In 1926, the artillery fire of the Northern Expeditionary Army approached the Yangtze River. There are undercurrents from various forces in Jinling City.
Lu Chengyu, the most respected young marshal in the Beiyang direct line, had a rough background and was decisive in killing. He was the number one target named by the revolutionary army in the south to instigate rebellion.
Lin Xia, a female teacher's progress student, her father died tragically and her brother is on the run. In order to find her missing brother, she broke into Lu Chengyu's mansion.
One is an old-era warlord with blood on his hands.
One is a young man of the new era with bright eyes.
They are separated by a sea of blood, a chasm of doctrine, and an entire era.
But in this mansion with gray bricks and gray tiles, through repeated confrontations and temptations, I saw the truest form of the other person's soul.
When the artillery fire of the Northern Expedition finally sounded below the city tower, when the secret message of the uprising was hidden in the cover of the "New Youth".
He stood on the city wall, facing the south, and slowly raised the white flag.
She stood in the crowd, looking at the figure in military uniform, and tears fell.
——The green mountains are fortunate enough to bury the loyal bones, and the innocent white iron casts the sycophants.
History will not erect a monument to an old warlord.
But she remembered.
I remember the man who held her hand and said, "I want to be a man too," in the autumn of the 15th year of the Republic of China, amid the fragrance of osmanthus flowers.
Intention: Under the influence of the torrent of the times, personal love, hate and redemption are ultimately small and heavy; the sins of the old era need to be repaid with life, and the light of the new era will eventually be carried forward step by step by the living people with their memories.