In the spring of 1992, 19-year-old Chen Liuzhi followed his uncle, Master Gui, to cheat money by playing tricks at a temple fair in a small town in Jiangbei. He was born with six fingers on his left hand and was born to eat "Landao". After a scam forced a young man to commit suicide by jumping into a river, Chen Liuzhi had doubts about his profession for the first time. After that, he experienced the loss of his beloved girl's family due to the grain station scam, broke with his uncle, and went south to Guangzhou alone. In a small town in the south, he was forced to return to his old career to save A Yong, a young man with leukemia, and was involved in a 4 million scam by snakehead Liu against Hong Kong businessman Zhou Yongfa. He put on the mask of "Chen Zhiyuan" and struggled between his false identity and his true conscience, but found that he was just a pawn in the chess game. When the scam came to an end, the funds were taken away, and the public security agencies intervened, Chen Liuzhi faced the cruelest choice in his life - continue to cheat, or turn back?