The river rises and falls, the tides come and go, bearing witness to twenty years of change at the mouth of the Three Rivers.
In 1993, a torrential downpour swept Chen Tiezhu, a young man from Northeast China, into the turbulent world of a southern port.
He endured humiliation, found brothers who would face death by his side, and inherited the iron-blooded spirit of an old soldier's generation.
He fought his way through the underworld with his fists and defended his territory with cunning.
Bullies and unscrupulous merchants came one after another, while loyalty and betrayal pulled at him in turn.
As the old port faces a city transformed, how will "Iron Master," scarred all over, find a way for himself and his brothers to reach a peaceful end?
