In the fourteenth year of the Republic of China, the plum rain in Shanghai continued. In order to save her family from crisis, the socialite Su Manqing was forced to marry the rumored cold and bloodthirsty marshal Li Jingyuan. She originally thought that what was waiting for her was the prison of a political marriage, but she accidentally discovered her fiancé's secret of transporting mysterious materials late at night. When the rumored executioner tore off his disguise and revealed his true face as a revolutionary; when his brother who had been missing for a year reappeared, implicating a larger conspiracy - Su Manqing found herself being involved in an undercurrent concerning the fate of her family and country.
In troubled times, it is difficult to tell what is true and what is false. She and him, one was a Shanghai socialite who was forced into marriage, and the other was an undercover young marshal who was burdened with infamy. In the whirlpool of gunpowder smoke and lies, two lonely hearts gradually get closer, but they have to face a more cruel choice: to protect themselves, or to die for their beliefs?
