Living in abject poverty, the protagonist comes across a car that has been in a traffic accident. Inside are two people who are already dead, along with a bag containing four million in cash. Driven by ordinary human desire, he makes the wrong choice: he steals the money and keeps it for himself, buries the two bodies in his backyard, and pushes the car into a reservoir. What he never imagined was that the money was drug money belonging to a local criminal gang, intended for a drug deal.
It doesn't take long for the gang to uncover what he did. They initially plan to kill him to silence him, but just then the gang's second-in-command, Ma Lei, branches out on his own and needs people. Ma Lei turns him from a liability into an asset, coercing him into carrying out a series of crimes.
Will Fang Ming finally be able to escape the fate of being controlled?