Liang Zhanlong, a young man who made his way through self-study, dreams of becoming a major winner in futures investing. After a flash of insight in the depths of despair, he begins his counterattack, growing from a clueless retail investor into the helmsman of a long-side capital alliance. At the start of the Yiwei year, Liang Zhanlong makes a massive bet on sugar futures, ready to make his mark. Unexpectedly, his rival Luan Liren uses the promise of developing an electronic futures trading platform to lure Liang's investment partners into withdrawing their funds, leaving him in crisis. In a dream, Liang inherits his ancestor's secret manual for winning at futures trading. He turns the tide, withstands Luan Liren's opportunistic attacks, and ultimately resolves the crisis. His rival strikes again, taking advantage of the local supply and marketing cooperative group's initiative to manage farmland for farmers and become a national model. He steers public opinion toward the revitalization of the supply and marketing sector and growth in agricultural supply sales, driving up market prices for fertilizers. Large numbers of farmers who have transferred their land, major landholders, and major distributors enter the market to go long on urea futures. Meanwhile, Luan Liren organizes a group of short sellers and secretly adds to its short positions in urea, preparing to drive down urea futures and reap profits by wiping out retail investors on the long side. Unwilling to stand idly by, Liang Zhanlong brings out his killer technique for forecasting markets, the Taiji Wave Cycle, and organizes a long-side capital alliance to face off against the short-selling group in a bloody battle on the futures market...
