In the autumn of 2000, the real estate market in Henan Province was just beginning to unfold. Chen Li, a third-year economics student at Central China University, had just broken up with his girlfriend a year ago and was still nursing his wounds. Enjoying a leisurely campus life in Shangdu City, he gets entangled in family ups and downs, the ebb and flow of the business world, and romantic entanglements due to a chance street robbery. By coincidence, he saves two companies on the verge of collapse and opens the door to the real estate industry for himself.