Weeds Turn into Steel

As tough as a weed, as vengeful as a wolf. On New Year's Eve in 1985, deep in the Taihang Mountains, orphan Chen Tiesheng had no choice but to eat swill because Uncle Tang was robbing him of food. That night, he stopped a jeep that was stuck in a pit in the snow, and used his frozen hands to get a chance to enter the city. From the "little bastard" eating swill next to the pig pen, to the "mute apprentice" guarding the gate of the Red Star Steel Plant; from being stepped on by mud on the soles of his feet, to the helmsman who drove his benefactor to a dead end; from the trapped beast being surrounded and suppressed by foreign capital, to the backbone supporting the business empire—— Chen Tiesheng spent thirty years throwing himself into the steel-making furnace of human nature. He learned to disguise, learn to calculate, learned to send his brother to prison with his own hands, and learned to feel the bone-chilling cold amidst the applause of thousands of people. He climbed up through everyone's good intentions and malice, and finally stood at the top of the mountain, only to find that there was only wind and snow. This is a story about "iron". Iron can become steel, but it can also rust. If a person is nameless, he can concentrate on sword practice; if a person is shameless, he can concentrate on eating. But Chen Tiesheng wanted both his face and his life. Suffering is not worthy of gratitude. What is worthy of gratitude is the self who is not dead.