Heading South 1990 (51 episodes)
19-year-old Chen Tiezhu heads south to Nanzhou with only twenty yuan saved by his mother, working as a brick mover on a construction site to make a living.…
19-year-old Chen Tiezhu heads south to Nanzhou with only twenty yuan saved by his mother, working as a brick mover on a construction site to make a living. Facing an unscrupulous contractor who deducts his pay and deliberately makes things difficult, he turns the tables step by step with his astonishing memory and bookkeeping talent. Moving from selling brute strength to selling his wits, he earns his first pot of gold through information arbitrage. He forms his own construction team, fiercely upholding quality and integrity, repeatedly slapping down scheming rivals. Ultimately, he shatters the industry's hidden rules of layered subcontracting and secures a million-yuan contract. This is an inspiring story of an underdog youth turning his life around through hard work and courage in the surging tide of the 1990s.