On a summer night in 1995, Su Wanqing jolts awake in a run-down dormitory.
The calendar beside her pillow clearly reads: on the eve of the state-owned enterprise layoffs, before the internet bubble has even begun.
She clutches the only Monkey stamp in her pocket and pawns her mother’s keepsakes for start-up capital.
Her roommate tearfully tells her that her father is about to lose his job. Su Wanqing hands her a flyer. “Tell your uncle this new company is worth joining.”
Clutching cash, she heads to the bank through the pouring rain, only to run into the class monitor who tricked her into joining a pyramid scheme in her previous life.
Neon lights shatter into golden dust in the puddles. She smiles and steps on them.
“Reborn once, I’m going to become the richest person in the country, fair and square.”
