In the 16th year of the Republic of China, Shanghai Beach.
Lu Mansheng is a famous opera singer who is famous all over the world. His song "Farewell My Concubine" made the whole house sigh. On stage, she is Yu Ji, and she can cut her neck for the overlord; off stage, she just wants to find the enemy who destroyed her family and bring justice to her family.
Gu Tingshen is the president of the Chamber of Commerce in the French Concession. He wears suits and leather shoes and has a measured approach. Everyone said he was a businessman who only cared about money, and no one knew his other identity - "Lone Goose", a secret agent of the southern revolutionary government.
He approached her initially for a mission - her troupe was a transfer station for intelligence from all forces.
She fell in love with him on a rainy night. He held an umbrella for her and said, "I have heard Boss Lu's drama many times. But only today, I can hear the unwillingness in your eyes."
They thought they could give each other a place to settle down in troubled times.
Until that day, he personally signed the order to send the senior brother she regarded as a relative to the execution ground.
Wearing the dark green cheongsam he gave her, she stood in front of him, her eyes as cold as the Huangpu River on a winter night: "Gu Tingshen, are you my overlord or my executioner?"
He was speechless.
Because he doesn't know the answer himself.
One year later, Nanjing.
At the celebration banquet, he was a hero of the revolutionary government.
On the stage, someone sang "Farewell My Concubine".
He dropped his wine glass, stood up suddenly, and rushed backstage like crazy——
There, there was a letter left for him and an emerald hairpin he gave her.
There is only one sentence in the letter:
"In the next life, don't be a hero. Be my overlord, okay?"
