Six in the evening.
Li's Father picked up Li Xiluo and returned home.
Li's Mother was making dinner, and Li Xihai was lying on the sofa playing on his phone.
Li's Father sat down on the single-seat sofa, took out his cigarette pack, hesitated slightly, then still reached out and offered one to Li Xihai.
Li Xihai casually took it and tucked it behind his ear.
"Not smoking?" Li's Father asked.
"You go first. If two people smoke, the smoke gets thick, and Mom will complain later."
Li Xihai said. He had just smoked one and didn't really want another.
"Mm."
Li's Father responded.
And just like that, neither father nor son spoke.
After a while, Li's Father casually said, "Ji'an Medical hit the limit-up again today."
"Didn't sell. Still holding the position." Li Xihai kept scrolling through his phone, watching Delta Force videos.
"Still holding?"
Li's Father did know the term "holding." He asked with some curiosity, "You're really bullish on Ji'an Medical?"
"The market's doing well, I guess. Anyway, the flu is severe right now, and Ji'an's overseas business is doing quite well."
Li Xihai said this based on the analysis the System had given him.
He didn't really understand Ji'an Medical's situation; all his information came from the System.
He used to be just an ordinary stock trader. Back then, he'd charged in on a hot-blooded impulse, and everything he learned was just surface-level.
How much investment experience could he have, or theoretical foundation?
To put it plainly.
He was a pure Beginner.
Without the System, he wouldn't dare invest again.
Since he had the System, this golden finger, Li Xihai couldn't be bothered to expend any energy or brain cells.
Having a System and still working hard, studying this theory all day, analyzing that data—
Wouldn't that be a total waste of the System?
So, just lie flat and that's it.
Don't make blind moves, don't overthink.
Just honestly follow the System's guidance for investing—isn't that great?
"As long as you know what you're doing."
Li's Father said no more.
The reason he asked today was that three consecutive days of limit-up, over three hundred thousand in profit, made him unable to ignore it.
He wasn't too worried.
Sometimes he thought it through clearly: if they made money, it was because his son had good judgment and the composure to hold.
If they lost it, it wasn't a loss either—it was all money they'd earned anyway.
He was only worried that if something unexpected happened and the three hundred thousand was lost, his son wouldn't be able to handle the huge drop and would have emotional problems.
"Dinner's ready."
Li's Mother called out.
Li Xihai and Li's Father got up and went over. Li Xiluo also came out of her room.
After the family finished eating, Li's Mother noticed Li Xihai had eaten little and asked warily, "You're not going out again tonight, are you?"
"Out all night every day—this home has become your hotel."
Li Xiluo said, "Bro, you go out and eat good food, and you don't even think to bring me some back."
With that, she turned her head and went back to her room unhappily.
Li Xihai smiled speechlessly and shook his head. "Not going out tonight."
Two days of drinking had left him feeling unwell.
Even if there were plans tonight, he wasn't going.
On the weekend, when President Guan and Luozi returned from their business trip, there would definitely be more drinking.
He was young, but even so, his body couldn't take that kind of punishment.
He'd rest up for a couple of days first.
……
Thursday.
After breakfast, Li Xihai washed the dishes.
His parents had already left for work.
He waited alone for the market to open.
Ji'an Medical, as expected, hit the limit-up again at the open.
A one-word limit-up board, no problem at all.
Only the structure on the board—the number of limit-down sell orders was somewhat less than the previous few days.
Four consecutive limit-up boards.
Many retail investors couldn't hold their positions anymore. Quite a few had been stuck at high levels, and now not only were they getting unstuck, they were even in profit.
If not now, when would they run?
"Brothers, I'm out first. You all keep holding."
"This wave was great. I was standing guard at the peak before, and now I've finally broken even, plus made over ten percent profit. Bye bye."
"Thanks to the damn manipulator, thanks to the Main Force, for letting me not lose money and even make some."
"Haha, leaving at four boards, no composure at all. Serves you right for getting stuck."
"Three boards makes a demon, and if there are three there must be five. Today's the fourth board, tomorrow the fifth board is due. If there are five there must be seven. Ji'an's position as the leader is already settled."
"The Demon Stock is here, brothers, charge for me."
"Damn it, open the door and let me in. I'll even accept standing guard."
"If they really let you in to stand guard, you wouldn't be happy about it."
There was plenty of discussion on the Stock Bar Forum.
In the app, Li Xihai saw quite a few bullet comments scrolling by, as well as many posts in the community.
He browsed through them with great interest.
Some people did have strong opinions—after all, it really was about to make five consecutive limit-up boards.
Many still didn't believe it, saying that on Friday the lights would go out and everyone would be served a big bowl of noodles.
Some of the comments were damn interesting too.
As he read, Li Xihai got a bit bored.
A one-word limit-up board left no room for any operation at all—no need to even look.
He had plenty of time and didn't know how to spend it.
He wanted to play games, but the home computer's specs were outdated—what could it even run?
He scrolled through Delta Force videos for a while. Seeing the streamer slaughtering everyone and extracting with tens of millions, his heart just itched.
"Xipeng, what the hell are you doing?"
"Just woke up."
"Got anything going on?"
"What, bro, you need something?"
"I've got nothing either. Thinking of going to the Internet cafe to play some games."
"Sure, let's do it."
The two made plans, and in less than half an hour, they met up at the Internet cafe.
These days, Internet cafes aren't called Internet cafes anymore—they're called Internet cafes.
The service quality had improved, far beyond what the old Internet cafes could compare to.
Of course, along with the improved service, the rates had gotten more and more expensive.
Though many Internet cafes had recharge promotions—recharge this much, get this much free.
But when you actually got online, it was ten or twenty yuan an hour, plus drinks and food, ordering some snacks on the side, and two or three hundred was gone in a day.
But for Li Xihai and the other, this wasn't much of a problem.
Li Xihai recharged five hundred.
"Damn, recharging that much?" Li Xipeng laughed. "Planning to battle all day?"
"Miss, recharge five hundred for me too."
The front desk girl was all smiles. "Okay, you two gentlemen. Recharge five hundred, get five hundred free."
Li Xihai was going to pay for both, but in the end Li Xipeng paid his own.
"You paid for the foot massage. This Internet fee is on me."
"Alright then."
The two brothers had grown up together—they were true cousins.
His dad and Li Xihai's dad were biological brothers.
But this kid was slick. After graduating high school, he didn't get into a good university and went to a vocational college, graduating earlier than Li Xihai.
His family was also well-off. His old man worked at an oil company, his mom at China Telecom.
After returning to his Hometown, he didn't work either. The jobs his parents arranged, he wouldn't go. He just played all day.
The two went into a private room.
The County Town wasn't big, but the prices were high, comparable to a first-tier big city.
A private room was twenty-five yuan an hour.
"What are we playing?"
"Delta Force."
"Then I'll grind some Legend of Mir."
"Suit yourself."
……
Li's Father was quite astonished.
Ji'an Medical hit another one-word limit-up board.
Dawa's profit was over four hundred thousand now.
Four days, four limit-ups.
Was Ji'an Medical about to become a Demon Stock?
His understanding of the stock market wasn't that deep, but he still knew some basic knowledge.
Judging by Ji'an's momentum, there really was so-called demonic energy.