This film is based on the life of Kawashima Yoshiko, originally Manchu princess who was the 14th daughter of Emperor Xu, later brought up as a Japanese and served as a spy in the service of the Japanese Kwantung Army and Manchukuo during the Second World War.
The Song family is well-known for producing a long line of scholars. Wanting to escape from everyone's shadow, Song Zhu has been trying to get herself married, until she met "the womanizer" Xiao Yu who has completely disrupted her plans. Xiao Yu is the bane to Song Zhu's existence. As long as he is around, there will be disaster. However, Song Zhu is not the type who is willing to lose, so the two always end up fighting like there's no tomorrow. The whole academy is in disarray because of them, yet they are also the ones who have rekindled the spirit of competition.
Shanghai, 1927. A resourceful young police officer named Qiao Chu Sheng is on the trail of a brutal but devious killer. Realizing that the police force will need some extra help with this difficult case, he decides to form an elite crime-busting detective team. He reaches out to a young man who has recently returned from studying in Great Britain, Lu Yao. Qiao Chu Sheng has learned that Lu Yao has remarkable powers of deduction and a brilliant mind – and believes he can help crack this difficult case. To round off the team, he enlists the help of Bai You Ning, a focused young female reporter for a daily newspaper. A free-thinking, independent young woman, she has a strong sense of justice – and pledges to help catch the killer. The trio form a small detective squad that specializes in solving strange and unsettling murder mysteries.
