Lu Chen grew up in an urban village and worked as a deliveryman. Before his mother died, she left him a letter revealing that he was an illegitimate child: the missing eldest grandson of Jiangzhou's most powerful Lu family, gone for twenty-three years. On his very first day back with the Lu family, its members mocked him as a bastard and the security guards stopped him at the gates. Yet three months later, shares in Lu Group had soared by 300 percent, two billion yuan in liquid assets had vanished into thin air, and two vice presidents had landed in prison. When the entire family knelt and begged him to return to the board, he merely said, “I earned this money myself. Why should I share it with you?”
