From a woodshed to an empire, from five yuan to a fortune worth billions: this is the story of a live-in son-in-law who used his wits to defy fate.
Chen Xuan died.
A top private-equity trader in the 21st century, he dropped dead in his office after working for 72 hours straight.
When he woke, he was lying in a freezing woodshed, both legs in casts, with nothing but a crumpled five-yuan note in his pocket.
He had become a useless live-in son-in-law everyone mocked. His new bride was cold as ice, his mother-in-law pressured him to divorce her every day, and the whole city was laughing at him.
But no one knew that this useless man in the woodshed had twenty years' worth of future business models in his head.
What could five yuan buy?
Chen Xuan had the answer: with five yuan, you could buy goods to sell at a street stall; the stall could earn you your first pot of gold; that first pot of gold could buy your first shop; your first shop could grow into a chain; the chain could go public and ring the opening bell; and from there, it could take on the whole world.
Using modern business thinking to crush traditional models, he built his own business empire, step by step, while everyone laughed at him.
In three years, he went from Haicheng to the provincial capital, from the provincial capital to the capital, and from the capital to the world.
The live-in son-in-law who once slept in a woodshed became an emperor of the business world.
But what made him proudest was not his billions or his global empire. It was the woman who had once been as cold as ice toward him, now leaning against his shoulder and saying:
“From nothing to billions, it took us ten years.”
“But somehow, it feels like it all happened in an instant.”
