In the spring of 1998, the entire Asia was enveloped in the cold wave of a financial crisis. Although Huaxia Country, thanks to the decisive and wise measures adopted by the government, ultimately did not fall deeply into this financial maelstrom that swept across all of Asia, its economy was still somewhat affected.
That year, Ge Dongxu was seventeen years old, in the second half of his sophomore year. He had invested in two businesses which, instead of being affected by this financial tempest and plummeting into a cold trough, were actually developing at an explosive rate.