In 1949, China and the people on this land ushered in the most critical year. The Communist Party was unstoppable and won three major battles one after another. The Kuomintang was defeated and seized every opportunity to seize supplies and evacuate the mainland. As the country's financial center, Shanghai has become the focus of competition and plunder for all parties. Huang Ming, then director of the Secretariat of the Central Bank of the Nationalist Government, was ordered to send a huge amount of gold to Taiwan. His son Huang Yixuan (played by Guo Xiaodong), who started out as an underground party member, tried to instigate his father to go to the liberated areas. Yixuan's brother-in-law Sun Shi'an (played by Jiang Wu), the deputy director of the Shanghai Intelligence Station of the Kuomintang, obstructed him in every possible way after learning the news, and started a series of open and covert battles with the Huangs and his son. As the saying goes, everyone is his own master, and a family sacrifices itself for its own ideals. Even for a long time after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the rivalry between Yixuan and Sun Shi'an never stopped...
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