The Ancient Poison Strategist Transmigrates to the Modern City

Su Jiuqu, the greatest poison strategist of all time, schemed tirelessly to help a powerful warlord reach the top, only to die mysteriously on the eve of being made a marquis and minister. When he opened his eyes again, his soul had somehow crossed over into the body of a young man in a modern city, unconscious after a traffic accident. Penniless and with no one to turn to? Su Jiuqu simply smiled and casually took the Hermès belt off a con artist on Antiques Street to use as “payment for treatment.” Thus began his legend of stirring up trouble in a jungle of steel and concrete. From a street-corner fortune-teller’s stall to shaking up the financial world, from advising mining magnates to building a real estate empire, he brings ancient stratagems to the modern age and never misses a move. Thick-skinned? That’s survival smarts! Greedy and lecherous? That’s being true to himself! Surrounded by powerful enemies and tangled in one scheme after another, he gives his folding fan a leisurely wave (it’s plastic) and says, “You’re all thinking too small. The whole world is just a chessboard.” Watch this shameless strategist use his wits as a blade and his schemes as armor to reach the summit of the business world, where he commands both the underworld and the legitimate world, while incidentally “winning” (conning) a few laughably absurd romances with breathtaking beauties.