The story takes place in the 18th year of the Republic of China (1929). At that time, Shanghai was on the edge of a melee between the warlords of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The neon lights of Paramount coexisted with the smoke of street fighting. The wealthy businessmen and powerful people were obsessed with sex, and the people at the bottom were struggling to survive in the turmoil. Lu Chengyuan, the Songhu garrison commander, has just put down a warlord civil strife. He holds military power but bears the reputation of a "cold-blooded butcher." He has to deal with the overt and covert struggles between military and political forces, and also needs to protect the people of Shanghai from the devastation of war; and Su Wanqing She was the daughter of a scholarly family in the south of the Yangtze River. Due to the decline of her family and her father being wrongfully imprisoned, she was forced to move to Shanghai and make a living by singing at Paramount. Her appearance was soft but she had an unyielding tenacity, and she never gave up the idea of clearing her father's wrongdoing.
