In 1997, Chen Xiangdong, a young man from Heywan Village, sold his family's mule, twenty thousand catties of grain, and all his savings, using thirty-eight thousand to buy back two scrapped filling machines. Overnight, he was dumped by his fiancée, driven out of the house by his father, and labeled a prodigal by the whole village. With only three yuan and forty cents left on him, his younger sister took a risk to find sealing rings, and his father walked forty miles with a lame leg to carry back white sugar. Facing the Cao family's cutting off of raw materials, blocking of channels, smashing of the factory, framing, and a ten-thousand-yuan fine, Chen Xiangdong did not bow his head. He wanted to make the scrap iron spin again, and even more, to lead his family and all the villagers to forge a path to getting rich.