In 1998, a wave of layoffs swept across the city. Zhang Jianguo was kicked out of a state-owned enterprise, leaving only a broken three-wheeler in his pocket. He squatted at the door of the scrap station and picked up an old newspaper that others had thrown away. He suddenly remembered that twenty years later, every line on it would be money. Collecting scraps, dumping old books, hoarding land, and stepping into the spotlight, he wants to use the most inconspicuous scrap station to unlock the wealth code of the entire era. And the people who pushed him out of his job back then are lining up to beg him for food.
