Prologue: A Name on the Dragon and Tiger Rankings
One afternoon in July 2020, I sat in my office in Nanjing, staring at the numbers flickering on the screen. The Dragon and Tiger Rankings refreshed, and the name of my trading seat appeared: Industrial Securities, Nanjing Tianyuan East Road.
Beside it was a string of cold figures: purchases totaling 45 million.
Three years earlier, I was riding a beat-up electric scooter through the streets and alleys, delivering takeout. Back then, my entire net worth was only tens of thousands. I lived in a partitioned room that cost 600 yuan a month, and got by on the cheapest flatbreads for all three meals.
Who would have thought that the most inconspicuous person in this city...
