The Wall Street queen wakes up in 1925, only to discover her father is a “financial crime boss” who would bleed his own daughter dry!
After dying suddenly, 34-year-old risk-management queen Lin Wei opens her eyes as Shen Baitang, a “good-for-nothing” daughter of a wealthy family in Republican-era China. From the start, her father packs her off to marry an old warlord who has already been widowed several times. Her dowry is counterfeit silver dollars adulterated with lead! Wall Street spreadsheets become a pawnshop's worthless ledgers. Is her rich father the reincarnation of Scrooge? Hoarding gold bars, counterfeiting money, and selling his daughter for his own advancement: he's “proficient” at it all!
[Devilish Father × Republican-Era Business Rivalry]
Her father raises a gun and sneers. “Ungrateful wretch! I was melting gold ingots before you were even off the bottle!”
She calculates the coordinates of his vault and smiles sweetly. “Father, can you smell it? The stench of money has burned holes right through your heart and lungs...”
[Two-Faced Hero × Cold-Blooded Financial Tycoon]
He toys with his jade abacus beads, closing in step by step. “Miss Shen, want to join forces and bankrupt your father? We split it fifty-fifty.”
She uses her cinnabar brush to pierce his disguise. “A partnership? First, put up the secret gold-passphrase you’ve hidden inside that cloisonne vase!”
[Watch as]
The furnace explodes, unleashing clouds of toxic fumes from counterfeit silver, while the futures-market gears grind the comprador magnates to dust...
A new bank, forged in the fires of a turbulent age, is about to use the flames of the future to burn through the rust of the entire old world!
