During the Guangxu period at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Ye Fan, a soldier from the Tianjin Guards, possessed the family's Xingyiquan and lost military art, and woke up in the bloody dusk of the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898. From saving the orphans of the reformists from the crowd of onlookers at Caishikou in the capital, to leading thirty dead soldiers to seize the arsenal during the Wuchang Uprising, he witnessed Sun Wen's hat raised during his speech, and he also personally buried the sworn brothers who died in the Luanzhou Uprising.
At the beginning of the Republic of China, on the night when Ye Fan was awarded the "Founding Patriot" medal, he overheard a secret conversation among warlords at the banquet about dividing the territory. When the brothers who fought side by side in the past aimed their guns at the common people, he finally disappeared quietly into the morning mist of Huangpu Pier on a rainy autumn morning in 1923, with three beauties of different identities - Ge Wanrong from the former Qing Dynasty, Su Qing, a revolutionary female doctor, and Hong Xiu, a heroine from the Jianghu.
Thirty years of turbulence shrank into a pot of Biluochun in a small building in the Tianjin Concession, until an old friend in Chinese tunic suit knocked on the door...
