Shen Yuan was once the most dazzling genius in the Shen family, but three years ago, they disowned him, and he could only watch as capital destroyed his hometown. Now he has returned to Shangjing, armed with a death rewind: the deeper his regret, the further he can go back in time and start over. The open competition has begun, and the four great families have set a game in motion, promising the winner an injection of capital and the chance to marry into their ranks. Shen Yuan knows this is a hunting ground where the wealthy harvest fresh blood, but it is also his only path to revenge. Using his rewinds to expose trap after trap, he takes on his opponents in everything from public opinion battles to financial warfare, until they fall to their knees and beg for mercy. But with every level his obsession rises, his emotions are stripped away another layer. When he finally reaches the summit, he discovers that Jiang Ci, the only woman who stood by him through the darkness, has vanished from his memory. He had calculated everything, except how much he himself would change. Then someone tells him: her existence is the price of your final rewind.
