Climbing the Ladder

Eighteen-year-old rural boy Chen An enters Jinjiang to pay off debts and save his mother, becoming a server at the top-tier club Dinghong while staying with the mysterious woman Zhang Zenan. Stubborn and strong-willed, he insists on earning money through hard work, refusing wealthy lady Su Wan's huge compensation, which traps him in a marital death spiral with real estate tycoon Zhang Minghua. After Zhang Minghua publicly injures him and repeatedly sends people to surround and retaliate, forcing him into a corner, Chen An faces unemployment, framing, and midnight assassinations. These consecutive blows do not break him; instead, under Zhang Zenan's guidance, he learns to read people and adapt, gradually sharpening his edge from a reckless youth.