In the turbulent Republican era, Huo Yu, heir to a textile business who has returned from studying in Europe, comes home with grand ambitions for the family enterprise and complicated feelings for his former love, Yang Zhenzhen. Four years ago, her sudden departure left him heartbroken, and he went abroad. Now they meet again, and the tangle of love and resentment is almost more than he can bear.
The Huo family wields considerable influence in Shanghai’s textile industry, but faces trouble from within and without. At a banquet, Huo Yu must not only deal with pressure to enter a family-arranged marriage, but also expose his father Huo Liancheng’s scheme to pass off inferior goods as quality products and damage the family’s reputation. Meanwhile, Huo Yu and Zhenzhen’s reunion brings their unfinished relationship back into the spotlight. But Huo Yu’s forceful nature and Zhenzhen’s stubbornness leave their path to love strewn with obstacles.
