This book is China's first documentary novel that examines the changes in the banking industry over the past 15 years. It records the ups and downs of a financial person in his career over the past 24 years. The story begins in 1999. Cheng Wu, a young man from Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, had the dream of making a career in the world. After graduating from a university majoring in finance, he decided to give up the iron rice bowl job that his parents had arranged for him in his hometown. He came alone to the economically developed Guangdong Province in the country. Without a background or connections, he started his own journey of financial struggle and growth, and finally achieved a counterattack and transformation. This book incorporates the author's thinking on the nature of finance, and also shows the experience of financial practitioners from 1999 to 2023 to a certain extent. If you have worked in a bank, local finance, or private finance, you may be able to find yourself in some scenes in the book. The tags of this book are: finance, workplace, inspiration, growth, business war, reality, struggle, capital market, counterattack, profession, city.