Blossoms Shanghai

As Mr. Bao's relationship with Li Li deepens, his friend Tao Tao finds himself knee-deep in romantic calamity.

Over at the Foreign Trade Office, Miss Wang's success has spawned envy and led a shifty colleague to smear her, twisting a well-intentioned gift from Mr. Bao into evidence of accused bribery.

Miss Wang's fall has repercussions at Tokyo Nights, where Ling Zi's role in what happened breeds discord in the place that Mr. Bao thinks of as his refuge. The funny, friendly world of Tokyo Nights explodes in anger and recriminations that Mr. Bao can't fix.

Mr. Bao's romantic past and present collide. While Miss Wang gets bullied at the factory where she's been reassigned and Ling Zi remains missing, Mr. Bao flashes back to his passion for Xuezhi, a beautiful ticket-taker on a local bus, whose rejection of him turned him into the man he is today.

When the leadership changes at the department store he's been supplying with product, Mr. Bao must seek out new allies-and sources of profit.

Ling Zi remains absent, prompting Mr. Bao to reminisce about when he first met her in Tokyo four years earlier. In Ling Zi's absence, her friends haplessly try to keep Tokyo Nights going. The past still heavy upon him, Mr. Bao goes to do business in Hong Kong. There he meets Xuezhi, the woman who broke his heart, and is surprised by what he discovers.

The two reliable women in Mr. Bao's life begin distancing themselves from him. Ling Zi returns to Shanghai full of resolve and dissolves her business partnership with him. Mr. Bao oversteps by providing Miss Wang with unwanted help upon her return to Huanghe Road.

The distancing continues. Planning to overhaul Tokyo Nights, Ling Zi goes to the Grand Lisbon for research. Miss Wang decides to open her own business-with no help from Mr. Bao. She throws a disastrous launch party that lands her an unexpected partner, the goofy Mr. Wei. Like a gunslinging outlaw, Mr. Qiang arrives in Shanghai from Shenzhen, with sights set on the local stock market-and Mr. Bao.

As Ling Zi renovates Tokyo Nights, she remembers how she and Mr. Bao built the restaurant together. Miss Wang and Mr. Wei prepare for their company's opening banquet. Mr. Bao makes mistakes, personal and financial.

Amid a flurry of corporate intrigue, Mr. Bao starts ramping up his plans to stop the unethical Qiang from becoming the big dog in town. Qiang has a personal score to settle: he was once in love with Ling Zi before she left Tokyo to work with Mr. Bao.