Hong Kong, 1978: neon lights and prison bars side by side.
Zhuang Shijie was once the most formidable double-flower red staff of Wo Hop To. He took the fall for his boss and spent three years in prison, only to be abandoned by the gang after his release. In his previous life, he met a violent death on the streets.
Given another life, he cut ties and renounced brotherhood, wanting only to live as an ordinary man in a cage home in Sham Shui Po. But the underworld refused to leave him alone.
Ruan Mei, the “Penny-Pincher” who sells white sugar cake on Temple Street, struggles to survive at the bottom with her seriously ill younger brother. In his previous life, she was the only one who came to see him off. This time, he would repay her kindness.
Rose, a spirited red-clad orphan of the Hung Hing gang, comes to his door seeking revenge for her father’s murder, but finds a home in his dessert shop.
From a Temple Street dessert shop to a commercial empire across Hong Kong Island, from a hunted double-flower red staff to a patriotic tycoon who commands the city:
