After the Divorce, I Found a Thousand Bitcoins - Chapter 162

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I Got Divorced and Found a Thousand Bitcoins Episode 162

[Breaking News: Harvey Goldwin, 48th President of the United States, makes lonely exit from White House.]

[Facing power vacuum. Dow Jones collapses below 30,000, NASDAQ plunges 7% triggering circuit breaker!]

White House, Washington D.C., USA.

The massive sanctuary of power that once controlled the world’s order.

The harsh sound of propeller blades vibrated heavily over its lawn.

Marine One, the presidential helicopter.

Harvey Goldwin’s shoulders were pathetically hunched as he walked toward the ramp.

“Can a person’s appearance change so drastically in just a few days?”

“He’s the first impeached president in American history. Of course he’d age in just a few days.”

Camera flashes went off like crazy, but not a single aide or security detail came to see off his final moments.

An old, ugly lion that had plummeted from the pinnacle of power to the abyss.

The secret deal with Zhao Qian, the Iron Shield mercenary scandal.

The invisible hand that exposed all those horrific truths.

Before boarding the helicopter, Harvey Goldwin looked up at Washington’s overcast sky with bloodshot eyes.

He never learned who the real demon was that drove him to this terrible destruction.

“What an unseemly exit.”

California, USA, top floor suite room of KH Group’s American corporation.

Kang Hyeon watched the large display covering the wall and let out a cold sneer.

Marine One on the screen grew smaller beyond Washington’s gray clouds and completely disappeared.

The futile end of arrogant absolute power that once commanded the world’s order.

The one who pressed the button for that merciless death sentence was none other than Kang Hyeon himself.

Creak.

The heavy door of the office opened and Kim Ha-ryul approached with quick steps.

The tablet in her hands was constantly flashing red warning lights.

“Chairman. The political risk within the United States has finally broken through the critical point.”

“How is Wall Street reacting?”

“Pure panic. The fear index VIX has broken through historic highs. Panic selling poured in as soon as markets opened, completely paralyzing the New York Stock Exchange.”

Kang Hyeon took a sip of his cold iced americano.

It was a natural and perfect result.

The president’s impeachment and the terrible stalemate on the Iranian front.

Add to this the murderous inflation that broke through $8 per gallon.

America under an unelected acting authority had no seawalls to block this massive wave.

Capital instinctively abhors uncertainty and fear above all else.

Wall Street’s massive hedge funds and global institutional investors began frantically dumping dollars and stocks.

“Hundreds of billions of dollars in massive liquidity fleeing the US market are seeking refuge.”

Kim Ha-ryul projected the tablet’s charts as holograms above the table.

The New York stock market stained blood red and endlessly plummeting.

But on the opposite side, there stood a massive red pillar soaring skyward in a mad surge.

“All that global capital.”

Kim Ha-ryul swallowed hard and continued her report.

“Is now pouring ferociously into South Korea’s KOSPI.”

Yeouido, South Korea, around midnight.

Despite the late hour when everyone should have been asleep, the forest of buildings in the financial district was burning bright as daylight.

The massive and violent migration of global capital.

Astronomical capital that fled America poured into KOSPI like carpet bombing across time zones.

[Foreign buying explodes! KOSPI breaks through 3,800 in one breath. Unprecedented historic bull market!]

[Wall Street’s massive funds compete to declare ‘Buy Korea’. Is Korea the ultimate safe asset?]

Wall Street fund managers frantically swept up Korea’s blue-chip stocks like beasts.

Europe faced an energy crisis from the Middle East war’s aftermath, and China was gasping under economic sanctions.

Nowhere in the world was there a healthy market that could fully absorb hundreds of trillions of won in capital.

Except for one place – South Korea, which was consecutively exploding with overwhelming positive factors.

At the center of that explosive growth, KH Group reigned as the absolute emperor.

“Gobble up all the KH Construction sell orders! Ignore the quotes and just sweep with market orders!”

“Additional purchase of 1 million Saseng Electronics shares! Block deal orders are coming in like crazy from foreign windows!”

The trading room of a major Yeouido securities firm was literally a battlefield.

A bloody buying war between institutions and foreigners.

Retail investors cheered at the unrealistic returns appearing in their smartphone accounts.

The massive smart city worth tens of trillions of won under construction in India.

Orbis Robotics and aerospace company Astra Dynamics seized from the heart of America.

As KH Group devoured America’s future industries whole, global capital competed to hide behind that overwhelming predator.

“Buying is also flowing into Hyeon-seong Motors!”

“If the market opens tomorrow, the index itself is going to jump tremendously!”

“I can’t tell if this is reality or a dream…”

Ultra-massive companies with market caps of tens of trillions of won repeatedly hit daily limits and bounced around.

Korea’s financial market had transformed into a crazy furnace where money bred money, and that money expanded the market again.

The massive blood spilled by America’s collapse.

That enormous river of blood was crossing the Pacific Ocean and being transfused fiercely and mercilessly into South Korea’s veins.

Creak.

“Kang Hyeon!”

The California suite room.

The tightly closed door opened and Kwangho burst in with explosive excitement.

Kim Ha-ryul quietly bowed and left the room.

A sealed chamber with outside views completely blocked, leaving only the two of them.

Kwangho roughly loosened his tie and gasped for breath.

“Did you see the Korean stock market situation right now?”

“I saw it. KOSPI is really burning up.”

Kang Hyeon leaned deep into the plush sofa and replied very leisurely.

“It’s not just burning up! This is insane!”

Kwangho slammed the tablet he brought onto the table with a bang.

“Foreign capital is flooding into KOSPI by tens of trillions of won per day. Dollars that fled New York are sweeping up KH affiliates with indiscriminate buying!”

Kwangho’s voice finally came out trembling.

Even he, who had experienced everything while running KH Capital, the massive heart of money, was facing this madness for the first time.

“KH Construction, KH Shipping, and even the holding company. The entire group’s market cap has tripled in just two weeks. Saseng Electronics is also getting dragged along and flying to space.”

“Capital always seeks the shadow of the safest and strongest predator.”

Kang Hyeon lifted his teacup and let out a cold, chilling sneer.

“America is a rotten grassland where an old lion is dying of disease. Korea, on the other hand.”

“Is a new empire. A monster-like capital empire you created from nothing.”

Kwangho swallowed hard and met Kang Hyeon’s deep, chilling eyes.

A spine-tingling thrill ran down his spine.

“Don’t tell me.”

“…”

“Crashing the US stock market and drawing this crazy money to Korea – was all of this a scheme you designed?”

Kwangho’s beast-like intuition.

Kang Hyeon neither denied nor confirmed, quietly narrowing his eyes.

In his field of vision, over the endlessly soaring KOSPI chart, brilliant red light poured down like a waterfall as if to devour the world.

‘Turn America’s political scene into a muddy mess.’

The reason for driving Harvey Goldwin to the guillotine of impeachment and paralyzing the White House.

It wasn’t simply to punish arrogant old power.

‘Inject extreme fear into the market and bury the value of quality companies in the basement.’

Robotics and aerospace that would become the backbone of future industries.

Cruel groundwork to strip away that framework at dirt-cheap prices, and through completely legal means at that.

‘And completely twist the direction of hungry global capital.’

There was only one place on Earth where the astronomical dollars fleeing the US stock market could settle.

The sole victor who would devour America’s future technology whole and seize dominance over global logistics and construction.

That was South Korea, and the KH Group ruled by Choi Kang-hyeon.

Kang Hyeon slowly rose from his seat and approached the expansive floor-to-ceiling windows.

California’s Silicon Valley lay under pitch-black darkness.

This place, once the heart of global innovation and a sanctuary of capital, now gasped and held its breath beneath Kang Hyeon’s feet.

[(Exclusive) KH Group Chairman Choi Kang-hyeon surpasses Chairman Lee Jae-seong to become Korea’s richest man! Entry into world’s top ten richest also within reach!]

[South Korea becomes a massive black hole for global capital. KOSPI 7,000 era wide open.]

The next morning.

Even American media began featuring Korea’s abnormal and phenomenal bull market surge in major headlines day after day.

The front page of the Wall Street Journal was adorned with a photo of the New York Stock Exchange emptied by panic selling, and the massive skyscraper of KH headquarters in Yeouido burning red.

Buzz- Buzz-

The secure smartphone on the table vibrated.

The caller was Congressman Aiden Davis.

He was cleaning up the chaos in Washington after Goldwin’s ouster while gathering overwhelming support as the Democratic Party’s next presidential candidate.

-Mr. Choi. You truly are a devil beyond imagination.

Aiden’s voice through the receiver carried a mixture of deep awe and instinctive fear.

-The renowned old foxes of Wall Street are all packing their bags and flying to Korea. The stupid politicians in Washington have completely lost their minds, looking like dogs chasing chickens and staring at rooftops.

“In a capitalist society, it’s only natural for money to chase the most powerful money.”

Kang Hyeon lightly sipped the espresso that came with room service.

-Natural order, you say. Not the current you ruthlessly twisted?

Aiden threw out a pointed joke with a chuckle.

Aiden, who played a crucial role in bringing down Goldwin, was also a witness who observed Kang Hyeon’s brutal hunt from the closest distance.

He felt the terrible fear every moment that this massive and uncontrollable financial power might target his neck at any time.

“Congressman. I merely cleaned up the trash that fell to the ground and picked up valuable things at cheap prices.”

Kang Hyeon set down his teacup and replied in a very dry and cold manner.

“America’s collapse is the self-inflicted consequence of Goldwin and Zhao Qian’s arrogance. I simply collected very legitimate spoils of war from that fallen golden castle.”

-…Haha, as expected, there’s no matching your sharp tongue.

“Focus thoroughly on your presidential campaign preparations. Make sure the massive donations KH poured in don’t become wasted money.”

Click.

Kang Hyeon unilaterally hung up the phone without hesitation.

On his desk still lay over a dozen lists of promising American companies, arranged very neatly.

Bio healthcare, quantum computers, next-generation energy.

The core backbones that would become America’s flesh and blood were waiting for slaughter at the tip of Kang Hyeon’s pen.

“I’m still not full enough.”

Kang Hyeon’s cold gaze pierced sharply and fiercely toward his next prey.

The catastrophic impeachment of the US President.

The massive migration of global capital.

And the unprecedented explosion of the Korean stock market.

This massive and terrible whirlwind of history that shocked the world was, in fact, nothing more than flimsy pieces dancing on one man’s precise and brutal chessboard.

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