A love affair between a wealthy family of the Republic of China that began with intrigue and ended with sincerity
In 1935, Shiliyangchang was on the beach. Jin Yutang, the eldest young master of the Jin family, is the proud man who controls the banking empire. His marriage has never been a personal choice, but a piece that has been laid out on the family chessboard. Shen Qingwan, the third daughter of the Shen family who returned from the UK, is a talented woman who graduated from Cambridge. She is also a down-and-out daughter who was forced to "sell for a price" after the family's collapse.
At a well-planned charity dinner, she watched with cold eyes and called herself "goods"; when it rained suddenly at night, he handed over the black umbrella and said, "What I married was never a decoration." When a marriage of interests meets the test of sincerity, when the wealthy family's scheme collides with the old love of Cambridge, is this marriage that attracts the attention of the whole city a combination of power and intrigue between the two families, or is it an unexpected affection that grows out of the cold reality?
An ukiyo-e of the Republic of China of "Marriage first, love later", see how interests and sincerity quietly take root in calculations.
▷ The emotional game under the setting of two powerful people, there is no silly Baitian and domineering CEO, only two smart people testing and redeeming each other in troubled times.
▷ Delicately restore the atmosphere of the times, from the neon lights of Paramount to the night rain on the Bund, recreating the elegance and desolation of Shanghai during the Republic of China.
"Love can't save the Shen family, and it can't save me," she said.
"But what I give is never a prison," he replied.
This is a story about choice, dignity and the flower of love that blooms in desperate circumstances.
