In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, the mist and rain in the south of the Yangtze River soaked the ruins. Shen Qingci was originally a gentle lady from a scholarly family. When her family fell into decline and her father was unjustly imprisoned, she had to take off her skirt and travel around Shanghai with a simple suitcase on her back. In troubled times, behind the prosperity of Shili Foreign Market is the displacement of the people at the bottom, the worries of the literati and their country, and the undercurrent of profiteers and politicians. She found a teaching position in a missionary school, but was repeatedly caught up in the tide of the times. She had to deal with the embarrassment of survival and resist the unpredictability of people's hearts. Lu Zeyan is a well-known industrialist in Shanghai. On the surface, he is calm and restrained, but in fact, he is silently guarding the fire of national industry in the cracks of warlord rule and foreign powers. An unexpected help brought together two people struggling to survive in troubled times. They have seen each other's embarrassment and tenacity, witnessed the sorrow of broken mountains and rivers, and the sincerity of blood to save the country. There was no grand love at first sight, only a gradual feeling of being together through thick and thin. In the years when prices were soaring and wars were frequent, they supported each other and fought against the desolation of the times with their meager strength. Amidst the fireworks and the righteousness of their family and country, they wrote a story about perseverance and warmth in the Republic of China.
