Based on the peak confrontation of the sugar industry chain under the financial turmoil in 2008, the novel vividly tells the long and short team battles and emotional entanglements experienced by a group of outstanding futures workers such as Gan Zhiqiang and Yan He in the process of using professional futures knowledge to develop industrial customers. The trend of sugar in 2008 vividly depicts the family feud of Zhanjiang Sugar King and the expansion of its industrial chain. At the same time, with the rise and fall of the food giant Mai Group after the occurrence of melamine, a love-hate relationship in the struggle between capital operation and futures trading is deduced.