Storm is coming in Shanghai during the Republic of China. Proofreader Shen Yanqing suddenly can see fragments of other people's memories after fainting. The glory of the editor-in-chief, the corpse on the dockside, and the hidden hand in the old case are intertwined with each other. He and Xu Mingchuan trace the truth among the newspaper office, the concession and the river bank, trying to tear open the bloody curtain behind the prosperity.
