[Republican-era, dual female leads + reunion after a long separation + rekindled romance + love and vengeance amid war and nation + ensemble cast]
Shanghai, 1937.
At the elevator, movie star Yuan Yining runs into Li Mingyue, a celebrated singer, and opens with, "As long as you're safe, the world can fall apart."
No one knows that six years ago, they were the closest pair at their girls' school. Dressed in white and black, sharing a desk and a dorm room, they were even teased by their classmates, who staged a mock "wedding" for the two brides. Then Li Mingyue appeared with Cheng Jinyi at Yuan Yining's villa ball. Yuan asked, "Can we make things right between us?" The answer was three words: "Impossible."
From then on, they became strangers: rivals for leading roles, rivals in love, and utterly at odds.
But then war came. The bustling foreign concessions fell overnight. Amid the turmoil, they took different paths, hearing of each other only now and then. Across gunfire, mountains and rivers, and the long years between them, neither ever truly let the other go.
