Chen Yan, the number one scholar from a poor family, was admitted to Southeast University of Finance and Economics from Qingyuan County with the dream of getting ahead. Under the influence of urban glitz and utilitarianism, he gradually betrayed the sincerity of his first love, Lin Xiaowei, and transformed into a ruthless financial elite with the selfless help of his schoolmate Lin Wan. However, just when he was about to reach the top of his career, he was betrayed by an alliance of interests and fell from the altar overnight and ended up living on the street.
While wandering, the "priceless smiles" of the painting seller mother and son penetrated his frozen heart; a heavy rainstorm and flood even caused him to be electrocuted and comatose. His spirit traveled through the famine in the late Tang Dynasty and the disaster of Huashigang in the Northern Song Dynasty, and experienced thousands of years of human suffering. The hermit in the mountains saved his life and guided him to face the sins of his life - especially his huge debt to Lin Wan for "intellectual theft".
After waking up, Chen Yan put down his obsession and became an urban ascetic. He sleeps in the tea room, does daily work, applies financial knowledge to community mutual aid, and heals others with psychological translation. Eventually he realized that life is not about accumulating assets, but about settling debts. True freedom is to repay the glimmer of light with glimmer of light, and to live out the thickness of life while moving forward with debt.
