The skies over Birmingham in the 1920s are gray.
A single breath fills a passerby's lungs with coal dust.
In the pubs, men drink themselves into oblivion, using alcohol and women to treat the wounds of the Great War.
In the alleys, the Peaky Blinders, gangs, and Irishmen fight over territory.
In the squares, nationalists hold forth on the state of the nation, earning wave after wave of applause.
In the factories, communists call on workers to strike against capitalists' exploitation of surplus value.
Meanwhile, feminists go door to door handing out leaflets and encouraging women to fight for the right to vote.
The Paris Peace Conference fails, Chinese laborers die far from home, and talk of the Yellow Peril runs rampant in the West.
Zhang Jiuyi has only just moved to Birmingham. Why has she transmigrated after sleeping just one night in her new rental?!
Just when she thinks she's found a savior, the gang boss points a gun at her forehead, and her legs nearly give way from fear...
Later, she discovers that he's fierce but not truly cruel. He's a keeper!
After that, the two of them travel from Birmingham to London, then from Britain to mainland Europe, and finally across the ocean...
At the bow of the transatlantic liner, she initially wants to grab him and reenact Jack and Rose, but then decides it's too unlucky. So they lean side by side against the railing and watch the sunset over the sea...
Watching Europe recede into the distance, she says, "The Internationale will surely be realized, even if it takes a thousand years!"
He looks down at her and says, "I only need a hundred years..."
"Even a hundred years won't be enough." She came from a hundred years in the future.
"I think that's too short, too, but it's enough time for us to grow old and die together."
She's gotten used to this kind of plain and simple love talk. "All right, growing old and dying together is enough for me, too."
A story about two people from the bottom of society supporting each other.
"Do you know the Chinese myth about Hou Yi, who shot down nine suns?" she says, tilting her head up.
Hardworking Italian-Irish mixed-race male lead x self-reliant, persevering descendant of the dragon female lead.
Theme: A nation has dignity, and its people have hope.
