Celebrity fund manager Chen Jitong was up all night preparing for an investor roadshow when his wife “emptied the clip” on him. When he opened his eyes, he had transmigrated into the capital’s number-one wastrel in the Great Xia Dynasty!
He had barely woken up before getting a brutal beating from the second young miss of the Ling family. He was also just a “filler” brought in to make up the numbers for the palace selection. His brother-in-law threatened to break off the engagement, the talented Wu Di mocked him in public, and even the examiners could hardly be bothered to give him a second glance.
But who could have guessed that this wastrel had a modern financial mind?
With the border under threat, he proposed a strategy of “defeating the enemy through border trade,” making the Canghan barbarians hand over their warhorses. When disaster struck Jianghuai, he used “futures and bonds” to conjure money out of thin air and fill the imperial treasury.
When Chen Jitong turned the palace selection into a showcase for “modern thinking,” the new emperor, watching from behind the beaded curtain, could no longer contain himself: “This is the Imperial Tutor I want!”
