In the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China, artillery fire tore apart the mist and rain in the south of the Yangtze River, and also crushed the love between Mu Zhiqing and Gu Jinchen, separated by the flames of home and country, and the gap between life and death. They were once the most powerful rivals in Shanghai, one was a lady from a declining family who kept her integrity, and the other was an iron-blooded officer with military power. However, they were forced to stand on opposite sides in the tide of the times. Every embrace feels like the pain of knife blades against each other, every "take care" may be an eternal farewell, and every misunderstanding is like a poisoned needle piercing each other's already riddled hearts - this is not a dispensable entanglement, but a sadomasochistic swan song watered by two souls in troubled times, watered with flesh, blood and tears. Until life burns to ashes, love still grows stubbornly in the remaining warmth.
