118 Technical Adjustment
After leaving Lu Qi’s sight, the boys immediately couldn’t hold it in anymore.
Wang Heng was okay because his worries had affected his appetite, but the other three roommates had really stuffed their stomachs full. After all, it was a seafood buffet costing 150 per person. If they didn’t eat until they couldn’t eat anymore before leaving, wouldn’t it be a huge loss?
Fu Hanwen suddenly sighed, “How much a bottle can hold depends not only on its capacity but also on how you fill it. First fill it with stones, then gravel, then sand, and finally add water. That’s how you can fit the most stuff without overflowing.”
Wang Ke clutched his belly. “Yeah, we all ate meat first and then drank beverages. That last half glass really stuffed me… Little Fu, help me, please.”
Tang Hexing suddenly turned to look at the silent Wang Heng and asked, “You don’t seem full?”
Wang Heng smiled. “How is that possible? I’m just not as stuffed as you guys.”
Tang Hexing asked curiously, “By the way, you haven’t told us yet, what exactly is your relationship with that Sister Lu?”
Wang Heng: “Didn’t I say? Boss and subordinate.”
Wang Ke also asked, “Besides that?”
Wang Heng said decisively, “Besides that, we’re business partners, that’s all!”
Fu Hanwen drifted in with a thoughtful remark: “What about that girl with the orange braid? What’s your relationship with her?”
Thinking of Ye Xun, Wang Heng immediately answered extremely crisply, “No relationship!”
The three roommates’ gazes instantly became meaningful. “Do you think we believe you?”
Just like that, laughing, joking, and supporting each other, the four boys returned to the dormitory.
Soon, lights-out time arrived, and everyone went to bed.
But Wang Heng didn’t fall asleep. Instead, he secretly got out of bed, carried the hamster cage to the balcony, and closed the door.
Then he asked in a low voice, “Will Lu Qi have a dream tonight?”
The hamster rubbed its sleepy little eyes and mumbled, “You’re disturbing someone’s sweet dreams again…”
Wang Heng: “Don’t act with me. Hamsters are nocturnal animals. You slept so much during the day, and you’re still sleeping now?”
The hamster: “Alright, alright… what did you ask just now?”
“Will Lu Qi have a dream tonight?” Wang Heng repeated, and added, “You told me that as long as they confirm their affection, they will dream about the first timeline that night, right?”
The hamster raised its little head to look at the sky, then withdrew its gaze and said, “Don’t worry, Lu Qi won’t dream about the first timeline tonight, nor in the next few days.”
Wang Heng: “What about later?”
“Later?” The hamster spread its little paws. “That depends on what you do.”
Wang Heng rested his chin on his hand and pondered for a while, suddenly realizing that he seemed to have missed a crucial question.
He quickly asked, “What about Ye Xun? Has she had a dream?”
The hamster immediately applauded. “Congratulations, you finally found the blind spot.”
Wang Heng’s gaze instantly straightened. “You mean… she really has?”
The hamster teased, “Of course. The dream wasn’t just PG, it had R-rated content too. Can you imagine what kind of stimulation such a dream would be for a relatively innocent little girl?”
Wang Heng covered his face with both hands. “Holy shit, why didn’t you warn me…”
The hamster: “Would warning you be useful? She’s already had the dream. This is an unchangeable reality. Face reality, young man.”
That’s right, it had already happened and couldn’t be changed, so he could only face it bravely. Looking on the bright side, his current situation was different from his helplessness in the first timeline. Without those successive moments of hot-headedness, and without being unable to control his lower body, the danger was no longer that great.
Moreover, Ye Xun, Pei Ningle, and Lu Qi formed a stable triangle. As long as he stayed away from Han Yixuan, that unavoidable tragic situation wouldn’t happen, right?
Wang Heng put down his hands, his eyes revealing a determined hope.
He said confidently, “Alright, it doesn’t matter, no problem. I just need to continue my great cause of making money. I don’t need to care what they think.”
The hamster asked curiously, “Then what do you plan to do next to make money?”
Wang Heng pondered, “It’s a bit troublesome. I originally wanted to say that I’d invest the money earned from Bitcoin directly into the stock market, but thinking about it carefully, it seems that the stock market trend won’t really start for another half a year. The World Cup is also half a year away. During this time, there don’t seem to be any good opportunities…”
The hamster: “Continue playing with Bitcoin?”
Wang Heng immediately shook his head. “I only remember that there will be another wave for Bitcoin in two years. I don’t remember the trend in between at all. Without the advantage of foresight, the risk is too great. Can’t play.”
The hamster: “Then what do you plan to play?”
Wang Heng: “I’ll think about it carefully over the next couple of days. It’s a pity, the capital is still too little. Otherwise, investing in Bilibili or Zhihu now would be wonderful…” (Zhihu : A Chinese question-and-answer website similar to Quora.)
**
At noon that day, the investment director Tan Meng came to Lu Qi’s office again. As soon as he entered, he asked anxiously, “Director Lu, have you been following Bitcoin these past two days?”
Lu Qi said leisurely, “No, I’ve withdrawn all my money.”
Tan Meng was stunned for a moment and quickly pressed, “Wait, when did you leave the market?”
“Eight thousand,” Lu Qi asked back, “what is it now?”
“Just now it was six thousand one, now…” Tan Meng took out his phone and looked, his wrist trembling, almost dropping the phone. “Now it’s five thousand nine!”
Lu Qi kindly reminded him, “Actually, it’s useless telling me this. I didn’t ask much about the Bitcoin investment from beginning to end; it was all handled by Wang Heng. He ran at eight thousand yuan, not a single coin left, so I suggest you pull out early too.”
“No, I’m a professional investor,” Tan Meng cheered himself on, but his voice sounded weak no matter how you listened to it. “Bitcoin will rise back, it definitely will!”
Lu Qi: “Are you that sure?”
“Don’t be afraid, it’s a technical adjustment, don’t be afraid…” Tan Meng, wearing a suit and tie, looked at the sunlight outside the window, his gold-rimmed glasses glinting faintly, but the eyes behind the frames were a little dull and lifeless.
Looking at him, Lu Qi couldn’t help but feel the urge to laugh. Suppressing the corners of her mouth that were faintly curving up, she said, “I think you can actually go ask Wang Heng for advice. When he entered this round, the price of Bitcoin was less than a thousand, and when he left, he pinpointed eight thousand. This timing judgment is amazing, right?”
Tan Meng hesitated for a moment and had to admit, “Almost god-like… Alright, I’ll go ask him for his insights now.”
With that, he was about to go out to find Wang Heng.
But at this moment, Lu Qi reminded him again, “He has already resigned. You won’t find him here.”
“Resigned? Why?”
“If it were you, having earned hundreds of thousands in a wave of Bitcoin market trends, would you continue to work part-time? He’s still a student. Once he’s not short of money, he naturally wants to focus on his studies.”
“Still a student…” Tan Meng gritted his teeth and thought for a moment, then suddenly said, “Then I’ll go to his school to find him! Director Lu, please give me his phone number.”
