Lin Yuan, a 38-year-old senior trader, was fired by an investment bank because he refused to cooperate with the banker in manipulating the stock index. He then fell into a desperate situation in which his mortgage payment was cut off and his wife was in a cold war. In a cheap rental house, he accidentally discovered the encrypted hard drive left behind by his father's "suicide" five years ago, which contained undisclosed financial shady stories.
In order to survive and restart his career, Lin Yuan spent all his savings and joined forces with Su Xiaoman, a talented girl who was banned from the industry due to an e-sports scandal, to establish "Vision Studio". They integrated e-sports tactical thinking into quantitative models in an attempt to fight back on the upcoming stock index futures delivery day.
However, the opponent is private equity giant Zhao Tiancheng, who controls tens of billions of capital. Lin Yuan not only faced financial encirclement and public slander, but even discovered that even the systems brought by his allies had already been implanted with surveillance programs. After discovering that Zhao Tiancheng was the culprit who forced his father to death, Lin Yuan decided not to escape.
In this secret war that uses data as a knife and people's hearts as the stumbling block, Lin Yuan exposes the shady secrets of capital in the e-sports live broadcast room and disrupts the opponent's public opinion offensive; at the same time, he reconstructs the trading system in a physically isolated underground data center. Not only does he have to fight against the crazy strangulation of external capital, but he also has to overcome his inner fears and obsessions, uncover the truth about his father's death on the edge of rules and anti-rules, and complete the ultimate counterattack from "the hunted" to the "hunter".
