After completing his training, an elite young assassin embarks on his first mission and is quickly ensnared in an intricate plot laid by powerful people pulling strings from the shadows. Upon failing to complete the assignment, he is forced to go on the run—from the government and rival assassin groups alike—as he seeks to unmask the players behind the conspiracy.
Su Wen Xing, the first son of the second lady of Su’s Cloth Store, was once determined to get the store’s cachet and succeed his father’s position. Even though defeated by Ning Yi in his competition for power with his sister Su Tan’er, he took charge of the store in the end after his sister and Ning Yi had left Jiang Ning. However, he happened to hear servants talking about how others only took him as a mascot of the store. Su Wen Xing was deeply humiliated and left for Fuyuan, hoping he can build something of his own, which went unsuccessfully and put him in distress. Just when he was in desperation, his old classmate came up and offered to turn the tide for him on the condition that.
