Appointment at Lantern Lake

On the edge of heaven, there is a legend circulating. A lake, a lamp, an IOU, eighteen years. Lantern Lake reflects the transformation of private finance from barbarism to collapse. In 2008, Chen Guozhu, the owner of a lamp factory, borrowed loan sharks to save the factory. The profits compounded and he lost the factory, becoming Xiong Ge's white glove. Female teacher Lin Xiaoting borrowed money for her younger brother, and security guard Aqiang witnessed the destruction of her family while collecting debts, and the three of them were dragged into a bloody whirlpool. When the P2P wave started in 2013, Chen Zeyu and Lu Ziqian founded "Denghu Bao", Xiong Ge was whitewashed as "Kedai Finance", Lin Xiaoting worked as a land promoter, and Aqiang organized collection collection. Everyone borrows money and manages their finances, and the lake is brightly lit. But the pay eventually comes. Supervision was implemented in 2018, and there was a thunderstorm in 2020. Chen Zeyu was imprisoned, Xiaoting's younger brother died, and Aqiang Nu failed to jump off the building. The unemployed moved to northern Myanmar, various groups were harvested on the slaughtering plate, trust collapsed, and the supply shortage and unfinished buildings came to a bloody end. In 2026, Xiong Ge died of illness in prison and confessed his hidden assets; Chen Zeyu was paroled and apologized; Lin Xiaoting and A Qiang used debt restructuring and community mediation to clean up the mess. On the day when the Denghu Fountain reopened, they said: What they owe is not just money, but also the awareness of quick money. Some people extinguish the fire of greed, and some people raise the glimmer of light. The lamp lake illuminates madness and repayment. Six volumes of the legend of Lantern Lake: rising tide, wind outlet, compliance, collapse, fraud, and remaining light. An epic of debt and humanity. This storyline is purely fictitious. The characters, places, institutions, commercial disputes and case plots involved in this article are all artistically processed and created by the author and do not correspond to any person or unit in real life. The content of the story is for literary reading only and does not constitute a statement of fact. Please do not make any assumptions. Any similarity is purely accidental.