In the turbulent 1930s, the mixed Shanghai was a paradise of singing and dancing, and a bloody battlefield where all the forces at home and abroad were intertwined and fighting openly and secretly. Rong Jinxiu (played by Chen Qiaoen), a girl living in Zhenjiang, may never have thought that she would play a series of grievances in this famous magic city, but the family's unprovoked disaster was pushed there without any explanation. When she was in trouble, Jinxiu was rescued by Zuo Zhen (played by Huang Xiaoming). Zuo Zhen and the two brothers Xiang Hanchuan (played by Xie Junhao) and Xiang Yingdong (played by Qiao Renliang), who were famous in Shanghai, became sworn brothers. Jinxiu took this opportunity to reunite with her sister Yin Mingzhu (played by Lv Jiarong), who was separated from her in childhood for some reason, at the Lion Grove Hotel opened by the Xiang family. Zuo Zhen and Jinxiu's fate are linked together, but the girl is attracted to Ying Shao by mistake, and Ying Shao has an unspeakable feeling for his brother's woman Mingzhu. In the turbulent foreign land, love has become tortuous and sad...