Reborn on the Short Peninsula

In his past life, Cao Yisen suffered a devastating defeat on Wall Street. Awakening with a second chance just before the storm hits, he resolves to abandon blind optimism and chasing market highs. Instead, he positions himself on the opposite side of the frenzy, shorting bloated tech stocks and aggressively buying the bottom. Transitioning his ruthless financial strategies to the glittering world of K-pop, Yisen plays a high-stakes game of corporate restructuring. While others chase fandoms and music show trophies, he targets boardrooms, systematically acquiring stakes in top-tier entertainment agencies from Starship and CUBE to HYBE and SM. As legendary girl groups debut under his watch and entertainment giants fall under his financial dominion, Yisen proves that idols, traffic, and emotions are merely high-leverage assets—and that public faith and media sentiment are far more easily manipulated than stocks. This time, he isn't just shorting the market; he is infiltrating the entire system to answer a single question: exactly how much is the K-pop myth really worth?