Lu Chi

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Lu Chi (陆持)
Alias(es)	Lu; Hand of God; “God’s Bastard”; “demon of short selling” 68 169 223
Gender	Male
Age	16 at the beginning of the story 1
Affiliation	Campus Network; Yue Group Financial Research Institute; DH Audit Department; Eric & Lu Assets; Leaping Deer Fund
Occupation/Role	Campus Network founder; financial analyst and trader; programmer; investor; Stanford visiting professor 68 118 264 433
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Background / History

Lu Chi is the eldest child of the Lu family. Raised in a rural village in the Northeast, he moved to Yanjing while still sixteen, carrying his parents’ expectations and responsibility for his younger siblings. He had previously ranked first at his county high school, but struggled after transferring to Yanjing’s top school. 1 15

After saving a girl from an assault, Lu Chi was attacked and suffered a mild concussion. Following the injury, he began dreaming fragmented scenes that later proved to contain valuable information, including examination questions, lottery results, sports outcomes, maps, and stock-market trends. He recognized the value of these visions and resolved to use them to improve his family’s circumstances. 1 15

A later kidnapping, arranged after his attackers considered the Lu family easy to exploit, changed his ambitions. Lu Chi concluded that safety depended on becoming powerful enough that harming him or his family would carry unacceptable consequences; his first practical answer was to make money. 104 106

Appearance

Lu Chi is a notably handsome young man whose composed bearing often makes a stronger impression than his looks. He has a lean, well-trained build, sharp features, and an increasingly refined, authoritative presence. 34 179 260 410

• Sharp brows, bright eyes, a high nose bridge, thin lips, and rounded earlobes. 5 179
• Broad shoulders, a narrow waist, long legs, and an upright posture shaped by rural labor and frequent mountain walks. 34 260
• Often wears fitted formal suits; a black suit and gold-rimmed glasses particularly emphasize his aloof, elegant demeanor. 151 152 410
• His appearance draws repeated attention at DH, Wall Street functions, and in financial media. 69 162 404

Personality

Lu Chi is reserved, practical, and intensely focused. He rarely boasts about his abilities, prefers to demonstrate results rather than argue, and stays composed when challenged by older or more powerful people. 118 158 179 322

His protectiveness toward his family is central to his decisions. He believes goodwill alone cannot prevent harm; instead, he pursues wealth, influence, and the ability to retaliate decisively against threats. 106 380 386

Despite his fearsome professional reputation, Lu Chi is generally straightforward and capable of earning trust. He helps teammates succeed, treats partners fairly, and prefers arrangements where allies can profit alongside him. 156 487 516

Abilities & Skills

Precognitive Dream Visions

After his concussion, Lu Chi begins receiving fragmented dreams that later correspond to real information and future events. 1

• Foresees exam questions, lottery numbers, sporting results, maps, and market movements. 1
• Uses short-term market predictions to improve the accuracy of his stock analysis. 110
• Can predict stock and futures prices roughly ten minutes in advance during later trading operations. 214 322
• His early stock forecasts are limited to a period of less than a week. 110

Photographic Memory and Calculation

Lu Chi possesses photographic memory and extraordinary computational ability, allowing him to retain meetings, data, and complex systems without conventional note-taking. 15 52 73

• Memorizes Yue Group meetings and produces analytical reports from recalled information. 52
• Calculates basketball trajectories, opponents’ passing routes, and his own physical movement in real time. 35 86
• Breaks down complex financial concepts into formulas and K-line charts that even experienced investigators struggle to follow. 108
• Can infer other players’ Mahjong strategies without seeing his own tiles. 546

Financial Analysis and Trading

Lu Chi is an exceptional financial analyst whose judgments are repeatedly validated in domestic stocks, Wall Street short-selling, and international futures markets. 118 233 341

• Reverse-engineers stock manipulation methods and identifies evidence against JK Technology. 119
• Analyzes companies from public financial statements and business reports without relying on insider information. 233
• Successfully shorts AK Telecom and explains his methodology to securities regulators. 214 233
• Leads an operation that controls international crude-oil prices, first stabilizing prices at 27.31 M-dollars per barrel, then forcing a 5% decline and ultimately pushing prices to 50 M-dollars per barrel. 169
• Uses shareholdings, offshore accounts, and market operations to counter Qi Group’s takeover of Wei Group. 223 230
• Sets strict client-entry standards at Eric & Lu Assets, including a minimum investment threshold of fifty million M-dollars. 153

Programming and Cybersecurity

Lu Chi is a veteran programmer and the technical force behind Campus Network. 68 190

• Develops and maintains Campus Network’s core code and firewall-tracking capabilities. 369 546
• Creates a global security system combining automatic identification, dynamic identification, alarms, tracking, and bounties for unknown-IP intrusions. 190
• Personally hacks Wei Hongxuan’s communications and financial accounts to uncover evidence of Wei Linxuan’s kidnapping. 191
• Works with Bell Brosnan while exploring a technical partnership between Campus Network, Fruit Company, and Eastern Modun. 334

Athletics and Self-Defense

Though initially inexperienced in basketball, Lu Chi rapidly becomes a highly capable point guard through calculation, court vision, shooting ability, and body control. 35 86

• Serves as assistant coach and later plays for Yanjing No. 1 High School’s basketball team. 35 83
• Learns combat techniques before studying abroad to better protect himself. 86

Career

• Yue Group Financial Research Institute — Offered a part-time analytical-consultant role with a yearly salary of one hundred thousand Huaxia currency after impressing Yue Lin with his financial insight. 118
• DH Audit Department — Secures an early job offer after excelling in DH’s written, group, and interview stages; remains in audit despite recruitment attempts from consulting. 66 69
• Eric Assets / Eric & Lu Assets — Joins Eric Weiss after proving his short-term trading ability, initially on the condition that he receive ten million in operating capital. Eric later makes him a shareholder and partner. 214 264
• Leaping Deer Fund — Leads major market operations and develops a reputation as one of Wall Street’s most formidable short sellers. 219 247
• Stanford — Defends a graduation thesis on the impact of subprime loans on the American economy. He declines a full-time professorship but accepts a visiting-professor position. 433

Relationships

• Yue Bin — High-school friend, business partner, and later Lu Chi’s lover. Yue Bin is fiercely protective of him and consistently supports both his work and daily life. 18 253 300
• Lu Heng — Lu Chi’s younger brother and a film actor. Lu Chi supports his career while insisting that Lu Heng prove his ability through fair competition rather than connections. 170 235
• Wei Linxuan — Lu Chi’s younger brother-in-law and Lu Heng’s partner. Lu Chi helps uncover the conspiracy behind Wei Linxuan’s kidnapping and later protects him against the Qi family’s schemes. 191 209 230
• Lu Miaomiao — Lu Chi’s younger sister. His desire to become strong and successful is explicitly tied to protecting and supporting his younger siblings. 1 25
• Zhuo Yue — Schoolmate and confidant who helps articulate Lu Chi’s goal as pursuing “power and influence.” 106
• Zhang Yang — Friend and Campus Network collaborator who assists with business planning and often observes Lu Chi and Yue Bin’s relationship. 205 223
• Yue Lin — Yue Bin’s elder brother and Lu Chi’s early financial mentor. He recognizes Lu Chi’s talent, offers him a consulting position, and provides institutional support. 118 84
• Eric Weiss — Employer, investor, and later business partner who trusts Lu Chi’s analytical ability and trading judgment. 214 264
• Matthew Locke — Friend and ally from the Locke family. He publicly defends Lu Chi against skeptical traders and assists him in entering the security industry. 158 190
• Qiao Shiyu — School beauty whom Lu Chi rescues early in the story. Her public attempt to find him is mistaken by others for a confession, which Lu Chi later clarifies was never romantic. 3 18

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Yanjing transfer and awakening — Moves from rural Northeast China to Yanjing, survives an attack, and discovers his dream-based foresight. 1 15
• School and Campus Network growth — Rebuilds his academic standing, develops close friendships, and begins applying his memory, calculations, and programming ability to Campus Network and financial research. 28 52 68
• Yue Group and DH internships — Works as an analytical consultant for Yue Group, then earns a position at DH through exceptional interview and teamwork performance. 52 66
• Stanford and Wall Street entry — Studies in the United States, joins Eric Assets, and gains attention through the shorting of AK Telecom. 86 105 108
• International crude-oil operation — Leads Wall Street allies in manipulating crude-oil futures, earning the “Hand of God” reputation. 169 170
• Security-system development — Builds global identification and anti-theft technology after entering the security sector. 190 191
• Wei and Qi family conflict — Investigates the attack on Wei Group, secretly acquires leverage over Qi Group, and forces Qi Jiaming’s public apology. 223 230 231
• Subprime-crisis operations — Expands Leaping Deer Fund’s influence through coordinated short-selling and negotiations with investment banks, Wall Street families, and political figures. 247 251 274

Notable Quotes

“I want to become a powerful person. That way, when bad people want to bully me or hurt my family, they’ll instinctively weigh the pros and cons.” 106

“I just don’t want too many people causing trouble—it would directly affect our final profits.” 169

Trivia

• Lu Chi has mild germaphobia and instinctively keeps distance from people who have not showered after exercising. 6
• He likes sweets, a preference Yue Bin learns and caters to with homemade desserts. 87
• At DH, he declines to choose an English name and simply tells colleagues to call him “Lu.” 68
• He is poor at video games despite his calculations, and responds to mistakes by writing them down for analysis. 100