Protagonist: Chen Yuan (35 years old)
Background and skills: Former data product manager of an Internet company, proficient in data analysis and user psychology. This provided him with a unique professional advantage in building quantitative trading models in the future.
Character arc: From a workplace person who believed in "hard work first", he experienced a complete collapse of faith, and finally transformed into a capital hunter who deeply understands "trends and human nature".
The core dilemma: not only financial ruin, but also an identity crisis - how to go from a person who is "needed" to a person who "needs to prove himself."
Spiritual mentor: Lao Zhou (65 years old)
Background: A legendary trader who was born in a red vest in the 1990s. He once experienced the 327 national debt incident. His investment philosophy combines Eastern wisdom ("The Art of War" and "Tao Te Ching") with modern Western financial theory.
Function: What he taught Chen Yuan was not the "code", but the "mind method". It is "What is a trend" and "How to keep the soul awake amidst the fanaticism and fear of the crowd."
Opponent: Qin Yuan (38 years old)
Background: The head of a quantitative fund who returned from a top overseas investment bank believes in the supremacy of data and algorithms, and is ruthless and efficient.
Function: As Chen Yuan's "technical mirror" and ultimate opponent, his existence will constantly torture Chen Yuan: In the face of completely rational algorithms, are those insights into human nature still valuable?
Anchor: Wife Su Wanqing (33 years old)
She is no simple complainer. The early incomprehension stemmed from her desire for a stable life; the later support stemmed from her seeing the rekindled love and focus in her husband's eyes that was more important than money.
