The World's Richest Man Starts with Three Thousand Yuan

What can three thousand yuan buy?

A meal? A new outfit? Or a chance to change the world?

Shen Ming’s answer: go all in.

The world’s top stock god in his previous life, he is reborn in a university campus in 1999. While his roommates fret over their monthly exams, he takes the three thousand yuan in tuition his father raised by selling pigs and storms into the ever-shifting capital markets.

From China’s A-share market to Wall Street, from warrants to the subprime mortgage crisis, he prowls the global financial markets like a giant crocodile scenting blood, unleashing tidal waves. He shorts entire nations and rakes in hundreds of billions; keeps lithography machines running and breaks the blockade; invests in new energy to end dependence on oil; and monopolizes artificial intelligence, seizing quantum supremacy.

In just twenty years, he goes from a poor student to the man who makes the rules of the world.

When everyone looks up to him, he returns to the university classroom where it all began and writes the first line in his notebook:

“In this life, I did just one thing right: I woke up early while everyone else was asleep.”

This is one man’s capital-fueled frenzy, and a twenty-year campaign of overwhelming advantage.