Chapter 158: A Ten Billion Dollar Overnight Turmoil

Words : 1481 Updated : Sep 19th, 2025

Having seen off Meng Wang and his companion, Lu Liang arrived at the office for breakfast. He flipped through the profit report: starting with 11 billion US dollars, distributed across 36 trading accounts, split into three groups. Each account averaged earnings of 35.205 million, totaling 1.267 billion US dollars. After stamp duty, channel usage fees, and leverage interest, the total costs were 16.16 million US dollars. "The net earnings this time are 1.251 billion US dollars, and the current available funds in the account are 2.379 billion US dollars." Lu Liang checked multiple times, signed to confirm, and then approved a bonus plan of 5 million. The heads of the three groups each received a bonus of 500,000, the deputy heads 400,000 each, and the rest of the traders 200,000 each in bonuses. As the sky began to brighten, Lu Liang felt no desire to sleep. He saw that last night London Gold had surged by 130 points, breaking through 1,600 US dollars per ounce, with the increase almost matching his short position on British Pounds. And then there was International Crude Oil, which had fallen by -4.31%, all triggered by a series of chain reactions caused by Old England deciding on Brexit. Lu Liang sighed, lamenting that he had too little capital to be everywhere at once; he could only focus on one thing. After all, such a good opportunity does not come often, and there were others who had earned more than him last night. "Even though others made more money, their rate of return was not as high as mine." Suddenly feeling pleased, Lu Liang had Wen Chao hang a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the door, then he went to the rest area to sleep. An hour later, when it was fully light, It also signified the start of a new day. The entire Chinese internet, every social platform, was flooded with news of Old England's Brexit. "Yin, you actually dared to leave?" "There are strange things every year, but this year has been particularly abundant." "David Cameron, what a man, he said he would leave and then he did, without hesitation." "Those who said it was just political showmanship, come out and apologize to me now, I told you Old England would go through with Brexit." "If you're so amazing, then how much money did you make?" "What do you mean, 'how much money'?" The person being asked was bewildered; they were a political junkie, studying international affairs purely as a personal hobby. What, could this actually make money? Suddenly, someone sent him an article from Finance Net, which had been reposted by the Wall Street Journal. "Really amazing, should have shorted it like him, this guy made more money than I do in-game currency, and it's in US dollars." The article detailed how JPMorgan, Blackstone, and Quantum three funds had gone long on British Pounds, resulting in losses of several billion dollars. And last night in the forex market, the only institution that had shorted British Pounds was China's HeavenlyStar, with an estimated profit of one billion dollars. An enthusiastic netizen even worried he wouldn't understand English, so they specifically explained: "HeavenlyStar means a star in the sky, which in our Chinese context, can also be called Tianxing." "Tianxing? Is it Lu Liang?" With that, the news that Lu Liang had shorted the British Pound and raked in one billion dollars overnight spread like wildfire across the internet. Netizens suddenly remembered that two months ago, Lu Liang had mentioned, what if it actually happened? At that time he was mocked as Liangzi, until the company's annual gala, and then he became known again as Mr. Lu. And yesterday's conversation with Soros seemed like he was also on the side of shorting the British Pound. So, with this, two global Speculation Gods were in direct confrontation, and Lu Liang had won? "Damn, Lu Liang is so fierce, taking on three by himself and still winning?" "It's not that he's fierce, but who would have thought yesterday that Old England would actually go through with Brexit?" "Is it really that hard to admit someone else's excellence? Look at it, I'm so jealous, the opportunity for financial freedom is right in front of me." Welfare Girl's profit chart, and her 'washing her hands clean' post, thanking Lu Liang, were also transported from the international sites to domestic ones. An initial capital of 200,000 US dollars, Overnight, turned into 910,000 US dollars. Someone in the know lamented: "Qingyin had initially shorted Tesla and nearly went underwater, but following Lu Liang's twice shorting of British Pounds, turned 50,000 US dollars into 910,000 US dollars, successfully getting out of the red." Without any fuss, he posted a screenshot of his short position on the British Pound; a base of 50,000 US dollars turned into 530,000 US dollars. Using an 800x leverage, he shorted British Pounds at almost the highest point at 4:12 AM, earning more than tenfold return. "Damn, I'm so jealous it's giving me an out-of-body experience, Brother Fu's V50, how about it, craving KFC." "The world is in decline, the human heart not like in ancient times, another Welfare Girl makes it big, and again, it's us honest folks getting the short end of the stick." "You honest folks want to buy her out? A net worth of 5.8 million, a pure white lolita? Go wash and sleep, you can dream of anything you want." Suddenly, the tone of the comments changed, After all, Lu Liang's usual tens of millions, even billions of dollars in earnings left netizens numb, no longer envious. Sёarᴄh the nôvelFire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. The gap between them was too great, they couldn't even dream of having so much money; instead, they were envious of those few netizens who had made money by following Lu Liang's lead. Although they didn't have 50,000 US dollars, squeezing out 20 or 30 thousand was still possible. "Lu God, give us a hand, I really don't want to go to this damn class; I want to defy the heavens and change my fate." Over one hundred thousand netizens came to comment on Lu Liang's Weibo, wishing for overnight wealth. As noon approached, it wasn't just netizens discussing. The NIO shareholders group. Lei Jun said: "Did not expect Old England to actually leave, Lu Liang's bagged another hefty profit." Li Bing: "Heard he made one billion dollars, terrifying indeed, even printing presses can't keep up with his earnings." Daqiangzi sighed: "Too bad I wasn't in China at the time, otherwise I'd have wanted to subscribe for a share or two." Lei Jun posted a smiling emoji, the dagger finally comes into view: "Just remembered, I think I subscribed for two." Li Bing: "..." Shen Peng also popped up: "What a coincidence~ I also subscribed for two, should have made about 30 million now, in US dollars." Daqiangzi indignantly said: "Where's Lu Liang? Come on @him, he's a member of the group too, why don't we have a share?" Little Ma: "Add one." Li Bing: "Add two." Zhang Lei: "Add three." After a long wait, Lu Liang didn't show up, Shen Peng said: "You need to send a red packet, otherwise he'll keep playing dead." He sent a five-dollar red packet and commented: "Such bad luck, only got five bucks from a two hundred dollar pot." Daqiangzi played along: "I'm even worse, only got 4.2." Lu Liang suddenly came online and opened the red packet. His face darkened instantly: "Such big shots sending red packets of five dollars? And you said it's from 200?" Shen Peng grinned maliciously: "Would you come out if I hadn't said 200?" Lu Liang, with a dark face, said irritably, "Been busy all night, going to sleep, we can talk another time." He never slept long during the day after pulling all-nighters; fell asleep at 7 am and woke up by 12:30 pm. Lying in bed, he played with his phone for half an hour, checking his social media, also giving his brain some boot-up time. "Is she that pretty?" Lu Liang saw a snapshot of a homey Welfare Girl on WeChat, a youthful buxom lolita, not especially beautiful but had that pure and lovely girl-next-door vibe. What caught his attention was her constant claims of being naturally white. After a moment's thought, Lu Liang left a secondary WeChat account, just in case, as he was too curious — after all, the artificial was the norm.

Chapter 158: A Ten Billion Dollar Overnight Turmoil

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