On the eve of the collapse of the Blue Coast’s ten-billion-yuan project, newcomer Shen Qingyue is put in the hot seat. Everyone thinks she’s just another disposable victim in the workplace.
But she has already seen through every piece on the board: Chen Wei and Wang Zhentao’s sordid deal in a lavish private room, Xu Wenyuan’s eight hundred million yuan in dirty money moving through overseas accounts, Li Jing’s husband’s secret trust in Singapore, even the construction accident involving Zhou Mingxuan’s father more than twenty years ago that was covered up...
At the very bottom, she sees everything most clearly.
Then the audit storm hits. The golden cage cracks open. And the “Blood Ledger,” recording the city’s filthiest secrets, finally comes to light
Zhou Mingxuan takes her hand by his hospital bed. “Who are you, really?”
Shen Qingyue looks at him, her eyes calm and unfathomable. “Someone who’s come to collect a debt.”
She has come to collect the blood debt for her father, framed three years ago; to reclaim the dirty money that has swallowed countless lives in the dark; and to settle accounts for the vast shadow hanging over the entire city.
But when the mysterious figure known as “Professor” emerges from the shadows, when the old debts of Zhou Mingxuan’s father become a new weapon, and when Shen Qingyue realizes that the other side has anticipated her every move
She finally understands that the real game runs far deeper, darker, and deadlier than she ever imagined.
“Welcome to the real game,” the mysterious figure chuckles over the phone. “This time, I’m your opponent.”
This is a war over tens of billions in wealth, the transfer of power, and life and death.
Love and hate, betrayal, luxury and corruption, desire and redemption: they are all no more than footnotes in this blood-soaked game of chess.
