Ye Fan, a mushroom forager who makes his living off the mountains, is cheated out of 200,000 yuan in profit-sharing by his childhood friend, Wang Teng. With his grandfather gravely ill and no money for surgery, he is forced to mortgage the deed to his ancestral home. Everyone calls him a born loser, but he believes only in his grandfather’s words: “The mountain owes no one; it only recognizes those who respect it.” Carrying the humiliation of being given just three jin of rice, he ventures alone into Death Valley and discovers a cluster of golden matsutake mushrooms. From 327 yuan to earning a million a year, from being trampled underfoot to founding Ye Family Mountain Delicacies, he reclaims the dignity that belongs to him with his own hands. The mountain owes no one. Whatever others owe you, go and get it back yourself.