Rong Qingyi is a famous actress on the Tianchan stage in Shanghai, and her song "A Dream in the Garden" is the most popular in Shanghai. She appears to be beautiful, but in fact she is responsible for the family's annihilation, and is secretly tracking down the murderer. The mysterious man Shen Xiaotian has rescued her many times, but has never revealed her origin; the two have been in constant confrontation. She gradually fell in love, but Shen Xiaotian carried the same token as his enemy; Qingyi committed herself to the powerful Mr. Du Sanye to get closer to the truth, but Shen Xiaotian misunderstood; the Japanese bombed Shanghai, Qingyi was trapped in the fire scene, and Shen Xiaotian risked his life to rescue them; the two escaped to the concession, and Qingyi discovered that Shen Xiaotian was actually his enemy. After joining the Shen family, her heart felt like a knife; Shen Xiaotian explained that there was a secret behind the grudge between her father's generation, and Qingyi was half-believed; Du Sanye sent people to hunt down, Qingyi was forced to fake her death, and left Hong Kong under the pseudonym Rong Hua; Shen Xiaotian chased her to Hong Kong, and the two of them evaded gang pursuits in the Kowloon Walled City; the Anti-Japanese War broke out, and Shen Xiaotian joins the military, and Qingyi uses the theater troupe as a cover to deliver intelligence to the underground party; the two reunite in Chongqing, but are separated again due to different stances; Qingyi is betrayed by a traitor, and Shen Xiaotian fights to rescue him; in the end, Shanghai is recovered, and the two embrace each other in the ruins, determined to put aside their hatred and spend the rest of their lives together.
