Li Dong is reborn on the day he can change his fate.
His older brother, Li Hua, is set up by Wang Mazi, who sends Li Dong to negotiate with him. Li Dong falls into the very same trap.
To keep her two brothers from getting into trouble, their younger sister agrees to marry Wang Mazi's younger brother. He beats her every few days, and less than six months later, she jumps into a well and dies.
Unable to live with what happened, Li Dong fights Wang Mazi alongside two childhood friends. In the end, one takes the fall for him after hacking someone to death and gets executed by firing squad; the other takes a knife meant for him, then heads south and is never heard from again.
Two years after Li Dong is imprisoned, his father hangs himself. One negotiation destroys an entire family.
Reborn once more, Li Dong tells his older brother to get as far away as possible.
He will live a different life, using his memories of the future to go into business and follow the straight and narrow.
He will give his father and younger sister a good life, and lead his two childhood friends and the brothers who follow him onto the right path, earning an honest living.