TV series "Flowers" has ended, many things in it are still valuable and necessary to explore. Compared with the original work, except for the names of the characters, the story in the play is almost a completely new version. However, the TV series and the original novel are not completely separated.
Take Abao as an example. If there were no Abao’s family background in the original work, there would be no uncle in the TV series, and there would be no story about the stock market. From this perspective, the TV series can be said to be an extension of the original novel. Although the TV series "Flowers" describes the ten years from 1987 to 1997. But if you look carefully, the TV series actually incorporates future stories.
Why do you say that?
From the perspective of my uncle, he once dominated the stock market and foreign trade in old Shanghai and was once brilliant. But then it fell silent for many years. Beginning in 1987, Uncle Ye came back to help push Abao to the forefront, and through Abao he achieved his glory again. As Abao withdrew from foreign trade and the stock market, Uncle Ye completed his mission and completed the cycle of life.
Uncle's ups and downs are actually the ups and downs of A Bao's family in the original work, starting from his grandfather's generation. The uncle in the play is not imagined out of thin air. The prototype is Bao's grandfather and father.
Li Li’s story is also different from the original work. In the original work, Li Li had Mr. Zhou, and Li Li was his lover. In the play, Li Li has Mr. A, and Li Li is his lover. Mr. A also had a great time in the stock market, but due to the expansion of the stock market and too much leverage, the stock price shrank, so Mr. A jumped into the river and committed suicide. Li Li made money in the stock market and sold Zhizhenyuan to pay off Mr. A's debt. After one year in prison, Li Li became a monk at Nanhua Temple in Guangdong. Li Li moved from the glorious stage to the silent stage.
When Li Li became a monk, did he really see through the world of mortals and gain enlightenment? no. Judging from the life cycle of her grandfather and uncle, Li Li will definitely return to secular life in the future. This is the most glorious time in her life.
So, when will Li Li come back? What will Li Li do after his comeback?
The time when Li Li became a monk in the play should be around 1997. It is estimated that she will practice in Nanhua Temple for ten years. Li Li practiced in Nanhua Temple, not just meditating and chanting sutras. As Mr. A's most proud student, he was one of the Eighteen Arhats. In Nanhua Temple, Li Li must have continued to study finance while paying attention to the changes in the world. After all, the domestic stock market in the 1980s and 1990s was still in its infancy, and related financial derivatives were also in its infancy. Complex financial derivatives such as stock index futures and options did not appear at that time.
Here, to briefly mention, financial derivatives are financial instruments characterized by leverage and credit transactions. Leverage is the most important feature of financial derivatives. In layman's terms, leverage is debt, and leverage is borrowing money. Leveraging can be understood as repeatedly pledging money to borrow money.
Do you still remember why Mr. A died in the drama "Flowers"? It means that too much leverage is added, the stock price shrinks, and the capital chain is broken.
As Mr. A’s most proud student and lover, it is impossible for Li Li to forget these lessons. When she became a monk at Nanhua Temple, she wanted to find a quiet place to sum up Mr. A's lessons and prepare for her future comeback. Because the financial market after Li Li's comeback is no longer a simple stock market. It will be a huge system that integrates the stock market, futures and options, bond market, property market, and domestic and international interactions. If you want to navigate such a huge system with ease, the knowledge and vision of people like Uncle Ye, A Bao, and Qilin Society may not be enough. Li Li's true glory has not yet come.
In 2006, Li Li returned to secular life.
After returning to secular life, Li Li did not go to Shanghai, but to Shenzhen. By this time, Mr. Qiang had already come out. After all, they came from the same school, so Li Li and Mr. Qiang jointly opened a financial consulting company to provide customers with financial consulting services. After years of hard work, Mr. Qiang has also undergone many changes, and he is no longer as impulsive and strong as before.
In 2007, Li Li wrote an internal booklet.In this booklet, Li Li predicted the 2007 U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, the 2008 global financial tsunami, the 2009 European debt crisis, and the 2015 stock market avalanche. In addition to these, Li Li also predicted Trump's coming to power, anti-globalization, the Russia-Ukraine war, the intensification of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and other major international events in the booklet. The
brochure was originally used by Li Li as a reference for VIP customers. When a big boss read this booklet, he felt it was very valuable and suggested that Li Li further expand it and publish it. Li Li expanded the booklet and named it "Buddha Sees the World: 2007 Fracture Shock Wave". After the book was published, sales exceeded 20 million copies, and Li Li earned more than 300 million. At the same time, because of this book, Li Li became famous. Many companies and institutions invited her to give lectures, and the appearance fee was once as high as 1 million/2 hours.
In the following years, Li Li's predictions became reality one by one. Many customers and readers have not only avoided losses but also made a lot of profits after reading Li Li's books and listening to Li Li's classes.
After 2013, Li Li stopped giving lectures and consulting, and the consulting company was mainly managed by Mr. Qiang. Li Li began to inspect various places at home and abroad, preparing to transform and invest in the real economy. Starting in 2014, Li Li went to the northwest to invest in rural tourism, rural planting and breeding businesses, and also invested in local rural education. Li Li's investment in the northwest region is mainly to copy and optimize the rural tourism, rural planting and breeding business in Western Europe.
In 2016, Mr. Qiang handed over the management of the consulting company to others and followed Li Li to the Northwest. Mainly responsible for rural planting and breeding business.
Neither Li Li nor Mr. Qiang are married. They work together but do not live together and have no children. Many people suggested that the two of them adopt one, but Li Li did not agree. Li Li said that the students supported by him are his children.
In 2022, Mr. Qiang passed away. Before his death, he tried to contact Lingzi and Abao to see each other for the last time, but to no avail.
In 2023, Li Li made a will, stipulating that after her death, all the enterprises and industries built by her and Mr. Qiang would be donated to the local government according to the location.
Finance is the beginning, industry is the destination. Industry - finance - industry, glory - silence - then glory again, life goes back and forth like this. Although the flowers have fallen, they will still bloom next year.
