Return of the Tide

After 22 years in the US, he was the chief scientist at a top American laboratory, holding the core technology for full-vehicle simulation bottom-layer solvers. A white partner used corporate rules to seize his two decades of work, blacklist him from the industry, and leave his wife and daughter stranded overseas. He did not yield, boarding a flight back to China with a head full of architecture and algorithms. Upon landing in Shenzhen, reporters surrounded him, and overseas rumors ran rampant. Shenzhen followed its procedures for evaluation, but the deputy director of Jiangnan Province flew in overnight, making three visits to recruit him across provinces. He settled in Jianghuai and started from scratch. With a five-million-yuan seed fund, four inexperienced newcomers, and second-hand servers, they worked overnight in the server room. The core was incompatible, material data was blank, competitors spread rumors and poached talent, and overseas legal letters came after them... He led his team to workshops, production lines, and testing grounds, tackling hard problems with simple methods. In six months, the Beta version ran; in three more months, it entered the factory for trials with a 9.7% error rate, passing. But this was just the beginning. Monopoly sieges, capital games, his wife and child not yet returned, patent lawsuits... A bigger storm was on the way. His name is Wang Xiangdong. Xiangdong means facing death to live, and also returning to the East. A scientist's story of returning to China to start a business, and a nation's countercurrent battle to break technological monopoly. — Description from novelcodex.org