With a scholarship, Zhang Yipeng (Andy Lau) got the opportunity to study in France. After returning from his studies, he was appointed as the first commissioner of Shanghai's anti-smoking (opium) operation. Zhang was influenced by Western culture and values in law and was very interested in book business. As soon as he came to Shanghai with his wife (Chen Shaoxia), he launched a series of actions. He did not know that China and Western countries have different national conditions and it is difficult to have a sound legal system and social order: Police Director Ni Kun (Gu Baoming) and drug lord Dai Jimin (Liu Songren) are brothers. Together they control all illegal transactions in Shanghai, including opium trafficking. Seeing that Zhang was bribed several times to no avail, they vowed to make Zhang's life worse than death.
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