Delivery worker Lin Yifei entered the stock market because his mother was seriously ill. He borrowed 80,000 yuan and used it as leverage to trade life and death between the upper and lower limits. The mysterious old man Mo Yuan uses chess as a metaphor for the market, teaching him to gain insight into human nature in the maze of volume and price. From chasing the pig-killing market to dismantling the leverage trap, he transformed in the blood of K-line and the glimmer of redemption, but discovered the secret of brain cancer hidden by his master and the past of the 1997 stock war. When a meltdown attack occurred on a rainy night, the master and apprentice used the bronze compass as a blade to protect their conscience in the stormy capital, and finally realized that trading is like chess, and every move is a matter of life and death.