Valuator

In 2026, he no longer does the accounting alone. He starts a company, but doesn't dare put the words "nuclear pricing" in its name, so he calls it "Price Consulting" instead.

His first client pays three thousand yuan. In the first month, he handles three jobs and earns thirty-seven thousand.

That year, he calculates the value of three things.

The first is a person's name. Someone has been dead for eight years, yet their name is still doing business. From a single character, he finds the name of a dead man.

The second is fifteen people known only by nicknames: Little Sichuan, Big Guy, Mute, Cripple. They have no names, only nicknames. Altogether, there are one hundred and fifty-two people.

The third is a debt of thirty-eight million. It passes through three companies and goes to court. In the end, all that remains is a court judgment posted at the company's front desk.

This volume is about how one man turns accounting into a way to make a living. It is also about how, in the process, he learns for the first time to say, "Let's wait a little longer."

The main characters in this volume: Shen Zhao, his partner; Director Zheng, an old man who has hidden one thousand and ten sets of original documents; Zeng Li, who later becomes his operations director; Feng Jianguo, a construction contractor with terminal liver cancer; and Chen Guohua, a mute.

By the end of the volume, a fourth line appears above his head: One sheet of paper, one hundred and forty million, undecided.