Lin Zhou, a young man from a small town in Linjiang, drifted north with 300 yuan raised by his mother. "Summer at the Vegetable Market", which he wrote while working part-time at a milk tea shop, accidentally ran into the eyes of Chen Man, the founder of an advertising company. He thought it was the dawn of taking root in the big city, but he didn't know that he had already stepped into a well-woven scam - Chen Man colluded with real estate developer Zhang Yang's father to use his image as a "low-class striver" to package a false public service advertisement and defraud the old man of his life savings. When he was excited about the hard-won offer, his lover Su Xiao suddenly left a note saying "My dad has advanced gastric cancer and needs 300,000 yuan for surgery" and disappeared, turning around to marry Zhao Shanhe, a wealthy businessman in Wuzhen. Lin Zhou chased to the Jiangnan water town and discovered the cruel truth: the medical certificate was forged, Su Xiao compromised to save her father who was being coerced, and Zhao Shanhe was a key link in Chen Man's money laundering chain. The chase on the bluestone road, the evidence in the cellar of the old house, the dusty old "theft" case at the police station... Lin Zhou sneaked into the fraud gang with a voice recorder, but at the critical moment he discovered that the newly hired advertising company was actually a money laundering transit station. Even the gentle boss Sister Zhou was forced to fight because her son was manipulated.
From the confrontation in the Beijing office building to the escape in the Wuzhen river, from holding on to the five-square-meter rental house to the spotlight of the public service announcement competition, Lin Zhou holds the "zhou" necklace given by Su Xiao and struggles among deceptions, threats and betrayals. But when Zhang Yang's father's overseas phone call came with a death threat, and when his mother received an anonymous threat at a Linjiang vegetable stall, he realized that this battle for survival and dignity was no longer just about his and Su Xiao's future.
