Takashima Shinichi

Seconde Guerre mondiale : une épidémie de choléra ravage les rues de Pékin. Une équipe d'élite d'agents du renseignement chinois kidnappe un général et biochimiste japonais qui pourrait détenir l'antidote.

Les Orphelins de Huang Shi nous entraîne dans la Chine des années 30 alors ravagée par la guerre, et raconte l'incroyable aventure d'un jeune journaliste anglais, d'une infirmière américaine et du chef d'un groupe de partisans chinois qui vont unir leurs efforts pour sauver 60 orphelins. Ensemble, ils vont parcourir plus d'un millier de kilomètres à travers les contrées les plus hostiles, des sommets enneigés aux déserts impitoyables, pour atteindre un village où les enfants pourront enfin vivre en sécurité. Surmontant tous les obstacles, leur épopée va les conduire à découvrir le sens absolu du sacrifice, de la responsabilité et du courage.

Li Zhi Cheng is a former soldier who has been ordered to take over his family's business when business was going downhill. He has a fateful meeting with Lin Qian, an independent and capable white-collar who was freshly graduated and meeting difficulties in starting up her own business. Due to Li Zhi Cheng's complete lack of experience in business, nobody in the industry had hopes in this newly appointed CEO of AiDa. But with the help of Lin Qian's working experience and drive, coupled with Li Zhi Cheng's wits and methods, they bring Ai Da's business to new heights together.

In 1937, the Japanese imperialists launched a brutal war of aggression against China. Xu Tian was a color-blind accountant in Shanghai with military training who decided to stay close to his mother after the death of his father. After an accident involving a group of patriots led by a friend of his late father, he was touched by the patriotic spirit. He used his sharp mind to help the patriots transporting important materials, which also drew the attention of Japanese occupying the city to himself. During this period, he befriended Jin, a conman-turned-businessman and Tielin, a police officer working in the Shanghai French Concession. At the same time, pharmacist Tian Dan rented a room in Xu's house after losing her parents in an incident Xu was deeply involved. On the backdrop of the national crisis, people were living their intertwined lives with their own agenda, be it for revenge, for duty, for self-interest, or for ideology.