One bullet casing ended a 40 billion business empire in court.
In 2013, at a certain court, Liu Long, the former richest man in Bashu, was handcuffed and listened to fifteen charges. The prosecutor presented key evidence: bullet casings from the 1997 shooting. But Liu Long remembered that the bullet casings presented by his younger brother were not numbered.
Who changed the evidence? Why?
Time flashes back to 1990, at the entrance of Mianzhu Cinema. Eighteen-year-old Liu Long grabbed his last 50 cents and walked into the game arcade to repair the malfunctioning machine in exchange for a job with a monthly salary of 60 yuan. He bought three meat buns that day, and his younger brother Liu Hu cried while eating them: "Brother, the meat buns are so delicious."
Starting from 50 cents, to monopolizing game arcades, oil smuggling, and stock market harvesting, the brothers spent 23 years building the Dragon and Tiger empire. Clinging to the powerful, making friends, philanthropy being gilded, and being given various honors and titles.
Until the shell appears.
Until the umbrella collapses.
Until the brothers turned against each other.
This is a heroic epic that spans twenty-three years, and is also a bloody memory of the barbaric growth of private capital. When desire devours the bottom line, and when money corrodes human nature, the only salvation is that 50-cent coin.
The shells speak. It will tell you that all the gifts given by fate have already been marked with a secret price.
In this story, there is the rolling torrent of reform and opening up, the golden age of capital carnival, the dirty transactions of power and money, and the hammer of justice that the law finally falls on.
