Li Feng nodded repeatedly. “I definitely won’t ask you for money again.”
He’d finally managed to coax his wife back home. At least she wouldn’t get into another car accident tomorrow.
A powerful sense of satisfaction welled up in Li Feng.
As soon as he opened the door, the two children rushed over and pulled Lin Qingxue away, one on either side. Three pairs of eyes stared at him warily.
Li Feng cursed himself. He deserved it!
Seeing how emaciated the mother and her two children were, his heart ached. The most urgent thing was to start making money so his wife and children could eat their fill and grow plump and healthy—and to pay back the 150,000 yuan he owed to the loan sharks.
Li Feng opened Alipay. He had 246 yuan left in his account.
How could he turn that into 150,000 yuan?
He searched through his memories, and his eyes lit up.
The Winter Games!
The opening ceremony was today. It was the first time Huaguo had hosted a major winter sporting event, and many foreign athletes had come to compete. The whole world was watching Huaguo, pushing its international standing to new heights in history.
After the opening ceremony, Bing Dwen Dwen would become a worldwide sensation, and all kinds of merchandise would sell out.
Plenty of people would queue all night and still fail to get any.
By then, a Bing Dwen Dwen keychain that originally cost 58 yuan could sell for 700.
But right now, the opening ceremony had only just ended. Everyone was still enthusiastically discussing its performances, and nobody was paying attention to Bing Dwen Dwen merchandise yet.
At the thought, Li Feng’s eyes lit up. He immediately pulled out his battered secondhand phone, opened the Winter Games flagship store on Taobao, and spent 232 yuan on four Bing Dwen Dwen keychains.
Looking at the 14 yuan left in Yu’e Bao, Li Feng cursed himself for being a piece of trash.
He’d already maxed out Huabei and couldn’t borrow any more. The minimum payment on his Huabei bill was due on the twentieth of this month; if he didn’t pay it, he wouldn’t even be able to use Alipay anymore.
Just then, a soft, sweet voice called, “Daddy, come eat.”
Li Feng looked up to see his daughter An’an standing not far away, her hair in two little pigtails, calling to him timidly.
His heart melted. He stood up, wanting to pick her up for a cuddle, but the little girl turned and ran to hug Lin Qingxue’s leg. She was carrying two bowls, and An’an peeked at him from behind her round little head.
Li Feng’s hand froze. He sighed. After being a piece of trash for so many years, there was no way his wife and children would trust him right away.
Only after Lin Qingxue sat down at the table with the two children did he slink over, take a bowl, and serve himself some noodles.
Dinner was plain boiled noodles, with a few wilted yellow leaves of greens floating on top. They were clearly ones Lin Qingxue had picked up at the market.
Li Feng clenched his fists. “I won’t let you live like this anymore.”
The next morning, as soon as he woke up, he checked the trending topics on Weibo.
Just as he remembered from his previous life, Bing Dwen Dwen had already taken the internet by storm. Delighted, he opened Taobao, only to find that every item of Bing Dwen Dwen merchandise in the flagship store had sold out.
Posts from people looking to buy Bing Dwen Dwen were everywhere online. Li Feng found one from someone willing to pay a high price and replied, “I have Bing Dwen Dwen keychains. 700 yuan each.”
The poster replied almost immediately:
“700? They’re only 58 yuan at retail! Are you trying to rob me?!”
Li Feng wasn’t fazed. “Bing Dwen Dwen is all over the internet, the flagship store is sold out, and the factories are closed for the New Year holiday. If you want one, this is the price.”
The poster was still trying to haggle when someone with the username Hainan Wuyanzu tagged Li Feng in a reply: “I’ll take however many you have.”
Before Li Feng could answer, the original poster got upset. “I’m still trying to buy them! Why are you jumping in to name your price?!”
Hainan Wuyanzu: “Weren’t you just saying it was too expensive and you didn’t want any?”
Original poster: “Who said I didn’t want one?”
Just as the two were about to start arguing, Li Feng replied, “Highest bidder gets them.”
Hainan Wuyanzu: “800 each!”
The original poster snapped, “850!”
Hainan Wuyanzu: “1,000! Come on, you little punk, are you still bidding?”
Li Feng raised an eyebrow.
That was even more than they were going for on the secondhand market in his previous life.
Clearly, the original poster wasn’t willing to get dragged into a bidding war. He stopped replying altogether.
Li Feng added Hainan Wuyanzu on WeChat. After receiving the money, he contacted Taobao customer service and had the shipping address changed.
That saved him the postage, too.
In no time, his Yu’e Bao balance had gone from 246 yuan to 4,014 yuan.
It had multiplied sixteenfold!
Looking at the money in his account, Li Feng sighed regretfully. “If I’d had money to start with, I could’ve made hundreds of thousands in one go.”
But he knew money had to be earned a little at a time.
Bing Dwen Dwen had already become a sensation. Everyone was waiting for more to come in, and it was impossible to get any. Making money off it again would take far too long.
Now was the time to buy Catcoin.