In Shanghai in 1932, the neon lights of Paramount and the green tiles of Shikumen alternately glowed. Gu Mingyi, the daughter of the Gu family, wears an improved cheongsam and attends celebrity receptions. She seems to have great fame, but in fact she is used by her family as a bargaining chip for marriage. Until she met Shen Yanzhi, a writer for "New Youth", on Xiafei Road. His words were like sparks, igniting her desire for freedom.
Shen Yanzhi often traveled to alley teahouses and exposed the darkness of society with sharp articles. Gu Mingyi secretly funded his underground publication, and the two exchanged poems and letters, finding soul resonance in troubled times. However, the current situation was turbulent, and Shen Yanzhi was wanted for criticizing the warlord. In order to save him, Gu Mingyi was forced to agree to be engaged to the warlord's son.
On the wedding day, the sound of gunfire broke the glitz of the Shili Foreign Market. Shen Yanzhi led the progressive young people to take risks to save him, but Gu Mingyi resolutely left behind the phoenix crown and xiapei and ran away with him in a hail of bullets. On the bank of the Huangpu River, the neon lights went out, and Wu Nong's soft words in the alley were mixed with gunpowder smoke. Their love bloomed with the most blazing light amidst the collapse of the old era and the dawn of the new era.
