Chun Shen Tide

"Chun Shen Chao" takes Shen Huaizhou's fate as the axis and tells how a dock dispatcher was pushed into the abyss by the conspiracy of his close friends and power in Shanghai in 1988: the smuggling charges, the fifteen-year sentence, and the iron gate of Tilan Bridge cut off his youth, love and fame. In prison, he met He Shouqian and learned accounts, English, and how to look at people; his mother died of illness, and his lover Lu Shuyu was forced to marry Zhou Ruiqi. After his sentence was commuted and released from prison in 1996, Shen Huaizhou changed his name to Cheng Mozhou and smuggled into Hong Kong to rebuild his life. Tailors from Yau Ma Tei, lawyers from Wan Chai, and Wen Man-yee from Tsuen Wan helped him build Chun Shen Company step by step. He engaged in entrepot trade, borrowed offshore shell companies, experienced the financial crisis, acquired Yongchang and Changxing, searched for He Shouqian's lost daughter, and also wrote down the old accounts of Zhou Ruiqi, Jin Zhaotang, and Zhu Mingting. Returning to Shanghai in 1998, he made arrangements as a Hong Kong businessman, acquiring land, making orders, and setting up bureaus, so that Zhou Ruiqi's capital puzzle was exposed when the gold tide receded, and Jin Zhaotang's account books and Zhu Mingting's weaknesses were exposed one by one. In the end, the old case was retried and Shen Huaizhou was found not guilty; Zhou Ruiqi was imprisoned, Zhu Mingting and his son were investigated, and Jin Zhaotang walked away. He left the Hong Kong company to Wen Min'er and donated the remaining wealth to the Ho Shou Qian Shipping Education Fund. The river flows eastward, and the tide rises and falls. Shen Huaizhou stood on the ferry, watching the lights on the Bund, watching the old fog in Shiliupu, and watching how a person ferries himself back to the shore from the prison of injustice and the sea.