On New Year's Eve in 2013, the West Lake fireworks illuminated Gu Ming's family's reunion banquet. Six people from the Xinshi Group gathered together - the sinister Gu Ming, Lin Xi who yearned for stability, Wan Yu who was obsessed with his cousin, Xu Yan who pursued profit, Xu Chen who defended his shortcomings, and Ye Jingcheng who was forbearing, and each other's fate was quietly entangled due to "indulgent love". Gu Ming is torn between marriage and selfish desires, Lin Xi is wavering between two relationships, Wan Yu is trapped in old obsessions and new passions, Xu Yan is seeking profit through relationships, Xu Chen is caught in the dilemma of protecting his wife and younger brother, and Ye Jingcheng goes from being tolerant to breaking up.
In the past four years, the lakes and neon lights of Hangzhou have witnessed their bloody tumult: wedding farce, workplace confrontation, betrayal exposed, relatives and friends turning against each other. A collision on Valentine's Day in 2016 brought all the secrets to a complete showdown, and the relationship between the six people collapsed. During the Spring Festival of 2017, Gu Ming invited everyone to a suburban villa on the pretext of "resolving old feuds". The atmosphere of the New Year hid a deadly shadow.
An explosion and fire caused by a gas leak turned the villa into a sea of fire, and five people were killed. Only Wan Yu survived because Ye Jingcheng had to go out for air. This plot, disguised as an "accident", was Gu Ming's crazy revenge after being swallowed up by jealousy and unwillingness, and it was also the ultimate backlash of the six people's indulgence. The West Lake is still the same and Hangzhou has not changed. In the memories of the survivors, four years of love-hate entanglements and selfish calculations have finally turned all the blooming passion into ashes.
Concept: Indiscriminate emotion is a maze woven by desire, and obsession is a shackles that binds oneself. In the pull of love and hate, the six people indulged their selfish desires and plotted against each other, turning their intimate relationship into a bargaining chip for interests and emotions, and were eventually backlashed by the darkness and selfishness of human nature. The work uses the survivor's look back to prove that all wavering emotions and hidden betrayals will eventually be paid in the flames of desire. Only the memory retains the sadness of the pain of youth and the game of human nature.