[Modern City Life + Financial Warfare + Underdog's Rise + Intense Push and Pull + Two Rational, Equally Matched Leads + No Marriage, Just Making Money]
"Fourteen yuan. I paid for your coffee. Later, you helped me stir up a storm worth hundreds of billions."
In the cafe on the ground floor of Yunding Financial Tower, Lin Zhixia, a dropout working odd jobs, calmly paid fourteen yuan for Gu Chenyuan, a tycoon worth hundreds of billions, after he forgot his wallet.
She didn't try to chat him up or curry favor. She didn't even leave her name.
What caught Gu Chenyuan's eye was her extraordinary composure when dealing with thugs: she held a shattered glass bottle without so much as a tremor in her fingers.
With a gold-embossed business card, he personally pulled this girl from humble roots into the glittering financial world, rife with numerical warfare and capitalist ambition.
He taught her to read the market, to short stocks, and to tear a piece of flesh from a world that devours the weak.
A top socialite and heiress sneered at her: "A nobody from the bottom of society who sells coffee thinks she deserves to stand by his side?"
Lin Zhixia said nothing. Instead, she handed over a meticulously accurate short-selling report that made the heiress's family business lose tens of billions overnight!
When she took off her coarse apron, changed into a custom-tailored suit, and stood at the top of the financial tower in high heels, looking down on the world, she gradually became unrecognizable even to herself.
The man who had always stood above her pressed her at every turn: "Lin Zhixia, marry me. Half my business empire will be yours."
But Lin Zhixia calmly took a step back, her red lips parting. "Mr. Gu, I told you: I only deal in interests, not marriage. Once some fires get too close, they'll burn us both to ashes."
Everyone was stunned: Wasn't she supposed to be a canary? How did she become a ruthless Wall Street queen wielding a butcher's knife?
