In 2024, Chen Yue, obsessed with leveraged speculation in the stock market, was wiped out and lost all his savings, destroying his family in the process. In despair, he jumped from the eighteenth floor of Jianghai Securities.
When he opened his eyes again, he had been reborn in 2001, at the historic A-share market peak of 2,245 points, back to his inexperienced younger days just after joining a securities firm. Armed with painful memories of his previous life, he had hoped to rewrite his fate using his foresight. But greed drove him to borrow on margin once more, and he was wiped out again, falling into dire straits.
At the brink of death, veteran investor Zhou Jingshan pulls him back and uses the blood and tears of a lifetime to make him see through the illusion of speculation. He leads Chen Yue away from the cold candlestick charts and helps him seek out the true meaning of value investing amid the bustle of everyday life.
After four years of enduring a bear market and witnessing countless capital-market frauds, including the Yin Guangxia scandal and the collapse of manipulated stocks, Chen Yue finally sheds his gambler’s nature. Through the cycles of bull and bear markets, he stays true to himself, resists the temptations of a bull-market frenzy, and faces the crucible of human nature in a market crash.
From speculative gambler to practitioner of value investing, he finds redemption amid the market’s wild swings. In the end, he sees that what wins in the stock market isn’t skill, but character. True investing means staying true to common sense, respecting the market, and holding fast to who you are.
