At thirty, Chen Yan is the most unremarkable repairman in the city. He scrapes by fixing old furniture, lives in a cramped top-floor room that costs just 800 yuan a month, and can’t even scrape together enough to pay for his mother’s medical treatment. Then he takes on the renovation of an old Western-style mansion and finds a stack of yellowed stock certificates beneath a camphorwood chest in the abandoned attic, along with half of a jade pendant carved with strange patterns. The certificates everyone thought were worthless turn out to be original shares in a leading company from decades ago. The secret hidden in the jade pendant unexpectedly draws him into a wealth dispute spanning two generations. Overnight, Chen Yan goes from drowning in debt to being worth hundreds of millions, and his life is turned upside down. Faced with sudden riches, changes in how old friends and family treat him, open and covert attacks from the world of high finance, and the family feud tied to the pendant, he must choose between desire and his true self, hold on to his principles in a glittering, chaotic world, and forge his own path to fortune.
