"What?"
"What kind of family are you from? This is a million! Does your family own a gold mine?"
Su Can couldn't help himself.
He asked with a look of utter shock.
Meanwhile, a clear struggle was visible on Chu Youwei's face.
She seemed to be hiding some unspeakable difficulty.
Yet, after hesitating over and over again.
She still couldn't bring herself to say it, and in the end, she could only bite her lip and stubbornly declare, "Never mind how this money came about."
"Anyway, I've never used it, and I don't want to use it!"
"You might as well take it and spend it—it's all owed to me and my mom by that jerk anyway!"
Hearing this,
Su Can sensed there was quite a story behind this girl.
Being tactful, he didn't press for details.
Besides, the most important thing for him right now was to get his hands on some startup capital.
And currently,
Chu Youwei was in a position to provide him with that exact startup capital!
........
Therefore,
Su Can stopped asking questions.
Instead, he said solemnly once again, "Alright!"
"Let me reiterate this for you."
"I am borrowing this million from you to invest in Bitcoin, which is similar to stock trading."
"Later on, no matter how much profit we make, once we deduct your one-million-dollar principal, we'll split the rest fifty-fifty. Nobody takes advantage of anyone, understand?"
Su Can's hands were actually shaking as he held the bank card.
It wasn't like he had never seen that much money before.
It was just the thought of what that one million could yield a month from now.
The anticipation alone was driving him wild with excitement.
Chu Youwei, on the other hand, acted as if it were no big deal.
She waved her hands dismissively and said, "Alright already, you've repeated that several times!"
"I know, you're such a nag!"
......
After they had thrashed out the details,
they decided to take advantage of the lunch break
to find a secluded little corner on campus
and get down to business.
Soon,
the two of them scouted out a spot.
A grove of trees behind the girls' dormitory.
Famously known as a dating sanctuary for couples.
Because there were no security cameras along the way,
it was hard for the disciplinary teachers to catch them.
Unless they were caught in the act,
it was nearly impossible to secure any solid evidence.
Even though Su Can had been a complete novice who hadn't dated once in his three years of high school,
he had plenty of seasoned romantics in his dorm.
Through listening to their stories over and over,
he had learned about these hidden corners.
......
This was also Chu Youwei's first time following a boy into a place like the grove.
She looked thoroughly nervous the entire way.
Especially when she saw the ground
littered with various traces left behind by other young couples,
her heart raced and her face flushed uncontrollably.
Su Can, however, didn't notice any of Chu Youwei's unusual reactions.
With an excited expression, he said, "Alright, we've arrived. Let's get down to business."
Su Can's sudden remark
threw Chu Youwei completely off guard.
Huh?
Business?
What kind of business?
This brat!
Could it be that he used borrowing money as an excuse
just to lure me to a place like this?
Seeing Chu Youwei still standing there in a daze,
Su Can immediately urged, "Your phone!"
"Lend me your phone. Unlike you rich girls, I can't afford a smartphone in high school!"
That was the truth.
It was currently 2013,
and smartphones had only entered the public eye for two or three years.
For a family like his,
being able to use an old-school hand-me-down from his parents was already a luxury.
Hearing this,
Chu Youwei snapped back to reality.
She pulled a Xiaomi 1 phone with a cracked screen out of her pocket.
Seeing the phone,
Su Can froze for a moment.
That wasn't right!
Even a gold-digger like Lin Shanshan knew to use the latest Apple phone.
Why was Chu Youwei, an actual wealthy heiress,
using a Xiaomi phone with a screen so badly shattered it was painful to look at?
Seeing Su Can staring blankly,
Chu Youwei quickly explained, "Su Can, don't look at the screen like this."
"It still works, it just strains your eyes a bit!"
"Oh right!"
"Don't you know how to use a smartphone?"
"Do you want me to teach you?"
Hearing this,
Su Can hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, I just didn't expect you to be using a phone like this!"
"Just hand me the phone, I know how to use it!"
"Heh, when we make money later, I'll buy you a new one."
Hearing those words,
Chu Youwei smiled as well.
"Great!"
"Su Can, you said it!"
"I bought this Xiaomi with money I earned from a part-time job."
"My studies have been pretty intense lately, so I haven't had time for part-time work!"
"That's why I never made enough to get the screen fixed."
Hearing this,
Su Can found it rather puzzling.
Weren't there over a million sitting in your bank card?
Why not spend it?
Still, Su Can was a tactful person.
He knew what to ask and what not to ask.
So he wisely chose to steer clear of the topic.
Instead, he took the phone and began operating it fluently.
Luckily it was an Android phone.
If it were an Apple, he'd have to deal with jailbreaking and save himself a ton of trouble.
......
Actually, the procedure for trading Bitcoin was quite simple.
First, you had to download a VPN application
so the phone could access foreign websites.
Then, you needed to find a Bitcoin exchange and register an account.
Once registered,
you created a Bitcoin digital wallet to store the cryptocurrency.
After that,
you could buy and trade Bitcoin.
Without hesitation,
Su Can got the password from Chu Youwei
and went all-in.
He transferred all the money from the bank card into the exchange
to purchase Bitcoin!
......
And seeing was believing.
Once he looked at the balance in the bank account,
Su Can was genuinely startled!
Not a cent more or less,
it was sitting at precisely one million two hundred thousand!
Today's price for Bitcoin was $127 each, which, at an exchange rate of 1 to 7, came out to 889 yuan per coin.
Calculated in Huaxia currency,
one million two hundred thousand bought one thousand three hundred and forty-nine Bitcoins!
And these Bitcoins,
two months from now, would skyrocket tenfold, netting him a profit of over ten million!
Even after splitting it evenly with Chu Youwei, they would each walk away with nearly five million.
You could call that an ultra-high return on investment!
After tapping and clacking away for nearly an hour,
just as the lunch break was about to end,
Su Can finally finished setting everything up for the Bitcoin purchase!
A full one million two hundred thousand!
With the Bitcoin purchase complete,
the bank card balance was instantly wiped clean, leaving behind only a pitiful few hundred yuan.
In its place, however,
were exactly one thousand three hundred and forty-nine Bitcoins resting safely in the digital wallet!
Thinking of the crazy upward trajectory Bitcoin would take a month from now,
Su Can couldn't contain his excitement!
Money!
This was all pure money!
He never imagined his first pot of gold after rebirth
would be earned so effortlessly.
How could he not be thrilled?
.........
With the Bitcoin business out of the way,
the two of them needed to head back to their respective dormitories,
tidy up,
and get ready for class in the classroom.
Only, Su Can didn't expect
that the exact moment he led Chu Youwei out of the grove,
he would coincidentally, of all times,
run right into Lin Shanshan!