In the glitz and turmoil of Shanghai in the 1930s, Meng Wanjun, the daughter of a declining businessman, stepped into a critical situation and stunned the foreign market with her improved cheongsam, weaving her own business legend. She and Xie Cheng'an, a patriotic industrialist who returned from studying abroad, went from business rivals to soul mates fighting side by side. Under the banner of national justice, she joined forces to fight against the vicious dumping of foreign capital. When the war burned down the prosperity, she turned her cheongsam shop into a secret stronghold, using the exquisite "cheongsam code" to convey information and hope to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War. Although the business empire was burned in the flames of the war, her belief in rebirth with her lover and her determination to rebuild her homeland after the war eventually became an immortal symbol of women's wisdom, tenacity and love for family and country in that era.
