In the 25th year of the Republic of China, the neon lights on the Bund and the dusk in the alleys of Shanghai tore at the soul of the city. Shen Yubai, the second young master of the Shen Chamber of Commerce, is a notorious playboy in the eyes of outsiders, but in the docks and dark alleys late at night, he hides his identity as an underground worker and his mission to save the country. Lu Yanci, a talented architect who returned from studying abroad, was hired by the Shen family to build a new chamber of commerce building. He was burdened with the mystery of his family's collapse overnight, and he tried every step of the way, hoping to find the truth in the gaps of this glitzy and lost city.
The encounter between the two began with a deliberate approach with ulterior motives, but in the dangerous confrontations - the interest game in the concession, the internal strife of the chamber of commerce, and the crisis in the transmission of underground intelligence, they glimpsed the hotness and fragility of each other under each other's disguise. They were once jealous because of their conflicting identities and alienated because of old family grudges, but at the moment of national peril, they were firmly bound by the sincerity and tacit understanding in their bones. When Shen Yubai's underground identity is on the verge of being exposed, the truth about Lu Yanci's family emerges, and when the flashy lights go out one after another, do they choose to abandon each other to preserve their obsession, or do they join hands to fight against this precarious era? Where the embers of fire remain, only one person remains, looking for an everlasting light in the darkness.
Purpose: to explore personal emotional choices and perseverance in turbulent times, to show the profound impact of the righteousness of family and country on individual destiny, to praise the sincere emotions of mutual redemption in desperate situations, and to describe the growth trajectory of two souls from suspicion to trust, from utilization to mutual protection; to reflect on the glory and struggle of human nature under the torrent of the times, to criticize the coercion of ordinary individuals by power and conspiracy, and to highlight the responsibilities of small people in the big era.