Dark Air: The Second Offer
Jin Long was executed for telling the truth.
A self-made billionaire, he exposed the shadowy Board that controls global finance. They hunted him down, murdered his family, and left him to bleed out.
As he died, lightning struck—and the universe offered him a deal.
Reborn at six years old with the Financial Assassin System.
A ledger that quantifies reality. Friendship is equity. Betrayal is liquidation.
His new life is a second offer, and this time, he’s reading the fine print.
He has fifty years to amass ¥20 billion and build an empire strong enough to protect the family he failed.
But first, he finds his wife, Li Mei—now a child, just like him, and the last heir of an ancient assassin lineage.
“They killed us once,” he tells her. “Teach me how to make sure they never do it again.”
He invests in everything: markets, memories, and the seven friends he thought he could trust.
For two decades, he builds in secret—until their envy turns to betrayal. They take him to court, accusing him of theft.
He wins.
And then he walks away from them forever.
But his success is his exposure.
The Board discovers his webnovels—fiction that mirrors their real crimes a little too closely.
They send hunters.
This time, he’s ready.
With Li Mei at his side and a System forged for silent, systemic war, he stops hiding.
He becomes the ghost in the machine—bankrupting their fronts, exposing their politicians, dismantling their empire from within.
In the end, they make him one final offer: join them, and live in power.
It’s the same offer the universe gave him—a second chance built on compromise.
He smiles.
Some offers are meant to be refused.
Some ledgers can only be settled in blood and balance.
