The Returning Scholar's Rise: Protecting My Beautiful Sister-in-Law

Fresh out of college and facing relentless rejection in the job market, Chuan Liufeng hits rock bottom when his girlfriend's mother hurls money in his face, branding him a penniless loser. Consumed by humiliation, he grits his teeth and returns to his impoverished rural hometown, Lotus Village. When local bullies target his vulnerable, beautiful neighbor—a woman living a lonely, husbandless life—Liufeng bravely stands his ground to protect her. Using the village's neglected lotus pond as his foundation, he rallies the local women left behind by the migrant workforce to launch a revolutionary business empire, transforming a hopeless hand into an unbeatable winning deck. From a grassroots youth to a towering business tycoon, Liufeng proves that returning college graduates can forge a path to extraordinary success. When his former tormentors beg on their knees for mercy and his ex-girlfriend's mother weeps with regret, Liufeng looks down from the peak of his success, wrapping his arm around his stunning sister-in-law—now a powerhouse corporate CEO—and smiles with cold indifference.