On the night of the Jingzhe of 2024, when the demolition announcement of Shanghai's "Chunshen Theater" was posted, Jiang Heng was standing on the curtain call stage of "Ruan Lingyu". In the third row of the audience, investment bank VP Su Ling held the merger and acquisition document and rubbed the words "Target Legal Person: Jiang Heng" with her fingertips - the girl who taught her lines in the orphanage ten years ago and said, "We must be each other's light," is now being strangled by the noose of capital.
Su Ling (the "Iceberg Calculator" in the investment banking world, with rigorous and cold logic, but hiding the trauma of childhood abandonment), and Jiang Heng (the "Crazy Man" in the drama circle, who is completely different on and off the stage, who was forced to sell the theater due to his father's gambling debt). When they meet again, one wants to crush the artistic dream according to the rules, and the other wants to protect the "spiritual homeland" with all his strength. In the confrontation between capital and feelings, old things become cracks: the butterfly brooch in the inner pocket of Su Ling's suit was the gift Jiang Heng secretly exchanged for cookies from the orphanage.
When the old piano player at the theater suffered a heart attack due to unpaid wages, and when Su Ling discovered that there was a "hunting" scheme by her peers behind the merger and acquisition case, the two girls chose to tear up the "script": Su Ling privately transferred funds to rescue the emergency, and Jiang Heng exposed the shady story of capital through live broadcast. They attacked the blood-sucking consortium in hot searches on Weibo, put out fires back to back in the ruins of the theater on the night of the fire, and when they held the trophy at the same time at the award ceremony, reporters in the audience captured their intertwined hands - the joints were white, but more eye-catching than the trophy.
From investment bank valuation models to drama storyboards, from iron biscuit boxes in orphanages to the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival, the two female protagonists reveal workplace sexual harassment (Su Ling confronts Party A's unspoken rules) and the shady story of the art world (Jiang Heng exposes the stunt of a substitute for a popular actor)
