At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a bleak atmosphere. Chen Liuzi, a 15-year-old boy whose parents died early and who was homeless, lived on the streets and survived by begging. But Liuzi was smart, witty and flexible. He would listen to storytelling from time to time to understand the outside world. One winter, Liuzi was taken care of by the hotel waiter Suo Zishu, which made Liuzi grateful for his whole life. Liuzi, who was frozen to death, fell in front of the Tonghe Dyeing Factory in Zhoucun. Shopkeeper Zhou, who came out to sweep the snow in the morning, saved Liuzi and regarded him as his adopted son, named Chen Shouting (played by Hou Yong). In this way, Chen Shouting began his life in Tonghe Dyeing Factory. Time flies. In ten years, Shouting has mastered all the skills and matters of the dyeing factory through his diligence and wit, and has run Tonghe Dyeing Factory into the largest dyeing factory in Zhoucun, which has attracted the covetousness of the tycoon dyeing factory owner. He wanted to dig Shouting over through bribery, but Shouting was determined, and even the bandits who kidnapped him admired him. In this way, no one in Zhoucun did not know Chen Shouting. The master of the wealthy Lu family took a fancy to Shou Ting and wanted him to go to Qingdao to help his son Lu Jiaju (played by Luo Gang), who had just returned from Germany to study printing and dyeing. Shou Ting thus embarked on the road of industrial printing and dyeing and the road of entrepreneurship...