The Nation's God of Wealth Is Actually a Red Spy

1924, a time of turmoil and upheaval.

Lin Xian arrives in the Republic of China with a head full of modern knowledge and a bottomless fortune.

When it comes to the power of the pen, he debates Huang Kan, wins over Hu Shi, and uses a handful of popular novels to dominate public opinion in the newspapers of the Republic.

When it comes to money, he shorts the stock market and plunders foreign trading houses. He is a behind-the-scenes oligarch whom even the Kong and Song families have to respectfully call “boss.”

When it comes to military power, half the Nationalist Army’s generals have copied his playbook, while Yan’an’s logistics and supplies are secretly delivered through his network.

When the Special Higher Police finally discover, after countless hardships, that the red phantom codenamed “Whisper” is Lin Xian, everyone is in despair.

If they arrest him, the National Government’s economy will collapse, frontline generals will defect, and newspapers across half the country will make them infamous for generations!

Sitting in Principal Chiang’s office, Lin Xian takes a puff of his cigar and chuckles. “Stop investigating. The truth is out: I’ve bought half the country.”