Chapter 36: This guy isn't even human...

"Those damned sons of bitches! Just days ago they were on TV and in the newspapers, urging everyone to buy stocks! To rush in!"
In another corner of the office, someone was screaming hysterically, their voice filled with the fury of betrayal.
"How could they do this?! How could they do this backstabbing without warning?! Damn it! So fucking insidious! Shameless!"
"Run! Sell the fuck out! Sell as much as you can! Any later and your positions will be wiped out! Hurry!"
Just minutes before, those people who were chatting and laughing in the smoking area, full of confidence and dreaming about their hefty bonuses this month and the latest luxury cars they'd buy, the island getaways they'd take…
Now, they were all gripped by primal, utter panic and despair!
The entire trading department had become a living hell!
The air was filled with desperate screams, frantic keyboard pounding, and… the silent shattering of wealth vanishing in an instant.
Everyone wanted to cut their losses and get out of the market as quickly as possible, at any cost!
To escape this sudden, catastrophic disaster!
However…
The market was flooded with sell orders, like a torrent bursting forth!
Densely packed! Layer upon layer!
There wasn't… a single buyer willing to take over!
“…”
While the entire private equity firm, almost every trading team, was engulfed in a devastating, apocalyptic chaos and panic,
only…
one team, seemingly at the very center of this raging storm, remained strangely detached.
Like standing on the opposite bank of a raging river, coldly observing this sudden… magnificent fireworks display.
Of course, to be more precise, they weren't truly calm.
Instead… they were utterly stunned by another, equally massive, but completely different kind of shock!
“Really…really…just like the manager said…the stock market…just…just like that…collapsed?”
A regular trader from Department Seven stared blankly at the candlestick chart on his screen, representing the precipitous drop in the entire stock market, muttering to himself as if in a dream.
“The manager…how…how could he…know in advance…”
Another usually quick-witted trading assistant was also filled with disbelief, his voice trembling uncontrollably.
Among this group of employees, equally gripped by another extreme emotion—shock bordering on “panic”—
Liang Haiyuan was the first to barely regain a shred of reason!
His heart was pounding wildly in his chest like a war drum!
His blood seemed to be uncontrollably rushing and boiling in his veins!
Immense excitement and disbelief surged through his nerves like a volcanic eruption!
"What the hell are you all standing there for?!"
He jumped up from his seat and shouted with all his might!
His voice was hoarse and distorted with extreme excitement:
"This isn't the time to stand around! Quick! All of you, hurry up! Go check! Check those...those short positions we bought earlier! Check the current profits!!"
"Huh?! Oh! Yes! Yes! Brother Haiyuan!"
Awakened by his shout, the team members, like robots that had been started, jolted awake and frantically rushed to their computer screens.
Liang Haiyuan, too, practically stumbled back to his seat.
His fingers trembled uncontrollably from the excitement. After several attempts, he finally managed to click on the trading interface he had almost dared not look at before!
Just before he got up to smoke, the interface was a despairing display of devastating losses...green numbers!
And now!
In just over ten minutes!
The entire screen!
was completely engulfed by a blinding, blazing...crimson red!
Every single number!
was skyrocketing! Soaring! Soaring even higher!
The red numbers representing profits were growing faster than a rocket launch! Even more… terrifying!
‘This… how is this possible?! This… this is simply… a miracle!’
Liang Haiyuan felt his breath catch in his throat!
He gripped the mouse tightly, his usually incredibly nimble hand trembling like a leaf in the wind, barely able to complete a simple click!
This… this incredible, divine reversal, like a god descending to earth!
This… their seventh department's new manager… Su Hao!
How… how did he do it?!
How did he predict all of this?!
Liang Haiyuan was now absolutely certain!
In the financial center of the entire Xia Kingdom! No! Even on a global scale!
The person who could so precisely, so perfectly in advance, foresee:
that the seemingly indestructible stock market would, at this moment! Right now!
crash and plummet in such a devastating way!
I'm afraid!
There was only one!
One person!
That was… their Trading Department Seven… Manager Su Hao, who was ridiculously young!
Even if… even if there were one or two other prodigies in this world with the same precognitive abilities who happened to predict this crash…
But!
But who?!
And who?!
Does he have that kind of guts?!
Does he have that kind of courage?!
Does he have that kind of...madness?!
To dare to go against the tide, to brave everyone's skepticism and ridicule, when the entire market is immersed in a frenzied bullish atmosphere, and to gamble everything with real money!
To make such a shocking, all-or-nothing...contrarian bet?!
That wasn't some insignificant little gamble! Not some tentative investment of a few hundred thousand or a few million!
That was...a full fifty million!!!
An astronomical figure enough to bankrupt any medium-sized company instantly!
“…”
Liang Haiyuan abruptly raised his head, his gaze, as if drawn by a magnet, piercing through the thin glass partition of the office, fixed intently on the figure—
a young man, sitting calmly and steadily in his own private office, as if on solid ground, while the entire department, even the entire company, had descended into apocalyptic chaos and panic…
Manager Su Hao!
Liang Haiyuan felt his throat was as dry as the Sahara Desert.
He swallowed hard, making a clearly audible gulp.
At this moment.
In this breathtaking, earth-shattering moment.
He finally… completely understood.
Back then, his manager Zhou Yi, who had been quite kind to him, had patted him on the shoulder with a meaningful and extremely solemn expression before his transfer, saying:
“Haiyuan, working for Su Hao, you must put aside your pride, learn diligently, observe and listen carefully; it will be immensely beneficial to your future…”
The true meaning contained in those words… something he couldn't understand at the time…
Su Hao!
He wasn't, as the rumors suggested, some kind of parachuted-in "connected person," some kind of princeling, relying on some mysterious background or nepotism!
He was just…
He was just an ordinary person like them, struggling at the bottom, earning a living through experience and sweat…
From the very beginning, they weren't on the same level! Not on the same dimension!
His meteoric rise, astonishingly fast, even defying the company's promotion rules!
The seemingly unreasonable special treatment and almost permissive attitude of the company's top management towards him!
Previously, all the doubts and mysteries that had troubled Liang Haiyuan, that had puzzled him, and even filled him with resentment…
At this moment!
Faced with this cruel and shocking reality!
Like snow under the sun, they instantly… vanished!
Everything! Was perfectly reasonable!
Everything! Made sense!
'This guy…'
Only this one thought remained in Liang Haiyuan's mind, etched deeply into his soul like a brand.
This thought carried an indescribable, profound awe from the deepest recesses of his soul!
This guy… wasn't human at all…
The young man still calmly sitting in his office…
He was clearly…
A true, living… God of Trading, cloaked in human form!!!