I am 38 years old this year. I follow my father to do a bit of his old business. It is difficult to operate in traditional industries now, and we dare not start new businesses for fear of not making money, so we can only rely on some old capital, earning about 300,000 a year. I live in a fourth-tier small city, with a monthly living expense of over 10,000. I am divorced and have a son, with a house and a car.

Life is quite comfortable because there is no need to develop the business, so I have a lot of free time. I might be an extremely arrogant person; clearly, I don’t have any great skills, yet I am not willing to live a mediocre life. I always think about what if my parents get seriously ill or if something disastrous happens at home, then there wouldn’t be much margin for error. My father always advises me repeatedly that making money is not easy now, and to patiently wait for opportunities; if I lose money, it will be difficult to earn it back.

Everyone who comes into this circle wants to get rich quickly, and I am no exception. I started getting involved in contracts from 2018 when I began working in mining. At that time, I thought this was good, betting small to win big. Initially, it was just entertainment; I never won even once. I would recharge 20,000 each time and then fully leverage 20 times to bet on high or low, and basically, I would wake up after a sleep to find it all gone, or after two sleeps. In 2019, I stopped mining and sold 9 BTC at a price of 23,000 RMB each to pay off debts. I kept one for long-term holding, but that year I went long on EOS and ended up losing my last BTC too. In the early part of the bull market in 2021, I turned 10,000 into over 200,000, wanting to push it to 1 million, but later I kept shorting. I still remember shorting 20,000 of BCH, planning to play a game of LOL as soon as my computer turned on, but I was liquidated right away. A few days later, the market started to crash, but it no longer mattered to me.

After that, I didn’t play for a long time until one day when a friend called me to take a look at Luna, just when it dropped to 0.000000xx. At that time, I had 5,000 on me and charged 3,000, buying all of it in spot. The next day, it turned into 20,000 and I ran away. Then I started this contract career.