Li Peiru moves to Beijing from Hong Kong to make a living as an aggressive real estate mogul. She's an opportunist alcoholic who's not looking for love, but instead is content with her career and having an affair with a married man. But in a romantic twist of fate, she ends up falling in love with Fang Zhendong, a local policeman who is honest, rigid, and a devoted caregiver to his autistic brother. Can the couple's new relationship survive traumatic...

A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat and mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.

While China is traumatized by military cliques during the Warlord Era in the 1920s, Japan has grown into the most powerful foreign national group in Shanghai. Although the city is being torn by the Japanese, the upscale cabaret nightclub Casablanca remains a haven for a mishmash of clienteles, including the mustachioed entrepreneur Ku and the sultry singsong girl Kiki. Ku is none other than the legendary hero Chen Zhen in disguise, who singlehandedly...

The story of three close friends who begin as poor fishermen from a small village on the outskirts of Shanghai in the 1930s. In search of opportunities the big city may have for them, they move to Shanghai, and accidentally get involved with the criminal underworld.