After the Divorce, I Could Hear the Voice of the Future-Chapter 347 - 344: Gold Cross Star

Over the weekend, the number of showtimes for "War Wolf 2" significantly increased from 28% to 32.7%.

In a zero-sum game, the showtimes for "Iron Fist" dropped to 37.5%.

Lu Liang and Little Wang’s promotion efforts on Weibo only played a small part in amplifying the buzz; the real surge in attention came from a boycott by influential film critics and Wu Jing’s spectacular counterattack.

"War Wolf 2 awkwardly kidnaps the sentiment of patriotism, attempting to mimic Hollywood-style individual heroism, but ends up looking more like a dog trying to imitate a tiger."

"Director Wu, what do you think about such comments?"

"Director Wu, the movie’s plot seems to be too far-fetched. The characters in the film seem to be invincible against any amount of beating. Isn’t that a bit fake?"

At the Beijing press conference, the reporters and influential critics were aggressively confrontational, seemingly anticipating Wu Jing to bow his head and apologize.

After all, the pen of a writer is often more cruel than the sword of a warrior, and no production company had dared to offend them before.

Even if criticized, they could only sincerely apologize with a smile and even give a red envelope to the critics afterward, singing their praises.

However, Wu Jing didn’t indulge them; with a grim expression, he fired back directly, "According to what you’re saying, only foreigners can be superheroes, and our own people can’t?" freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

"Isn’t that contemptible? Really, how contemptible!"

"If you don’t like to watch it, then don’t. Go watch Hollywood movies instead!"

His rebuttals, without a hint of profanity, left the reporters utterly dumbfounded.

After the press conference concluded, with no red envelopes received, they immediately took to their pens, disparaging "War Wolf 2" as utterly worthless.

Yet, the related clips quickly went viral on Douyin, earning millions of supportive likes from netizens.

"After so many years, someone finally has the courage to speak the truth. Are Hollywood superheroes never far-fetched? When a native actor in a movie takes a few hits from a villain and doesn’t die, it’s suddenly unrealistic?"

"Jing is awesome! I was never interested in mainstream patriotic films, but now, I have to go see for myself."

"These dog film critics have kneeled for so long they can’t stand up."

"Jing is such a badass!"

The topic continued to ferment, and Douyin cooperated willingly, after all, promoting the spirit of patriotism is never wrong.

With layers of buffs stacking up, "War Wolf 2" smashed the daily box office record with 2.12 billion yuan, setting an all-time high.

Media outlets like Maoyan revised their forecasts upward, boldly predicting that the film would surpass "Mermaid" at the box office, reaching 3.5 billion yuan.

"3.5 billion yuan? That’s not enough!"

Lu Liang frowned deeply; he had been following closely, curious about how such high box office revenue was achieved.

Wu Jing’s remarks and the targeted criticism from influential critics could indeed incite a backlash among certain audience members, but that clearly wouldn’t be enough to further increase numbers, more powerful external forces would be needed.

But he no longer had the time to pay attention,

As Monday approached and the Big A stock market was about to open.

Before 9:30 am, trading platforms like Tonghuashun and East Money alerted investors interested in BYD with pop-up reminders.

"The Tianxing Mixed Fund holds a 7.42% equity stake and will enter the lock-up period today…"

Meanwhile, Lu Liang had already moved to the adjacent trading room.

Over the next ten days, the 18 stocks held by the Tianxing Mixed Fund would face their respective lock-up periods.

In the past eight months, BYD first experienced increased holdings by Buffett, followed by Tianxing Fund’s strategic acquisition.

The market value surged all the way from 250 billion yuan to the current 411.2 billion yuan. Even if they didn’t sell, the speculative investors inside would take the opportunity to cash out at these high prices.

Rather than watch them cash out and leave, it was better for the Tianxing Fund to take control of the stock first and then sell at an opportune moment.

"Set the red line at 5%, and just use 2.42% for daily high selling and low buying."

Lu Liang intended to hold onto the shares of BYD long-term, as it closely followed the lead of Ningde Era, barely a year separating them in achieving a market value of over a trillion yuan.

In the last ten minutes before the pre-market bidding, Lu Liang communicated with each team leader, setting holding red lines for the stocks they managed.

Tianxing was on the 32nd floor of the New International Building, with a total of 355 employees from both companies, 240 of whom were staff of the Tianxing Mixed Fund.

The investment company was Lu Liang’s private domain, also responsible for his peripheral investments outside, which explained why the number of employees wasn’t large.

At 9:15 am, BYD began pre-market bidding.

"Control the stock, wait until the official trading at 9:30 am, then lure more buyers in."

Wearing a headset, Lu Liang was back in command after six months.

Though they held a 7.42% stake, even using just 2.42% for trading represented a value close to 100 billion yuan.

Dumping too many shares, which caused a crash in the stock price, would result in the largest losses for them, so they needed retail investors to take the bait.

But retail investors weren’t fools; various trading apps were blatantly flashing a row of red text, scrolling continuously.

Almost everyone knew that Tianxing Mixed Fund held 7.42% of the shares, and today marked the six-month lock-up period’s end.

As long as they took the lead in dumping shares, it would definitely cause a stampede-like sell-off, and once BYD hit the limit down, no one could escape.

There was a high probability that it would also affect stocks such as Ningde Era, Tianqi Lithium, and Jiangte Motor in the ’Tianxing System’.

So they needed to take it slow.

During the ten-minute pre-market trading, under the pressure from Lu Liang’s camp, BYD eventually opened with a 2.25% decrease.

Lu Liang immediately said, "Lift BYD’s price, lure buyers, and create the false impression that someone is taking the baton in a bidding frenzy."

Most of the time, the Western media criticized just for the sake of criticism, but they weren’t wrong about one thing. The A-share market is extremely unfriendly to investors.

Whether it be the priority principle of block trading or the T+1 trading method, it’s all for the convenience of institutions, all for facilitating corporate financing.

The 195 million individual investors were like playthings at someone’s disposal, to adopt whatever pose they wanted her to.

The stock operation lasted for an hour.

During this time, all institutional investors tacitly let Tianxing Fund take full control.

In this market where capital is king, Tianxing Mixed Fund was the uncrowned ruler of the new energy sector in the Big A.

Since Lu Liang did not smash the market as soon as trading began, it showed that he was now a suitable fund manager, willing to join the ’Market Maker’ camp. They naturally sold him some face and did not rush to dump shares.

Approaching eleven o’clock, there was half an hour left until the market closed.

BYD’s share price steadily rose, gradually turning from green to red, forming the so-called golden cross star.

A cross star is a basic K-line pattern, one with upper and lower shadows but no real body.

It is also a classic K-line pattern that many domestic experts and scholars often use as an example to teach their students.

Based on the direction of the tail of the cross star, whether upward or downward, one can judge the subsequent market trend.

A few years ago, Lu Liang also believed this, even thinking of using future information to retroactively understand the rules of the A-share market.

But once he became a major shareholder, even an institution, he never entertained such naive thoughts again.

Like now, with 10 billion in chips in their hands and 21 billion in reserve funds, they were the deserved ’Market Makers’.

Those lurking in BYD’s capital and institutions were willing to give Lu a bit of face by not deliberately causing trouble during the lock-up period.

The individual stocks were completely under their control; not to mention the mere golden cross star, even if the four price points of closing price, opening price, highest price, and lowest price were all equal, creating the extremely rare one-word star, they could do it.

The K-line charts, trend charts, and transaction details that retail investors could see were just for show by the institutions, and didn’t really mean anything.

However, very few people realized this.

Even the seasoned veterans in the stock market, who knew the tricks of Market Makers, would still be fooled.

What if?

Gamblers always have a hope-for-the-best mentality.

Like online gambling, every "gambling dog" knows it’s controlled by a back-end system, but what if there’s a bigger ’bait’?

For systems monitoring the ’bait’, if you just bet against it, you might be able to snatch a quick profit.

They had no idea that the so-called ’bait’ was also what the backend wanted to show them.

"Golden cross star!"

"Awesome, charge!"

"Liangzi increased his stake in Tesla during the lock-up period, boosting Tesla to surpass a hundred billion US dollar valuation. Now, he’s doing the same trick here."

"With the golden cross star fully formed in BYD, this wave is bullish up to 175 yuan, and in the next few days, the market cap will surely break the 500 billion mark."

At eleven o’ five, the golden cross star had formed, and the trading volume suddenly surged.

Within minutes, the share price climbed step by step, from 140 yuan all the way up to 149.5 yuan, an increase of 6.62%.

Each increase was followed by a slight dip, giving the impression that the stock could hit the limit at any time, and if you didn’t get on board now, you’d miss out.

Little did they know that in just a few minutes, more than twenty billion in capital had quietly flowed out of the market, lifted by the retail investors.

"18.5 billion has flowed out of BYD, and the selling continues..."

"Tianqi Lithium has seen 1.2 billion flow out, and the selling continues..."

"Jiangte Motor has seen 92.35 million flow out, and the selling continues..."

"..."

Lu Liang then inquired with each team leader, who quickly reported back the current recouped funds.

In the next five trading days,

Their plan was to recapture 50 billion in funds.