A depressed programmer and a model decide to seek gold as a seemingly good job opportunity, but they inadvertently become involved in a well-planned Internet scam.
Stream
Social & External
The people behind it
Zhang Yixing
Pan Sheng
Wang Chuanjun
Lu Bingkun
Yong Mei
Zhao Dongran
Zhou Ye
Song Yu
Jin Chen
Liang Anna
Darren Wang
Gu Tianzhi
Sunny Sun
An Juncai
Carmen Tong Ka-Man
Li Shuang
Gilbert Lam Wai-San
Guan Yongchao
Shu Meiling
Lu Yueting
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