The cut from 40 episodes to 30 episodes is too harsh on the story. You get the sense of incomplete story.
I have difficulty in understanding the China Stock market/regulation procedure. I loved the beginning of the story where he went from poor to Millionaire.

I take off two stars because the ending sucks.

The Main Lead has a sad lonely ending. He went from Millionaire to ordinary poor guy. His four female friends all leave him.
1st first true girlfriend leave him to married some guy in Hong Kong. Miss Ling (restaurant owner) leave him because of Miss Wang trouble with government bribe policy. Miss Wang leave him and start a new business because he does not show up during that critical day. There is no love confession from the ML. The rumor of ML and the new LI LI is one the of reason for their breakup. I truly hope that Miss Wang and ML will have a happy ending. Miss LI LI leave him because she already planned to leave Shanghai in two years. Miss Li Li has a sad ending too.