Shang Shang: Part 1

This is a story about "loss". In 2003, Li Chenggong, who was born in rural areas in southern Jiangsu, made his first pot of gold by revitalizing unfinished buildings. In ten years, he was worth over 100 million yuan. For what his wife called "respect", he switched to finance and met three people who made him gamble all his wealth: factory advocate Weidong who borrowed loan sharks for his technical obsession, "Business Mulan" Zhou Qing who wrapped his desires with a 30 billion scam, and He Chao, an idealist who discussed valuation in front of the Buddhist temple. "Shang Shang" uses a cold writing style to record how Li Chenggong was able to take every advantage of the times, but lost everything on specific people. When the investment of 90 million has gone to zero and twenty years of hard work have suddenly passed away, the novel ultimately asks a question that everyone who rises and falls in the times cannot avoid: When the tide recedes, how do we face the "unwilling" self. "Shang Shang" is not just about the failure of three projects, but about the dislocation of an era - when a person obtains wealth and opportunities beyond his control, failure is the inevitable result.