"They call me the devil on the beach because I eat the dividends of the times."
When she opened her eyes, Mu Wanqing returned to 1985 and became a newly graduated architecture student.
Facing the state-owned factory that the whole family was struggling to get into, she tore up her dispatch certificate. Because everything in the next forty years is engraved in her memory: which stocks will skyrocket, which land is a gold mine, which country will usher in the end of the bubble.
The first year, she was in Shanghai.
She exchanged a stolen blueprint for her first pot of gold and a Hong Kong pass. Her family called her crazy.
In the third year, she was in Hong Kong.
The global stock market crash "Black Monday" broke out and the entire market collapsed. As early as three months ago, she used all her wealth to bet on the "downturn". Overnight, she was dubbed the "Financial Witch of the East."
In the fifth year, her battlefield was in Tokyo.
When the Nikkei Index rushed to the peak of the dream, she calmly set up a dragnet. Japan's economic bubble burst, and she quietly withdrew with hundreds of times profits and several cutting-edge production lines. International newspapers exclaimed: "The mysterious Eastern capital accurately hunted the entire bubble era!"
Now, she is back on the Huangpu River.
Pudong is still a tidal flat, but her blueprint has been laid. From real estate to electrical appliances, from chips to medicine, a huge business empire has sprung up.
Those who once laughed at her now bow to her.
Those who tried to stop her were eventually crushed by the times.
Mu Wanqing stood on the top floor of her building, overlooking the bright Shanghai.
This is not a story of rebirth and revenge.
This is the story of how a time traveler calmly and elegantly becomes capital itself.
