In the autumn of 1936, the city of Beiping was shrouded in the shadow and power game of the Japanese army. Shen Qinglan, the daughter of the deputy director of the Office of Appeasement, was forced to become a pawn in a family marriage. Behind the marriage contract was the exchange of interests between the supplies of the artillery brigade and the Duanjia Wharf. She hid her anti-Japanese passion as a student, but at a banquet, she was struck by the unique temperament of Cheng Yan, the Duan family's legal advisor. This lawyer who had returned from studying abroad refused to socialize with the powerful and only believed in legal principles and rules, and was incompatible with the hypocrisy around him.
An accident in which a student was arrested led to a secret intersection between the two. Shen Qinglan took the risk to visit the law firm at night for help, while Cheng Yan used his secret connections (old members of the Qing Gang and international friends) to investigate secretly, but he did not know that his identity as the son of the Qing Gang had already been surging. The scandal and frame-up of the military commander, the tit-for-tat confrontation in the court, the struggle between marriage and justice, tied two people who had no intersection with each other on the same ship of destiny.
They are outsiders in the chess game of interests and fellow travelers who stick to their true intentions in troubled times. There is no cliche about love at first sight, only appreciation for each other's principles; there is no grand confession, only secretly handed notes and silent support outside the court. When the autumn wind in Peiping blows through the high walls of the general's mansion and the windows of the law firm, can they hold on to the glimmer of light in their hearts amidst the coercion of their families and the torrent of the times?
