The Rise of the Villain Family: I Rely on Knowledge

Lin Zhao was a top economic crime defense lawyer in his past life, specializing in defending big shots in the gray and black industries. He had seen too many families fall—not because they weren't ruthless enough, but because they didn't understand the law or the times. At 46, he was killed by an enemy. When he opened his eyes again, he was 18, in the summer of 1999. Before him was a familiar yet strange home: his father was 'Fourth Master Lin,' who monopolized half the province's underground building materials market; his mother controlled the province's freight intelligence network; his elder brother was a fledgling financial broker; and his second sister was a 'scalpel'-level action executor known in the underworld. And 18-year-old Lin Zhao was the only 'bookworm' in the family, scolded by his father as 'useless,' laughed at by his brother for 'studying to death,' and dismissed by his sister as 'too weak.' But this time, Lin Zhao knew what would happen in the next 20 years—state-owned enterprise reform, WTO entry, the real estate boom, the internet revolution, the anti-crime and anti-evil campaign, the compliance storm... Every wave of the times could wash away the dikes of old forces or lift the ships of a new order. He had to transform his family's pirate ship into an aircraft carrier before the storm hit.