The Great Sage Returns from Ten Years of Imprisonment

"You little bastard, how dare you treat Wenwen like this? Believe me, I'll kill you!"

As soon as the call connected, Li Wen's father's roar, as loud as a pig being slaughtered, pierced her eardrums.

The background noise included Li Wen's mother's shrill voice, filled with foul language.

Occasionally, you could hear Li Wen crying in distress, constantly trying to dissuade her parents.

Ling Yun was prepared for all of this.

After cleverly guiding the other party to reveal Li Wen's name and their father-daughter relationship, he remained silent, took the phone away from his ear, and continued watching the show with disdain while recording.

Ling Yun only hung up the phone after Li Wen's father had been cursing until his throat was dry and he was furious because no one was paying attention to him, until he had collected enough audio evidence.

Then I called Attorney Zhang, explained the situation, and sent him all the audio evidence.

During this time, Li Wen's parents kept calling, but Ling Yun seemed not to hear them.

After finishing his call with Attorney Zhang, he looked at the two newly received abusive and extortionate text messages, and then forwarded them to Attorney Zhang.

After doing all that, he turned off the computer, hummed a little tune, and went back to wash up and go to bed.

The same scenario played out repeatedly over the next few days.

Li Wen's parents became increasingly outrageous, constantly changing their phone numbers to send harassing text messages and make phone calls, using the pretext of calling the police to extort money from her.

Despite the persistent harassment, Ling Yun persevered and gathered more compelling evidence.

Amidst all the commotion, it was already June 26th.

The cooperation plan with the group and Chairman Jin has entered its third week.

It was 1:30 p.m. in the small conference room.

Ling Yun and Zhang Yuntian sat at their workstations, chatting and laughing while keeping a close eye on the price trends of international crude oil futures.

After more than ten days of continuous hard work, they had all lost weight, their hair was messy, and they were dressed casually, with no personal image to speak of.

Fortunately, there is a restroom in the lounge, and everyone insists on showering every day. The administration department collects and cleans the dirty clothes and socks they wear.

Otherwise, they would have gone bad long ago.

Although the work was hard, they were all very excited as they earned more and more money, and did not feel tired at all.

Just then, Zhou Hua and Li Jie walked in from outside, each carrying several takeout containers.

They just went to the restaurant for lunch and packed two lunches for Lingyun and the others.

As soon as he entered the conference room, Zhou Hua said impatiently:

"Lingyun, guess who we ran into at the restaurant? It was Boss Liu's sexy secretary! It looked like she was staking out the restaurant for us!"

"As soon as she saw us, she came over and struck up a conversation, enthusiastically inviting us to a fancy restaurant outside. My buddy was really tempted!"

As he spoke, he gave a lewd laugh.

The next moment, he changed the subject.

"Given the rules you set, unless it's an extremely urgent matter, we cannot leave the group headquarters on weekdays, so we have to decline the invitation."

"When she realized she wasn't going to invite us to dinner, she changed her mind and asked for our phone numbers, and then asked when we were usually free and when our phones were on."

"What does this beautiful lady mean? Is she trying to use her beauty to seduce me? What's Mr. Liu up to? Aren't we business partners?"

Following closely behind, Li Jie added a few words with a smile.

"I must say, Boss Liu's beautiful secretary is indeed very pretty and sexy, with a curvaceous figure and a captivating charm!"

"If she uses her charm on my buddy, he might not be able to resist!"

As they spoke, the two of them walked into the rest area and placed the takeout containers they were carrying on the coffee table.

Ling Yun and Zhang Yuntian were both stunned as they listened to their introduction.

But Ling Yun quickly realized what was going on and gave a disdainful sneer.

"When our group first started working with Boss Liu, I noticed that he was a dishonest guy who liked to play dirty tricks!"

"This time will probably be the same; he's planning some tricks, but we don't know exactly what he intends to do yet!"

At this point, his gaze swept over Zhou Hua and the others, and his tone became much more serious.

"No matter what tricks he plays, you must remember that during the cooperation, you must not deviate from the cooperation plan and contact him."

"Furthermore, we must not disclose the team's investment strategy to him; that would be a violation of regulations. Who would dare to do that? If discovered, I will immediately kick them out of the team."

After hearing his analysis, Zhou Hua and the others' expressions immediately became much more serious.

They exchanged a glance and nodded solemnly.

"We know, we won't do something that stupid. We're all millionaires now, we're not so easily bought off."

"Exactly! Revealing the team's investment strategy to them is like shooting yourself in the foot; only an idiot would do that!"

After a few more words of discussion, Ling Yun and Zhang Yuntian got up and went to the rest area to have lunch.

Zhou Hua and Li Jie took over from them, sat down at their respective workstations, and continued to keep a close eye on international crude oil futures prices!

Meanwhile, Mr. Liu had already received a call from his secretary.

Upon learning that his beautiful secretary had failed to arrange a dinner with Zhou Hua and the others, and had also failed to contact Ling Yun, he was immediately furious.

"Can't even handle this simple thing, what a useless piece of trash. He's only good in bed."

After angrily cursing his beautiful secretary a few times, Boss Liu hung up the phone and immediately started calling Ling Yun again.

Lingyun's phone was still switched off, and it was impossible to get through.

Left with no other option, he turned to Ling Yun's work phone.

But at the moment of dialing, he hesitated.

Futures companies usually record all internal phone calls and keep a record of the conversation. Boss Liu didn't want his conversation with Ling Yun to be recorded.

That would undoubtedly give others a handle to use against us.

Just as Mr. Liu was hesitating, his phone suddenly rang.

He glanced at the screen and casually answered the phone.

The next moment, a familiar voice came.

"Excuse me, Mr. Liu, international oil prices are still rising, and you don't have enough margin in your account!"

"Will you add margin or close the position immediately? If you close the position now, all paper losses will become actual losses!"

Boss Liu's facial muscles twitched suddenly, and his expression instantly became somewhat ferocious and painful.

He's lost a lot of money these past two weeks!

He refused to turn back even after hitting a wall, showing a somewhat desperate attitude.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! All you do is urge me, like you're dragging me to my death. I'll add more margin right away!"

"I refuse to believe this is nonsense! These damn oil prices can't possibly go any higher!"

Upon hearing that he had decided to add more margin to continue hedging, the trader on the other end of the phone immediately beamed with joy.

"Okay, Mr. Liu, you'd better add more margin this time to avoid this trouble again and again."

"Okay, is 20 million enough?"

"That's enough, Mr. Liu. You've been very generous. I wish you continued success in your career, and I look forward to hearing from you."

After saying that, the trader hung up the phone.

Mr. Liu slumped into his chair, unable to recover for a long time.

After a while, he opened his laptop, ready to add more futures margin.

When he opened his personal bank account and saw the rapidly shrinking savings, he felt a wave of dizziness and almost fainted from the heartache!

Once he recovered from his pain, he immediately thought of Ling Yun again.

Yuanda Group headquarters, small conference room.

Lingyun, who was having lunch, suddenly reached out and touched his burning ear, muttering a few words in surprise.

"Hey! Who's talking about me behind my back? Probably not saying anything nice!"

Zhang Yuntian chewed on a sea cucumber and jokingly mumbled:

"The people who talk behind your back could line up from Wall Street to Paris, and your countless rivals in the international crude oil futures market are probably cursing you in every way imaginable!"

"We've made over a billion yuan, and it's all from them. Among them are many unfortunate souls who have lost everything or committed suicide."

"These guys just don't know your name, otherwise they'd definitely make a little paper doll and prick you with needles every day!"

"And those guys who lost money on Merrill Lynch stock must hate you, this shrewd and cunning short seller, to the core!"

"A 30% plunge in two weeks—it seems Merrill Lynch is really heading straight for bankruptcy, just as you said, while you're making a fortune!"

As he said this, his eyes were full of admiration and envy, even a hint of worship.

Just then, Zhou Hua's excited voice suddenly rang out.

"International crude oil futures prices have suddenly started to surge! This is insane!"