A gunshot rings out, and the tragedy of Guying Ridge takes a different turn in the spring of 1996.
Reborn, Qi Tongwei returns with twenty years of memories from the future, standing at a crossroads in history. Two paths lie before him: repeat his old mistakes, attach himself to the powerful, and trade it all for a prosperity doomed to collapse; or step into the unknown, starting from nothing and braving the tidal wave about to sweep across an entire era.
This time, he chooses a third path.
On the surface, he is a trendsetter of the 1990s: diving into the chaotic early days of the stock market, taking part in the thrilling reform of state-owned enterprises, and making his move on the eve of the real estate boom. Capital forges him shining armor and a razor-sharp sword.
Behind the scenes, he is a “fire thief” for the rule of law. He wields his pen as a spear, speaking out amid fierce debates over revisions to the Criminal Procedure Law; he uses legal cases as a shield, fighting in every lawsuit where justice is at stake. He seeks to plant the spark of the “rule of law” in the soil of “law-based governance.”
In the deepest shadows, he is the “cleaner” of a corrupt empire. Using information from the future, he weaves an invisible web, precisely eliminating parasites before they grow powerful and subtly prying apart alliances of interest that seem unassailable. His opponent is the entire era’s momentum of unchecked growth.
This is one man’s war, and a generation’s redemption.
In Qi Tongwei: Rebooting 1996, follow a lonely man reborn as he makes strategy his game and the era his board, dancing on the edge of the law and pressing forward through the mire of capital. He wants not only to win back his own life, but also to find a better direction for an age racing ahead.
