At 10:30am US winter time, the New York Stock Exchange begins a new day of trading as the iconic opening bell rings. While the trading floor was buzzing with people and nervous after the stock market opened, DMC's headquarters in Greenwich, Connecticut, was eerily quiet, even though it traded an astronomical amount of shares each day, even more than on the New York Stock Exchange.

Millions of trading orders are waiting to be quickly processed by the computer of dark matter capital, less than 3 minutes, the trading team composed of computer, physics, and mathematics doctors issued more than 20 million shares of trading orders, and their holding time for buying and selling is calculated by seconds, like a shark cruising in the deep sea, quickly eating the difference between buying and selling, and the appetite is amazing, stocks, treasury bonds, futures, derivatives, commodities, there is nothing they don't do.

It is a global hedge fund company, registered in the British Virgin Islands, so it can use a variety of legal trading methods to hedge arbitrage anywhere in the world to earn huge profits, without having to declare financial market investment techniques and financing structures to any country or sector.

It sounds very exciting, but what is even more exciting is to endure 30,000 feet of altitude flight all year round, overcome the jet lag reaction of being fascinated, shuttle to major cities in the world on business trips, you have to be on call at any time, just like yesterday I was eating steampot chicken in a roadside shop with friends, and today I crossed the time zone and sat in the office building of Dark Matter Capital in Greenwich Town, staring at the computer with more than 8 screens, using a trading program based on mathematical models to complete a transaction with a turnover of 5 billion, and the remaining orders were executed by the rest of the exchanges and a dozen or so dark pools. A rough estimate is that DMC's trading volume will exceed 10 billion today.

Gao Min loosened his tie and leaned back in his chair, stretched his arms to cover his eyes and took a nap, the accumulated exhaustion raged in his body, the espresso was ineffective, the nerve center no longer felt excited, and faintly sent a protest signal.

The knock on the door rang rhythmically a few times, Gao Min let out a long sigh of relief, cheered up and said, "ein"

Qiao Hang walked in with a thick stack of seller's investment research reports, and noticed that the boss's face was haggard, and he asked with concern: "Are you feeling unwell?" ”

He has the impression that the boss manages his time very well, can maintain sufficient energy and strong morale in a high-pressure environment, and work efficiently and productively. Sometimes I can only sleep 3 hours a day, and I haven't seen my boss in such a sluggish state, unless there is a health problem.

"I'm fine, I'm just a little tired", Gao Min will not say that he spends his limited rest time thinking about things that are not related to work, which causes his brain to be overloaded, commonly known as overthinking, which in turn leads to malaise.

Qiao Hang was relieved, put the information and all kinds of documents on the desk and said, "There are several reports that need to be signed by you."

Gao Min picked up the report and went through it at a glance, took out the pen from the pen holder and signed his name with his left hand, he was heavily left-handed.

Every time I see the boss's writing method different from the right hand, Qiao Hang feels magical, he writes English italic characters fluently and beautifully, but the writing habits of Chinese characters are strict zhòng biased towards the right hand, in this case, he can also write a hard pen calligraphy with an iron painting and silver hook, which shows the depth of his childhood efforts.

Gao Min raised his left hand, which was too handsome for a man, and glanced at Qiao Hang, "You like my hand?" Don't think I don't know you're looking at it."

"Oh, no...... I just think your handwriting is special, amazing! Qiao Hang explained incoherently.

"Qiao Hang, it's much more interesting when you're flustered, I'm joking, don't care, okay, report the itinerary, so that I can hear how much work is still waiting to be done"

"10:50 Meeting with CFO, R (Chief Financial Officer, Director of Investor Relations); 11:50 Meeting with investment analysts to update trading models and portfolios; At 3:00 p.m., I went to the art market research institute with the manager of the modern art fund Konstantin Vida to listen to the research report on the trend of the contemporary art market.

"Thanks for reminding me, Konstantin wants to buy art museums all over the world, and if it were me, he would prefer to invest in niche photography, because there is much more room for appreciation. That's all for the itinerary? Thank goodness I finally don't have to overload myself today, I'll give you a day off in the afternoon, you can take your girlfriend to Pike Street or take the train to New York for a date anywhere, I guess your relationship with the editor-in-chief is going well? ”

Gao Min's gaze roamed over Qiao Hang's neckline, Qiao Hang blushed suddenly, and pulled his collar uncomfortably, trying to cover the purple kiss marks on his neck, Lu Lujin's kiss was too intense, and the collar of his shirt was not low enough. The only thing that made him unhappy was that when the boss stayed up all night to deal with official business, he was by Lu Lujin's side.

Lu Lujin contacted Gao Min as an old acquaintance of Shu Neem and asked to take his private jet to the United States, he was surprised for a few seconds, and then agreed, he decided to do his friend a favor and send her a favor. He remembers very well that Shu Neem contributed to Lulukin's magazine.

It turns out that Gao Min thinks too much, from the East Eighth District to the West Fifth District, from Asia to North America, his special assistant, who has always been dignified and restrained, and the female passenger who hitched a ride are tired of being together, unless he is blind, he can't see it, it is obvious that Qiao Hang and Lu Lujin are in love.

After being embarrassed for a long time, Qiao Hang said to Ai Ai: "I'm sorry I didn't make a clear distinction between public and private."

"You should read the DMC's employee handbook, especially the chapter that mentions benefits, the company stipulates that employees who travel more than 5 times a month can bring their partners with them at public expense, even if Miss Lu doesn't know the relationship with the editor-in-chief of Guò Shu, please me, it's no problem for you to make your demands openly, so you don't have to blame yourself...... By the way, are you and Miss Lu serious? ”

"I think it's irresponsible to treat ship strictly!"

"It seems that you have a lot of opinions on the dating culture of Lao Mei, so you must have another opinion on intimacy, a friend of mine thinks that the essence of intimacy is control, which is similar to colonization, two people are always accompanied by harm in the process of conquering each other, and love is regarded as a right and obligation, sword and shield to deal with each other, she said that in intimate relationships, happiness is a short moment, but unhappiness runs throughout!"

Gao Min relayed what Shu said as it was, and he felt that people who were drunk in love might have a different opinion.

Qiao Hang was surprised, there is no doubt that Gao Min is a generous boss, paying employees millions of dollars in annual salary, but he is not an amiable boss, he never talks to employees about things outside of work, such as caring about employees' private lives, chatting about lala and other things has never happened, like now it is a bit strange to discuss relationship issues with him.

The only one of the boss's friends who can talk to him is the former partner Joseph Pine, as far as Qiao Hang knows, since Joseph got married, he has changed his uninhibited prodigal nature into a good man who loves his family and wife, and has recently been promoted to a father-to-be, and he will probably not make cynical remarks about the boss when he is immersed in joy.

After sorting out his thoughts, Qiao Hang raised his head, "Can I ask a question, is your friend married?" People are sometimes prone to empiricist mistakes, perhaps because of their unhappy married life, they have developed a radical mentality, so that their views on feelings are more pessimistic! ”

The pen that rotated between his slender fingers stopped, and Gao Min laughed loudly as if he had heard a joke, "She can't fight with the eight poles of married life, she is a natural bachelor, and she doesn't care about falling in love at all."

"That's ridiculous", Qiao Hang said bluntly, "Love is talked about with the heart, not the result of using the brain to think and weigh the pros and cons, a person who has never loved talks about feelings in vain, just like an illiterate person trying to overturn Einstein's theory of relativity as ignorance, to be honest, his views have no reference value!" ”

"Sounds very reasonable, there is a chance that the two of you should have a debate, it must be very exciting, my friend has a calm rationality and a warm heart, but never emotionally"

The boss said that the criticism was like a compliment, and he was kind of eye-opening, reminding the boss that there were still ten minutes until the meeting time, Qiao Hang turned around and walked out of the office.

Is there ten minutes left...... Gao Min opened the address book on his mobile phone, pointed his finger at Shu Neem's name, and didn't dial it out for a long time, it was already late at night in China, maybe she was meeting Zhou Gong.

The sun was shining outside the window, and the thoughts came suddenly.

Shu Neem did not receive Gao Min's transatlantic phone call, nor did she have a cordial conversation with Zhou Gong, she stood in the corridor of the hospital and supported the pale Wang Ruyan, staring at the emergency indicator light with good eyes.

She didn't close her eyes for two days in a row, Wang Ruyan's mother was hit by a van, and she had only completed pelvic surgery.

Shu Mei patted Wang Ruyan's back and comforted her, "Don't worry, Auntie will be fine!" ”

Wang Ruyan's eyes were glazed, "Why should I talk back, I don't even know that my mother has a heart disease-", she broke down and cried.

Maybe talking to her can be a distraction and ease the pain, "I ran over in a hurry yesterday and didn't bother to ask your aunt how she bumped into it?" ”

"It's all Qin Sangsang!" , mentioning this name, Wang Ruyan's eyes breathed fire.

"Qin Sangsang? Just the one we met at dinner last time...... Oh yes, your neighbor! She bumped into Auntie? No, even if you two have a little grudge, she can't blatantly hit someone! ”

Wang Ruyan choked up and said: "When I provoked her at dinner, she went around saying that I was a junior and robbed someone else's fiancé." Yesterday, I don't know where my mother heard the rumors, and found Qin Sangsang to confront her, Qin Sangsang showed my mother the wedding photos of Lin Tianlei and her good friend...... I didn't mention it to my family about the cheap man stepping on two boats, for fear that they would be cāo for me, I haven't been married in my thirties, and I'm about to become their heart disease. I finally talked about a good man, and they would not be able to stand it if they knew the truth, so I wanted to explain it to them slowly at that time, but who would have thought-"

Shu Neem hugged Wang Ruyan's shoulders and sighed, "Don't cry, your eyes are swollen."

Wiping away her tears, Wang Ruyan snorted and buzzed: "My mother didn't believe it and called me to ask if I had done something unseemly, and the company was also spreading rumors that I was a junior, I was in a bad mood, so I yelled at my mother on the phone, I said that I was unlucky, I met a bad man, and said that the mother didn't even believe in her daughter, what is the difference between watching the lively outsiders, if you force me again, I will jump off the building - but when I said this, I didn't know that my mother was crossing the street, and then I heard the screeching sound of brakes!" ”

"Did the person who knocked down my aunt catch it?"

"What if I get caught, he is a part-time worker in another place, borrowing a car to do private work, the money has not been earned, the medical expenses cannot be paid at all, and he is not fully responsible for this car accident, my mother heard that I was going to jump off the building to find a short view, so anxious that she rushed out of the road to stop the taxi without waiting for the green light......"

"Jiren has his own natural appearance, Auntie will be fine, believe me!"

As Shu Neem was talking, the door of the emergency room opened, and the doctor took the lead in coming out, taking off his mask and asking, "Who of you is the patient's family?" ”

Wang Ruyan held Shu Neem's arm and stood up tremblingly, "Doctor, is my mother okay?" ”

"Did you know that your mother has coronary heart disease?"

Wang Ruyan shook her head, "I haven't seen her have a heart attack, and I haven't seen her take medicine."

"Your mother's condition is a bit critical, although she is under control, she still has to be observed in the intensive care unit, and if her condition deteriorates, she will have heart bypass surgery, so the family had better be mentally prepared."

Wang Ruyan's body shook, and Shu Neem supported her, "Uncle is rushing back, don't you fall, older people can't withstand the blow, a family of three and two patients, how can you let your father stand it?" ”

Wiping away her tears, Wang Ruyan sneered, "Qin Sangsang, you wait, I won't let you go!" ”

Shu Neem didn't think deeply, and casually agreed, "Yes, let's look good when we go back!" ”

The speaker has no intention, if Shu Neem has the ability to predict, she must try to persuade Wang Ruyan to move forward, because if she is trapped in place, there will be no future!