In the autumn of the fourteenth year of the Republic of China, Lu Xingci, a young man from northern Jiangsu, broke into Shanghai with his brother Shen Yan. This slippery and clever poor boy originally wanted to make a living with the rich and powerful at the dock, but he was involved in a bloody fight between the two gangs, Yongxin and Wynn. In order to save his brother, he was forced to drink three bowls of guillotine - chopping off people's hands, picking up goods from the King of Hell, and sending secret messages to the mysterious Xie Wanzhou.
Overnight, he stepped into the most dangerous chess game in Shanghai.
From then on, he played both sides of the gang's machinations, survived under the blades of masters, and struggled between the jealousy and betrayal of his brothers. He met Xie Wanzhou, who was disguised as a man, that strange woman with fire in her eyes and who was responsible for the murder of her father; he also watched Fa Xiao Shen Yan step by step towards the abyss amid the torn between inferiority and ambition.
When the Japanese warships sailed into the Huangpu River, when the foreign police officers raised their butcher's knives, when their strict teachers, close friends, and brothers fell in a pool of blood one by one - he finally understood: the so-called great future is not about glory and wealth, but about walking the unfinished road on behalf of the dead.
This is a history of the struggle of a small person in Shanghai, and it is also a long-lasting song of family and country for children in the world. The Huangpu River is thousands of feet deep and is not as deep as human brotherhood.
