The story begins in 1993. Lin Xiaodong, an 18-year-old rural youth, went south to Guangdong alone to repay his family debt and entered a Taiwanese-owned furniture factory in Dongguan. He started as a porter at the lowest level, and with his extraordinary diligence and quick-witted crisis management, he won the appreciation of Hong Kong female supervisor Amei, and also attracted the jealousy of the local supervisor. In the factory forest of blood and sweat, he experienced the betrayal of friendship and the bitterness of first love, and seized the opportunity of the first reform and opening up to accumulate initial connections and capital.
Around the turn of the millennium, Lin Xiaodong keenly seized the opportunity of the rise of the real estate industry and joined the building materials agency. After many ups and downs in the business wars of sex, sex, and wealth, he dealt with local gangsters, Hong Kong businessmen, and official figures, and his career expanded rapidly. He met all kinds of women: a shrewd and snobbish lover, a pure female college student, an official lady with a profound background, but he could never forget Amei, who had shared hardships with him but eventually disappeared in the feasting and feasting.
During the 2008 financial crisis, Lin Xiaodong's business empire collapsed overnight, and everyone betrayed and separated from their relatives. At the bottom of his life, he re-examined his relationship with the city. Ten years later, he returned with a brand new attitude and industry. He was no longer the barbarian who blindly pursued profits, but with redemption and understanding of the past. He reunited with the old people in his destiny, untied the knot that had been entangled for half his life, and finally reached reconciliation with himself and the city.
