I Quit School to Trade Stocks: Looking Down on the World from the Dragon-Tiger List

The day he dropped out of school, Jiang Ye put the last of his tuition money into the stock market.

Starting with 30,000 yuan, he endured repeated losses, devastating crashes, and being laughed at. He went from a small-time trader in a rental room in an urban village to a rising short-term trader daring to go head-to-head with hot-money funds, trading desks, and market manipulators. He was never betting only on hitting the daily limit. He was betting on whether an ordinary person could fight his way out of a rotten life and make something of himself.

But when he finally reached wealth, fame, and a seat at a higher-stakes table, he discovered that there were no clean hands beyond the Top Traders List. And beneath the limit-up stocks lay more than gold: human nature, scams, betrayal, and consequences.

This is the story of a poor student who drops out to enter the stock market, fighting his way from the depths of loss to the fringes of the hot-money trade.

It is also the story of a young man who learns anew how to live, caught between money, family, desire, and dignity.

The protagonist is based on Tuixue Chaogu, also known as Tui Shen. The author has been a fan of Tui Shen for ten years.