We agreed not to date, so why are you crying now that I've become the richest man?

Fifteen minutes later, the warm water washed away the chill and dampness from his body. Ye Chen dried his short hair, changed into soft and refreshing pajamas, and then climbed up the ladder to his bed.

He leaned against the headboard, took out his phone, and turned on the screen. It was just past 8:30 p.m. He first opened the QQ group for Gu Yuxuan, which was in a separate "pinned" group, and typed a message:

"I just took a hot shower, and I felt sticky and uncomfortable when I got back. I feel much better now. Have you finished getting ready over there?"

Not long after the message was sent, Gu Yuxuan's profile picture popped up in response:

"I just put my things down too, and I'm about to take a shower! I'll probably take a while to shower and dry my hair. Don't catch a cold after getting caught in the rain today, remember to drink plenty of hot water, and go to bed early [coffee emoji]. Goodnight~ (=^ω^=)"

Ye Chen's lips unconsciously curled up, he typed a yellow-faced smiley face and replied with "Goodnight".

After putting away his phone, Ye Chen climbed down the ladder from the bed, walked to his desk, sat down, and turned on the laptop.

The fluorescent lights in the dormitory were still on. Sun Haoyu and Lu Wenbo were huddled in front of the computer reviewing the previous game with random players. The rain outside the window gradually turned into a light drizzle, tapping on the glass and making a rustling sound.

While the capital scale of overseas financial markets is already enormous, the US dollar figures floating in offshore accounts are ultimately just financial tools and ammunition for harvesting profits. In the upcoming golden decade of mobile internet, only by firmly controlling the underlying entry points of the local software and hardware ecosystem can a truly unshakeable commercial empire be built.

The computer in this simple dormitory, and the soon-to-be-released "Starry Sky App Market," are the core springboards for him to establish himself in the domestic mobile internet ecosystem. With the wave of 3G network popularization approaching and the smartphone replacement wave just around the corner, the mobile distribution channel cannot afford to make any mistakes.

He first logged into the internal management backend of Xingchen Software.

There are only thirteen hours left until the official launch of "Starry Sky App Market" across the entire network at 10:00 AM tomorrow.

Ye Chen opened the server stress monitoring panel. The bandwidth reserves of all eight backbone CDN acceleration nodes across the country were in a green light state. The first batch of 350 popular Android applications and localized games had completed all MD5 verification and security scans, confirming that there was no malicious billing code.

After confirming that all parameters were normal, Ye Chen picked up his phone from the table and dialed the number of Chen Wei, the technical director.

The phone was answered after only two rings, and Chen Wei's calm voice came from the other end, with the faint sound of a television broadcasting the news in the background.

"Mr. Ye, you're still up so late?"

"I just checked the surveillance data in the back office, and I was just asking about your situation. Are you at home now?" Ye Chen asked, leaning back in his chair.

"Yes, I just got home and I'm keeping an eye on the backup monitoring terminal at home," Chen Wei replied with a smile. "Don't worry, Mr. Ye, all the preparations for today are complete! The stress test reports for the three major backbone network nodes are all normal. The featured recommendation slots and twenty in-depth review articles for the three major forums, JiFeng, Android, and AnZhi, at 8:30 tomorrow morning have all been scheduled and locked. There are engineers on duty in the data center, working through the night, and everyone is on standby. We're just waiting for the entire network to go live at 10:00 tomorrow morning!"

"You've worked hard." Ye Chen nodded slightly and instructed, "The first peak of traffic will be from 10:00 to 12:00 tomorrow. Be especially careful of abnormal IP ranges maliciously downloading and consuming bandwidth. Get a good night's sleep tonight and be well-rested for tomorrow's tough battle."

"Understood, Mr. Ye, you should also get some rest."

After hanging up the phone, Ye Chen switched to a secure overseas webpage with triple encryption, entered the dynamic password, and retrieved the asset statements of Standard Chartered Bank's offshore master account and Star Capital.

On the screen, a huge amount of available liquid funds lay quietly in the account.

If all of this money were converted into RMB and transferred back to China, not only would the foreign exchange approval process be cumbersome and lengthy, but it would also attract high attention from regulators. The best course of action is for part of the funds to be used to directly establish early-stage investments in future tech giants overseas, while the other part must take advantage of the current global monetary cycle upheaval to sustain future investments and launch a top-level macro capital harvest.

Ye Chen leaned back in his chair, his deep gaze fixed on the global macroeconomic and financial trends. With his crystal-clear "absolute memory" in his mind, he silently planned his overall future strategy.

In 2010, the Federal Reserve officially announced the launch of the second round of quantitative easing (QE2), and the $6000 billion printing press roared wildly again. Massive amounts of cheap dollar liquidity flooded into the global market like a torrent, directly fueling a global frenzy for risk assets. The dollar continued to depreciate, inflation expectations soared, and safe-haven and speculative funds frantically swept up all core assets.

Technology stocks are the long-term ballast for the next decade, but right now, the super liquidity premium brought by QE2 means that commodities and stock indices are the pools of exponentially increasing profits in the short term.

Ye Chen mentally rehearsed the next steps one by one:

First, there was a bullish feast in macro commodities and derivatives.

In this round of excessive liquidity, silver's financial and industrial attributes will both explode, making it far more volatile than gold, inevitably triggering a violent "bull market" that will go down in financial history. Gold, fueled by excessive dollar issuance and shaky sovereign credit, will also steadily embark on a long-term bull market, heading straight for its 2011 historical high. Crude oil, catalyzed by global recovery expectations and Middle East geopolitical risks, will fluctuate upwards. As for the US stock market, the Fed's comprehensive quantitative easing has effectively capped downside potential, and the S&P 500 is also a solid macro bull. These trump cards are enough to generate unimaginable profits for him in the coming year.

As for building long-term positions in core US technology stocks, it requires extremely strong composure and a sense of proportion.

Nafi, Amazon, Fruit, and Guge, as the future pillars of stability, can be accumulated during the period of undervaluation and accumulation, with long-term holdings and no concern for short-term fluctuations.

However, it's not the right time to heavily invest in Invista yet. The computing power era is not yet in sight in the market in 2010. Just take a small initial position to secure your position. Two years later, the Thai floods and the underperformance of mobile chips will cause the market to abandon it severely. That will be the real golden opportunity to add to your position.

Tesla is absolutely untouchable. Its abyss of death has not yet arrived, and it will suffer huge unrealized losses in the next two years. Right now, we should save our ammunition for targets with higher certainty. When everyone in the market pronounces Tesla dead in 2012, then we can use all our ammunition to truly reap the rewards.

Commodities serve as the vanguard, snowballing astronomical capital amidst macroeconomic turmoil; tech giants act as strategic holdings, locking in the era's dividends for the next decade.

The remaining cash is held in offshore accounts as a liquidity buffer, which can not only cope with possible extreme fluctuations, but also serve as ammunition for foreign venture capital to intercept early-stage star projects in the mobile internet industry back in China.

With the overall situation in mind, proceed cautiously step by step.

After thoroughly sorting out this grand capital empire spanning the next few years in his mind, Ye Chen's thoughts were now perfectly aligned and clear.

After closing the encrypted webpage, Ye Chen casually closed his laptop, glanced at the time, and saw that the clock had just passed 10:30.

Listening to the crisp, soft sound of raindrops outside the window, he climbed back into bed, pulled back the covers, and cleared his mind of all distractions, preparing to recharge for the grand online launch of the Starry Sky App Market the next morning.