In Shanghai in 1943, Shen Yunshu, a female painter studying in France, accidentally got involved in the competition for the "Golden Route Map" in order to investigate the truth behind her father's mysterious death. She reunited with her fiancé, Paramount magician Gu Hanzhi, who had left without saying goodbye three years ago, but found that his identity was a mystery. The two cooperated in the cracks between the Japanese invaders, the Youth Gang, and the military command, and found clues from an ancient painting and a remnant game of chess, and finally revealed the secret of the national treasure guardian "Bronze Bird." When the person she trusts most is suspected of betrayal, she must protect the final truth in the mystery of true and false.