In Shanghai in 1927, Su Manqing, a female designer who returned from studying abroad, was forced to cooperate with the warlord adjutant Gu Yanting in order to protect the family textile factory. The two met tit for tat for the first time, but in the process of resisting the suppression of foreign capital and exposing the ghosts inside the factory, they gradually fell in love, and finally protected their homeland and love in troubled times.