On January 25, 2014, at Room 2-303, Building 22, Yuanwan, Linjiang City.

Looking at the 158 million funds gathered in his phone account, Changdong, who was on winter break, let out a long sigh.

Chang Dong, male, 22 years old, a college student in his third year. His father is the workshop director of a cable factory, and his mother is a cleaning lady at an advertising company.

Given such a family background, to be honest, it's extremely incongruous with the 158 million he just received, making the whole situation even more absurd.

However, more absurd things have happened to Changdong.

That is — he isn't from around here.

To be precise, he is from the future.

He still clearly remembers that on January 3, 2020, because he hadn't achieved his sales targets for half a month, during the morning meeting, his manager singled him out for public criticism and even issued an ultimatum: in the last week, if he couldn't achieve his sales targets, he would be fired immediately!

Changdong, who had trudged home after a long and tiring day, was met not with the warmth and comfort of his family, but with torment. His parents were once again quarreling over money, even going so far as to throw pots and break dishes.

Changdong, who had long since become accustomed to this, habitually retreated into his bedroom. He sat in front of his computer, wearing headphones, and closed his eyes to the melody of an old, soothing song, avoiding the frustrations of reality.

When he opened his eyes again, he was stunned to find that he had returned to December 25th, 2012!

Back then, he was lying on his bed in the university dormitory, listening to the same old song.

No one knows how Chang Dong got through that day.

He was wandering frantically through the campus, which he hadn't seen in eight years. Looking at everything unfolding before him, under the impact of memories from his future, he couldn't even tell:

>After all, wasn't it the him from the future who returned to the past?

Is it still him from 2012, who fell asleep to music and had a dream so real?

Until something happened three days later, he realized that whether he had gone back in time or dreamt it all, everything he experienced from 2012 to 2020 was real.

This thing is, my roommate "Da Zhuang" broke up. The 1.8-meter tall man cried so hard in the dormitory that his tears flowed freely, which made all of us brothers laugh and feel sorry for him at the same time. It's really a mixed bag of emotions.

To be honest, in his college days, Chang often forgot things, but he remembered this one clearly!

It was this very thing, like an anchor in the long river of time, that awakened Changdong.

Then Changdong went crazy, withdrawing all his savings and madly taking out loans to hoard digital currency - Bitcoins.

He clearly remembered that Bitcoin had two periods of explosive growth: one from late 2012 to late 2013, when it surged from a few dollars per coin to over a thousand dollars, a ridiculously exaggerated increase of hundreds of times.

Until relevant departments intervened, the heat remained high, hovering at several hundred yuan.

Another period was in 2017, when Bitcoin rose from around $1,000 at the beginning of the year to nearly $20,000, a rise of about twenty times!

2017 may be out of the question for Chang Dong temporarily, but he couldn't miss this revelry in 2013; he'd throw up if he did!

Indeed, as he recalled it.

When he put all his savings, plus a loan of 30,000 yuan, into Bitcoin, the price was only three or four gold. By winter break, in January 2013, Bitcoin skyrocketed to over ten gold, a four or five-fold increase. Chang Dong made **tens of thousands** overnight.

The thick returns stimulated the host to a fever pitch!

He kept it a secret from his family and mortgaged his property, taking out a loan of over two million, to invest in Bitcoin.

After a year of anxiety, Bitcoin finally soared to over $1,000. To be safe, he began selling Bitcoin in November and finished selling it all on December 1, 2013.

Up to this point, he has flipped over 78 times with more than two million yuan.

After deducting the fees, he made a profit of 158 million.

$1.58 billion!

Even though it has been over a month, he still feels unreal. This earning speed is beyond his imagination from his previous life.

"Sigh..." Chang Dong let out a breath. This sum of money was huge, enough for him to splurge his whole life away, but one's ambition changes with circumstances.

Now, although he has earned a fortune that he couldn't have imagined in his past life, his ambition has also been inflated. If he remembers correctly, 2014 was the year when 4G networks became popular, which was also the "year of great opportunities" when even pigs could fly, as he used to say.

Many internet tycoons from the previous generation rose to prominence in 2014 with the booming development of 4G networks, achieving tremendous success!

If he takes the opportunity to invest in these pigs at the forefront of the trend, in the next three to five years, he will harvest hundreds of billions, even trillions of assets!

How could he not feel hurt?

Just as Changdong was pondering how to respond to those pigs at the wind's mouth, the bedroom door was suddenly kicked open.

"Bang!" The loud noise startled Chang Dong.

He turned around and saw his parents storming in, their faces full of anger. Behind them trailed his aunt and uncle.

"Damn it, you still have the face to play with your phone? I ask you, did you mortgage the house?" Chang Dong's father glared at Chang Dong and questioned him, his face looking extremely grim.

Chang Dong realized something, he stood up and said: "Yes, I..."

"Bang!"

Before he could finish speaking, the usually domineering father struck Chang Dong hard across the face with a slap: “Damn bastard, you dare to mortgage the house?! What else do you want? Don't you know this house was built brick by brick from my and your mother's years of hard work?”

"Oh dear, there are some things that can't be said properly. Why did you hit the child?!" Mother Chang looked at her son with a pained expression as he covered his face.

"Why would I hit him? Look at what he's done! He even dared to mortgage the house, what else can't he do!" Father Chang's face flushed crimson, his finger constantly pointing at Chang Dong, trembling with anger.

"Money... money... where did the money go?" Just then, Chang, Aunt Dai's brother-in-law, asked.

Upon hearing this, the nearly fainted Chang's father finally reacted: "Where's the money from mortgaging the house? And what did you mortgage the house for?"

Changdong's cheeks were flushed hot, and his gaze toward his great aunt's family flickered with a hint of resentment.

In his past life, the endless arguments in his family were caused by his shameless aunt's family!

原来, his aunt's family used the excuse that house loan interest rates were too high to persuade his parents to mortgage their ancestral home and lend them the full amount of money to buy a house.

To persuade the Chang family, before taking out a loan, Aunt was eloquent and sounded incredibly convincing. She said that he had tens of thousands in his housing savings, selling the old house could raise another two or three hundred thousand, so by then, he could repay half of the loan. The remaining half would be borne by their family's monthly repayments.

Since they were their parents and had good intentions, they agreed. They mortgaged their property and gave them the full amount to buy a house.

But this loan plunged the Chang family into an endless abyss of nightmares.

After the loan, the first two months of bank repayments, Auntie's family paid on time. As a result, two months later, Auntie's family's faces changed drastically.

First, it was an excuse about renovating the house, then another excuse about their son buying a car, followed by dowry money, wedding expenses, pregnancy expenses, and money... in short, every reason involved money, but there was no money to pay off the mortgage!

The Chang family emptied their savings to buy this house, and even borrowed money.

Now it's done, the house is equivalent to being bought for my aunt's family.

After graduating from East China University of Technology, his family was practically penniless. Every morning he woke up to the reminder of over 9,000 yuan in monthly mortgage payments from the bank. Both of his parents' salaries barely covered those payments.

Looking at my aunt's family, they used their money to buy a house, a car, and even a wife. Meanwhile, my own family is struggling to pay off mortgages and even resorting to borrowing money just to get by. My son can't even afford to date or quit his job! The frustration is simply maddening!

It's as if they lend money like they are the boss!

The family in the East can't afford to turn their back, because once they do, they won't get their money back.

Every time, I have to coax them nicely. At most, I'll ask for three or two thousand yuan. Even then, this aunt and her family still pull a long face, looking displeased. They say something like, "We've already given you all the money we spend on food!"

Such shameless words enraged Chang Dong's father several times, wanting to resolve it through legal means.

Unfortunately, the Chang family was deeply exploited by their aunt's family, and they couldn't even afford to pay for the lawsuit. Moreover, Chang's mother was overly cautious and concerned about family ties, and most importantly, there was insufficient evidence.

My uncle received a transfer from my father, claiming it was free of charge because they were colleagues. However, he had already planned to use a third-party account for this.

Therefore, every time the subject of striking a car comes up, it ultimately fizzles out.

All of this caused a rift in the Chang Dong family, and even worse, made Chang Dong's parents spend almost every day arguing.

"Ziz..." Thinking of this experience, Chang Dong took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "Dad, I'm sorry, I lost the money you mortgaged by trading!"

He didn't mention Bitcoin because his parents wouldn't understand this newfangled thing. It's better to talk about something more mainstream and relatable.

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