At the end of the Beiyang Government, the southern provincial capital was divided by warlords, and old and new ideas collided fiercely. The Lin family is a well-known local scholarly family and supports the progressive student movement; the Gu family is a local warlord with heavy troops and ruthless tactics. Su Wanning is a student of the Provincial Women's Normal University. Her father organized a student demonstration to protest against the Gu family's exorbitant taxes. He was hit by a stray bullet and died during the chaos. The Su family believed that it was the Gu family's fault and fled with their daughter overnight. They have been apart ever since. Gu Yanci is the young marshal of the Gu family. He looks cold and ruthless, but in fact he hates the life of a warlord and can never let go of Su Wanning. Five years later, the Su family's business went bankrupt, and his grandfather was seriously ill and needed a huge sum of money. In order to consolidate his rule, Gu Yanci needed to win over the gentry. Because he never gave up looking for Su Wanning, the two were forced to come together...
