In 1992, the basketball court of Binjiang No. 3 Middle School.
Seventeen-year-old Chen Mo beat the school bully into the hospital with a steel pipe for five yuan for lunch box, and was expelled from the school.
His father is in prison, his mother is seriously ill, and the family is in ruins. Chen Mo had no choice but to step into the billiards hall on the corner of the street.
From collecting protection fees to controlling underground casinos, from street fighting to business wars and assassinations. It took him three years to go from an expelled student to a well-known "Master Mo" in Binjiang.
But when he had money, power, brothers and love, he discovered that on this road: betrayal follows a shadow, the police presses harder and harder, and the former brothers drift away.
"Those who work in the underworld will either grow old in prison or die suddenly on the streets."
Chen Mo wants to choose the third path - but can he really escape the fate of Jianghu?