The Shanghai beach in 1928 was full of neon lights and undercurrents.
Shen Qingyi is an orphan who has fallen from a scholarly family. In order to save her seriously ill younger brother, she is forced to marry into the Gu family, a Shanghai financial tycoon, and becomes the bride of Gu Tingshen, the sick eldest son of the Gu family. On their wedding night, she discovered that she was just a pawn - her husband was as cold as ice, and all the rooms in her husband's family were eyeing her. But the person who really controlled the lifeline of the Gu family was her husband's ambitious brother Gu Tingyuan.
In this smokeless fight among wealthy families, Shen Qingyi relied on her extraordinary wisdom and tenacity to step by step from a chess piece at the mercy of others to become the first female banker in Shanghai. She dealt with warlords, foreign businessmen and gangs, and established her own business empire in troubled times.
However, when she finally stood on the top of power, she found that the man she loved was no longer what he was back then. Love, betrayal, family and country, justice - where should she go in this beautiful and prosperous dream of the Republic of China?
The epic of a woman, the grievances of three generations, and the rise and fall of a city.
