In the twenty-third year of the Republic of China, Shanghai.
The jazz music at Paramount is mixed with the sound of gunshots, and there are seven spies hiding in the deep courtyard of the Gu Mansion.
She is the jackdaw who came to take his life, and he is the Shura who is waiting for her to join the game. A marriage that began with deception, two equally broken souls, serving as each other's blades and weaknesses in the war of troubled times.
"I taught you to kill, and you taught me to love."
From Nanjing to Manchuria, from 1934 to 1945, they planted spring in each other's blood.