In the fifteenth year of the Republic of China, the Gu family in the south of the Yangtze River was overturned. Gu's father was unjustly imprisoned. The former socialite Gu Shengyao was reduced to a destitute daughter on the beach, working hard to clear her father's injustice.
An encounter on Xiafei Road and an unprovoked misunderstanding about the military pay case led her to bump into Huo Tingxiao, the iron-blooded marshal of Beiyang. He is the commander of the 28th Army who is talked about by everyone. He is cold and ruthless, and has a deep-rooted spiritual obsession. The shadow of his childhood made him misogynistic, but he only has a special regard for this down-and-out woman who is proficient in eight languages and has superb medical skills.
In the deep house of the handsome manor, Huo's mother's cold eyes and troubles never stop, the vicious frame-up of the eldest daughter of the Qing Gang comes one after another, the childhood sweetheart who returned from studying in France is guarded by love, the entanglement of old love and new love, and the gap between family backgrounds tightly entwine the fate of the two.
In the troubled times, war broke out, the Japanese army coveted Shanghai, and undercurrents surged in the concession. She followed him north to fight, and worked as a doctor on the battlefield to share weal and woe. Little did she know that behind the unjust case, there was a collusion between the Huo family's family friends and the Japanese invaders.
In order to bring down the mastermind behind the scenes, he was forced to get married. He had unspeakable difficulties, which made her leave heartbroken. A childhood sweetheart stained the street with blood to protect evidence, but the villain counterattacked and kidnapped her. He broke into the tiger's den alone and stained his clothes with blood, but he could not accompany her to the end.
Gu's father's injustice was overturned, but his soul had long since passed away; he died of his injuries and died in her arms.
She donated all her wealth to serve as a beacon for the Anti-Japanese War, and spent the rest of her life guarding a solitary grave. She saw all the neon lights on the beach in Shanghai and only thought of the cold figure in military uniform.
The down-and-out daughter × the iron-blooded warlord
