In the 1980s, on the day of his wedding, Lu Xinghe is jilted by his fiancée, who runs away with another man. He neither cries nor makes a scene. Instead, he gets his bride price back and leases an abandoned wasteland pond to start an ecological aquaculture business. Despite being mocked, he raises premium soft-shell turtles and supplies them directly to state-owned restaurants, helping the entire village earn dividends and build houses. When his down-and-out former fiancée begs to get back together, he is busy welcoming inspectors from the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences to inspect his products and firmly rejects her. From a poor young man to a millionaire leading his entire village to prosperity, he proves through his actions that no road is walked in vain and every step counts, ultimately becoming a trailblazer of his era.