Lu Fan spent the next few days like usual, he would write in the morning, tease An Xing'er during class, fool around with Fatty Tang, and come back to help his mother after school. Oh, and mess around in the stock market.
He had been trading in the FX and metal markets and had already made more cash than he would ever make writing novels, but he never planned to make trading his main source of income.
It was good for a side thing, but his guts were too short to depend on it in the long term. Trading required a certain type of madness and genius to make it.
It was better for him to concentrate on Investments and stick to indices and other long-term markets. At least he still remembered some trades that they had used as reference while he was still studying.
He had already bought futures for NASDAQ and some stocks from NVIDIA and decided to forget about them. They were not that expensive, at least not as expensive as they were bound to be in the future.
There were also other markets that he had invested in but it was all over the place. He mainly spent money he had gotten from short trading in the long market and forgot about them. They would mature in 10-30 years and he could worry about them at that time.
As for money, the amount he got from the short market was enough to take care of his mother and himself. He could even raise a wife at the side but… he was too young to think about such things.
His [Trading] tag had also been maxed out and it became a white [Investor] talent. He only spent 40 yuan when his attributes reached 96 and he found that he could not raise them for the life of him.
And he understood why when he filled those attributes.
There was an innate difference between a trader and an Investor. But the thing that he lacked the most was the taste of failure and the desperation one needed to face to become a good investor, let alone a talented one.
Lu Fan felt a cold sweat when he got those memories. He even started having suicidal thoughts. Good thing that he had skills like [Deduction +19] and [Analysis +20] that helped him sort through his thoughts.
Lu Fan spent a couple thousand yuan and raised his other tags to white talents and it was all rather underwhelming.
It was fine when he did not have money and he had to scratch his head thinking of ways to make money, but all that changed when he entered the stock market.
He could easily max out the tags without feeling much since he could earn these few thousand yuan in minutes and he had started feeling that it was all tasteless. This was something that he did not want at all.
As for others, he only helped add attributes to his mother Chen Lu and Xu Ling'er. They were the only people he did not feel anything helping improve their skills.
His mother had gotten so proficient in so many things that people had started noticing her. It was not like before when everyone could tell that she was struggling. Now, she carried herself with the grace of a royal lady and her service and restaurateur skills had become the main attraction.
Who wouldn't want to be served by a graceful and attractive milf?
She was drawing so much attention that Lu Fan had started worrying that it might cause some trouble. He did not want to see someone push his mother around just because… much worse, he was too old to get a new dad.
As for Xu Ling'er, that girl was just too likable. It did not help that Chen Lu was also blatantly trying to play matchmaker. Lu Fan just helped her get, and level-up tags that would help her with college life.
As for giving her cash directly, it was better to forget about it. She was so stubborn that Lu Fan did not know what to do. He even tried to bring her on to be his editor, but she quit once she saw that his manuscripts had zero errors.
…
"Fan'er, that beautiful lady is looking for you again. Should I send her away?"
Chen Lu came to get Lu Fan like she always did at around this time for the past few days.
Li Lin had been showing up every day in the early morning asking for him and he would use the excuse of getting ready for school to get Chen Lu to send her away. But that would not work on a Saturday now would it?
"No, I will go see her."
Lu Fan had not decided on how to handle Li Lin. Honestly, he thought that she would give up and go back to being a princess somewhere else but it seems that he had underestimated just how good his book was.
He had already finished the domineering CEO book and now he was writing a book about a modern-day harem.
Lu Fan had decided to go with this book because it addressed many major issues that were bound to face couple in urban areas in the near future.
These were things that he had seen and experienced himself. Lu Fan had stayed single till the time he had regressed because of the way the economy was. He was already having trouble surviving since everything was so expensive, when was he going to get time for a girlfriend?
There was also the stereotype problem. Even Lu Fan was affected by this issue. Whenever he saw a beautiful and capable lady, he would automatically assume that they were already seeing someone. This issue had affected many, even the ladies themselves are troubled by it.
Even if he did not think like that, he would subconsciously look at himself and feel like he was lacking in one aspect or another. What was he going to feed this lady once he got her? It was better to sort himself first.
He had told himself the same things and ended up single until he regressed.
But things were different now. He had money, and more importantly, he had an overpowered cheat.