The young man from the small town, Tao Wujie, was accepted into the Binjiang branch of Shenmao Bank, starting from the very bottom as a teller. His girlfriend, Tian Xiaohui, a Shanghai girl, entered a trust company through the introduction of her cousin. The two vowed to make great strides in the financial industry and strive to establish themselves in Shanghai as soon as possible. Tao Wujie, diligent and capable, stood out and was spotted and carefully mentored by the branch manager Zhao Hui and the audit director Miao Che, gradually finding his purpose and direction in his banking work; while Xiaohui, after entering the trust capital, brutally fought for survival, climbing up step by step only to discover that in this world of money, the two faced various challenges and tests. Wujie and Xiaohui, Zhao Hui and Miao Che, two generations of financial workers in the city, experienced career choices and fluctuations in fate.
In the 37th year of the Wan Li Period of the Ming Dynasty, there were successive murders in the county seat of Jiangnan County. The identities of the dead were different and unrelated to each other. The corpses were arranged in bizarre poses, and there was a sentence left at the scene of each case. As the apprentice of the first victim, Xiaohu Kuaiqu Sanren cooperated with his friends to launch an investigation. With the deepening of the investigation, the three religions and nine streams, local farmers, workers and merchants of all colors appeared one after another. Amidst the fog, an old case from ten years ago surfaced. Who would the murderer be and for what purpose?