Wu Bei, the richest man in the 21st century, is transformed into a notorious and impoverished little man in 1983. He grasps the business opportunities of the next thirty years. He first recovers compensation for work-related injuries from his father and saves his eldest sister from a forced marriage. He quickly earns his first pot of gold by assembling bicycles, buys a courtyard and opens a tailor shop. He fights bullies and seizes the limelight in the wave of reform and opening up. From being despised by everyone, he counterattacks and becomes one of the first households worth ten thousand yuan in Beijing, starting a wealth legend in the 1980s.
