Chapter 660 - 385: 500 Million, Oh 500 Million_3

Li Peifeng stared at those glaring red numbers, lost in thought.

In his heart, he was very reluctant to use the [Time Reversal] device to make money. Even if he could exchange it for ten billion or a hundred billion, Mr. Li didn’t want to exchange it. This tool was simply too important, a life-saving device at critical moments.

Using it just to make money is like using precious sandalwood as firewood, cracking the imperial jade seal to make beads, tearing the Along the River During the Qingming Festival into pieces to make toilet paper!

But if he didn’t use it to make money, it was absolutely impossible for him to earn five hundred million in a year. Wu Wenyue and Huang Tianxuan were well aware of this, and they knew Li Peifeng definitely couldn’t do it.

But why did they propose it so clearly? It was to make things difficult for him through this impossibility, to make Li Peifeng give up the idea of marrying all four women together...

"I seem to have kind of fallen into the trap they set for me."

Crude oil had already risen from -2.50% to -2.12%, and Li Peifeng’s floating profit had changed from 350,000 to 1,500,000. But he wasn’t paying much attention to the virtual numbers on the screen; rather, he saw the essence through the phenomena, contemplating an interesting question.

"If I don’t use [Time Reversal] to make money, if they know that to earn the dowry for them, I pretend to be a financial giant beyond my capability and choose to gamble on international markets, losing all my limited savings, what would their reaction be? Would they stop loving me and not marry me?"

Li Peifeng pondered, and three seconds later, his unfocused eyes slowly lit up, a smile playing at the corners of his mouth: "Interesting, very interesting."

He suddenly felt that perhaps he didn’t need to pay an exorbitant dowry of one hundred million per person after all, or even if he did, he could totally make up for it after marriage...

"Click~"

"How come you’re back earlier than me?"

The door opened, and Wu Wenyue, looking a bit worn from travel, opened the main door, changed into slippers, headed towards the doorway of Li Peifeng’s bedroom, taking off her coat while casually asking: "How did the lecture go?"

Because of work obligations, Wu Wenyue wasn’t able to watch it in person.

And now Li Peifeng wasn’t looking at her, nor did he stand up to greet her as usual; he was staring at the computer screen with a mix of solemnity and excitement, replying perfunctorily: "It went well, very smoothly."

"Are you writing?"

"..."

Li Peifeng didn’t respond, nor did he tap on the keyboard. He was just intently staring at the computer screen, as if he hadn’t heard a thing.

"What are you looking at?"

Wu Wenyue frowned slightly, holding her coat as she straightforwardly entered the bedroom.

"Hey?!"

Li Peifeng was a bit flustered, quickly clicking the mouse to minimize the trading software of all three accounts, then swiftly opened the writing software, trying to hide: "Yes, I’m writing... Are you hungry? Do you want me to make something to eat?"

Wu Wenyue saw through his actions clearly, and the taskbar below still held the icons of the trading software...

"What’s that stuff?"

Wu Wenyue pointed to the taskbar below, looking at Li Peifeng with suspicion: "Is it some international chat software you’re sneaking around with behind our backs?"

"What are you talking about?"

Li Peifeng widened his eyes, looking angry, and then, unable to bear the accusation, directly pulled up the trading software: "I’m earning money for the dowry!"

"This..."

Wu Wenyue looked closely at the screen, seeing the English and numbers above and furrowed her brow slightly: "International futures? I remember you played with this before, right?"

"Yes, back then I earned 10,000."

"Haha, that was because you were fortunate!"

Wu Wenyue sneered: "I still remember, you grew your 20,000 to 150,000, right? That guy got so smug, didn’t even need to take creatine when lifting weights, howling and boasting about being a capitalist, calling yourself a financial genius, even said you’d buy me a Ferrari when you became a billionaire."

"And then? Within a few days, it quickly went down, those two days when you lost money, you’d keep checking your phone during workouts, looking all downcast, not even mentioning the Ferrari. I asked you what happened, and you sighed, saying the greenhorn got fleeced."

Wu Wenyue rolled her eyes: "Luckily you stopped in time, otherwise those twenty thousand would have been all gone!"

Li Peifeng chuckled confidently: "Times have changed. Look how much I just earned!"

After saying this, he switched the software to the account profit and loss page; the market was really favorable. Crude oil had already risen from -2.12% to -1.82%.

His account, which he quickly went long with, had already profited 830,000, and the other two accounts also had each a floating profit of over 700,000.

"Look, with three accounts of three million principal, this genius made 2,310,000 in less than five minutes!"

Li Peifeng was ecstatic and very proud.

"Really?"

Wu Wenyue was startled, grabbed the mouse to have a closer look, confirmed the numbers were correct, but still didn’t show much joy. Instead, her face was a bit heavy: "With just a rise of 0.83%, you made over half? What if it dropped by one point?"

"If it drops, we’ll lose it, one point and it’s a margin call, just a hundred times leverage..."

"Just?"

Wu Wenyue stared at him in disbelief. During the period when Li Peifeng was playing with international markets, she had subconsciously learned what a margin call was and what a hundred times leverage meant.

"With one point, you’d be wiped out, all three million down the drain! That’s three million, do you understand? How is this different from gambling?"

"There is a difference!"

Li Peifeng declared firmly, with a tone full of confidence: "Gambling relies on luck, this relies on brains!"

"Three months ago, I sensed something wrong with the international situation, very wrong, there were issues, big issues! So I started to closely observe the economic changes in various countries, adjustments in the supply and demand of labor, the mood and preferences of market investors, as well as the war factors between the ’Big Mao’ and ’Second Mao’ countries, looking ahead at the future impacts..."