The story begins in the late 1980s, when China started to fully implement economic reform and opening-up policies. He Zewen and Huang Weisheng are both top students in the economics and management department of a prestigious university in Beijing. They are also close friends who share great ambitions. Huang Weisheng, who is extremely calculating, believes that only the power of money and rights can help him realize his dreams. For this purpose, Huang Weisheng came to Hainan Island, which was then known as a paradise for gold prospecting, with his younger brother Huang Qiusheng after graduation. However, Hainan was not an ideal paradise. Huang Weisheng suffered repeated setbacks. Thanks to the help of Ah Mei, a masseuse who is full of righteousness, he eventually managed to get a hard labor job on a construction site;