A Merchant's Road Through a Turbulent Age

My name is Lin Mo. Yesterday, I was worrying about a layoff notice. Today, I’ve transmigrated into the body of a failed scholar who jumped into a river to escape his debts in 1910.

His creditors are waiting by the riverbank. All I have left is three copper coins and a “business manuscript fragment” I can barely understand.

Other transmigrators get a System and a storage space. All I brought with me is a head full of internet business strategies: user profiling, traffic conversion, and brand marketing. In the business world of the Republic of China, where rules are harder than iron, it all sounds like gibberish.

“This scholar doesn’t use an abacus. He calculates people’s hearts.”

From Wujiang County to the Shanghai Bund, from Suzhou Creek to the Pearl River estuary, I’ll carve out a path for Chinese commerce through the gaps between guns, opium, and outdated customs.

Business warfare is national warfare; thunder rumbles beneath the clacking of the abacus.

When every foreign trading house joins forces to shut me out, and pressure from the court and foreign powers bears down at once, I’ll reveal my final trump card: a complete ledger documenting thirty years of economic exploitation.

This time, I don’t just want to make money.

I’ll use the rules of business to rewrite the rules of this age.

Hard-hitting business battles and the upheavals of the Republic of China. No golden finger System, just the sparks that fly when modern thinking collides with reality.

The pace is lightning-fast, starting with a river jump in Chapter One and plunging straight into a countdown to life or death.

The female characters aren’t just decoration. Each has her own career and growth arc.

Meticulous details, from the gestures used to work an abacus to the secret phrases used in pawnshops, bring the business world of the Republic of China to life.

“The way of business isn’t about scheming. It’s about weighing people’s hearts.”, Lin Mo

The age of chaos is here. Watch him use a single ledger to stir up the world.