Finding Hidden Treasures: Starting in 1975

Winter, 1970. Kaoshantun, Northeast China. Eighteen-year-old educated youth Chen Yu holds a bowl of cornmeal gruel so thin he can see his reflection in it, enduring the villains’ bullying as he struggles to survive. At his lowest point, a [Future Information Panel] awakens in his mind. It gives him access to everything from the antiques market of the 1970s and policy opportunities in the 1980s to stock market openings in the 1990s.

From spotting a Qianlong imperial treasure at a scrap yard for twenty cents, to apprenticing under Master Shen, the head of a shop on Beijing’s Liulichang Street; from trading a painting at Wenjindu for his first fortune, to becoming one of Shanghai’s earliest stock investors; from predicting the decade-long real estate boom to investing in Bitcoin when it was worth just a few cents, Chen Yu uses his foresight to rise from an educated youth who can barely feed himself to an invisible tycoon worth hundreds of billions.

Over fifty years of tumultuous change, he gains brothers who will stand by him through life and death, and preserves a love that endures through thick and thin. This is the story of an ordinary man who writes a legend in a great era with foresight and loyalty.