The river in Jiangzhou flows eastward every year. Some people sink to the bottom and some come ashore.
In 1998, the wave of state-owned enterprise restructuring shattered the lives of countless ordinary people. Chen Mo was originally the most skillful apprentice in the machine tool factory. He guarded his mother's sewing stall and his sister's studies, and just wanted to live a stable life.
A sudden disaster forced him to step into a gray area. From a casual guy in the vegetable market to the leader of the south city hall, from relying on others to survive to joining the top game, he followed the profit chain along the river all the way up, earning a fortune that he had never dared to imagine before, and losing all the things he once regarded as treasures.
The road to the world is long and there is no way to clean up one's innocence. When the tide of the times recedes, he will eventually be able to hide in the sea of people in a foreign land, carrying all his old debts with him.
