In 1904, at Lao Jingou in the Northeast, Chen Huaishan, a web-novel writer from the twenty-first century, transmigrates into the body of a laborer at Lao Jingou who is on the verge of being beaten to death.
This is a place that devours people without even spitting out their bones. The gold-mine bosses collude with warlords and treat the miners like livestock. If one is beaten to death, the compensation is two strings of cash, less than the price of a mule.
He Laosi is an upright, forthright old miner. Unable to stand Jin Dana's oppression of the poor, he is lured into a banquet with poisoned wine.
Zhu Laosan is a tough man with a backbone who sneaks into Lao Jingou to search for his missing brother, enduring humiliation as he fights alone.
When the three meet, a stirring legend of "fighting his way through Lao Jingou" begins.
