经济专家帅飘（傅程鹏饰）从国外学成回来，他满怀热血想在上海大展拳脚，做出一番事业。可是初来乍到的他并无门路，创业之路并不顺利。帅飘无意间结识了通商银行行长卢笑庵的养女卢琳（侯梦莎饰），其实这一切都是卢笑庵的安排，他利用卢琳的美色接近帅飘，妄想着为自己所用。帅飘和卢琳结婚后，卢笑庵被人设计杀害，帅飘继承了他所有的财产，一跃成为上海滩的成功人士，不过也因此给自己引来杀身之祸。在一次刺杀行动中，卢琳为了保护帅飘惨遭杀害，帅飘一夜之间变得一无所有，他发誓一定要替卢琳报仇，并夺回所有的财产。帅飘在打拼的过程中认识了女共产党邢淑媛（毛林林饰），受到她的影响，他对中国的时局有了新的认知，并通过自己的经济才能帮助共产党人完成任务，最终被推荐入党

Economic expert Shuai Piao (played by Fu Chengpeng) returned from studying abroad. He is full of enthusiasm and wants to make a big difference in Shanghai and make a career. But as a newcomer, he had no connections, and his road to entrepreneurship was not smooth. Shuai Piao accidentally gets acquainted with Lu Lin (played by Hou Mengsha), the adopted daughter of Lu Xiaoan, the president of China Commercial Bank. In fact, all of this is Lu Xiaoan's arrangement. After Shuai Piao and Lu Lin got married, Lu Xiaoan was murdered by someone. Shuai Piao inherited all his property and became a successful person in Shanghai, but it also caused his own death. In an assassination operation, Lu Lin was murdered in order to protect Shuai Piao. Shuai Piao lost everything overnight. He vowed to avenge Lu Lin and get back all his property. During his hard work, Shuai Piao met Xing Shuyuan (played by Mao Linlin), a female communist. Under her influence, he gained a new understanding of China's current situation, and helped the Communists complete their tasks through his own economic ability, and was finally recommended. join the party