After Swapping Marriages, I Became Wealthy by Collecting Scrap

Gu Cheng, the wealthiest man in Star City, is murdered at the peak of his career by his half-brother Gu Yuan. At the moment his soul shatters, both he and Gu Yuan are reborn, returning to thirty years earlier—their engagement day, the day that decided the course of their lives. In the previous life, Gu Cheng married into the real estate magnate Ai family, endured humiliation, and was cast out with only a twenty-thousand-yuan settlement, which he used to build a business empire from nothing and become the richest man. Reborn, Gu Yuan tries to replicate his brother's success, frantically fighting to win over Miss Ai Lin at the engagement ceremony. Gu Cheng sees through the Ai family's predatory nature, goes along with it, and instead marries Shen Qingqiu, a fallen heiress burdened with massive debt who survives by collecting scrap for a living. Gu Yuan believes he has grabbed a shortcut to becoming the richest man, unaware that the Ai family is already rotten beneath its glittering surface. Ai Lin is already pregnant by her father's deputy, and the marriage is merely a cover-up for the scandal and a search for a patsy. In his previous life, Gu Cheng's endurance led to success, but in this life, the restless Gu Yuan will gradually fall into the abyss the Ai family has dug, through cold stares and bullying. Amidst mockery and ridicule, Gu Cheng pushes a broken tricycle and relies on each other with Shen Qingqiu in the trash heaps. Yet the keen eye of a tycoon and master-level appraisal skills allow him to spot a Xuande bronze censer in scrap metal and uncover a Song Dynasty painting from a pile of old papers. With his ability, insight, and a kind heart, Gu Cheng starts a frenzy of treasure-hunting in the waste piles of Star City. As his business empire is rebuilt, Gu Cheng tears off the Ai family's hypocritical mask and exposes the deep blood feud behind the framing and suicide of Shen Qingqiu's father and the swallowing of the Shen family's assets. While his brother Gu...