Chapter 300: Lan Qiyun's Blackening

Chen Yang placed a low-price sell order, never expecting someone else to bid even lower.

He didn't believe it, and kept placing lower orders, driving the price down to 12.7 all the way.

At that moment, Qi Yunxiang's call came in.

"President Chen, what game are you and President Ye playing? You're coordinating sell orders to push the price down—are you planning to scoop up at the bottom?"

"Is it President Ye placing the sell orders? Why didn't you say so earlier?" Chen Yang was a bit speechless; after all this, it turned out to be a case of friendly fire—own people not recognizing own people. If Qi Yunxiang couldn't monitor their trading data, they might really have driven the price to the limit down.

Qi Yunxiang said helplessly: "I thought you wanted to sell part of your holdings to ease position pressure. But seeing how fast you're placing orders, I sensed something off. That's why I wanted to ask what your goal is with this maneuver."

Chen Yang said: "My original intention was to stop yesterday's manipulator from offloading at a high. Since now it's just me and President Ye selling, we might as well make the best of it—first push the price down, then gradually buy back."

He said this while continuing to place sell orders, selling until the stock hit the limit down, finally unloading his 150,000 lots at an average price of 12.85.

That means this transaction lost a total of 8,004,500.

However, after the stock hit limit down, Chen Yang didn't stop operating; instead he kept buying Pioneer Technology shares, repurchasing another 10 million shares at an average price of 12.21.

At this point, the total cost of Chen Yang's holdings dropped from 13.37 to 12.74.

As long as he sells his shares tomorrow at a price above this level, he can make up the earlier 8 million loss.

After completing the operation, the price had risen from the limit down to 12.52.

At that moment, Chen Yang called Yexin.

"Sister Xin, I've already sold yesterday's 150,000 lots of Pioneer Technology and bought back another 10 million shares. Are you still planning to suppress the price? Do you need me to buy more?"

Yexin replied with a scornful tone: "You little brat, you're shameless! Accusing us of malicious market manipulation while you secretly push the price down yourself. Fortunately, Little Lan noticed something off and also sold her 150,000 lots."

Chen Yang was a bit surprised, never expecting Lan Qiyun to guess his moves. "Isn't Little Lan supposed to help retail investors get unstuck? How did you convince her to join you in dealing with retail investors?"

Yexin chuckled, lowering her voice: "Yesterday those retail investors on the forum scolded her to tears. I comforted her for a long time to no avail. Who would have thought that as soon as the market opened today, she'd dump her shares recklessly. We were slow in our moves, and she even looked down on us for a while."

Chen Yang never expected Lan Qiyun's "blackening" to take just one night. It seems those netizens' comments really dealt her a heavy blow.

"Sister Xin, are you still planning to scoop up more?"

"We finally managed to push the price down—how could we not scoop up? We've been pressing the price to accumulate shares; don't go stirring things up."

"Fine, you guys keep buying; I'll rest for now." Chen Yang hadn't planned to hold more shares anyway. Since Yexin's chips weren't enough, let her and Lan Qiyun toss around.

Bored and idle, Chen Yang browsed the forum again to see how the stockholders who made sarcastic remarks yesterday are feeling now.

"Folks, is this stock dead? There's clearly no bad news, yet it keeps falling!"

"It's normal for it to fall today! Yesterday there were still 300,000 lots of buy orders undigested; someone needs to step in to take them."

"No, today the movers are Xingcheng Securities' hot money. You guys mocked them yesterday. Now they're cutting their losses and pulling out, not playing with us anymore."

"Damn, if they run, who's left to push the price up? Sorry, brothers, I've got to withdraw first."

"Damn Xingcheng Securities hot money, they've smashed the stock to limit down again. After two days of excitement, we inexplicably lost twenty points—it's like they don't want us to survive..."

"You upstairs, others still have the right to complain; you don't. Yesterday you were the harshest critic."

"What's the harm in me saying one sentence? They're the type that devours people without spitting bones, yet they won't let me speak? If you're capable, just delist Pioneer Technology and swallow all my money!"

"You upstairs are sick, going crazy and trying to drag us down with you."

"Exactly, yesterday they kindly placed a buy order to lift the price, and you didn't help—just threw sarcasm. That little girl who stood up for them has been silenced by your insults."

"Lift the bid? I think they were just trying to pick up a bargain. Too bad the other side had more chips, letting them suffer a big loss. Unable to beat big capital, they turn around to bully us retail investors—a bunch of soft‑hearted, hard‑hearted beasts."

"Oh man, I just sold my shares and the price rebounded—what the hell!"

"That guy upstairs is clearly a newcomer. This is the old trick of Xingcheng Securities' hot money: suppress the price then buy in, cheating us out of our chips. And you actually fell for it!"

"Haha, glad I didn't sell today. I'll just wait for Xingcheng Securities' hot money to push the price to limit up."

"Folks, this opportunity is rare. If the stock hits limit up, you must run! Don't harbor any illusions about this stock whatsoever."

"You upstairs, are you sick? Saying this now, watch out—they might not pull it up."

"If they don't pull, they don't pull—after all, they have more chips. Let's see who can outlast whom."

"……"

In the stock‑dedicated trading room of Xinghui Financial Investment Company, Yexin pointed to a post on the Pioneer Technology stock forum and began brainwashing Lan Qiyun.

"Little Lan, do you see? No matter what we do, these people will curse. So we can't indulge them. If you want to wear us out, then just push the price lower still to piss them off."

Lan Qiyun glanced at Yexin's computer screen with her big eyes, then silently placed sell orders. In less than ten minutes, the price hit limit down again.

Yexin only wanted to stimulate Lan Qiyun; she didn't expect the other to act on it directly.

"Little Lan, lowering the price is fine, but you don't have to go that low. Later we'll have trouble explaining to the clients..."

Lan Qiyun said calmly: "President Ye, don't worry—I just want to keep accumulating shares at a lower cost. Once we have enough chips, pushing it up will be easy."

"Alright, I'll follow your lead."

Yexin decided to go big to win Lan Qiyun's heart. After all, even if the stock closes at limit down, a single limit‑up tomorrow would fully recover it.

Lan Qiyun felt uneasy and added: "President Ye, you need to talk to my senior and get him to stop bidding against us."

Yexin waved her hand and laughed: "Don't worry about that. Since he knows what we're doing, he won't intervene."