The Yuan Merchant Era

Lin Yu is an ordinary migrant worker in Shanghai, saddled with a million yuan in debt and freshly “optimized” out of his job. At the darkest moment of his life, a mysterious app called [Origin Merchant] appears out of nowhere on his phone.

The app cannot be uninstalled. It pulls Lin Yu into a super-immersive virtual reality called the “Origin Realm,” created by a supreme civilization. Here, business is war, creativity is a weapon, and every deal stakes your life and fortune.

[Beginner Trial: Within 24 hours, sell a can of “fresh air” to a scavenger in a post-apocalyptic wasteland of the future. Success reward: erase all your real-world debt. Failure penalty: digitize your mind and spend eternity as a cleaner for the Origin Realm servers.]

While everyone else is fretting over how to earn their first pot of gold, Lin Yu keeps pulling off unbelievable business miracles with his boundless marketing imagination.

“Sell hair-growth tonic to the universe’s strongest bald race?”

“Hold a launch event for ‘magical treasures’ in a cultivation world and use a scarcity marketing strategy?”

“Convince an Abyssal Demon Lord to sign an equity-swap agreement and take Hell public?”

In the world of [Origin Merchant], Lin Yu’s rivals might be financial moguls from Wall Street, business prodigies from other parallel universes, or even alien merchants wielding advanced technology.

As the boundary between reality and illusion grows blurred, Lin Yu builds his own business empire in the Origin Realm and gradually uncovers the ultimate commercial secret of the universe…