In 1979, three rural youths from Qingshi County, Song Hai, Sun He and Zhao Hu, broke into Qingyang City with dozens of dollars in their pockets.
Song Hai is ruthless and calculating, and is the brains among the three; Sun He can fight and carry, and is his sharpest knife; Zhao Hu is the youngest, ignorant and kind, and follows his two brothers all the way, but has no idea what kind of abyss lies ahead.
From squeezing wooden beds in shantytowns to founding Taisheng Group and becoming a real estate giant in Qingyang, in the past thirty years, they used their fists to remove obstacles and used money to weave a network of relationships. On the surface, he is a glamorous entrepreneur, but behind the scenes, he is a criminal group involved in crime and pornography. They think that they have reached the top of the pyramid, and that those things that cannot be seen will be buried by time.
Until Zhao Hu's girlfriend accidentally came into contact with the dark truth. The building built with money and violence began to crack bit by bit from the inside.
Three people who climbed out of the mud once only wanted to avoid being stepped on, but later they became the people who stepped on others. They thought they were conquering the city, but they didn't know that the city was slowly eating up their conscience, friendship, and the way they came from, which they could never go back to.
