In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, Shanghai was misty and misty; the Yan family's Jinluo Fang was on the verge of bankruptcy, and the eldest daughter Yan Ruoxi was the only one to support the facade; an anonymous letter led to the mystery of her father's disappearance; the letter included half of the remains of the "Embroidered Picture of the Misty and Rain Tower"; the old lover Shen Moyan returned from England, and was affected by He was hired as a consultant to the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry; the two met again, but they often had conflicts due to their different positions; the embroidered pictures contained clues to the White Lotus Sect's relics, and all forces coveted them; the Japanese secret service also got involved; Yan Ruoxi discovered that her father had had contacts with underground organizations; Shen Moyan... An ancient waterway was discovered while surveying the underground pipelines in the concession; the end of the waterway pointed to a sunken Ming Dynasty treasure ship; the treasure ship contained secrets that could change the pattern of Shanghai; Yan Ruoxi had to decide: whether to sell the secrets to save the family business, or to protect the secrets to save lives Shen Moyan also faced the torn apart of professional ethics and emotions; during the investigation, the two gradually solved the family estrangement and old misunderstandings; a fire destroyed Jinluo Fang, everything was reduced to zero; the truth was more shocking than imagined; the final decision related to the fate of Shanghai for a century