In 1986, the ice of the planned economy began to melt, order and chaos coexisted, and ambition grew amid scarcity.
Zun Tonglu was reborn in an ordinary family in the northwest. He looks like a lively and intelligent child on the outside, but inside he contains the soul of a bartender from 2025 and a horrifyingly detailed "future history" of China's economy.
There is no system, no superpowers, only a deep understanding of human nature, a keen sense of information, and the unspeakable loneliness that belongs exclusively to the time traveler.
He carefully took advantage of every information gap, from material exchange to treasury bond arbitrage, from contracting small factories in towns and villages to promoting corporate restructuring, wandering on the edge of policies and navigating the complexity of people's hearts.
Friendship and betrayal, love and responsibility, ideals and desires... While he is building a capital empire, he is also reshaping the destiny of himself and the people around him.
This is a long story about how memory is transformed into capital, how human relationships swirl in business wars, and how individuals dance with the times.
This is also the story of a bartender who spent forty years preparing a unique "wine of the times" for himself and for that turbulent era.
