In the financial catastrophe known as “Black Thursday,” Lin Feng lost his parents and inherited nothing but a mountain of debt and a mysterious pocket watch whose hands ran backward.
Three years later, eighteen-year-old Lin Feng struggles to survive under the pressure of making ends meet and paying off his debts. On his birthday, the ancient pocket watch suddenly awakens, granting him the power to glimpse fragments of future prices in the financial markets.
But power comes at a price. As he uses this “Time-Erosion” ability to amass wealth amid the turbulent seas of Bitcoin, leverage, and futures, he has no idea he has stepped onto another, far darker battlefield.
“Economic revenants” prowl the shadows, devouring the souls of the bankrupt. A mysterious organization called “Echoes of the Abyss” manipulates invisible strings behind global markets. Former classmates, past rivals, and mysterious allies are all swept into a war where money is the ammunition and human nature is the wager.
Can glimpsing the future change the past? At the crossroads of wealth and power, ruin and redemption, Lin Feng must choose: will he become a market monster that devours everything, or protect the light of humanity deep within him, a light brighter than money?
