The Secret to Getting Rich: The Breaker

He pawned his ID card for 2,000 yuan in startup capital, convinced that the secret to getting rich was breaking through the barriers of capital. Xiao Zihe went from a poor kid at an internet cafe in an urban village to a market disruptor stirring up the business world. Along the way, he peddled anxiety, ventured into dangerous waters, cashed in on people’s hopes with a “top student capsule pod,” exploited nostalgia with “intangible cultural heritage livestreams,” and nearly lost himself in the abyss of capital. Shen Bing’s devil’s bargain, Gu Yan’s deadly betrayal, Su Xiaorou’s AI lover and the ethical quandary she posed, Lin Xi’s steadfast devotion through every storm… Amid the smoke of business warfare, tangled emotions and the struggle for redemption threaten to tear everyone apart. When the technology he’d once been so proud of proved powerless in the face of genuine emotion, when the blade of suspicion struck at the trust he treasured most, and when his daughter wrote “share good things” in her childish handwriting, Xiao Zihe finally understood: the true “secret to getting rich” was never the zeroes in an account. It was the warmth passed from palm to palm, the light of rebirth from a kiln, the “I miss you” that crossed mountains and seas, and the courage to protect what was true. This is a dark evolution amid a web of money and power, and the ultimate redemption of wealth and human nature, written in the lives of a group of “market disruptors.” Sincerity is the one kind of wealth that never fades.