In 2000, when he was 18 years old, he went south with 387 yuan and a snakeskin bag, and half of his teeth were broken in a black factory.
In 2005, at the age of 23, he controlled the smuggling lines in three streets of Bao'an and was known as the "Dragon Crossing the River".
In 2010, he was 28 years old, listed on the Hong Kong stock market, worth 4 billion, and shared the Shenzhen underground world equally with Brother Long.
In 2015, when he was 33 years old, he was assisted in the investigation and recalled his life in the detention room.
In 2020, he was 38 years old. During the epidemic, tenants' rents were reduced by 200 million, and the media called him a "model of entrepreneurial spirit."
In 2025, he was 42 years old. On the high-speed rail, he met a young man who went to work in Shenzhen and gave him a business card.
"Go to the old ghost and tell him that he was introduced by the old man from the newspaper."
Reincarnation complete.
It took him twenty years to go from loach to dragon. It took another twenty years to transform from a dragon back to a human.
This is a story about desire, betrayal and redemption, and also a collective epic for a generation of people who migrated south.
Times create heroes, and heroes eventually die. Only the whistle of the green train remains unchanged for twenty years.
