Countercurrent 1998: the 1998 Commercial Bureau on Film

In 1998, in the wet and cold morning of the rainy season in Shanghai, Lin Chen, who died of bankruptcy at the age of 45, was reborn in the mourning hall, returning to 1998 when his 18-year-old father had just passed away and the family was destitute. With memories of the future about to fade, he held the vernier caliper left by his father and measured this era full of opportunities and traps with the precision of a machine tool worker. From the first game at the lottery station to the "Little Caliper" name of the Lugong Postal Market; from seeing through the trap of his second uncle's replacement agreement, to teaming up with Su Wanqing, a top law student, to forge letters of introduction; from the desperate counterattack of the stock market's "three consecutive drops" to the founding of Chenguang Information Consulting Company - Lin Chen used precision thinking like mechanical drawings to break down stamp appraisal, stock investment, and business layout into executable processes, and worked step by step in the gap between rules and unspoken rules. And Lu Chengze, the heir to the Lu Group who armed himself with mysophobia and alcohol pads, regarded Lin Chen as a weed that must be removed, but he did not know that he had already stepped into the trap woven by Lin Chen's cognitive gap. When a film that had been dusted for 24 years revealed half of his mother's life that had been manipulated, and when the ultimate gambling game on the Hongqiao land detonated the Lu family's financial chain, Lin Chen finally understood: Rebirth is never a cheating device, but a change of cage. True freedom is to use calipers to measure the accuracy of the world, and to use rules to carve out light for yourself. This is a business legend about cognitive breakthrough, a counterattack story that uses data and precision to fight against ambiguity and machinations, and it is also a hymn to find dignity for mothers, for oneself, and for all oppressed people in the tide of the times.