During the Guangxu era, Lu Junjie loses his family’s thriving silk trade to the treacherous Zhai family and is forced into exile. As they conspire to eliminate him, he gathers allies to reclaim his legacy, protect Zhangku Avenue, and modernize trade, shaping the nation's economic future.
After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, a former Qing noble and graduate of Japan's military academy returns to China and becomes a senior Eighth Route Army commander, joining the resistance in the war against Japan.
