Happy Beans

The teacher, not noticing anything unusual, lowered her head and searched through the roster, marking something down.

Tan Cheng turned her head in surprise, in her impression, Chen Xiao didn't seem like he would do something like that.

“Classmates, going to university is not liberation, but a new journey.”

“I hope everyone can respect knowledge, and not be like Ji Yuzheng, who just smiles foolishly while holding his phone, unable to answer any of the three mainstream currencies circulating in human economic society. If you don't know money, how will you make money in the future?”

“Hahahaha…”

The classroom erupted in another burst of laughter.

Chen Xiao was a bit speechless. Who the hell knew the teacher would ask such a simple question?

As for how to make money?

He had just made over a million in class; he wondered if that counted as making money?

But he didn't intend to argue with the teacher.

“Sit down.”

After a brief lecture, the teacher didn't make things difficult for him.

Chen Xiao smiled at the teacher and obediently sat down.

Liu Xin, beside him, leaned his head over and whispered, “You idiot, were you watching a movie in class?”

Chen Xiao mouthed “Get lost” and then seriously focused on his book.

The rest of the class went quite smoothly. Chen Xiao became aKey Points (key) object of attention and remained well-behaved until class ended.

As soon as class was dismissed, he was the first to rush out of the classroom.

Liu Xin said to Shen Jiancheng behind him, “Look, he runs as fast as a dog, he must be in a hurry to go to the restroom.”

Shen Jiancheng smiled and sighed, “Alas, the mighty mast has turned to ashes! Young man, take care.”

Wu Ling pinched Shen Jiancheng.

Shen Jiancheng immediately cried out, “Ow, ow, ow, that hurts! Are you crazy?!”

Wu Ling said, “However, every time we had class with the music department, Xiao Zi would always find an excuse to leave last, just to get another glimpse of Tan Cheng. It’s really different now.”

“Who knows what’s gotten into him? Come on, let’s go play billiards.”

......

After Tan Cheng stood up, she looked back, intentionally or unintentionally, but didn't even see Chen Xiao's shadow.

She couldn't help but feel a bit dejected.

Before, he would always watch her leave before he departed.

......

Chen Xiao's mind was filled with the million; as for Tan Cheng, she had long been thrown to the back of his mind.

Before returning to the dorm, he first went to the supermarket to buy a pack of his usual cigarettes, and upon reaching the dorm, he directly tossed it to Xiao Ji.

Xiao Ji looked at the cigarettes, completely bewildered.

He asked with a grin, “Xiao Ge, what is this…?”

Chen Xiao said, “Oh, it’s nothing. I just used your name to show off a bit, and this is the copyright and thank-you fee.”

Xiao Ji was stunned for a moment. “Holy crap, you can do that? I can earn cigarettes like this?”

“My name is worth money now?”

“Xiao Ge is generous, but… how did you do it?”

Chen Xiao lit a cigarette and said, “It’s nothing much. In class, the teacher asked a question and I couldn’t answer it. She asked for my name, and I said Ji Yuzheng, and then she wrote it down.”

Xiao Ji: “???”

“Damn it! Xiao Zi, you tricked me!”

Chen Xiao: “Add two more packs.”

Xiao Ji: “Deal.”

He instantly felt that this pack of cigarettes wasn't as burning hot.

Having his name taken down by the teacher was not a good thing. It seemed like he couldn't escape this course.

Xiao Ji snatched the class schedule and, placing it on top of the entire pack of cigarettes, circled all the lessons for that course.

Having dealt with Xiao Ji, Chen Xiao opened his computer and used the calculator to tally his gains from this time.

A principal of 50, magnified 10 times with leverage, was 5 million.

In two days, he gained 23.1 percentage points, profiting 1.155 million.

Adding the 100,000 principal magnified 10 times in class, he gained 5 percentage points, profiting 50,000.

Together, the total profit was 1.205 million.

Including the principal, it was 1.805 million.

Chen Xiao stared at the number for a long time. Leverage was truly a good thing!

Xiao Ji leaned over from behind, “What are you calculating? So many digits?”

Chen Xiao casually said, “Oh, you mean this? This is… Happy Beans.”

Xiao Ji carefully counted, “Ones, tens, hundreds…”

“Just this much? It’s nothing.” Then he said grandly, “Next time, use my account to play. Over ten million to spend freely.”

Chen Xiao looked at Xiao Ji with the loving gaze one would give a foolish son, “Okay, next time we play, I’ll use your account.”

After showing off, Xiao Ji contentedly went back to playing his game.

Chen Xiao held his phone and looked down; a new hidden message had appeared.

“June 3rd, Zhixin Optoelectronics highest increase 10.00%.”

Chen Xiao smiled slightly. Another daily limit.

When he found Zhixin Optoelectronics, the smile on his face grew even brighter.

Because Zhixin Optoelectronics’ second-quarter financial report was not good. With excessive R&D investment and low performance, the market was generally pessimistic about it.

Chen Xiao loved stocks that hit the daily limit, because there was no room for further decline, making them absolutely safe.

But even so, to be safe and to prevent the market from being stagnant today and continuing to fall tomorrow, he chose to invest 1.6 million into the capital market.

Magnified 10 times, that was 16 million.

This was not Xiao Ji’s Happy Beans, but real money!

With such a large sum of money, Chen Xiao could not buy as aggressively as before.

Because the locked-in orders at the daily limit were not particularly numerous, he needed to purchase in batches to avoid causing price fluctuations.

Chen Xiao traded dozens, or even hundreds, of lots at a time.

There might have been a market maker trying to suppress the stock price. Every time Chen Xiao cleared almost all the locked-in orders, new large-amount locked-in orders would appear.

Chen Xiao accepted all comers, buying non-stop.

For a full hour, his fingers ached from fatigue, constantly repeating the same actions.

Chen Xiao increasingly felt that he needed a team.

This was just over ten million, and it was already like this. If the funds were even more, wouldn't he be exhausted to death?

Suddenly, Chen Xiao found that the locked-in orders were gone.

No new locked-in orders appeared.

“Holy crap, it’s not going to start rising, is it?”

However, he quickly relaxed. Perhaps the market maker was annoyed by him and directly threw out tens of thousands of sell orders.

Chen Xiao was so happy he almost jumped up. It was truly like someone sending a pillow when you were sleepy.

The other side was actually afraid he was too tired and sent such a large piece of cake at once.

Chen Xiao directly bought all tens of thousands of sell orders, finally spending all 16 million and completing his position building.

In an office building in Modu, a group of people were silent.

“Ma-manager… tens of thousands of lots, all eaten up.”

“What? Is this person crazy?”

“Put up another 10,000 lots for me. We must firmly hold down the daily limit and strike at market confidence!”

“Okay.”

The trader quickly completed the action and then stared intently at the screen.

Half an hour later—

He finally breathed a sigh of relief.

“Manager, no new buyers have appeared.”

“Heh heh, good! With just this much strength, you want to compete with me?”

......

After completing the transaction, Chen Xiao exited the securities APP.

He didn't want to know who the other party was or what their purpose was.

He only needed to achieve his goal and then wait to collect the money.

Stretching his aching shoulders, Chen Xiao walked out of the dorm with a cigarette in his mouth.

He pulled out Su Tang's number and dialed it.