Chen Jianghe is an orphan, picked up and taken home by Chen Jinshui. While growing up, he picked up various business strategies from the adults around him. Now an adult, he nurtures this business acumen by travelling throughout China. It is during these travels where he meets Lu Yuzhu who shares a similar situation in life, as well as Yang Shiu, a wealthy girl who just returned from living abroad.
On the winter solstice, Yang Yuan’s son vanishes after sneaking into a neighbor's house. Meanwhile, Yuan Wu deals with his father’s sudden death, and Lin Chuping experiences a frightening incident with no memory of the attacker. These seemingly unrelated events begin to connect as the characters search for answers.
