Luo Junqia was finishing his PhD in engineering at Columbia University in the United States. Knowing nothing about the situation back home, he ended up trending on Weibo.
Secret identity: A contracted author for a well-known Chinese literary website.
He had the looks, the degree, and the money. His work had even been adapted for film and television. Just as he was enjoying the high point of his life, another popular web novelist accused him of plagiarism. But the work had already been adapted into a TV series, and it was about to air. Did that mean he had to stop everything now?
No. He put his doctoral dissertation aside and returned to China. Should he pay the film company compensation for its investment of up to 200 million, or sue the popular web novelist Lu Changdeng?
As it happened, he ran into his first love, Tang Chen, the sole heir to the Tang Group in China. He had taken over the company just three years ago and was already thriving, turning it into a leading force in three industries: internet, real estate development, and pharmaceutical research.
Tang Chen:
