Wang Ergou’s Adventures Through the Years

His family is so poor they can barely afford to eat, and Wang Ergou refuses to spend his whole life stuck in the village.

All he wants is to make it in the city, get ahead, and make something of himself.

But as soon as he sets foot in the county town, he gets swept into a bottomless whirlpool.

The poor boy’s rise begins with this perilous turn of events.