Longteng Finance is a financial building with a bright appearance, but inside it is a noose woven together by multiple gray chains. Chairman Long Yan sits in charge of the Long Family and the company. Externally he is a dignified head of the family, but internally he is a creator of the old order who only values control. The eldest son Long Biao is calm, efficient, and believes in clearing the field. He is a new generation and more ruthless than his father. The wife Huang Jing uses her fame and underground power to suppress others, the mistress Tongtong uses bets and switching sides to survive, and the eldest daughter Long Shu becomes the last link of the family in the madness that has been neglected for a long time.
When an abnormal amount of funds was brought to the table, Financial Director Guo Kai accurately promoted Guo He, Deputy Manager of the Marketing Department, as a scapegoat. It was only after Guo He was imprisoned that he realized that he was just the first disposable link in this chain of cannibalism. At the same time, the illegitimate daughter Long Lan, who went by the pseudonym "Zhang Lan", sneaked into the board of directors' office. While getting close to Long Yan and the core accounts, she suppressed hatred, evidence, identity and desires at the same time.
When evidence turns from truth to bargaining chips, personal relationships turn into handles, and accounts, keys, landing pads and safes are put on the table at the same time, every approach means deeper danger. Cousins, old lovers, fathers and daughters, husband and wife, mistresses, executors, no one is clean; and no one can walk out of this clearing night clean.
This is not a story about who checks who, but a group of people who have learned to hurt each other, fighting for the last breath in the same dilapidated building, until they are dragged into the fire.
Concept: This play does not describe heroes, nor does it describe injustices. It only describes how a group of people actively train themselves into tools, bargaining chips, and the cause of each other's death in an environment where money, power, and dignity are promoted as their only beliefs. Everyone wants to step on others to live one step longer, but it is this step after step that collapses the entire building. Evidence is not justice, but pricing power; family affection is not a harbor, but a divisible asset; love is not salvation, but another kind of control. There is no winner while everyone is counting the next card. The people who finally get out are not clean, they just admit earlier that this set of rules is not loyal, so they get out later.