Chapter 2: We Were Definitely Drugged Last Night!
“I’m calling the police!!!”
Li Zhi lifted her tearful face and glared at Chen Hao.
“What year is it this year?”
Chen Hao suddenly asked.
Li Zhi was stunned by his question.
She said she was going to call the police, yet he asked what year it was?
It made no sense at all!
What on earth was this guy trying to do?
“What year is it exactly?”
Chen Hao asked again, a bit agitated.
In truth, he knew it was 1987.
But he wasn’t entirely certain.
After all, he had been reincarnated; his memories hadn’t fully merged with those of this world’s version of himself.
So he needed to confirm whether it was really 1987.
If it was 1987, then his rebirth wasn’t entirely bad.
Because something major had happened that year.
Namely: the sudden collapse of the Eagle Nation’s stock market, which triggered a global financial crash.
“It is 1987,” Li Zhi replied instinctively, still a bit bewildered.
“That’s great!”
“That’s really great!”
“So it really is 1987!”
“Really fantastic!”
Chen Hao grabbed Li Zhi’s arm excitedly.
At last, fate hadn’t abandoned him; he had been reborn in 1987, giving him a second chance.
He could capitalize on the global stock crash, buy stocks at their lowest, and make a fortune.
But there was still one more thing to confirm.
He needed to know what month it was.
Because the Eagle Nation’s stock market crash happened on October 19, 1987.
The crash came fast and went just as fast.
Soon, the global market recovered.
So he had to find out what month it currently was.
“What month is it now?”
Chen Hao gripped Li Zhi’s arm tightly, his face full of excitement.
“……”
Li Zhi was even more confused by his reaction.
It was 1987—what was there to be so excited about?
Was this guy out of his mind?
“Let go!”
“You’re hurting me!”
Chen Hao’s grip tightened too much, causing pain in Li Zhi’s arm.
“Sorry!”
“Sorry!”
“I got a little too excited!”
Chen Hao quickly released Li Zhi’s arm.
“……”
Li Zhi rolled her eyes.
“‘A little too excited’?”
“You look like you just escaped from the Qing Shan Mental Hospital!”
“Miss Li Zhi!”
“What month is it exactly?”
Chen Hao stared at her.
“May!”
Li Zhi shot him a sharp glance and answered.
At this point, she had completely forgotten about calling the police.
“May, huh?”
“That’s perfect!”
“Really perfect!”
“This is truly wonderful!”
Chen Hao’s excitement grew upon confirming it was May.
There were still five months before the Eagle Nation’s market collapse.
He had plenty of time to gather enough capital to buy up stocks in the Eagle Nation and around the world.
And May was a special month.
In his previous life, he had been fond of stock trading and knew a fair bit about various markets.
He was aware that during the 80s and 90s, the Hong Kong stock market followed a peculiar pattern:
“Five Poor, Six Dead, Seven Rebound.”
Meaning: in May, the Hong Kong market generally declined, entering a bear phase—thus "Five Poor."
In June, the market plummeted further, bankrupting many investors—“Six Dead.”
Then in July, the market began to recover, entering a bull phase—“Seven Rebound.”
At that time, no one knew this pattern.
It was a later analysis of historical data that revealed it.
So he could use this knowledge to make a fortune in the Hong Kong market first, accumulate capital,
and then use that money to buy up stocks in the Eagle Nation and globally.
Truly, where there’s life, there’s hope.
“……”
Li Zhi stared dumbfounded at Chen Hao’s excited demeanor.
Could this guy really have escaped from a mental hospital?
She snapped back to reality.
Glaring at Chen Hao, she said angrily, “Don’t play crazy with me here. You assaulted me, and I’m calling the police!”
“Miss Li Zhi, you’ve misunderstood!”
“I really didn’t assault you!”
“Besides... I think the wine we drank last night was tampered with. We were probably drugged!”
“We only did what happened under the influence of those drugs.”
“It was an accident!”
“It must have been those two men who harassed you who drugged us!”
Chen Hao’s quick thinking was impressive.
He immediately shifted Li Zhi’s attention, turning suspicion toward the two men who had harassed her last night.
Sure enough, under Chen Hao’s guidance, Li Zhi began to doubt whether they had been drugged by those two men.
Besides, Chen Hao didn’t seem like a bad person.
Li Zhi frowned slightly.
“Were we really drugged last night?”
“Definitely!”
“I still have a bad headache now!”
“That’s not normal at all!”
“It’s definitely an aftereffect of being drugged!”
“Is your head hurting too?”
Chen Hao asked.
At first, he intended to use the drugging story just to divert Li Zhi’s attention.
But as he spoke, he began to suspect they might really have been drugged.
Because his head hurt badly.
It didn’t feel like a hangover.
“Yes!”
“My head really hurts a lot right now!”
“Could it be… that those two guys really drugged us last night?”
Li Zhi rubbed her throbbing head, growing more convinced the two men had drugged both of them.
“That’s right!”
“We were definitely drugged last night!”
“If I ever see those two scoundrels again, I won’t let them off!”
Chen Hao nodded emphatically.
He breathed a sigh of relief; at least he had managed to fool Li Zhi.
“Hmph!”
“Even if we were drugged last night!”
“You still put me in that position…”
“What do you intend to do about it?”
Li Zhi snorted coldly.
“I’ll take responsibility for what I did!”
“Even if I wasn’t aware of it, I’ll still be responsible!”
Chen Hao said.
“Responsible?”
“How exactly will you take responsibility?”
Li Zhi glared at him.
“I’ll marry you!”
Chen Hao replied without hesitation.
“You’ll marry me?”
“On what grounds can you marry me?”
Li Zhi’s eyes widened further.