After contracting a mysterious virus, top agent Lu Jinghong accidentally transmigrates to Shanghai in 1944. The city is rife with gangs, and all kinds of forces are stirring beneath the surface.
After transmigrating, Lu Jinghong becomes a lowly dockworker, bullied by various gangs and unexpectedly drawn into the murder of a beautiful woman.
Even stranger, the dead woman is Japanese, and looks exactly like Lu Jinghong's wife in the modern world.
To uncover the mysterious woman's cause of death and trace the source of the terrifying virus, Lu Jinghong relies on his skills as a top agent to contend with the various factions. He not only rescues Yu Hudie, a woman of the night held captive by the Axe Gang, but also meets Shen Jinyi, the daughter of a top tycoon.
Various factions and all kinds of highly skilled experts make their entrances.
Time and again, Lu Jinghong finds himself trapped in desperate situations.
In the end, Lu Jinghong rises from a lowly dockworker to become a Shanghai tycoon with power over everything.
However, another terrifying trap awaits him.
