Low-IQ Stock Trading: Old Deng’s Big-Pot Play in a County Town

Stock market, mystery, corporate warfare, stocks, mind-bending puzzles, deduction, dark themes, realism, and emotional drama [Completely hand-written, no romance, no AI, no formulaic tropes, no System, no rebirth, no transmigration. The golden finger comes entirely from personal ability. Please don’t read if that bothers you.]

In 2004, veteran stock investor Zeng Xingju, nicknamed Zeng Big Basin, followed his mentor Guan Jinsheng in Beijing to learn stock trading. Together they opened a studio, following the hot money model that was all the rage at the time.

At the end of 2007, just as a stock his mentor was leading the trading on was about to be sold at a crucial moment, Guan Jinsheng suddenly disappeared.

In early 2008, Zeng Xingju took charge of the studio’s trading. His wife, Su Rulan, vanished just as mysteriously as his mentor, leaving behind their twin boy and girl, both barely a year old.

A police investigation using advanced technology revealed that the final phone locations for both Guan Jinsheng and Su Rulan were in Luonan County, Luonan City.

Devastated, Zeng Big Basin took his children and withdrew to Luonan County, where he settled into a life of doing as little as possible. He traded stocks and raised his children while searching for clues about his wife and mentor.

Then, one day seven years later, in 2015, a girl named Tang Ruonan appeared, bringing a buried past and a series of earth-shattering secrets to light...