Set against the backdrop of massive economic growth in the 1990s, the story follows A Bao, a self-made millionaire and his journey from being a young opportunist with a troubled past to accumulating dazzling wealth in the city of Shanghai. It also follows his entanglement with four women who represent the pursuits of his life: adventure, honour, love and innocence.
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Air Date: 2023-12-27
Mentored by the aging financial maestro Uncle Ye, the ambitious Ah Bao transforms himself into Mr. Bao, a rich, influ...
Air Date: 2023-12-27
Mr. Bao finds himself entangled in a stock-market fiasco that cripples many small-time traders and damages his reputa...
Air Date: 2023-12-27
A provincial factory manager, Mr. Fan, wants to do business with Mr. Bao, but—dazzled by Li Li and the riches he sees...
Air Date: 2023-12-27
A goofy, mink-clad interloper named Mr. Wei tries to steal Mr. Fan’s business, but Mr. Bao is helped by Miss Wang, hi...
Air Date: 2023-12-28
Mr. Bao and Mr. Fan sign a contract to distribute made-in-China San Yang shirts. This groundbreaking deal leads to Mr...
Air Date: 2023-12-28
Li Li gives an enigmatic gift to Mr. Bao, who warns her that the Grand Lisbon won’t last more than three months. Than...
Air Date: 2023-12-29
Li Li’s rivals on Huanghe Road’s restaurant row begin sabotaging her business. Mr. Bao has his own problems: thuggish...
Air Date: 2023-12-29
In a bold move, Mr. Bao drives into the industrial boondocks to cut a deal with the knockoff-selling gangsters. Feari...
Air Date: 2023-12-30
Li Li remains under attack by a group of restaurant madames led by the hotheaded Mei Lin, who sponsors a coup in the ...
Air Date: 2023-12-30
With the help of Uncle Ye, Mr. Bao thwarts the attack on the Grand Lisbon so successfully that the restaurant sets Hu...
Air Date: 2023-12-31
As Mr. Bao’s relationship with Li Li deepens, his friend Tao Tao finds himself knee-deep in romantic calamity.
Air Date: 2023-12-31
Over at the Foreign Trade Office, Miss Wang’s success has spawned envy and led a shifty colleague to smear her, twist...
Air Date: 2024-01-01
Miss Wang’s fall has repercussions at Tokyo Nights, where Ling Zi’s role in what happened breeds discord in the place...
Air Date: 2024-01-01
Mr. Bao’s romantic past and present collide. While Miss Wang gets bullied at the factory where she’s been reassigned ...
Air Date: 2024-01-02
When the leadership changes at the department store he’s been supplying with product, Mr. Bao must seek out new allie...
Air Date: 2024-01-02
Ling Zi remains absent, prompting Mr. Bao to reminisce about when he first met her in Tokyo four years earlier. In Li...
Air Date: 2024-01-03
The two reliable women in Mr. Bao’s life begin distancing themselves from him. Ling Zi returns to Shanghai full of re...
Air Date: 2024-01-03
The distancing continues. Planning to overhaul Tokyo Nights, Ling Zi goes to the Grand Lisbon for research. Miss Wang...
Air Date: 2024-01-04
As Ling Zi renovates Tokyo Nights, she remembers how she and Mr. Bao built the restaurant together. Miss Wang and Mr....
Air Date: 2024-01-04
Amid a flurry of corporate intrigue, Mr. Bao starts ramping up his plans to stop the unethical Qiang from becoming th...
Air Date: 2024-01-05
When Qiang attempts a hostile takeover of a Shanghainese company, Mr. Bao forms a pact with Li Li—money for informati...
Air Date: 2024-01-05
Ling Zi reopens Tokyo Nights as a Shanghainese omakase and wins immediate success. Over on Huanghe Road, the Grand Li...
Air Date: 2024-01-06
Qiang and Bao have dinner at the Grand Lisbon and wind up bigger enemies than before. Each backs a rival company that...
Air Date: 2024-01-06
Across town, Miss Wang begins competing with Mr. Bao to win a huge order for jeans with Walmart. While Uncle Ye and M...
Air Date: 2024-01-07
Things get deadlier. After stock-market losses, Mei Lin’s debt-ridden husband dies in a fall. Li Li mortgages the Gra...
Air Date: 2024-01-07
Miss Wang heads south to find a factory that will make jeans cheaply enough to win the order. Against his own interes...
Air Date: 2024-01-08
Miss Wang scores her first big success, outwitting everyone to win the Walmart contract. Learning of his first love’s...
Air Date: 2024-01-08
Uncle Ye and Mr. Bao come to an understanding. The latter steels himself for another skirmish with Qiang, who is work...
Air Date: 2024-01-09
The final showdown: While Mr. Bao desperately seeks a way to escape intact from the stock market, his estranged frien...
Air Date: 2024-01-09
The world we’ve been watching has been totally changed since Episode 1. The suddenly successful Miss Wang returns to ...