Bait: The Road Back from the Trade

Lu Chuan, a former private equity fund manager, starts delivering food after going bankrupt.

One stormy night, he brings an order into a private dining room and catches the partner who once betrayed him with a market manipulator's secretary in his arms.

The next day, outside a convenience store, a young woman whose account has blown up crouches on the ground, picking up oranges.

Her name is Lin Nian, and she has only ten thousand yuan left in her account.

Lu Chuan says, “Trade with me. Keep your stop-loss under five percent, and I'll help you earn it back.”

Lin Nian looks at his delivery uniform. “Why should I trust you?”

Lu Chuan opens his account. “Because I turned ten thousand into two hundred thousand this month.”

Later, they join forces to take on leveraged market manipulators, cut down hot-money traders, crack quantitative funds, and face off against the top market manipulator, Qin Mu.

From ten thousand to one hundred million.

From enemies to partners, and then to opponents on opposite sides of a trade.

Jiang Qing asks him, “Are you choosing her or me?”

Lu Chuan says, “I'm choosing the market.”

The market is always right, but market manipulators aren't.

The person who understands you best is often your lifelong opponent on the other side of a trade.