Chapter 114: Time To Reap The Rewards
That day, in the Introduction to Finance classroom, after the professor finished the planned course, he began talking about recent hot topics.
“I wonder if everyone has been paying attention to Bitcoin? I chatted with you all about this last month’s class.”
In the classroom, a sparse chorus of “Yeah,” “I’ve been following” and the like rang out.
In the very center of the first row closest to the lectern, Han Yixuan looked at the professor, but her thoughts were drifting.
Every time the professor commented on hot news in the financial field, Han Yixuan would zone out. Because she knew very well that this empty talk wouldn’t be tested in the final exam and didn’t count as any serious knowledge point, so there was really no need to listen carefully.
But many of the other classmates, on the contrary, perked up at times like this. After all, how could listening to the professor lecture be more interesting than listening to empty talk?
“Last time we talked, it was over a thousand per coin, and today it’s risen to seven or eight thousand per coin. But I want to emphasize here that it’s virtual currency. Everyone recall what I said before: for currency to be recognized by everyone, what does it need? Right, it needs government credit or physical backing. In other words, Bitcoin has none of these; all its current price is hyped up artificially. The risk of this kind of investment project is really too great…”
Listening to the professor, who had quite some insights into investment, talk about life experience, Han Yixuan curled her lips and secretly grumbled to herself—something worth seven or eight thousand yuan per coin, even if everyone wanted to be gamblers, could they afford to gamble? They probably couldn’t even buy one chip, right?
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“It’s still rising, it’s really still rising…”
Qin Meng sat in the office facing the computer, then suddenly stood up.
Since that day of the second entry into the market, almost a week had passed. And Bitcoin’s price had risen from five thousand four to eight thousand—this meant that the eight hundred thousand he invested had turned into one million two hundred thousand in just a short week!
Take a gamble, bicycle turns into motorcycle; gamble again, Land Rover turns into Lambo!
As long as this trend held, and it rose for another two days, Qin Meng felt he could really get a sports car ahead of schedule. Of course, something like a Lamborghini was still not too realistic, but a Porsche really was possible…
He turned to face the window, toward the skyscrapers outside the window, and fiercely threw several punches, shouting “Yeah” with each one, to properly vent the excitement filling his chest. You know, although he had controlled much more funds before, those were all company money invested in other small companies in exchange for their shares. How could the thrill of that kind of investment compare to the roller coaster of Bitcoin that changed every day?
And most importantly, this investment of over a million was all his own savings!
“Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!”
Left and right fists alternating, without the slightest pause, just like a Wing Chun master.
But at that moment, a panicked and at-a-loss voice from a young guy sounded behind him: “Director Qin?”
Qin Meng whipped around as if electrocuted, stunned for a moment, then angrily said: “Why didn’t you knock!”
The young subordinate didn’t dare make a sound, silently aggrieved—Why didn’t you close the door?
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English class was over.
While the other classmates were packing up and standing, Wang Heng was still sitting there, looking at the laptop computer on his lap. Through the mobile phone hotspot, the computer was connected to the network.
“Hey, look at that guy still playing… The teacher doesn’t care?” This was from a student from another class who didn’t know him.
“He’s looking at the English interface? Impressive, no need to attend English class anymore.” This was from a classmate who knew him and saw his notebook screen.
And the three roommates sitting next to him already knew what he was doing at the moment, all with faces full of meaningful silence.
Once the people around had dispersed, Fu Hanwen lowered his voice and asked: “Teacher Wang, were you operating Bitcoin just now?”
Wang Heng took a deep breath and nodded.
Even he had to rely on deep breathing to calm his agitated mood at this moment.
Wang Ke asked curiously: “How much did you make?”
Wang Heng smiled without speaking.
Tang Hexing guessed: “Teacher Wang bought at around one thousand per coin, right? Today’s price is eight thousand, so eight times the profit?”
Wang Heng smiled and nodded.
Fu Hanwen sucked in a cold breath: “Invest one thousand, that’s eight thousand! Teacher Wang invested several thousand, that’s tens of thousands!”
Wang Heng smiled: “About that, so I’ll treat you all to a big meal.”
The three roommates looked at each other, then cheered.
“Holy shit, awesome!”
“Long live Teacher Wang!”
“Teacher Wang is mighty and domineering!”
“Keep it down, don’t be so showy; only quiet wealth makes a fortune.” With that, Wang Heng closed the notebook, stuffed it into the schoolbag with the textbook.
This wave of Bitcoin market trend, planned from the beginning of rebirth until now, he had finally grabbed. In his impression, eight thousand yuan per coin was already close to the peak. Bitcoin would have even more astonishing trends later, but that would probably be two or three years from now. Of course, there would be many smaller upward trends in between, but in the first playthrough Wang Heng wasn’t a professional speculator after all, so he didn’t remember clearly and naturally saw no need to take that risk.
【Sister Lu, I just cashed out safely. Mission accomplished. After handling fee, 140 Bitcoin income 1.06 million. Starting from 100 thousand, today’s profit 960 thousand. Your one-third revenue share is about 320 thousand. After deducting that, yours totals 740 thousand. I just initiated the transfer; you can check when free.】
After sending the text, Wang Heng shouldered his schoolbag and stood up, smiling to his roommates: “Let’s go, today’s dinner is seafood buffet, we’re off.”
“Teacher Wang is awesome!”
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Lu Qi looked at the transfer notification message, sitting in the office, and involuntarily fell into contemplation.
When writing code, she often wore anti-blue light glasses—though whether they had any effect was debatable, at least it gave the psychological comfort of ‘I’ve protected my eyes.’
And at this moment, looking at that incoming notification, she took off her glasses with slightly trembling hands.
In just a few dozen days, from 100 thousand to 740 thousand, this profit was almost catching up to a year’s hard work— of course, salary only, excluding year-end bonus.
The key was she didn’t need to do anything, just throw out the money and sit waiting to collect it.
“Is this the taste of speculation?” Lu Qi said with self-mockery, “It’s really hard to stay calm… What if I hadn’t given him 100 thousand, but 200 thousand, 300 thousand?”
Soon, she shook her head, forcing herself not to imagine those unrealized things, lest greed erode her reason. And her reason had already settled on one thing.
“Can’t let this kid get away, absolutely not!”
Lu Qi glanced at the time in the bottom right of the screen, then shut down the computer and stood up.
Usually she worked overtime much later, but today, she decided to clock out on time to handle something more important.
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