In the tumultuous Republic of China era, Shanghai was dotted with foreign concessions, surrounded by hostile powers, while foreign capital plundered the nation at will.
Liu Ruyun witnessed the fall of his homeland, spent his life regretting that he had failed to master the strategic wisdom of Marquis Wu, and unexpectedly returned reborn to the age of twelve.
Drawing on his past-life experience and Zhuge Liang’s wisdom, he started with a tiny trading firm, took on established financial tycoons, broke foreign monopolies, exposed Japanese spies in hiding, and gradually built an alliance of Chinese-owned industries.
He navigated the power of foreign merchants, played the political and military establishment against itself, and rallied heroes of the martial world alongside patriots.
With business as his blade and wisdom as his shield, he stirred up a storm along the Huangpu River in a crumbling old era and became the backbone of Jiangnan’s national industries.
