I woke up from the dream.
A sigh escaped my lips.
What exactly was I supposed to choose here?
I carefully replayed yesterday’s dream in my head.
In particular, I reviewed every part of the scenario that unfolded after I chose to invest.
Most of all, I kept going over the words the judge and prosecutor had spoken on the day I was sentenced.
What if I could find a way to disprove their reasoning?
I met my friend and received the information.
That part had already happened.
I couldn’t change it.
Buy ATI stock today?
I hadn’t bought it yet.
That could still be changed.
The most important piece of evidence…
I sold all my shares the day before the news was announced.
But I hadn’t even bought the stock yet.
That meant I could still change that too.
I was going to buy ATI stock.
But I wasn’t going to follow the exact same path I had seen yesterday in the Room of Choices.
Twenty years sounded like just a number.
But if that happened, my life would be over.
Alright.
Where do I start?
Should I begin with buying the stock?
During those three days, the stock kept hitting its daily limit-up.
On the fourth day, before the market opened, I entered pre-market trading.
Yesterday’s closing price was $15.
I placed a buy order for 10,000 shares at $20.
The purchase was executed almost instantly.
Average Purchase Price: $20
Shares Owned: 10,000
Total Purchase Amount: $200,000
I had just put my entire fortune into this.
Now all I had to do was wait.
ATI stock began soaring exactly as it had in my dream.
The LULD (Limit Up-Limit Down) mechanism triggered day after day.
To me, it was nothing more than meaningless information.
I lived my days as usual.
I wasn’t impatient.
I wasn’t anxious.
I already knew exactly how the market would move.
From time to time, I bought and sold ATI stock.
The transactions were irregular—one day here, two days there.
If my trading showed a clear pattern, regulators might classify it as manipulation.
One month passed.
The explosive surge was over, and the stock had settled into the same steady climb I had seen in the dream.
From that point on, I began selling off my shares.
$450 — 2,000 shares
$420 — 1,000 shares
$450 — 2,000 shares
$460 — 4,000 shares
One week before the news broke, every share had already been converted into cash.
Shares Held: 0
Cash: $4,490,000
The month-long gamble that began with $200,000 returned more than twenty-two times my original investment.
On the day of the announcement, the news was released exactly as before.
Today, government authorities officially confirmed that ATI suffered a cyberattack by an unidentified hacker, resulting in the theft of approximately $100 million worth of cryptocurrency.
As a result, the blockchain…
The stock immediately collapsed.
Everything in reality unfolded exactly as it had in the dream scenario.
A month and a half later, ATI was delisted.
Tomorrow, my fate would be decided.
The day of judgment.
Ding-dong.
Ding-dong.
“Is this Luke’s residence?”
My vision darkened.
Did my plan not work?
With trembling hands, I slowly opened the front door.