During the winter in the year 1986, Deng Xiao Ping sent John J. Phelan, Jr. of the New York Stock Exchange a priceless gift - a stock certificate issued in Shanghai. China was entering a new age in financial reform and at the forefront is Pudong. This is a story about the young people during that time.

Zhao Hai Ying, Xie Tian Yang and Chen Meng Lei have ventured out into the financial world hoping to catch up with the seismic change befitting the times. Xie Tian Yang is an exchange student who becomes Zhao Hai Ying's biggest opponent. The banking industry is in danger and Zhao Hai Ying becomes embroiled in an act of fraud at a grand scale. He finds that his morals and values are tested time and again because of the difficult road ahead.