. In just half a month, relying on a 180,000 margin, he achieved a profit of 236,000, a return rate of a full 131%!

Ye Su finally understood the saying: "Even a pig can fly if it stands in the path of a strong wind."

With the help of the intelligence prompt, stepping into the path of the surging gold prices, Ye Su felt he was that flying pig.

In half a month, achieving a 131% return rate made Ye Su want to say: "Buffett is nothing much compared to this."

"The system said gold prices will start to fall. Should I reverse and short a lot?"

The intelligence only said that gold prices were about to fall and suggested he clear his gold futures, but it didn't say how far the gold price would fall in the future.

This made Ye Su itch with desire; he wanted to short gold, but he was afraid that gold prices would be like last month—falling weakly for a moment, and then surging wildly again within two days.

"Forget it, it's better to quit while I'm ahead. There's an endless amount of money to be made in society. There's no need to keep taking risks in futures. If I end up crashing, that would be a joke."

With the information gap provided by the system intelligence, he could almost guarantee a profit in whatever he did. Ye Su felt there was no need to keep relying on [gambling] to make money.

Having figured this out, Ye Su withdrew the money from his account and paid off the 50,000 yuan loan borrowed from Lao Ma.

"395,000!"

Looking at the savings he currently had, as calculated on the calculator, Ye Su's mouth stretched from ear to ear.

"There's also the 100,000 yuan worth of face masks stocked at my brother's place, the two bottles of 30-year-old Moutai in the rental, and a commemorative silver coin from the founding of the nation."

As he calculated, Ye Su giggled.

It was just that he was lying in bed, and Ye Su knew how to restrain himself, so he didn't laugh out loud.

Otherwise, if his three roommates saw this look on his face, they would probably be scared enough to find a Taoist priest to help him exorcise the demons.

"Right, the face masks."

Ye Su opened the browser again and found that the brand and the channel agents hadn't officially fallen out yet.

"Adding up several channels, they can sell at least hundreds of thousands of face masks a month. With such a large market, surely after running out of stock, they can't fail to digest even 1,000 face masks, right?"

After weighing the pros and cons and deciding that he could continue to stock up, Ye Su opened the shopping app again and placed an order for 100,000 yuan worth of face masks.

"One thousand face masks, with a premium of 200 yuan each. If they all sell, that's 200,000 in profit. Give 20% to my brother, and I'll take two-thirds of the remainder. That's a little over 100,000."

After calculating the profit from selling the face masks, the smile on Ye Su's face deepened a bit more.

As for the one-third profit that Chen Xinyi took, Ye Su didn't really care.

Even if he hadn't brought her into the partnership, Ye Su estimated that he would have just invested 200,000 to stock up anyway.

Now, with Chen Xinyi's 300+ face masks, it just meant taking on a little more risk, while letting his brother get an extra 10,000+ in dividends, which didn't affect his own profit at all.

"There's 295,000 left. Tonight, I'll send another 100,000 to my mom so the family can handle this month's debts. Next month, the funds from the face masks will return, and I'll have an excuse to transfer money home again. At this rate, I'll soon be able to logically pay off the remaining 350,000 in debt."

As the money in his account grew, Ye Su no longer considered the family's debt a big deal.

If it weren't for fear of worrying his family, it wouldn't be hard for him to pay off the 300,000+ debt in one go.

So what Ye Su wanted to do most now was to let the four members of his family stop worrying about the debt and let their lives return to normal.

...

"Are you crazy? It can still keep rising?"

Waking up in the afternoon with nothing to do, Ye Su checked the gold price again and found that it hadn't started to fall as he expected. Instead, it was trending even higher, on the verge of breaking through the 830 yuan per gram mark.

As for clearing his position too early and losing out on tens of thousands of yuan, Ye Su didn't feel too much heartache.

For things like futures, being able to run away in time after making money is better than anything else.

He just sighed that this world was too crazy; even gold had risen to a peak that people previously dared not imagine.