(An epic spanning urban underworlds, the tides of an era, technological crime, and human redemption. Crossing real historical milestones from 1992 to 2022, it weaves together Lingnan culture, the secret history of smuggling, and the ethics of technology.)
In 1992, Lingnan teenager Chen Mo enters the world of smuggling to save his gravely ill younger sister. From pagers to Bitcoin, from refurbished chips to AI smuggling, he uses his technical genius to help the tycoon He Wenyuan build a trillion-yuan empire of dirty money, yet every night he is haunted by his conscience.
Across from him, customs officer Lu Yao pursues him for twenty years, caught between the system and the underworld. Then he discovers that his most dangerous enemy was once a shadow at his side.
Three decades of tides. Three generations’ fates. When his sister becomes an advocate for medical reform, his first love, a female technical officer, stands on the other side of the law, and a reporter in the shadows is about to expose everything, Chen Mo presses Enter, reveals the criminal network he built to the whole world, and walks into the deep sea.
This is a tale of technology’s crimes and punishments, the underworld’s loyalty and betrayal, and an era’s darkness and light. Beneath the tides lies nothing but human nature; amid the hidden currents, light will always find a way.
