In the winter of 1936, Shanghai Beach.
Shen Qingci, a low-level dancer in Fireworks Willow Alley, stumbled into a power game in order to raise medical expenses for her seriously ill sister.
She is an ant crushed by the times, and he is the most dangerous man in Shanghai - Gu Tingshen, the leader of the Youth Gang.
When they met for the first time, he put a gun to her chin and said with a smile: "I have seen many women like you."
When they met for the second time, she stole his pocket watch in exchange for life-saving money from her sister.
The third time they met, he locked her in his arms and kissed her in the middle of the dance floor at Paramount in front of all the celebrities in Shanghai.
"Want to save your sister? Yes. Marry me and be Mrs. Gu."
Shen Qingci thought this was a deal, but he didn't know that beneath that gentle mask, there was such bone-crushing hatred and deep love hidden in his heart.
When the truth is revealed, when the national crisis strikes, when all the glitz turns to dust——
Only then did she realize that this man had used a well-designed scam to lift her up into the clouds and push her into the abyss.
But what she didn't know was that the hands that pushed her into the abyss had also blocked bullets for her.
Ten miles away from home, people are living in a state of drunkenness and wealth.
Love and hate are like dreams, life and death are like a mystery.
