When the Rain Ends, Smoke Drifts Away

A cold night’s rain sweeps Yu Xinran, a modern college student, into the turbulent currents of Beiping in 1925. She has nothing but the history of the future in her mind, both her only weapon and her greatest burden. At the brink of life and death, she stumbles in front of the car of Cheng Bochuan, a rising business tycoon recently returned from studying in England. By pretending to have lost her memory, she finds temporary shelter in the Cheng household, unaware that she has already become an anomaly capable of stirring up both the inner household and the chaotic world beyond.

Beneath Cheng Bochuan’s calm restraint lies a piercing insight into everything around him, along with feelings that grow deeper by the day. He offers her more than a place to stay: he promises to face the storms of this troubled era together with her. Then there is his dashing childhood friend, Xu Siliang, a young marshal with an army at his command. Like a blazing wildfire, he bursts into her world, carrying the scent of gunpowder. Gunfire at the shooting range, sharing a cigarette beneath the rain, a sudden, possessive kiss beneath crashing thunder... He throws her heart into disarray and draws her with a lethal, irresistible allure.

The wheels of history roar onward. A grave warning from the mysterious Japanese aristocrat Chao Ye Chongxiao, one that could decide the fate of them all, hangs above them like a sword. Cheng Bochuan’s careful planning and Xu Siliang’s thunderous tactics intertwine amid the unseen smoke of business and military struggles. Yu Xinran holds the future in her hands, yet is trapped in an emotional maelstrom and weighed down by the fate of her country. She is the butterfly Cheng Bochuan longs to shelter beneath a diamond, and the jasmine fragrance Xu Siliang longs to seize amid the smoke of war.

As the iron curtain of the age closes in, can the butterfly spread its wings and pass through? With no clear path home, where will her heart find its home amid an era engulfed in flames? A love and redemption that spans time unfolds in a thrilling tale amid the storms of Beiping.