In Shanghai in the 17th year of the Republic of China, neon lights flashed in the ten-mile foreign market, but the lights of swords and swords in the dark could not be concealed. Gu Yanqiu grew up as a poor boy who relied on his extraordinary courage and ruthless tactics to build his own gambling empire in the French Concession. He successively married Wen Ruoyu, the daughter of a drug dealer, Lei Yuchan, a gangster daughter, Qin Suxin, a maid, and Lin Peiyao, a dancer. The wives of the four wives had their own agendas, setting off a war without gunpowder in the rich family of Gu Zhai.
Wen Ruoyu's gentleness and virtuousness hides family secrets, Lei Yuchan's fierceness lies behind the game of gang forces, Qin Suxin's cowardice hides fatal betrayal, and Lin Peiyao's charm is wrapped in the madness of changing fate. From opium smuggling to the fight for the wharf, from the secrets in the embroidery room to the witchcraft in the secret room, the Gu family is tearing each other apart in the quagmire of desire, and everyone's fate is tied to the spinning dice.
When Gu Yanqiu's birthday party turned into a Hongmen banquet, when the blood curse many years ago began to come true, and when the illegitimate son returned with the secrets of Nanyang, the seemingly impregnable Gu residence was already covered with decaying cracks. The old housekeeper always said that when he returns from his dreams at midnight, he can always hear the sound of silver dollars rolling in the safe, mixed with the cry of a woman, lingering in the corridor for a long time.
