Gu Yanzhou, the president of Yanzhou Real Estate, is a successful "Zhasu" boss in the business world - his childhood family trauma made him paranoid about controlling everything, and he is used to measuring his feelings with power and money. When he planned to demolish the century-old "Qingyunli" neighborhood to build a commercial complex, he ran into the "accident" of a lifetime: Wen Xu, an ancient building restorer.
Wen Xu holds on to the obsession of "repairing the old as before" and is as tough as a blue brick in the blue clouds. On the surface, he accepted the "protective relocation" design of the neighborhood, but in fact he worked with residents to collect evidence to resist demolition. Gu Yanzhou admired his professionalism, but he used tampering with the plan and freezing funds to put pressure on him, but Wen Xu used the construction safety report to expose him in public. He was so angry that he put him under house arrest, but only waited for Wen Xu's decisive back to walk away with the evidence, and a heart-piercing sentence: "You won the project, but you lost everything worthy of respect."
Wen Xu reunited a year later. Wen Xu had become a volunteer for the protection of ancient buildings and held ironclad evidence of Gu's illegal demolition in his early years. Gu Yanzhou lowered his profile and chased the ancient house from Shanghai to the small courtyard in Suzhou, holding an umbrella in the rain for three days, just to exchange for forgiveness. But what Wen Xu handed over was the old case material about his father's forced demolition of the Lu family's old house - to reconcile, the family's debts must be settled first.
When a crisis broke out in the Gu family, his father wanted to shift the responsibility to Gu Yanzhou, and when a group of demolition victims clashed with Wen Xu, Gu Yanzhou blocked the fatal blow for him. On the hospital bed, he finally revealed his guard: "I'm just afraid that you will be like my mother and leave as soon as you say."
This pull that started as a conflict of interests ended up being the salvation of the two.
