Chapter 1: Xiangzi grew up in the countryside and lost his parents and several acres of wasteland. At the age of eighteen, he came to the city to pull rickshaws. After unremitting efforts, he bought a new car of his own and became a first-class foreign coachman in Beiping.

Chapter 2: Only half a year after Xiangzi bought a new car, news of war broke out in the streets of Beiping. One day, Xiangzi was lucky enough to attract guests to Tsinghua at a high price, but he was arrested by warlords and his car was taken away.

Chapter 3: Xiangzi fled for his life with three camels left by deserters overnight. At dawn, he came to a village. He sold three camels to an old camel farmer and 35 yuan.

Chapter four: Xiangzi fell ill in a small shop in Haidian and was in a coma for three days. During these three days, his relationship with three camels was heard in his sleep or nonsense, and he was nicknamed "Xiangzi Camel" from then on. He braced himself and went back to Renhe garage. Mann and Liu Si, the owner of the automobile factory, have a daughter named Tigress. Xiangzi saved the remaining 30 yuan from selling camels to Si Liu, hoping to continue saving money and buy another car of his own.

Chapter five: Xiangzi is still frugal, but his thoughts and behaviors have changed obviously. He stayed in Yangjiala for only four days and was tortured to leave.

Chapter 6: After Tigress left Yang's home and returned to Renhe Car Factory, she invited Xiangzi to drink. After drinking, Xiangzi was tricked into bed by Tigress in a daze. Afterwards, Xiangzi was extremely ambivalent about Tigress, resentful and yearning, and at the same time mixed with fear.

Chapter 7: Xiangzi went to Cao's house for a monthly subscription. Mr. Cao's house treated him well and respected him very much. One night, Xiangzi dragged Mr. Cao home and accidentally bumped into a stone. Both he and Mr. Cao were injured. Xiangzi was sad, but Mr. Cao didn't blame him at all.

Chapter eight: Gao Ma, who is also a servant of Cao family, advised Xiangzi to take the money to usury or deposit it in the bank to earn interest, but Xiangzi dared not; Gao Ma advised Xiangzi to get up, but Xiangzi dared not. The New Year's Eve is coming. Xiangzi is going to buy some presents, visit Grandpa Si Liu and get his lucky money back, but Tigress is here.

Chapter 9: Tigress returns the money saved by Xiangzi to Si Liu, tells him that she is pregnant, and proposes to him. She also figured out a way to get Xiangzi to please Si Liu and get Si Liu to agree to their marriage. Xiangzi was upset and drank wine to drown his sorrows.

Chapter 10: Xiangzi is waiting for Mr. Cao in a small teahouse. An old driver in his fifties fainted in front of the teahouse because of hunger and cold. Xiangzi bought ten steamed buns for the old coachman and his grandson pony. What happened to the old coachman gave Xiangzi a heavy blow. He found it terrible to get old even if he had a car.

Chapter 11: Xiangzi took Mr. Cao home and found him being followed. Mr. Cao asked him to transfer to Mr. Zuo's home, and then asked him to report to Cao's home. No sooner had he returned to Cao's home than Detective Sun caught him, threatening and seducing him. Finally, Xiangzi gave all the savings in the gourd jar to Detective Sun for "saving his life".

Chapter 12: Xiangzi fled from the Cao family and was desperate. Back to Cao Jia, I met Gao Ma. Gao Ma asked Xiangzi to stay and look after the house, and went to Zuo Jia to join Mr. Cao.