In the spring of 2026, 35-year-old Lu Yuan has worked as an account manager in a securities company for eight years. His daily job is to persuade retail investors to open accounts and sell funds to earn commissions. He knows one statistic better than anyone else - seven out of ten Chinese retail investors lose money.
He himself is also a leek.
Entering the market with 50,000 yuan in 2022, chasing the rise and falling for three years, leaving a loss of 12,000 yuan.
Until one rainy night, when he was working overtime to sort out customer information, he accidentally discovered a pattern: Among the more than 2,000 customers he served, retail investors who had suffered losses for a long time had a surprisingly similar behavior pattern. He began to use data to track these patterns and found that they appeared extremely frequently in the A-share market.
He conducted an experiment - using the elimination method to reverse the "mistakes that retail investors like to make".
One month later, the account doubled. Three months later, one hundred thousand became eight hundred thousand. Half a year later, he ranked first in the market in simulated trading.
But he was not happy for long.
When he used this method to make his first million in real trading, he discovered that his "contrarian strategy" had touched the interests of some people. A quantitative private equity firm found him and offered five million to buy his strategy. He refused.
Then, his account began to be marked abnormally. His strategic logic was leaked and he became the target of hot money hunting. The brokerage firm where he opened an account suddenly requested a "risk investigation." His former supervisor spread rumors among industry groups that he was "suspected of market manipulation."
Only then did Lu Yuan understand - in A-shares, if retail investors want to win, they must not only defeat the market, but also people.
This is a realistic novel about China's 200 million stock investors. No rebirth, no system
