
Zhu Kaishan, a man from Shandong joins settlers in northeast China during the mid-19th century. Amidst turmoil, his family embarks on a journey to reunite, facing numerous challenges as they navigate survival in an unstable era.

Zhu Kaishan, a man from Shandong joins settlers in northeast China during the mid-19th century. Amidst turmoil, his family embarks on a journey to reunite, facing numerous challenges as they navigate survival in an unstable era.

The drama tells the story of a group of individuals with different backgrounds who were unexpectedly drawn into a mysterious treasure-hunting journey during the late Qing Dynasty. Amidst the grand and tumultuous historical tide, they gradually strengthened their ideals of saving the country.

In post-revolutionary China, Niu Dadan, a poor farmer, and his love, Deng’er, face political and social upheaval as land reforms transform their village. Amid shifting alliances and personal challenges, they struggle to navigate a rapidly changing world.

In the Qianlong era, investigator Liu Yong is sent to solve the disappearance of a corrupt official and stolen silver. With secret forces working against him, Liu gathers a team to unravel a conspiracy that could shake the empire.

The series follows the lives of three brothers as they struggle through the turbulent political period before the war. They become part of the first-generation immigrant entrepreneurial path in Qingdao. The story began in 1904 when the Jinan Railway opened and ends with the outbreak of war in 1937.

Yin Jingwan, a young woman from a wealthy merchant family, saved a young man on a train who was escaping from a rivaling warlord manhunt. When she returned home, her parents betrothed her to a childhood friend, but her fiancee was put into prison in Chengzhou for smuggling firearms and illegal Western drugs. Jingwan decided to go to Chengzhou to rescue her fiancee. But she did not know, this trip would completely change her life.



In 1931, as Japan invades Northeast China, the Nationalist government orders a retreat, leaving the region defenseless. Zhao Laoga, a determined villager, forms an anti-Japanese resistance with locals to protect their homeland against overwhelming odds.

Yang Guihua unexpectedly becomes village head and, determined to improve her village, works hard to secure a project and open a factory, overcoming resistance from rivals and a lack of support from her husband.

Hu Xueyan, a wealthy and influential Qing merchant and official, rises to prominence through his business acumen and political connections. However, his success brings him into conflict with rivals and political enemies, setting the stage for his eventual downfall.

In 1927, as Japan seeks to control the Northeast railway, local Chinese authorities plan to build their own independent railway. The Binzhou Railway Company, led by Cao Dingbang and his son Cao Mofei, faces fierce opposition from Japan as they work to assert control over the project.

