This work takes the reform and opening up as the grand background and focuses on five young people from the mainland including Zhou Weiguo and Yu Wenge. They went south to Shenzhen and then to Hainan in the early 1990s, and wrote a record of the ups and downs of entrepreneurship amidst the great changes of the times. The five people started out as cabaret waiters and hotel foremen. With their agility and courage, they gradually got involved in entertainment, hotel management and travel agency operations. In less than ten years, they accumulated a net worth of tens of millions. However, just as they were ambitiously expanding their territory, their most trusted partner secretly colluded with external forces and forged debt certificates due to a real estate transaction, causing the company's funds to be instantly frozen. Not only did the five people lose everything, but they also suffered a huge lawsuit. Zhou Weiguo was imprisoned, Yu Wenge left his hometown, and the team fell apart.
At the lowest point in his life, Zhou Weiguo relied on his old connections and tenacity to start from scratch, run a street vendor, work as a tour guide, and gradually pay off his debts. Yu Wenge also returned to help. The two teamed up to capture the new trend of Hainan's tourism transformation, used the Internet platform to rebuild the travel agency brand, and finally made a comeback, and struck back to expose the lies of the former betrayers. The novel spans more than 20 years, interspersing the emotional entanglements between Zhou Weiguo and three women, as well as the complex relationships between the five people from life and death to turning against each other and finally settling the old feud. The work not only vividly depicts the cruelty and tenderness of the game of business, but also reflects the pain and hope of Chinese society in the process of transition from a planned economy to a market economy through the ups and downs of individuals. It is a realistic masterpiece that combines the thickness of the times and the depth of human nature.
