Midnight

The TV series "Midnight" is adapted from Mr. Mao Dun's masterpiece novel of the same name and his three unpublished manuscripts. The story takes place from the 1920s to the mid-1930s. At that time, China's social contradictions were complex, the political situation was dark, turbulent, government corruption, armed warlords were fighting, and imperialist aggression intentions had emerged. In such an unpredictable period, Wu Sunfu, a representative figure of China's national capitalists with extraordinary courage and resourcefulness, returned to Shanghai from Japan with the ambition to develop his national industrial kingdom and realize his dream of becoming a "hero of the era of China's mechanical industry." However, as soon as he set foot on the bank of the Huangpu River, he encountered a riot that assassinated the warlord Lin Kun. In the chaos, the more than 200,000 silver notes he brought back with him were lost. When looking for the banknotes, he accidentally saw the militants who assassinated the warlord Lin Kun kidnapping Lin Peiyao. His daughter Lin Peiyao was also kidnapped, so he and Lin Peiyao established a relationship in adversity. The lost bank note was accidentally obtained by Zhao Botao, who was in financial crisis, solving Zhao's crisis. The passionate Wu Sunfu returned to his hometown Shuangqiao Town in despair, and was severely punished by Wu's conservative father. His son-in-law Hu Bingwen, who wanted to embezzle the Wu family's property, designed to frame Sunfu, but Sunfu rebelled and was killed.