After the Divorce, I Could Hear the Voice of the Future

"How much money have we invested in the stock market?"

If someone could see the resentment level above Lu Liang's head, it would probably show off the charts now.

It's one thing to be intercepted in the Foreign Exchange Market, but even in the stock market, people are competing for business with him.

He painstakingly set up a stage,

only to have both humans and ghosts try to steal the spotlight.

Boss Lu is in a foul mood.

"48.1 billion US Dollars," Sun Yutao said with a wry smile.

In his view, it's mainly because Lu Liang is too aggressive, giving others a do-or-die impression.

Tianxing Finance raised 300 billion US Dollars in financing, and it's well-known that they still hold nearly 90% of their funds.

Facing their aggressive and opportunistic stance, if the capital cannot overwhelm them, countering them against the trend is like lighting a lamp in a lavatory—it's a death wish.

"Blame me?" Lu Liang looked displeased.

Sun Yutao was torn between laughter and tears, switched the subject, and actively found excuses for Lu Liang: "Mr. Lu, it's mainly because the saying about the ten-year cycle is widely spread in financial circles. This year happens to be the tenth year after the 2008 financial crisis."

"The consensus is that there will be a financial crisis in these years. Our short selling of the yen feels like a mandate from heaven that they dare not disobey."

"You've become bad, now you know how to flatter."

Lu Liang glared unkindly.

After contemplating for a moment, he said, "In the next two weeks, strive to push the Nikkei 225 Index below 15,000 points, then enter the market to bottom-fish after the currency settlement."

Li Junwei and Tang Caide have already identified fifteen well-managed companies with high-quality assets and a total market value of over 50 trillion yen, including but not limited to water resources, telecommunications, electricity, and communication and entertainment enterprises related to people's livelihood.

Over the years, as his insight has grown, Lu Liang's mindset has changed repeatedly. From initially making more money, to making good money in the middle stage, and now to making stable money.

When wealth grows to a certain extent, further growth is merely an increase in numbers. The key is whether the wealth can last and endure.

Wall Street capital gains long-term control of a country's economic lifeline by shorting it, so can they.

East Country has the strength to contend with the United States and will only get stronger in the future, so Tianxing Finance is also qualified for financial colonization.

Once wielding military power, Arthur served as the Five-Star Emperor of Neon; if Lu Liang controls Neon's economy, being a Three-Star Emperor doesn't seem too far-fetched.

With Tianxing having secured a foothold in East Asia, a long development period will follow, and they need to find a savings pool for ABS funds. Eventually, the Xiangjiang Market is too small.

"Okay, Mr. Lu."

Sun Yutao nodded in response.

Next, he started to resolutely implement Lu Liang's instructions.

Although they were the first to fire the shot at shorting Neon, they couldn't stop others in both markets from trying to take their share.

So they simply changed their strategy, retreating from the front line to handle logistics, responsible for bottoming out and waiting for the opportunity to buy in.

The fifteen target enterprises have a total market value of over 50 trillion yen, which, at the current exchange rate, is equivalent to 416.6 billion US Dollars.

But if the yen continues to fall and Japanese stocks also continue to decline, when they are ready to buy in, it might not even be worth 300 billion US Dollars.

Acquire the most equity at the lowest cost.

What they need to do now is to keep a close eye on these companies and cut off all possibilities for them to save themselves. Meanwhile, they must also block other institutions; whoever dares to come will have their head removed.

At 2:40 PM Tokyo Time, twenty minutes remain until the Nikkei 225 Index closes.

Although Tianxing has stepped back to logistics and is not active on the front line, it can't stop other short-selling institutions from wanting a big piece of the pie.

Each one holds the mindset of 'better be cut by domestic institutions than by foreign capital', frantically selling off chips, further driving down the index.

The Nikkei 225 Index hovered above the 20,000-point mark for a few minutes before plunging, directly breaking below 19,500 points.

The single-day drop reached -17.21%,

just 2.79% away from creating an unprecedented third-level circuit breaker in international financial history.

"Let it be destroyed, let the storm grow fiercer."

"Hurry, let the third-level circuit breaker come, let the world witness our joke."

"Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho Financial, Mitsui Sumitomo, I won't let you go even as a ghost."

When people are desperate, they have a sense of self-destruction, just like the investors in the Neon Stock Market.

Using Black Thursday to describe the day's brutality is inadequate; it was more tragic than tragedy itself.

A total market of 6 trillion US Dollars saw a single-day decline of -17.21%, evaporating 1,032.6 billion US Dollars.

An Apple plus a Tesla, the market value of two world-renowned companies, vanished today.

According to the investor data released by East Tokyo, Neon has 36.21 million investors. On average, each person lost at least 28,500 US Dollars today.

The hope for a rebound is gone, and they no longer expect it.

Now they only want to witness history, hoping for a 20% drop to trigger a third-level circuit breaker and forcefully end today's trading.

However, the market was not going as they wished, or perhaps the institutions wanted to cut the meat with a blunt knife, prolonging the feelings of hopelessness and helplessness.

In the last twenty minutes, the three major indices of Japanese stocks all displayed sewing machine-like movements.

Up 0.1%, down 0.1%, continuing until the close.

"Japanese stocks have closed, why hasn't Lu Liang taken action yet?"

"Can he bear to see his arrangement fall apart?"

On the other side of the ocean in New York, the average age of fifty and above in the group of old men, were staying up all night.

Although Japanese stocks had closed, the yen war was still ongoing, and they were waiting for Lu Liang to enter the market.

Tianxing Finance, as the capital institution that fired the first shot in shorting the yen, had a remarkably low cost price.

Low cost means that when they want to cash out, they can do so at any time, whether they make more or less is the only question.

This is very unfavorable to them as later comers, because they not only want to join the free event, but also hope Lu Liang can help elevate their position.

So they kept the tug-of-war at the 120 yen price, trying to lure Lu Liang to re-enter at this price, thereby raising his cost price.

However, even after Japanese stocks had closed, Tianxing had remained inactive, as if they had forgotten there was still the foreign exchange battlefield.

"Friends, I advise you to abandon this idea, lest you get pulled in while you're trying to pull."

Wilson returned and, learning of their naive thought, could not conceal his smile: "From what I know about him, Lu has likely abandoned the foreign exchange, and perhaps the Japanese stocks too."

"What evidence do you have?"

Su Shimin rubbed his temples, eyes reflecting fatigue.

Previously, only others adapted to their time zone, this was the first time they adapted to someone else's time zone.

Despite usually paying attention to health maintenance, at seventy-one, staying up all night was starting to become unbearable.

He seriously suspected now,

Lu Liang was employing a tactic to tire them out.

"I know Lu Liang very well." Wilson said.

Every key node in Lu Liang's rise had his presence.

Among the seven present, when it came to knowing Lu Liang, Wilson regarded himself as second, and dared anyone else to claim first.

"Kamon, the reason you provided is still not convincing enough." Su Shimin shook his head with a laugh.

Wilson added: "I knew Yamamoto Kenshiro and had dealings with him a few times. He could choose not to speak, but wouldn't lie. PayPal and Mitsui Sumitomo are Lu Liang's targets, it just so happened to coincide with the shorting of the yen this time."

Wilson pulled out the last half-hour's market data for the two companies, showing that a force was quietly accumulating chips at the bottom.

If his judgment was correct, this force was Tianxing Finance. Lu Liang intended to invest in these two groups and was constructing a foundational position.

Su Shimin glanced at the data before passing it to others, asking, "What do you think?"

"Kamon, the judgment may be correct."

"Rumors say Ant Group's listing was halted, Jack Ma went to Su City for a secret meeting with Lu Liang."

"Subsequent confirmation revealed this news was true, Alipay cut its overseas business and transferred equity to Tianxing Finance."

"Therefore, it appears Lu Liang wants Tianxing Finance to replicate the route Ant Group couldn't take in the East Country."

"He wants to complete a grand unification of online and offline finance in the East Asian market and become the uncrowned king of the East Asian region."

"If we follow this line of reasoning, PayPal Group and Mitsui Sumitomo, opposed to him, are thorns in his side."

"Kamon's speculation has at least 90% accuracy."

The group continued discussing, piecing together and speculating on Lu Liang's intentions based on the information they each held.

Su Shimin squinted, tapping his fingertips on the table, saying in a deep voice: "Since everyone concurs with Kamon's proposal, let's get moving. Today the yen must fall to 125."

Following his command, the managers at all institutional departments on Wall Street sprang into action.

The bullish yen in foreign exchange market was seemingly paper-thin, offering no resistance, as the exchange rate plummeted further.

Su Shimin called Wilson over, moving aside for a private talk, softly saying: "Kamon, I hope you can understand that for everyone's safety, we must temporarily exclude you from certain plans, but you must trust that this also serves as a protection for you."

"Mr. Steve, I understand, please don't feel guilty about it." Wilson replied with a smile.

Su Shimin smiled contently, rubbed his temples and said: "Getting older, my energy is not as good as it was before. I'll leave the rest to you, I'll go get some rest."

"Alright, take care."

Watching Su Shimin's receding figure, Wilson slightly narrowed his eyes, as the smile on his face gradually faded.

He held a piece of information unknown to Su Shimin, something he knew Lu Liang would be interested in, needing to make good use of it—perhaps a chance to return to the pinnacle.

People's thoughts always change with their environment. Previously, all Wilson wanted was to safely make it through the crisis, protecting his own life.

But now, not only did he want to return to the pinnacle,

he wanted more.