Atop the Loess Plateau

In 2025, Qin Chuan, the “God of Investment,” died alone in his hometown in northern Shaanxi, worth billions but abandoned by everyone. When he opened his eyes, he was back in 2000, aged thirty, in the winter when he had returned to his village in disgrace after being injured in a mining accident in the provincial capital. Faced with his impoverished hometown, neighbors waiting to laugh at him, and the wife and daughter he had let down most in his previous life, he clenched his fists and made a vow: This time, he would rely not on astonishing capital, but on his vision ahead of its time and this vast, fertile land to lead the entire village down a broad new road to prosperity.