Liu Fengchao

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, opium was packaged by British merchants as "Fu Shou Ointment" and sold to China, and countless people suffered greatly. Cigarette restaurants in Guangzhou are blooming everywhere, smokers flock to them, sinking corpses at the bottom of the river, selling children for cigarettes are common, and countless families are broken and people die. Lin Zexu (Yao Yao), the Minister of the Imperial Household, is ordered to go south to sell cigarettes, but he is subjected to repeated reprisals for his involvement in the black chain of government and business interests behind opium, assassins and human bombs

皇帝側近の魏忠賢が権勢を振るっていた明朝末期の中国。秘密警察・錦衣衛の捜査官である沈煉は、体制転覆を扇動する絵を描いた絵師・北斎を捕らえるよう命じられる。沈煉が同僚とともに北斎のすみかに踏み込んだところ、なんと北斎は年若い女性だった。沈煉は、彼女を辱めようとする同僚を制止するが、もみ合いの中で図らずも彼を殺してしまう。沈煉は北斎の正体を隠し、同僚は逃げた北斎に殺されたとして保身を図る。