The Great-Grandfather I Bragged About for Twenty Years Really Did Travel Here from the Republic of China Era

My name is Lin Mo, a low-level wage earner in Shanghai. For twenty years, I bragged that I was descended from the cotton magnate of Republican-era China. Everyone laughed at me for being a pauper with grand dreams. Even my enemies trampled on me and said I wasn't fit to tie my ancestors' shoes. My mother was critically ill, I'd been fired, and online lenders were hounding me for money. With nowhere left to turn, I was about to sell the jade pendant passed down through my family when the light bulb in my rented apartment exploded. A man in a bloodstained long gown from the Republican era crashed down right in front of me. He said his name was Lin Jingshan, my great-great-grandfather, and that he'd been Shanghai's cotton magnate in 1928. I thought it was a scam, until he scared off the desperate debt collectors with a few words, crushed a beer bottle in one hand to intimidate some thugs, and used Republican-era business tactics to make my crooked boss kneel and pay me my back wages. Only then did I realize that the story I'd been bragging about for twenty years had actually come true! From then on, Shanghai had a new legend. My crooked boss tried to cheat me? Great-Grandpa would teach him the rules of the Republican-era underworld! A villain stole our ancestral home and family business? Great-Grandpa filed a lawsuit that ruined him and landed him in prison for good! Capital tried to crush my Chinese-style fashion brand? The century-old designs Great-Grandpa drew by hand took the international fashion weeks by storm! Everyone laughed at Lin Mo, calling me a useless braggart, never knowing that behind me stood an industrial tycoon who had fought his way through the foreign concessions! But I never imagined that Great-Grandpa had come to the modern era for more than just helping me reclaim our family business. The truth behind the traitor's ambush against him a century ago, the plot behind my father's tragic death, the cross-era assassination scheme laid by the traitor's descendants over twenty years, and the secrets of time hidden inside our ancestral jade pendant have only just begun to come to light...