The series follows the lives of three brothers as they struggle through the turbulent political period before the war. They become part of the first-generation immigrant entrepreneurial path in Qingdao. The story began in 1904 when the Jinan Railway opened and ends with the outbreak of war in 1937.

• Huang Bo
• Liu Xiangjing
• Gong Zheng
• Wang Shuangbao
• Sa Rina
• Fu Miao
• Huang Xiaolei
• Wang Kai