Chapter Five: Six Hundred Eighty Million Opens the Door

Changming Asset Management sued Lin for stealing its quantitative model three years ago and demanded 1.2 billion yuan. In this rewritten reality, Changming had replaced Obsidian and inherited both the old collapse and every piece of fabricated evidence. At ten, a court froze 600 million belonging to Tomorrow Capital. At the same moment, tomorrow's prices returned. Torch Financial, Changming's only listed subsidiary, traded at thirty-two yuan. Tomorrow's settlement was forty-nine. The reason field read: [CHANGMING WINS LAWSUIT AND ACQUIRES ALL TOMORROW CAPITAL ALGORITHMS.] If Lin lost, his enemy would soar. Buying the stock meant profiting from his own defeat. Shorting it meant letting tomorrow's answer crush him. “Another choice,” Su said.