In the first year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, autumn came over the Huangpu River. The undercurrent of party strife in the court has quietly spread to Shanghai County, thousands of miles away.
A strange incident caused Chen Wang, a young escort from the Fuxing Escort Bureau, to embark on a journey of uncertain life and death. At the Eight Immortals Bridge, a fatal ambush colluded by officials and gangsters involved him and the fate of Lin Xi, a female swordsman from the Cao Gang, into a whirlpool. In the blood and fire, they are enemies who are mirror images of each other, and they are involuntary pawns.
Since then, the fate of the country has been ups and downs for seventeen years, and their fate has also been ups and downs. From being forced to join forces when the pirates besieged the city, to the life-and-death support on the thousands-mile water transport route; from the rupture of ideas under the raging plague, to the final farewell when the mountains and rivers collapsed in Jiashen... They met, got to know each other, fought with each other, and separated again and again in the tide of the times.
This is not a chivalrous legend of one person, but an ukiyo-e of a group of people in the late Ming Dynasty. The storyteller has an insight into the world, the scientific giant Xu Guangqi illuminates the glimmer of reason, the old escort sticks to morality, and the Jianghu people seek survival.
When the end of the dynasty comes, all perseverance, calculations, friendship and struggle will be finally tested in this torrent. Can they keep the "faith" in their hearts? Where will it go?
"Shanghai Escort Bureau" tells the story of how everyone makes their own choices in the great era.
