Period: You Don’t Want Me Sent to the Countryside? I’ll Flee to Hong Kong and Build a Financial Empire

Back in 1974, Zhou Bingwen finds himself in a hellish situation from the start.

To keep his worker’s position in the city, his childhood sweetheart tears up their marriage contract in front of everyone. “If you’re going to the countryside to starve, I’m not going with you!”

Faced with her cruelty and everyone’s mockery, Zhou Bingwen gives a cold laugh and awakens the “Tycoon Farming System.” He decisively rips up his return-to-the-city pass, then dives into the Shenzhen River that very night and swims toward Hong Kong, that chaotic land of golden opportunities!

You can struggle through hardship in the countryside. I’ll make a fortune in Hong Kong!

Starting out in Kowloon Walled City, he builds factories, snaps up land, buys cinemas, and develops technology. While others join street gangs, he furiously “farms” and expands across Hong Kong, gradually building a trillion-dollar financial empire that spans the globe.

Shipping magnate Pao Yue-kong and “Superman” Li Ka-shing treat him as an honored guest, while countless Hong Kong starlets fall for him.

A few years later, the winds of reform sweep across the mainland.

When Zhou Bingwen returns home on a private jet as a patriotic billionaire, investing billions at a stroke, the whole country is shaken!

And his ex-girlfriend, still struggling to afford three meals a day and worn down by hardship, watches Zhou Bingwen from the crowd as he stands high above them all. She breaks down on the spot, consumed by regret...