Eye of the Storm: Between Long and Short

Twenty-two-year-old Lu Zhao lost everything during the 17 minutes of the historic meltdown in the U. S. Stock market. She called her father, who had spent his whole life "fixing" the market. There was a long silence on the other end of the phone, with only one sentence: "Go home. Dad will teach you what a short position is." At that moment, she realized that Lu Pingchuan, her father with a net worth of tens of billions who climbed out of the countryside in Henan, had been hiding a black hole in his heart that lasted from 1995 to the present day. Deep in the black hole, there is a dead old friend and countless disappeared peers. When she met Lin Yu, the man who could measure fear with mathematics and catch all her enthusiasm with silence, Lu Zhao found his "eye of the storm" for the first time. But the energy of the old era will not dissipate easily. It is passed on from generation to generation in the market like a ghost. Lu Zhao must complete the unfinished task of his father's generation in the center of the storm: not how to win in the market, but how to stay at the center of himself in any situation. This is not just a history of the struggle of two generations. This is a story about trauma, legacy, and how one person learns to stand firm in the storm.