After being assassinated, Wall Street M&A tycoon Su Yan is reborn as the good-for-nothing legitimate son of the richest family in the Great Ye Dynasty. With a supernatural ability to rewind time three times a day, for ten seconds each time, he discovers that this body bears three deadly burdens:
A sky-high gambling contract signed before he fell from his horse and lapsed into a coma;
A massacre concealing clues to the imperial jade seal of the previous dynasty;
And the mysterious prince, whose gender is impossible to discern, hidden inside an agarwood carriage.
When modern finance collides with ancient business warfare, and a prisoner of time is caught in a deadly conspiracy within the ninefold palace. See how Su Yan uses ten-second rifts in time and space to turn the tables, calculates his way through the world with spice ledgers, and cultivates an enemy prince into a regional agent, ultimately establishing a black-market empire spanning the three realms.
"You think ten seconds is short?" Su Yan crushed a poisoned dart in the glow of the flames and smiled at the assassin who had struck again. "It's enough time for Nasdaq to crash three times."
