Finance whiz Gu Qiubai is unexpectedly reborn in a high school classroom in 2003 and awakens the Future Prediction System, gaining the ability to foresee the future once a day. He amasses a nine-figure fortune in just three months by collecting Yuan-dynasty blue-and-white porcelain, accurately betting on the Double Color Ball lottery, and shorting soybean futures.
In 2004, he founds Xinghai Technology, entering the semiconductor industry through MP3 chips and assembling a thousand-person R&D team to break through the EDA software blockade.
Internet queen Su Yanqing leads the development of social networking software, jewelry heiress Shen Zhaorong builds a luxury brand, and materials science PhD Lin Shuyue leads a team in cracking the photoresist challenge.
In 2012, he faces off against Wall Street capital in a trillion-yuan battle on the Hong Kong stock market, crushes the short sellers with his homegrown 7nm chip, and claims the top spot on the Forbes list.