Zhou Muye's thirty-two-year-old life was a carefully designed drowning.
In 2015, he was the son of an idle village chief in Zhongyuan County, living on his father's side and waiting to die. Until his college roommate Chen Mo showed up and took him into the underground world of small loans - money begets money, interest compounded, from the village committee to a Range Rover, from the son-in-law of a demolition household in a village in the city to a financial upstart in the county. He thought it was a gift from fate, but he didn't know that he was just the last fat sheep selected by Chen Mo.
