Three months into her job, designer Yun Shuchu is handed her first major project. She never expects it to pull her into a shocking conspiracy: she catches the Su Group using renovations as a pretext to secretly plan the removal of load-bearing walls, creating safety hazards as part of its despicable scheme to devour the old district!
Her immediate supervisor embezzles funds and takes bribes, threatening and enticing her in turn. The nouveau riche property owner is arrogant and blindly follows trends, insisting on extravagant designs. Meanwhile, the capitalists behind it all are laying deadly traps: her designs are stolen, key building materials are intercepted, anonymous threats arrive one after another, and a century-old house is sabotaged. The investigation even unexpectedly brings to light an old case from more than twenty years ago, in which her grandmother was falsely accused and wronged!
“Load-bearing walls are a home’s bones and sinews; rules are the line people must not cross!” Clutching the agarwood beads her grandmother left behind, Yun Shuchu wields her professional knowledge like a blade and uses industry standards as her shield. She faces pressure from every side, holds fast to her principles, and refuses to compromise!
Fortunately, Vice Dean Lin Chen gives her his full support, an old craftsman friend comes through in her hour of need, and the old district’s residents stand together. She uncovers the truth amid a property-rights maze, sets the record straight amid covert filming and rumors, and narrowly escapes death in an explosives crisis inside an air-raid shelter. Every step of her comeback is fraught with danger, and every counterattack lands with force!
As the true face of the overseas capitalists gradually emerges, the business battle escalates into a fight for life and death. Yun Shuchu joins forces with the one she loves to protect the lights in the old district’s homes and its everyday warmth, tear down the monopolistic barriers built by corrupt capital, clear her grandmother’s name, and uphold the integrity of her industry with the principles she has never abandoned!
