Global Deflation: My Trillion-Yuan Strategy

The global currency reform shrank savings, wages, and prices by a hundred million times all at once. Everyone's money lost its value, but Chen Yan's bank account still showed that same balance: 10.00 yuan, unchanged. After the reform, ten yuan had the purchasing power of a billion. He began snapping up bargains. What others saw as assets, he saw as chips to calculate. He bought property, acquired controlling stakes, and built businesses. Every transaction was legal and properly taxed, with books that could withstand anyone's scrutiny. The System had only one rule: break it once, and ten times the amount would be frozen. His fortune kept growing, and the ledgers were probed ever more deeply, until someone unearthed the old accounts from 1998, when his father had been forced into bankruptcy. Then he discovered that the source of his billion yuan and the report his father had refused to sign both named the same person…