noveldepot Chapter 29 FX Warrior
Chapter 29 FX Warrior
Chu Sheng held the bill, opened his phone, and began to sweat.
Skipping out on the bill is definitely out of the question. The Haicheng branch police station is right across the street; the director's banner wall still hangs there. If she flies out from here today, there will be a new banner hanging in the corridor tomorrow.
Chu Sheng's hands flew across the keyboard under the table as he sent a message to Crane Immortal.
[Lilith]: Where are you?
No reply.
[Lilith]: Hurry up.
Still no reply.
[Lilith]: I've run into a problem.
Still no reply. Chu Sheng gritted his teeth.
[Lilith]: Help!!!
This time, the other side finally replied.
【Crane Hermit】: ?
[Lilith]: Bring more money, I'll pay you back next time.
There was silence on the other end. Chu Sheng waited for ten seconds, twenty seconds, thirty seconds.
The waiter approached, his voice gentle: "Madam, would you like to settle the bill now?"
Chu Sheng looked up and forced a smile: "My friend will be here soon."
"Okay." The waiter walked away.
Chu Sheng decided to stop thinking about it for the time being. He had already bought it, so he should at least try it first!
She picked up the first cup and took a careful sip.
Hot, sour.
She took another sip, trying to discern the jasmine, bergamot, honey, and white peach flavors written on the card. But in the end, she could only identify one of them.
expensive.
The waiter passed by a second time: "Ma'am, is the taste alright?"
Chu Sheng forced a calm demeanor: "Very sophisticated."
The waiter smiled and said, "I'm glad you like it."
At 10:41, the brass bell at the door rang softly once.
Chu Sheng looked up abruptly, and a young girl pushed open the door and walked in.
She looked to be in her early twenties, with very fair skin, heavy dark circles under her eyes, and black hair cut to around her collarbone with the ends dyed a grayish-blue. She resembled a bassist from an underground band smoking at the back door of a livehouse.
She was wearing a black, ripped, loose-fitting T-shirt, the neckline hanging loosely, revealing the edge of a gray tank top underneath. Over it was an old leather jacket, and several thin chains were wrapped around her wrists. She wore a dark skirt and old Doc Martens boots, with a silver chain hanging from her waist that jingled softly as she walked. At that moment, she was carrying a laptop bag in one hand and an energy drink she had just bought from the convenience store in the other.
She glanced around the coffee shop and quickly spotted the pale-faced Gothic Lolita girl by the window.
The girl walked over, pulled out a chair, and sat down: "Lilith?"
Chu Sheng's voice was weak and trembling uncontrollably: "The Crane...Immortal?"
"Hmm." Master Crane put his laptop bag down beside his feet, stared at her for two seconds, and said in a flat tone, "You're even smaller than you appear in the video."
Chu Sheng pushed the bill over, his eyes pleading, "Save me."
"You have a good eye for ordering." Master Crane looked down at the bill. "You ordered the two most expensive drinks right away."
She picked up the coffee card and glanced at it: "Emerald Estate Auction Batch, Inmaculada Eugenioides. Do you know what these two cups represent?"
Chu Sheng whispered, "Extra large?"
Crane Immortal closed his eyes, resignedly took out his phone to scan the QR code.
The first time, the balance was insufficient.
The second step is credit card security verification.
The third time, she scanned the screen expressionlessly, turned her head, opened her mouth, and the screen flashed red and green lights. Finally, the payment was successful.
In that instant, Chu Sheng noticed several notifications popping up at the top of her phone.
[XX Bank: Your application for RMB 3000.00 has been successfully disbursed!]
【尾号9527卡8月20日11:43收入（他行汇入）3000.00元，余额3002.50元。】
Dear customer, your payment due this period is...
Before Chu Sheng could finish reading, Crane Immortal swiped his finger and swept away all the notifications: "I'll pay for this order."
Chu Sheng almost burst into tears: "Immortal Crane, you are truly my immortal!"
"Come on." Master Crane picked up the cup of Eugenioides and took a sip. His eyes, under his dark circles, looked tired. "Two thousand five hundred yen, for your morning."
Chu Sheng almost knelt down on the spot and shouted "May you live a long and healthy life!"
Master Crane opened his laptop bag and took out a laptop covered in stickers. The stickers included the White Crane Company logo, faded virtual YouTuber avatars, and a small skull.
Chu Sheng couldn't help but ask, "Are you really the boss of the White Crane Society?"
"President, operations, scriptwriter, editor, half an art director, a quarter of a legal representative." Master He pressed the power button. "I used to be the finance manager too."
She opened a folder filled with spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations. She typed a few words and then turned the computer around to face Chu Sheng.
The screen displays a newly created PowerPoint slide with the title: [Lilith's First Broadcast Diagnosis]
Subtitle: [A small-town magical girl accidentally enters the AV industry, only to be scammed by her boss on her first day.]
Chu Sheng pointed to the subtitle, his face darkening: "Who were you fooled first?"
"Me." Master Crane pointed to himself.
"Yesterday you asked me why I helped you, but I didn't finish my sentence." She picked up her coffee, took another sip, and slowly said, "I owe a lot of money."
Before Chu Sheng could react, Crane Immortal tapped an app icon in the corner of the screen.
Do you know anything about foreign exchange?
Chu Sheng immediately became alert: "Don't even think about getting me into this business. I only have 1,800 yuan left in my bank account."
"Foreign exchange, FX." Crane Master shook his head. "Currency pairs, margin trading, leverage, spreads, overnight interest."
The screen displayed a candlestick chart of the US dollar against the Japanese yen, with densely packed red and green bars. Chu Sheng looked at it for a while but couldn't understand it at all.
Master Crane pointed to one of the passages: "At first, I traded USD/JPY to profit from the interest rate differential. The yen's interest rate was low, and the dollar's was high, so holding a long position earned a little overnight interest every day. Sounds like a safe bet, right?"
Chu Sheng nodded honestly: "It sounds like a bank's wealth management product."
"I thought so too at the time." Master He's expression was calm. "The principal was 42,000, leveraged 10 times, and the position size wasn't large. I made 7,000 in the first week."
Chu Sheng's eyes lit up: "So many?"
"In the second week, I increased it by thirty times and made 280,000."
Holy crap!
"By the third week, I felt like I understood macroeconomics."
Master He continued, "On the day of the Bank of Japan's interest rate decision, I heavily shorted the yen. The dollar was strong, the yen was weak, and the interest rate differential continued to widen. Before the press release, my account had a floating profit of 1.1 million yen."
She said this without much change in expression.
"Then the bank president gave a speech. The market initially surged 20 points in my favor, so I added to my position. The next second, it reversed and surged 200 points. My stop-loss order wasn't triggered, and slippage sent me directly below the liquidation line. My margin maintenance ratio dropped from 312% to 49.7%, and the system sent me a margin call notification."
Chu Sheng's face turned pale upon hearing this: "What do you mean?"
"I made up for it. I borrowed 200,000 from my credit card," Master Crane said calmly. "It then reversed course and pulled up another 100 points."
"Are you crazy?" Chu Sheng didn't understand, but he still felt that something was very wrong.
"Equipment loans, business loans, loans from friends," said He Xianren. "At the time, I thought that as long as we weathered that pullback, the exchange rate would recover."
Chu Sheng covered her mouth, "Are you back?"
"I'm back."
Chu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief.
Crane Master added casually, "I came back three hours after my account was liquidated."
She clicked on another picture: "Later, I wanted to recoup my losses, so I touched GBP/JPY. In the industry, people call the pound-yen a widow-making machine."
"Then you still dare to touch it?"
"My mind wasn't very clear at that point," Master He recalled. "Those who lost money either deleted the software or increased leverage. I was clearly the latter."
She unlocked her phone, opened the notes app, and pushed it to Chu Sheng.
The above is a list of debts.
Credit card: 46.8.
Business loan: 120 million.
Equipment rental balance: 37.4 yuan.
Private loan: 210 million.
Platform advance refund: 89 yuan.
Other: 183.1.
Total: 686.3 million.
Chu Sheng stared at the number and felt that the 2,500 yuan coffee he had just bought suddenly seemed more affordable.
"Six million eight hundred and sixty thousand?" Her voice trembled. "How will you pay it back?"
The crane hermit didn't speak, but stared straight at her.
"So you came to me wanting me to do a V-job to help you pay off your debts?" Chu Sheng pointed to himself incredulously.
"right."
Chu Sheng hesitated for a moment: "Don't you have some misunderstanding about how quickly new streamers can make money?"
"No." Crane Immortal shook his head. "Ordinary new VIPs earn money very slowly, and those like you who are unwilling to plagiarize earn it even slower."
"Then why did you come looking for me?"
Master Crane closed his laptop and leaned back: "Because I have clients."