Lin Chuan, haunted by a classmate's mysterious death, spends ten years searching for the truth. Meanwhile, Shen Xia and her brother Shen Dong are drawn into a criminal underworld after a family tragedy. As their paths collide, a tense showdown between justice and crime unfolds, blending love, hate, and revenge in a captivating story.
Xu Cheng, a traditional Bajiquan heir, advances in the "Zhenwu Fighting Championship" but is seriously injured by American fighter Jason. His brother, Xu Shi, who had been pursuing academics, steps up to carry on the family tradition. Xu Shi uncovers that Xu Cheng's injury was part of a scheme by the championship's chairman, Ma Yuanlong, who used the event for illegal betting and drug abuse. With the help of his senior martial sister Lin Wan, Xu Shi enters the competition to investigate the truth. As they confront family histories, Xu Shi remains committed to preserving Bajiquan, fighting for both family honor and the future of the martial art.
In 1988, criminal policeman Wei Guo Ping witnessed the deaths of his comrades during an operation around a serial murder case where the culprit escapes. This has left Wei Guo Ping scarred from the incident. Eight years later, the appalling corpse dismemberment case has shocked the city of Ningjiang. At this time, Wei Guo Ping has already grown into a seasoned police captain.
In 1986, when Yugoslav nuclear power expert Lehmann came to the East China Sea to inspect nuclear power and question China's ability to build nuclear power plants, fitter Ye Jia Ming and buyer Lin Tian Chen, becomes his first supporters. But during the building of a plant, Tian Chen was corrupted by Ding Li, and accused by his superior, of variety of crimes. Feeling betrayed, Tian Chen resigns from his post and went to the United States, leaving his son Lin Qi to the Ye's family to raise. But what he didn't except, is that his son, will folllow his footstep, and as an adult become key figure, in developing nuclear weapons.
A story that details the the lives of ordinary civilians amidst the magnanimous changes in Chinese society over the years. At the end of the 1970s, the Zhou family lived in a provincial city in the north. The father, Zhu Zhi Gang, has just participated in the Third Front Movement in Xi Nan. The eldest son, Zhou Bing Yi, responds to a national call to become part of the first batch of "educated" youths sent to live and work in rural areas. The eldest daughter, Zhou Rong, follows her poet husband to the countryside of Guizhou. The youngest son, Zhou Bing Kun, is the only one left at home with their mother. In the span of 50 years, the Zhou family is swept by the tides of change in China.