In December 1937, winter entered Shanghai overnight amid neon lights and artillery fire.
Shen Yanxing, the new general manager of Huaning Bank, is the most eye-catching "Jade-faced Yama" in the concession - his left hand turns clouds and rain, and his right hand is stained with blood and lights a lamp.
Gu Lingshu, a female reporter from "The Shenbao", uses a pen and a camera to expose dirty facts and vows to dig out irrefutable evidence of Japanese arms smuggling. A ribbon-cutting ceremony at Yong'an Department Store locked two people who were least likely to be side by side into the same game of chess:
He kept her photo in the newspaper, but asked her to be his "private secretary" for six weeks;
She seeks the truth to save the country, but she must first learn to dance in his arms. On a snowy night, news of the fall of Nanjing came;
On the dance floor, their shadows overlapped for the first time.
When the high walls of the concession began to shake, there were not only guns in the wooden boxes on the dock, but also a ship's manifest with the word "subjugation" written on it. Three months is too short, and troubled times are too long.
Between betrayal and loyalty, use and sincerity, they bet their beliefs and lives——
Bet that this city won't sink, bet that you won't fall in love first. If Shanghai will eventually fall,
They want to be the light that shines through the last crack.
