1937, Shanghai.
Shen Nian was reborn. In her previous life, she was a descendant of the Xuanmen of Zhongnan Mountain, but when she woke up in this life, she was on a mail ship sailing towards the war in Songhu.
The man wearing gold-rimmed glasses on the deck has the Yintang Hanging Needle pattern in the Palace of Life - he is doubtful and indecisive, and will be troubled throughout his life. Shen Nian could tell at a glance that he would fall into the "three-person disaster": one person couldn't get what he wanted, one person got it without asking for it, and one person didn't know what he wanted or what he got.
She wanted to sit back and watch.
But the war is coming and the concession will become an island. She needs to survive in this troubled world. And that man named Fang Hongjian, and the group of people around him - Su Wenwan, Zhao Xinmei, Tang Xiaofu - were entering her natal chart step by step.
Shen Nian counted with his fingers:
Within the besieged city, some people are trapped by love, and some are trapped by fate.
And what she wants to break is the situation in this city.
