In the twenty-first century, Shen Yanchuan is a supply chain risk-control manager at a major logistics company. His greatest talent isn't making money, but untangling the whole scheme from a mess of crooked accounts, worthless goods, and lies disguised as plain talk.
When he opens his eyes, he has arrived in occupied Shanghai.
A rainy night. Gunshots. Blood. Corpses.
The man dead at his feet is Lu Chengze, the second son of Lu Tingzhang, an economic official in the puppet government.
Lu Chengze has spent years away and rarely shows his face. Many people in Shanghai know that “the Lu family's second young master” is coming back, but few know what he looks like or what sort of person he has become.
And Shen Yanchuan happens to have his personal seal, family letters, train ticket, and a bloodstained suitcase.
And so, Shanghai gains a returning second young master of the Lu family.
By day, he frequents merchant guilds, banks, dance halls, and the Commodity Control Committee, a powerful young master everyone envies.
By night, he moves among account books, cargo manifests, docks, black markets, and interrogation lists, matching wits and battling wills with collaborators, businessmen, spies, and enemy officers.
Everyone thinks Lu Chengze has simply undergone a drastic change in temperament.
No one knows that this “Lu Chengze” has been an impostor from the very beginning.
At first, he only wanted to survive under this borrowed identity.
But as he takes one step after another into Shanghai's most dangerous circles, gaining control of permits, supply routes, warehouses, and people's lives, he suddenly realizes:
A borrowed name can become the foundation of his own game.
And the enemy's power can be turned against them, becoming the instrument of their doom.
