1935, Shanghai.
Lin Wantang, a surgeon who has returned from studying abroad, reunites with his first love Shen Yanciyi at a charity dinner - a former poor student who has become a business giant and a traitor who is rumored to have colluded with the Japanese army. She treated her coldly, but he intervened forcefully in her hospital affairs and guarded her secretly.
When Lin Wantang discovered the anti-Japanese materials in Shen Yanci's study, when the hospital became a secret transfer station for the wounded, and when the two had to pretend to be strangers in full view of the public, truth and lies were intertwined in the flames of war.
In the end, he gave her two paths:
"Take your ticket and go and never look back."
"Or stay and go to hell with me."
At the bloody wedding, the dying Shen Yanci clasped her finger: "This life is too short. In the next life... Meet me sooner."
In troubled times, the most painful love is not separation, but love
It's knowing that we're going to die, but we still want to love each other
