Lin Xiaofei, a real estate agent, dreams of becoming a landlord who can lie back and watch the money roll in. By chance, he rents his old family home to a mysterious guest named Chen Jinnan, who introduces him to a vast organization hidden from the world: the “Foundation.”
He thinks he’s only taking a temporary clerical job, but then stumbles across several “bad debts” that have lain dormant for decades. “Jia Qi,” who borrowed books and never returned them, the guarantor “Ouyang,” and rare volumes like The Secret Records of Metal and Stone and An Inquiry into Nanyang Commerce have all become taboos no one dares touch.
The Foundation is deep water, and its rules run even deeper. Inside, the elders and managers struggle for power; outside, a host of factions watch hungrily. But Lin Xiaofei realizes that gold lies buried beneath these murky waters.
And so, a different kind of rent-collecting legend begins in the urban jungle.
With street smarts and exceptional people skills, he deals with all sides, using “debt collection” as a pretext to reshape the balance of power. He outsmarts a hotel that has been infiltrated, cleverly collects a romantic debt, and, with the help of his confidantes, the icy assistant Su Qingxuan and the gentle librarian Zhao Linger, uncovers the shocking secret of the “Revival Treasure.”
When the managers’ leader finally reveals his true intentions, Lin Xiaofei abandons force and stages a stunning comeback at the board meeting, using the rules against him...
Watch as an ordinary man relies on a silver tongue and maxed-out people skills to navigate the cracks of a hidden world, steadily expanding his rent-collection business across the globe and ultimately living free and easy, forging a legend all his own.
