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Shanghai's French Concession, 1939.
Shen Fang takes over the Peace Hotel and sets just one rule: anyone who enters is under the hotel's protection.
The Green Gang refuses to accept it, so he beats them into submission.
The 76th refuses to believe it, so he wrecks them.
When the Japanese Special Higher Police send their most dangerous woman to test him, he makes her smash her glass in frustration.
He smiles and tells everyone: “This is Chinese soil. Here, Chinese people do not kneel.”
But when a female reporter clutching a roll of film collapses at his door, he realizes the hotel's mission is far greater than he imagined.
“Protect the unextinguished spark.”
That is the System's main quest for him.
It is also the answer this era has given him.
