Above the Ruins: the President's Alchemical Bet

When she bit her finger and pressed the blood seal on the deed of sale, she didn't know what kind of abyss this piece of paper would drag her into. The silent life of a talented architect collapsed in 24 hours - his family went bankrupt, his father was critically ill, and he was in debt of 800 million. At the end of the ICU corridor, the man known as the "Capital Vulture" handed over a bet: "In three months, the value of the unfinished building in the east of the city will be doubled. If it succeeds, the debt will be cleared; if it fails, all the permanent property rights in your name and your father's name will be mine." His name is Gu Chengze, a hunter returned from Wall Street who is best at putting a price on despair. Shen Mo moved into the seven ghost buildings. Here, what she faces is not the lines on the drawing, but the migrant workers who have been owed wages for ten years, the demolished households who have nowhere to go, and the local snakes who are eyeing them. And he, the man who bought her everything, watched her struggle with cold eyes, but on a rainy night, he ripped open the steel bars with his bare hands and yelled at her: "Silent, you dare to try to die!" When the transformation first saw the light, the truth tore through the night: The black hands who shorted the Shen family, the political and business network behind the unfinished building, and the shocking chess game that Gu Chengze has set up for ten years. She is just the most delicate chess piece among them. "Gu Chengze, you said everything can be valued." "What about me? How much is it worth?" He put out his cigar and pressed her against an exposed concrete pillar on the top floor of the ruins: "I've calculated that your freehold property requires me to pay in installments for the rest of my life."