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In five days, Bitcoin increased by a total of $4,820 and hovered around $10,000 for three days.

During this period, more and more people joined in, including, but not limited to, funds from the mainland.

However, the $10,000 barrier was like a chasm.

Every time funds attempted to break through upward, it felt like an invisible and powerful barrier collected all funds and restrained the price increase.

"Who the hell is always running?"

Millions of participants were stuck and uncomfortable. If it spiked and fell back, that would be understandable. After all, besides going long, one can go short. The problem was that it couldn’t rise high, nor could it fall back, staying stuck at $9,800-$9,900.

"How much did we cash out?" Lu Liang called Li Junwei and initiated a video call with Xu Jiawei, who was far away in Tokyo.

Xu Jiawei replied, "Mr. Lu, we sold 285,200 units, with an average price of $9,850."

"Only $2.8 billion."

Lu Liang pondered for a moment, then looked at Li Junwei: "How much capital flowed into Bitcoin from the mainland during this time?"

Li Junwei fetched the data, lowered his head, and said: "The funds entering through HSBC channels are unknown because they didn’t share data with us, but according to the data provided by Standard Chartered, Guangsheng, and OinsX, about $2.912 billion flowed in from the mainland."

"Only 20 billion."

Lu Liang frowned, feeling it was a bit low.

Although HSBC’s data is not included, it also comprises small and medium funds, so overall, those shadowy funds might not even reach 10 billion.

It feels a bit premature to reel in now.

But if not, and they continue to suppress the price, it would be easy to stifle this excellent market wave.

Strike while the iron is hot, but after the second strike, one gets weaker, and after the third, exhausted. There can be breathing time in between but not for too long, or else the sentiment will be worn out.

Once market sentiment is worn out, it becomes difficult to stimulate the market again, just like how winter requires an engine to warm up. Moreover, they plan to drive this market above $22,000 USD.

Without frenzied market sentiment, it’s challenging for their institution alone to push the price up.

Seeing Lu Liang hesitating, Li Junwei knew what he was hesitating about and, after pondering for a moment, said: "Mr. Lu, I heard an interesting piece of news while talking with Mr. He yesterday."

Lu Liang raised his eyes and asked: "What news?"

Li Junwei said: "Chairman Liu sought financing from Standard Chartered Bank, with the principal of $80 million USD, totaling $320 million USD in financing, using five times leverage, fully invested in Bitcoin."

"Greenland’s Liu Conglong?"

Lu Liang was surprised, and seeing Li Junwei nod, he suddenly had a plan, narrowing his eyes with a smile: "Old Liu is so greedy that he even plays with leverage financing. Can he still claim he’s not greedy?"

He looked at Xu Jiawei on the screen and instructed: "Announce Xingheng’s reduction, suppress the price below $5,000 USD, then quietly repurchase chips, ensuring that when we make another assault on ten thousand dollars, our holdings are no lower than 1.7 million units."

One characteristic of a scam is self-directed and self-acted; they announce the reduction, they go short, and they take out all the long positions in one sweep.

This behavior, if placed in Hong Kong stocks, US stocks, and even Big A, is called illegal operation, usually facing hefty fines, or severe cases being banned for life from the market.

But Bitcoin is cryptocurrency, its nature is free from regulation by any global institution or government.

In this lawless market, whoever holds more chips, whoever holds more funds, whoever punches harder, they just set the rules.

Following Lu Liang’s order, Bitcoin’s market dynamics suddenly changed, with large amounts of capital rushing in frantically, and the price surged, showing a posture aiming to break through the $10,000 barrier decisively.

"It’s starting; finally, it’s going to break through."

In the chairman’s office at the Greenland Group in Modu, Liu Conglong received the message firsthand, immediately logged into his account, his eyes gleaming with excitement.

Successful people are without exception self-confident.

He’s no exception, based on his observation, this wave of market prices surged but didn’t fall back, indicating it’s gathering strength.

That’s why he went all in, contacted Standard Chartered Bank, financed $320 million USD, using five times leverage, fully holding Bitcoin.

He’s betting that once Bitcoin breaks the $10,000 barrier, it will open up the upward path entirely.

This wave’s market price will rise to at least $20,000 USD.

By that time, his account’s net assets will be at least $600 million USD, among which only $100 million belongs to those rich kids, and the remaining $500 million will be his.

Liu Conglong had already planned how to spend this money, just needed to keep $50 million USD in overseas accounts, in case of unexpected needs.

The remaining $450 million USD, establish a fund company in Xiangjiang, infusing capital into the Greenland Group through financing and lending means.

More than 3 billion RMB, utilizing the real estate group’s commonly used bridge borrowing and lending methods, can expand the capital tenfold to assist Greenland in smoothly overcoming this crisis.

Hengtai, relying on over 100 billion cash flow, can stabilize debts exceeding 200 billion and, with government support, orderly resolve various debts and unfinished issues.

Hengtai can, and Greenland can emulate.

After all, when the nationwide real estate economy faces transformation, the top understands the hardships of real estate enterprises.

As long as enterprises are willing and want to handle matters, various levels of government will spare no effort in providing assistance.

However, there’s a prerequisite, you must be strong yourself.

At least need real estate group to proactively set an example, not lie down waiting for national assistance.

"Old Xu’s luck is good, escaped calamity, now I need to follow in his footsteps closely." Liu Conglong narrowed his eyes, smiling.

Currently, the whole industry, even local governments and some dignitaries, are waiting for the first truly exploded real estate group.

Because once this happens, they can push certain historical residual responsibilities entirely on the opposite side, and then this industry can start anew.

Hengtai Group, as the benchmark in the real estate industry, Old Xu likes to show off, should have sacrificed himself for the industry.

But he’s lucky,encountered Lu Liang, this demon, who’s willing to lend a hand, directly turned from a negative role model to a positive one.

So much so that the leading brands in the nationwide real estate industry are anxious, after all, the first condition to become the ’accounting Great Saint’ is for the group’s projects to cover nationwide to resolve most historical residual problems.

Previously, Liu Conglong would have worried. While real estate groups generally have state team backgrounds, strictly speaking, there’s a demarcation between legitimate and illegitimate lineage.

For example, Huaxin, Poly, Rongchuang and other real estate brands are genuine state-owned enterprises’ legitimate lineage.

Once there’s a need to ’balance the books,’ they will definitely pick from the side companies, such as Greenland, Country Garden, Vanke, etc.

If there weren’t this layer of worry, Liu Conglong wouldn’t have contacted Lu Liang to transfer some funds for a rainy day.

But now, as long as this profit is credited, Greenland can completely escape the list of ’Great Saints of Balance Sheet.’

Time ticked by second by second, and the price of Bitcoin continued to soar, only to suddenly stall at $9,990.

"Come on, push through, don’t you know about going all out?"

Liu Conglong stared intently at the screen, not even realizing that the cigarette in his hand had burned down to the butt.

His entire focus was on the Bitcoin market; no external factor could distract him.

At this moment, Xingheng Investment Company in faraway Tokyo suddenly announced reducing its holdings by 300,000 Bitcoins.

The announcement detailed that the average price was $9,874, with funds raised amounting to $2.962 billion.

"No wonder it couldn’t break through."

"Turns out it’s Xingheng selling."

"The reduction accounts for 17.5% of their total position."

"Everyone run, the mining disaster is happening!!"

As soon as the news broke, the market responded quickly.

Countless people couldn’t even act; their account profits and principals were wiped out with just a blink.

Some didn’t even have time to trigger forced liquidation, and the Bitcoin price had already fallen below the liquidation price, known as ’piercing the warehouse.’

"Where’s my money? Where did it go? How could this happen?"

Liu Conglong stared blankly at his fund account.

A second ago, he still had over 80 million USD in profit, with total assets reaching $452 million; now there was a string of negative numbers.

In that instant, each Bitcoin plummeted by $3,220, falling from $9,982 to $6,762, a drop of -32.12%.

He had used five times the capital leverage; normally, a drop exceeding 17% would trigger forced liquidation, and over 20% would pierce the warehouse.

However, in an instant, Bitcoin dropped by -32.12% and continued to plunge; he not only lost all principal and margin but also owed the financing bank tens of millions of dollars.

At this moment,

A rapid phone ringing sounded.

Liu Conglong hadn’t returned to his senses until the cigarette butt burned his fingers, and another private phone also rang.

He looked at the two phones with alarms going off incessantly, reaching out with a trembling hand to pick up the private phone.

"Hello, Mr. Zhao, what’s up?" Liu Conglong swallowed dryly, forcing himself to stay calm, trying to alleviate the panic in his heart.

"Bitcoin has already fallen to $5,500; I’ve been following this too, but it doesn’t matter. We’re holding long-term, it will definitely rise back."

"Rest assured, after all, this market is like this, fast up and fast down."

"Lu Liang is just reducing, not liquidating. He can’t bear to leave this market."

"You want to cash out now? Okay, okay, I’ll figure something out."

Ending the call, Liu Conglong felt desolate, looking at the work phone still ringing.

He kept watching until the ringtone stopped and started again, his gaze turning from panic to determination.

With the private phone, Liu Conglong contacted his wife and children, ordering: "Take Xiaocheng abroad now, as fast as possible."

He knew he was finished because he couldn’t repay, and even if he could, he wouldn’t want to; Standard Chartered would definitely apply for arbitration, and once the news spread, it would exacerbate the already difficult situation for Greenland Group.

So now, he had only one way left: to go abroad.

Meanwhile, Lu Liang received a call from He Jiafan.

Forcing back his anger, He Jiafan quickly explained the whole story: "Mr. Lu, could you do me a favor? Liu Conglong’s account pierced, and now he can’t be reached by phone. I suspect he’s going to run."

Liu Conglong’s account margin was $35 million, and he initially thought it was enough.

After all, with five times leverage, including the margin, a sudden drop would have to exceed -27.5% before they’d be caught off guard.

But he didn’t expect Lu Liang to act so aggressively, halving Bitcoin’s price in seconds, leaving countless people no time to react, with warehouses exploding and piercing.

"Mr. He, what do you want me to do to help?" Lu Liang asked.

He Jiafan immediately replied: "I don’t have as deep connections inland as you do. I hope you can stop Liu Conglong, you absolutely can’t let him run."

"No problem, a piece of cake," Lu Liang chuckled.

"A great favor needs no thanks. Mr. Lu, today’s grace I will remember in my heart."

Ending the call with He Jiafan, Lu Liang squinted his eyes, muttering to himself, "Just because you’re a few billion in debt, you’re running? Looks like Greenland’s problems are very serious!"

After pondering briefly, he dialed Old Xu’s number: "I just heard some news that I think you’d be interested in."

Lu Liang could intervene, but he couldn’t.

Because he was almost solely responsible for Liu Conglong piercing the warehouse, if he intervened again, it would inevitably lead to the misconception that this was a scheme specifically targeting Liu Conglong.

Although Liu Conglong wasn’t worthy, rumors would still affect Tianxing Finance’s subsequent collection of protection fees.

After all, making Liu Conglong pierce the warehouse was meant to show those still on the fence the outcome of going solo without them.

Therefore, this required Old Xu to step in, and Old Xu also had a reason to do so.

Since ancient times, competitors have been adversaries, and as a model for economic transition in real estate, Hengtai bears significant pressure.

He needs someone to help share the pressure, preferably being a negative example, to make him appear more responsible and with a greater sense of social responsibility.