This is an era where even loving someone has to choose a day, a place, and whether there will be a tomorrow.
In 1937, when Chen Xianshan met Jiang Shi for the first time, she was walking out of the door of the female teacher.
The blue cloth shirt was washed white, holding a few books in his arms, chatting and laughing with his classmates.
Jiang Shi was a female student from Suzhou to Shanghai at that time.
She wrote an article criticizing the gap between the neon lights and the slums. Later, she used the pen name "Heng Wu" to expose this cruel and chaotic world and was hunted by the whole city.
Chen Xianshan, the young boss of Shanghai Hengchang Commercial Bank, was a dropout from Oxford University. He got into a fight with a classmate because he called the Chinese "sick men of East Asia" and was expelled from school.
The two people met in Shanghai on the eve of the Battle of Songhu, which in itself was not a lucky thing.
As the years went by, he changed from a playboy to a prisoner in a cell. Throughout his life, he kept in mind his father's words: A businessman values profits, but his roots are in the country.
In this troubled world, they have loved, escaped, waited, and fought...
But the hand of fate is still unkind after all...
Purpose: History will remember heroes, but books will record the lives of ordinary people