At thirteen, divorced, delivering takeout, with $19 in his bank account.
On the coldest, rainiest night in Los Angeles, Zhao Cheng spent his last two dollars on a Powerball ticket.
The next day, all of America was in an uproar.
The $730 million jackpot had a single winner.
Overnight, a Chinese American from the bottom rung became a billionaire.
The media swarmed him, his ex-wife regretted leaving him, relatives came knocking, and the Chinese American community went wild.
But Zhao Cheng soon realized
poverty had never been the truly terrifying thing.
It was an ordinary person suddenly coming into a fortune that wasn’t meant for him.
Because the moment the $700 million landed in his account,
he caught the attention of more than just women and big money.
There was Wall Street, underground casinos, the FBI, and the real hunters lurking behind America’s wealth game.
And it all began
because that night,
he “saw” a set of numbers that should never have appeared…
