The invisible aquaculture tycoon Zhao Haisheng pretends to be poor for twenty years. Facing his younger brother Zhao Haiqiang's family, who return to the village with huge debts to leech off him, he sets up a maze of a workshed and sick fish. With debt collectors knocking on doors, family infighting, and his mother waking up to reality, his younger brother's lies are exposed, and his mother utters the "I'm sorry" that is twenty years late. Zhao Haiqiang turns over a new leaf, and the brothers unite to finally become a generation of fishery tycoons. Zhou Guilan goes from favoring the younger son to feeling for the older son, learning to let go. Familial affection returns to the right path in the face of reality.