Cloud Beyond the Clouds

Three years as a live-in son-in-law, everyone called me a good-for-nothing. When I caught my wife cheating with her cousin, I didn't make a fuss, took a hundred taels of silver, and divorced gracefully. Using modern business tactics to outmaneuver ancient established firms. Tea stall Ponzi schemes, snack membership systems, restaurant performance reforms, and chain contract traps. The Liu family copied my methods, losing money each time, and their century-old fortune was hollowed out by me. Merchants feared my employees, traders feared my tactics, and the powerful couldn't stop my career. One Cloud Beyond Pavilion, a former live-in son-in-law. In the marketplace, I defeated the wealthy; in the court, I rose swiftly. — Description from novelcodex.org