In the twelfth year of the Republic of China, on a snowy night in the south of the Yangtze River, a "substitute marriage" pushed the Gu family's twin sister Gu Chunjue into the Shen family's deep residence. She thought it was a rescue, but she stepped into a cage specially prepared for "substitute brides" - the blind young master Shen Xuezhu, with a cane in his left hand and a pistol in the right, seamlessly switching between gentleness and madness; five rows of "positive" characters in the basement were engraved with the death countdown of the first five brides; her sister Gu Qiu Zhiyuan fled to Shanghai, leaving behind the unfulfilled "I will definitely save you"; Warlords, theater troupes, opium, gangs, shipwrecks, seas of fire... The pages of the times turn, and every time there is a mismatch between life and death. Chun Jue just wanted to live, but was locked into a "face examination" ceremony on a snowy night; Shen Xuezhu just wanted to stay, but used golden chains to imprison the brightest light in the darkest night. The two-way secret love takes root in mutual testing, and the sweetness is sweet; the truth of the substitute marriage is peeled off in the "reading files" again and again, and the edge of the knife licks the sugar.
