Transmigrated in 1977: From Village Boy to Global Tycoon

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Back to 1977: The Gentle Scholar Is Actually the Godfather of the World

In the winter of 1977, Li Jue awoke with memories of his past life and an offline knowledge base. He became an impoverished orphan in a mountain village in western Sichuan.

Others took the college entrance exam to move to the city. He took it to lay the groundwork for his plans.

While his classmates were still competing for spots to stay in Beijing, he had already set up an offshore company in Hong Kong and was anonymously investing in chip teams in Silicon Valley. When earning ten thousand yuan made someone a role model of the era, the funds under his control had already penetrated Hollywood studios, European football clubs, and top auction houses.

The world knew him only as a Tsinghua prodigy, a Stanford PhD, and a mild-mannered scholar returned from abroad, as gentle as jade and modest to a fault.

No one knew that the national standards for digitizing Chinese characters had come from him, that he had composed the hit film and TV songs that swept Asia, or that priceless national treasures sold for astronomical sums overseas had ultimately ended up in his private collection.

Over four decades, from entertainment and technology to sports and finance, a secret global empire quietly took shape at his fingertips. He watched the tides from behind the scenes, never stepping into the spotlight.

Until the new millennium, when multinational financial behemoths seized the domestic chip industry by the throat, throwing the whole nation into an uproar.

At last, the gentle scholar who had always smiled stepped out from behind the scenes, revealing an edge sharp enough to shake the game board of the times.

[The ultimate behind-the-scenes mastermind + hard-core industry power fantasy + secret global machinations]

The appeal: The contrasting lives of a humble scholar and a hidden tycoon, delivering a crushing advantage through half a century of planning.