In the Alley: I Snatch Zhuang Xiaoting from the Start

Lin Dongzhe, a titan of the financial world, was reborn after a commercial assassination, returning to 1978, the year that changed his fate.

That year, he failed the Gaokao. His future wife was being looked down on at every turn by her older brother, a "heaven's favorite" admitted to a prestigious university, while their impoverished family teetered on the brink amid a storm of gossip.

Armed with memories from forty years in the future, a flame called ambition ignited in Lin Dongzhe's eyes.

He resolutely seized the opportunities of the era, from earning his first fortune after heading south to Guangzhou to the dawn of the internet at the turn of the century. Like a hunter with perfect aim, he claimed wealth, power, and the future for himself, one by one.

The academic prodigies who once looked down on him? Before the capital empire he built with his own hands, they could only become stepping stones, their faith shattered as they were ground into the dirt.

The contempt and mockery he once faced? Brick by brick, he built his family a fortress no one dared covet, sheltering everyone he treasured beneath his wings.

Some called him a master of the times, while others cursed him as a heartless capitalist.

Lin Dongzhe simply lit a cigarette and smiled.

"I came, I saw, I conquered. This era is mine to command."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.