The day Shen Si walked out of prison, Jiangcheng was hit by the worst downpour in a decade.
No one knew that the terrifying short-selling queen of the financial world, "Zero," was trudging into the rain with a battered suitcase.
Ten years ago, she was imprisoned for commercial fraud. Her ex-fiancé and best friend joined forces to swallow up the business empire she had built with her own hands.
The prison library became her business school, and every page of a financial magazine was a blueprint for revenge.
As the torrential rain paralyzed the city, she walked into a roadside brokerage and used the meager savings she'd scraped together in prison to buy put warrants on a stock that was about to plunge.
Three days later, the company was hit by a financial fraud scandal, and the balance in Shen Si's account soared three hundredfold.
As the branch manager respectfully handed her a black card, the LED screen beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows showed Jiangcheng's annual Economic Figure Awards.
In a close-up, her ex-fiancé had his arm around her best friend's waist as he accepted the Outstanding Young Entrepreneur award.
Shen Si swirled the water in her glass and smiled at the manager. "Tell your headquarters..."
"Zero is back."
