Lin's son loves music, and he just wants to explore Jiangnan folk songs and push them to the world. Lin Weixian reunited with Hu Yi, a childhood playmate and an officer's family, and introduced him to Sun Lei, a young Shandong man who came to Shanghai to help him sincerely at the dock. Since then, the three young people have become best friends.
By chance, Hehong fell in love with Gu Shaotang's daughter at the same time, but Jiahui only fell in love quietly. Qingyu is the lover of Yue Opera actor Lin. Lin and Gu Shaotang fought fiercely in the shopping mall, and the wily Gu Shaotang bought sapphire heavily, thus learning about Lin's overall plan and finally defeating Lin's men in the stock market. ...
Lin committed suicide in a rage. At this time, the Kuomintang split, and Hu Yi, who finally chose the Kuomintang camp, was forced to arrest Lin Weixian, who was falsely accused of "communicating with the Communist Party". In order to get ahead, GongSunLei reported Lin Weixian's escape route to Gu Shaotang. Jiahui threatened to die, and Gu Shaotang and Gong were forced to let go.
Yue Le, the old housekeeper, took Lin Weixian back to his hometown in Jiangnan town. Lin Weixian collapsed. Desperate, he was forced to enter the famous "Hongji" rice shop in the town as an apprentice. Having tasted the cold world, Lin Weixian finally became ruthless. Just then, Hu Yi, an officer, led his troops through. Taking advantage of Hu Yi's salary increase, Lin Weixian finally succeeded in taking the "Hongji" rice shop as his own and embarked on the road of revitalizing the Lin family business. Hu Yi suppressed communist party, was hit hard by the ambush of the Red Army, and one leg was amputated.
10 years later, Lin Weixian, who has accumulated economic strength, returned to Shanghai. At this point, Gu Shaotang has become the uncrowned king of Shanghai business circles and "green gang", and Gong is already Gu Shaotang's right-hand man. On orders from Chongqing, he sneaked back to Shanghai and launched a famous spy war with the Wang puppet secret service organization "No.76" in Shanghai at that time.
Jade turned to Gu Shaotang's arms, but secretly cheated with GongSunLei. At this point, Gu Shaotang took advantage of the "proxy war" chaos to secretly make Gong get rid of Hareton and dominate the business community. At this point, Lin Weixian is approaching Gong Sunlei's sister and popular star Gong Sunling Wan.
Gong Sunlei found that she had returned to Shanghai and encouraged her unknown sister to continue to associate with her. When Yue Le's daughter saw Lin Weixian and Wan Ling become lovers, she felt very sad. Escaped from the palace and met Xianyun by chance. Hu Yi still loves Xianyun deeply, and Xianyun's heart is finally warm.
Gu Shaotang relied on his confidant Heisan to find out that Gong betrayed himself and let Jiahui dissolve his engagement with Gong. But after all, there are bigger enemies, and Gu Shaotang was forced to unite with the palace to deal with those who came for revenge. Gong Sunlei finally caught Hu Yi and let him go quietly to realize his personal ambition.
Gong He was finally reunited. The two confessed that they were willing to join hands, one bright and one dark, and completely defeated Gu Shaotang in the shopping mall. Sure enough, Gu Shaotang was forced to commit suicide. Jade was rejected by the palace, but she denounced the palace to the Japanese side because of her love and hatred. Gong Sunlei killed someone and forced Jiahui to get married. Since then, Gong has devoted all his energy to dealing with it. Lin Weixian continued to expand his industry to defend the banner of "national commerce". A thrilling commercial war was launched between GongSunLei and Lin Weixian. Finally, I tried my best to push it to the wall. Lin Weixian and his industrial dream turned into a cultivated rock. Palace had to dominate Shanghai, and he married Jiahui ambitiously. Wedding night, stormy, Jiahui finally cut Gong with an axe, and then rushed into the endless rain curtain.
At Shiliupu Pier again, a rich boy who looks like Lin Weixian got off the boat and unexpectedly rescued a poor boy who looks like Sun Lei. A new round of life story is once again unfolding in Shanghai. ...
By the Suzhou River, the sun sets. Hu Yi and Hyun-yun sat on a small wooden boat and left hand in hand. They lovingly scattered Lin Weixian's folk music scores in the river one by one. Music falls with the water, and the song Jasmine, which seems as light as smoke, sounds a little bleak. In the song, the small wooden boat drifted farther and farther …
Later, the ending changed: Gong was killed, Jia Hui, Qian Yun went to Yan 'an.