A New Home
A new home.
A new everyday life.
Dalyul had secured herself a single small room.
Hi, hihi.
She could do whatever she wanted now.
Under one condition, that is.
"Who the fuck are you to rate my looks, you piece of shit!"
− Actually kind of based
− In our industry that's a reward, you know?
− Tiny little thing talking shit lmao
She had to stream.
Maybe because of the recent controversy, things were going better than she'd expected.
Match-fixing bastards. Those fucking rats.
The bet with Chan-wook.
She hadn't harbored a single shred of doubt that she would win.
Of course she would. That was simply how it worked.
The game always rolled out exactly the way the picture in her head said it would.
That was the secret to how she'd been raking it in on sports betting.
The sharper the image in her mind, the higher her win rate.
How the hell was I supposed to know it was fixed!
There had been a variable she never saw coming.
Oh Seung-hyun's play had been completely off.
Mistakes he never made. Mistakes he shouldn't have made.
A match that simply made no sense.
No, for fuck's sake
Are your eyes crossed or what, you can't even see the creep?
A guy who makes a living off one single Linkin and he doesn't pull the Link?
In a fit of rage she'd posted on the community boards.
She'd just been whining because losing the bet pissed her off.
└ It really was fixed holy shit
└ Please make me win the lottery first prize
└ Please make that guy and that girl break up
└ Please give me a good class assignment in high school
└ Lottery please lottery please save me
└ Please let me escape the stock I got bagheld in
└ A sports-betting junkie who actually got it right lmao
It really had been fixed.
That abnormal play hadn't been a mistake. It had been deliberate.
Why the hell did it have to be the one match I bet on!
At first the injustice had boiled up inside her.
The more she thought about it, though, the more she realized that wasn't quite right.
Chan-wook had known.
From the start, he'd placed his bet already accounting for the possibility of a fix.
"Because I found something more fun. Hi, hihi. Hihihi."
− That laugh is pure nightmare fuel
− So this is what gambling does to you……
− What is it??
There was a world like that.
Once she'd tried it, sports betting felt so dull she couldn't even bring herself to touch it.
Hi, hihi.
Stocks.
Chan-wook had told her to give them a shot.
She hadn't understood what kind of old-man nonsense he was spouting.
It was the kind of thing she hated most.
Analysis this, research that—she'd thought it was nothing but stifling, boring work.
─ Buy order filled!
It hadn't been like that at all.
She never would have known how fun stocks could be until she tried them herself.
"My call."
− Oh she's doing stocks
− Name sounds like some IT stock
− Hwaryong Technology, that's the treasure-ship theme stock lmaoooooooo
The reason she'd hated going to school.
The more she studied, the more crushing the pressure that there was no end in sight.
She couldn't even imagine living her whole life doing that grind.
So she'd fallen for the temptation of sports betting—easy money.
M-money. As long as I make money, right?
This suited her far better.
It wasn't as if Dalyul didn't know what her viewers were fretting about.
─ Anyone who wants to buy Hwaryong Technology, look at this first
─ 150-trillion treasure-ship Donskoihof theme stock Hwaryong Technology current status.jpg
─ Look at Hwaryong crashing lmaoooo
─ Treasure-ship theme stocks aren't even trying to hide the scam, right?
They called them trash stocks.
Stocks whose prices had rocketed for no real reason at all.
A completely absurd buried value of 150 trillion
Unclear substance (nothing has been verified)
Related coin launch
The company is fifty days old
It's so blatantly a scam that anyone who falls for this
honestly deserves to lose their money. Brain-fried idiots.
└ It's a company that runs coins and claw machines lmaoooooooo
└ The fact that a company like this got listed is legendary
└ Financial Supervisory Service specialty: does nothing
The Donskoihof.
A Russian warship that had sunk off the coast of Ulleungdo.
Rumor had it she was loaded with gold coins and gold chests worth 150 trillion won.
If they could just salvage her, it would be a jackpot.
That would be like raking in three to four years of Osung Electronics' operating profit in one go.
On that expectation alone the stock price kept climbing.
But—
1. 150 trillion would be 3,300 tons of gold. Physically impossible to load.
2. The Russian Empire's entire gold reserves were under 100 tons.
3. Even if they salvage it, under international law it belongs to Russia.
└ If that were real you think Putin would just sit there lmao
└ Just use your damn head for two seconds and the answer falls out
└ The illicit stock manipulators have nothing left to play with so they're pulling every stunt imaginable
In reality it was nothing more than a rumor mill.
The odds that actual gold chests were sitting down there were extremely low.
The reason a stock that had surged was now crashing.
Apparently this kind of thing was just another day in the stock market.
It wasn't only complicated and dry.
She'd learned there was a fun world like this, too.
− Ooh
− Holy shit lmaoooooooo
− Damn she hit it clean
− It's going up
− Hwaryong Technology to the moon!
− I'm hopping on too lmao
− BJ, how far are you holding?
To some people, terror.
But to someone else, they called it a buying opportunity.
Hi, hihi.
The market didn't move on rational grounds alone.
If the price was cheap, that alone was reason enough to buy.
In sports betting that showed up as the odds.
In stocks, the share price simply took the place of the odds.
─ An illicit stock manipulator has bought the stock!
And one more thing.
No—there was a part she hadn't factored into her bet with Chan-wook.
"I-if I were an illicit stock manipulator, I'd play with it a little longer."
The existence of the illicit stock manipulators.
People who made profits through unfair means. Just like match-fixing.
They manipulated share prices and raked in massive gains.
─ The illicit stock manipulator has slain a domestic financial institution!
Double Kill!
Triple Kill!
To do that, first they had to push it up.
To Dalyul's eyes, the drop just now had looked exactly like that preparation phase.
Th-the chart is saying so, isn't it?
The movement of the graph looked ready to fire at any second.
She poured in every last bit of the roughly twelve million won she had on hand.
Purchase Amount │ 12,002,550 won
Unrealized P/L │ ＋3,111,060 won
Return │ ＋25.92%
In just a few minutes, nearly three million won had been photocopied into existence.
But the joy didn't last long.
− Hwaryong Technology hitting the daily limit? No way
− I told you I was the one who'd fire, right??
− Ah I should've all-in'd my seed money
Because the retail ants had latched on.
Even though she'd only been doing stocks for a few days, she roughly understood the structure.
"Idiot."
− A room where you pay money to get roasted lmaoooooooo
− So if you go in now you get bagheld, right?
− Tosun-i says don't buy~!
You had to buy when everyone else was saying not to.
When everyone else was trying to buy, you had to sell instead.
You couldn't think the same way the retail ants did.
That was how you made money.
Hi, hihi, hihihi.
It was far too much fun.
As someone with a contrarian streak, Dalyul wanted to walk a different path from everyone else.
That was why, even when she did sports betting, she'd always taken the underdog.
The odds were higher, too, so the money came easy.
─ Sell order filled!
It was far more thrilling and stimulating than merely predicting the winner of a game.
Stocks suited Dalyul perfectly.
− Crashed 15% in one minute lmaoooooooooooooooo
− Hwaryong Technology went from upper limit to lower limit in two minutes
− Trash-stock moving is brutal as hell
Watching other people lose money was also far too enjoyable.
It made her feel alive.
"Hi, hihi, hihihi."
− Does this room not do reactions?
− The host is a crazy bitch so no
− So this is why they say only lunatics make money in stocks whoa
Euphoria.
It wasn't even in the same league as games.
Dalyul was thoroughly pleased with her new everyday life.
That old-man-looking bastard spouts old-man nonsense, and then…
He'd given her a place to live, and he was going to give her money too.
With nothing else to do anyway, Dalyul had just tried it on a whim.
She never expected she'd find a new purpose in life.
Stocks had become something she couldn't do without.
Click, clack!
That wasn't necessarily only a good thing.
Dalyul had learned all sorts of things from Chan-wook.
Basic stock terminology.
The fact that trash stocks existed.
And one more thing that was overflowing with interest.
"How do you do that options thing?"
− Her lisp is cute lol
− I thought you said not to do futures and options……
− Don't you dare do that, you crazy bitch lmaoooo
Apparently there was an even more fun form of gambling.
These past few days.
She'd gotten a feel for things with simple trades, so it should be fine to try now.
Is it that dangerous? You do it and you're fucked?
The bet with Chan-wook.
The experience of losing every last won still burned vividly in a corner of her mind.
She simply couldn't forget it.
The sense of loss so intense it felt like her brain would explode made her heart hammer like mad.
Thump! Thump!
Options, they said, were incomparably more dangerous.
Even Chan-wook had warned her not to do them if she could help it.
Which was exactly why she wanted to try them even more.
She wanted to experience that sensation of her life going to shit one more time.
Futures/options trading carries an extremely high degree of investment risk, and losses may occur within a short period of time. Please fully understand the contents of this risk disclosure before making any investment decision.
Investment Risk Grade: ★★★★★
Dalyul found the method for trading derivatives.
She clicked, and content that suited her perfectly appeared on the screen.
Risk level.
Maximum, it said.
One wrong judgment and you could end your life right there.
"If I go all-in it gets even more fucked…… no, even more fun, right?"
− Stop!
− She's a real lunatic
− She enjoys getting fucked lmaoooo
The money she'd received from Chan-wook was three million won.
Over the past few days she'd grown it to twelve million.
What if she lost it all in one go?
Just thinking about it made her heart feel like it would burst.
Life-Ruin Button. Click ♡
That was exactly what Dalyul wanted.