The eldest son of a senior government bureaucrat, Chen Handong, heads a fast-growing trading company and ploays as hard as he works. His loyal lieutenant, Liu Zheng, is one of the few who know that Chen is gay. Lan Yu is a country boy studying architecture in Beijing. He is in dire need of money and is willing to do virtually anything to survive. He accidentally meets Liu who pragmatically suggests that he could work as aprostitute in a gay pool-hall. Chen meets Lan at the pool-hall one evening. He takes Lan Yu home and gives the young man what becomes a life-changing sexual initiation.