When pure art becomes the dirtiest money game chip.
The up-and-coming painter Gu Linguang is ushering in the highlight of his career. His "City Pulse" series is very popular, and even his younger brother Gu Chen's extremely calm geometric paintings have shocked the international art world. However, a sky-high contract from the top chaebol Ye's family dragged him into the abyss like poison wrapped in honey.
He thought he had met Bole, but he didn't know that he had become the most perfect "white glove" in the "money laundering pipeline".
Behind the admiration of Ye Zhaoheng, the head of the Ye family, is an intricate network of evil. The paintings that were purchased at exorbitant prices and locked in tightly secured warehouses are being silently washed away from the blood-stained black gold. Gu Linguang not only signed a contract of betrayal for himself, but also pushed his younger brother Gu Chen, who was immersed in the art world and knew nothing about the conspiracy, to the edge of eternal destruction.
Even more deadly is the temptation.
Huo Jue of the Huo Group is suffocating with her elegant, powerful, and controlling charm. He was Gu Linguang's ambiguous "scandal target" in high school, and now he has returned with a force that seems to be sincere appreciation and a fatal tenderness trap. In the huge pressure and emotional desert, Gu Linguang's defenses were crumbling. However, behind Huo Jue's smile is a cold calculation that colludes with the Ye family. He regards Gu Linguang as the "key" to unlock the treasure and the "trophy" he is determined to win in a dangerous game.
And in the shadows, old wounds are burning.
During the day, Gu Linguang buried his first love deep in his heart. The gloomy young man who once pushed him away due to his mother's pressure has now returned with scars all over his body and the smell of gunpowder smoke. He had an insight into the conspiracy of the Ye and Huo family, and also knew a shocking secret about Gu Linguang's life experience that had been hidden from dust. He is like a silent lone wolf, guarding in the darkness, issuing warnings in an almost self-destructive way. That rough and desperate kiss was a mark, a declaration, unspeakable pain and unquenched love. Family, love, and survival have all become dilemmas. Was it a coincidence or another shackle that his mother arranged for him to have a blind date with the daughter of the Ye family? Does the eerily pure cobalt blue on his brother Gu Chen's canvas indicate that he is slipping into a more dangerous situation? Is the gentle trap that Huo Jue presses step by step a salvation or a deeper purgatory? How will the truth about "father" that Bai Tian holds in his hands subvert all Gu Linguang's perceptions?
At the intersection of sunlight and shadow, Gu Linguang must make a choice:
Is he reduced to a silent part in the money laundering machine of the giant Yehuo crocodile? Or should he take a desperate risk and join forces with Bai Tian in the dark to tear open this gorgeous cage with gold and jade outside, even if the cost is to be shattered into pieces?
A deadly game in the name of art has begun. Conspiracy, desire, betrayal and blood debts buried for many years are intertwined. Here, every stroke of color may be stained with sin, and every heartbeat may lead to destruction.
——Watch how a talented painter uses his paintbrush and life to carve out a bloody path for himself and his loved ones amidst the hunting of top chaebols and the torn apart of old love.
Intention: Two-way redemption