2008, Yu Xing woke up from a dream and discovered he had been thrown back into the financial void on the eve of the 2008 financial crisis. In the dream his younger self was a medical student who never got to practice, then sold televisions, met someone returning to the country the following week, dove into the sharing economy only to lose his deposit, turned to real estate, achieved a bit of success, finally picked a promising property but couldn’t close the deal… By 2008 the giants were forming, capital was awakening, and he could only scramble to keep his own company barely profitable while, out of sheer helplessness, short‑selling other people’s firms to make money.

After a long while his short‑selling alias was exposed, and Yu Xing himself admitted, “It was me. ” Rivals: … Partners: …

Spectators munching on gossip: … Everything exploded…