In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, the situation in Shanghai was treacherous. There are warlords fighting outside, and Japanese forces are pressing harder. Inside, there are undercurrents in the foreign concessions, and Chinese-owned businesses are in turmoil.
Shen Zhiyu, the eldest daughter of Tiangong Bank, who has been abroad for three years, returned to China with her Western financial knowledge. She wanted to protect her family's century-old foundation, but she stepped into a life-or-death crisis. The fake chamber of commerce supported by Japan covets the bank exchange network, maliciously instigating runs and cutting off the capital chain; the concession agencies have both sides, and the business community is cooperating with others. The century-old bank is in danger.
A chance encounter by the Pujiang River intertwined her fate with Lu Yanzhi, the translator of the Huayang Bureau of Commerce and Industry. On the surface, he deals with foreigners and various forces, but in fact he is the core figure of the underground organization of the Revolutionary Party in Shanghai. The two went from testing each other and secretly leveraging each other's strength to gradually falling in love during business battles and espionage wars, and stood side by side in the war of troubled times.
The work combines hard-core financial business wars, brain-burning espionage suspense and emotions in troubled times. It outlines the pyrotechnics of Shanghai's foreign markets and markets with delicate brushstrokes, and writes about the persistence of national capital and the undying character of the Chinese people's family and country in the great era.
