Autumn 1932, Peiping. Shen Huaijin, a foreigner whose family is in decline, is forced to get involved in the whirlpool of real and fake antiques and various forces in order to prop up the precarious Shen's antique shop "Lang Yuxuan". A mysterious letter of appointment as a special commissioner of the Republic of China government, and a banker named Gu Yanzhi who always knocked on the door of his shop late at night, dragged her fate into the turmoil of the antique black market, warlords' conspiracy, and competition for national treasures. When the tweezers used to repair ancient books are stained with blood, and when the numbers in the account books hide passwords, can she find a golden marriage of her own between the fake and the true?
