Chapter 2: Blacklisted on Wall Street
(Part 1 – "The Echo After the Explosion")
New York – 5:42 AM
The city hadn't woken yet, but the financial world already burned with chatter.
By sunrise, Leon Li's trade had gone viral on the underground financial boards—$500,000 turned into $1.2 million in just hours. It wasn't just a win. It was a statistical anomaly. A professional miracle. A provocation.
Inside the private Slack channels of hedge fund analysts, Telegram groups of quant devs, and the backrooms of Wall Street's elite:
"Someone pulled a triple-strike long volatility reversal and nailed BOJ's rate pivot."
"ID: Leon_Li. Ex-Sterling & Ward."
"Who the hell is this guy?"
"This wasn't luck. This was calculated. And he's not with any firm now."
Meanwhile, Leon sat at his cluttered desk in Queens, sipping black coffee, quietly reviewing the aftershock.
His P&L was still frozen at $1.2 million. He hadn't moved the funds yet.
"Too fast, and they'll trace the routes," he muttered to himself. "Too slow, and they'll shut the doors."
Because the truth was — he wasn't a free man anymore.
He was now a target.
Downtown Manhattan – 8:10 AM
In a polished conference room inside the offices of FalconTrust Capital, five executives sat in a semi-circle before a screen displaying Leon's trades.
One of them, an older man with icy eyes and a flawless gray suit, drummed his fingers on the table.
"We can't have unknown players outperforming the system," he said flatly.
"Especially not with leverage this precise."
Another man leaned forward. "He used offshore pipes, bounced through three prime brokers, and executed through a DeFi wrapper in the final hour. That's not amateur play. That's military-grade strategy."
The first man nodded.
"Contact the compliance taskforce.
Put the name Leon Li into Tier-2 visibility monitoring.
Shadow ban his routing access.
Freeze him. Quietly."
Email – 8:14 AM
From: RiskOps@TradegatePrime
Subject: Urgent Compliance Flag: Leon Li
Your account has been temporarily restricted due to unusual leverage activity flagged for regulatory review. Please contact your assigned advisor.
Leon stared at the notification, expression unreadable.
Then, he smiled.
"Took them longer than I expected."
He reached into his desk drawer and pulled out a different laptop — air-gapped, encrypted, clean.
He launched a cold wallet transfer, breaking up his $1.2M into seven separate wallets and routing them through a series of anonymized DeFi protocols.
Then he opened a separate terminal — EdgeTradeX — a darknet-tier trading platform designed for whales and war-time traders.
Username: AshenWolf
Status: Verified
Balance: 0.00
"Let's build from scratch again. But this time… bigger."
Hong Kong – 9:03 PM (HKT)
Inside a private lounge of the IFC Tower, a woman in her early 30s held a wine glass loosely in one hand. She was watching a screen streaming U.S. financial news.
"…a mysterious trader who correctly anticipated the BOJ rate shock reportedly made over one million USD in a single overnight sweep…"
The woman chuckled.
"So… the East strikes back."
She opened her phone and tapped a contact:
[ShadowFund: Tokyo Cell]
Message:
"Find me Leon Li. Offer him ghost-clearance if he's real. I want him in."
Chapter 2: Blacklisted on Wall Street
(Part 1 – "The Echo After the Explosion")
New York – 5:42 AM
The city hadn't woken yet, but the financial world already burned with chatter.
By sunrise, Leon Li's trade had gone viral on the underground financial boards—$500,000 turned into $1.2 million in just hours. It wasn't just a win. It was a statistical anomaly. A professional miracle. A provocation.
Inside the private Slack channels of hedge fund analysts, Telegram groups of quant devs, and the backrooms of Wall Street's elite:
"Someone pulled a triple-strike long volatility reversal and nailed BOJ's rate pivot."
"ID: Leon_Li. Ex-Sterling & Ward."
"Who the hell is this guy?"
"This wasn't luck. This was calculated. And he's not with any firm now."
Meanwhile, Leon sat at his cluttered desk in Queens, sipping black coffee, quietly reviewing the aftershock.
His P&L was still frozen at $1.2 million. He hadn't moved the funds yet.
"Too fast, and they'll trace the routes," he muttered to himself. "Too slow, and they'll shut the doors."
Because the truth was — he wasn't a free man anymore.
He was now a target.
Downtown Manhattan – 8:10 AM
In a polished conference room inside the offices of FalconTrust Capital, five executives sat in a semi-circle before a screen displaying Leon's trades.
One of them, an older man with icy eyes and a flawless gray suit, drummed his fingers on the table.
"We can't have unknown players outperforming the system," he said flatly.
"Especially not with leverage this precise."
Another man leaned forward. "He used offshore pipes, bounced through three prime brokers, and executed through a DeFi wrapper in the final hour. That's not amateur play. That's military-grade strategy."
The first man nodded.
"Contact the compliance taskforce.
Put the name Leon Li into Tier-2 visibility monitoring.
Shadow ban his routing access.
Freeze him. Quietly."
Email – 8:14 AM
From: RiskOps@TradegatePrime
Subject: Urgent Compliance Flag: Leon Li
Your account has been temporarily restricted due to unusual leverage activity flagged for regulatory review. Please contact your assigned advisor.
Leon stared at the notification, expression unreadable.
Then, he smiled.
"Took them longer than I expected."
He reached into his desk drawer and pulled out a different laptop — air-gapped, encrypted, clean.
He launched a cold wallet transfer, breaking up his $1.2M into seven separate wallets and routing them through a series of anonymized DeFi protocols.
Then he opened a separate terminal — EdgeTradeX — a darknet-tier trading platform designed for whales and war-time traders.
Username: AshenWolf
Status: Verified
Balance: 0.00
"Let's build from scratch again. But this time… bigger.
Hong Kong – 9:03 PM (HKT)
Inside a private lounge of the IFC Tower, a woman in her early 30s held a wine glass loosely in one hand. She was watching a screen streaming U.S. financial news.
"…a mysterious trader who correctly anticipated the BOJ rate shock reportedly made over one million USD in a single overnight sweep…"
The woman chuckled.
"So… the East strikes back."
She opened her phone and tapped a contact:
[ShadowFund: Tokyo Cell]
Message:
"Find me Leon Li. Offer him ghost-clearance if he's real. I want him in."