Blossoms Shanghai: Season 1
Blossoms Shanghai season 1 is set in 1990s Shanghai. The story follows the journey of the protagonist Ah Bao as he rises from an ordinary young man to a prominent figure in the business world during the wave of economic reform. Ah Bao's success is supported by several key figures, including Ye Shu, Ling Zi, the owner of Night Tokyo, and Miss Wang from the foreign trade building. The arrival of Li Li and Mr. Qiang fro
Season overview
Blossoms Shanghai season 1 is set in 1990s Shanghai. The story follows the journey of the protagonist Ah Bao as he rises from an ordinary young man to a prominent figure in the business world during the wave of economic reform. Ah Bao's success is supported by several key figures, including Ye Shu, Ling Zi, the owner of Night Tokyo, and Miss Wang from the foreign trade building. The arrival of Li Li and Mr. Qiang from the Shenzhen stock market brings threats to Ah Bao's career, placing both his personal life and business in jeopardy. The story is set against the backdrop of massive economic growth in the 1990s.
Episodes
Episode 1
Dec 27, 2023 · 48 min
Mentored by the aging financial maestro Uncle Ye, the ambitious Ah Bao transforms himself into Mr. Bao, a rich, influential stock trader. Even after he’s the victim of a hit-and-ru
Episode 2
Dec 27, 2023 · 48 min
Mr. Bao finds himself entangled in a stock-market fiasco that cripples many small-time traders and damages his reputation. His friends rally round him at Tokyo Nights, a small, ung
Episode 3
Dec 27, 2023 · 48 min
A provincial factory manager, Mr. Fan, wants to do business with Mr. Bao, but—dazzled by Li Li and the riches he sees at the Grand Lisbon—he tries to sweeten the deal. Mr. Bao play
Episode 4
Dec 27, 2023 · 48 min
A goofy, mink-clad interloper named Mr. Wei tries to steal Mr. Fan’s business, but Mr. Bao is helped by Miss Wang, his adoring contact at the Foreign Trade Office whom many people
Episode 5
Dec 28, 2023 · 48 min
Mr. Bao and Mr. Fan sign a contract to distribute made-in-China San Yang shirts. This groundbreaking deal leads to Mr. Bao giving Miss Wang a thank-you gift that will come back to
Episode 6
Dec 28, 2023 · 48 min
Li Li gives an enigmatic gift to Mr. Bao, who warns her that the Grand Lisbon won’t last more than three months. Thanks to a brilliant marketing move by Mr. Bao, San Yang shirts be
Episode 7
Dec 29, 2023 · 48 min
Li Li’s rivals on Huanghe Road’s restaurant row begin sabotaging her business. Mr. Bao has his own problems: thuggish counterfeiters have begun cranking out knockoffs of San Yang s
Episode 8
Dec 29, 2023 · 48 min
In a bold move, Mr. Bao drives into the industrial boondocks to cut a deal with the knockoff-selling gangsters. Fearing for his safety, Miss Wang follows him there, risking her lif
Episode 9
Dec 30, 2023 · 48 min
Li Li remains under attack by a group of restaurant madames led by the hotheaded Mei Lin, who sponsors a coup in the Grand Lisbon’s kitchen. Li Li goes to Tokyo Nights for help fro
Episode 10
Dec 30, 2023 · 48 min
With the help of Uncle Ye, Mr. Bao thwarts the attack on the Grand Lisbon so successfully that the restaurant sets Huanghe Road abuzz with talk of its famous new dishes. Mr. Bao is
Episode 11
Dec 31, 2023 · 48 min
As Mr. Bao’s relationship with Li Li deepens, his friend Tao Tao finds himself knee-deep in romantic calamity.
Episode 12
Dec 31, 2023 · 48 min
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 accus
Episode 13
Jan 1, 2024 · 48 min
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 worl
Episode 14
Jan 1, 2024 · 48 min
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 passio
Episode 15
Jan 2, 2024 · 48 min
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.
Episode 16
Jan 2, 2024 · 48 min
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
Episode 17
Jan 3, 2024 · 48 min
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
Episode 18
Jan 3, 2024 · 48 min
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. Sh
Episode 19
Jan 4, 2024 · 48 min
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
Episode 20
Jan 4, 2024 · 48 min
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
Episode 21
Jan 5, 2024 · 48 min
When Qiang attempts a hostile takeover of a Shanghainese company, Mr. Bao forms a pact with Li Li—money for information. Mr. Bao and Li Li’s employees profit off of Qiang’s bid, bu
Episode 22
Jan 5, 2024 · 48 min
Ling Zi reopens Tokyo Nights as a Shanghainese omakase and wins immediate success. Over on Huanghe Road, the Grand Lisbon falls into chaos when Li Li is held for questioning by the
Episode 23
Jan 6, 2024 · 48 min
Qiang and Bao have dinner at the Grand Lisbon and wind up bigger enemies than before. Each backs a rival company that’s fighting for the only government-approved slot to launch an
Episode 24
Jan 6, 2024 · 48 min
Across town, Miss Wang begins competing with Mr. Bao to win a huge order for jeans with Walmart. While Uncle Ye and Miss Wang jockey to get the Walmart order, Mr. Bao and Qiang beg
Episode 25
Jan 7, 2024 · 48 min
Things get deadlier. After stock-market losses, Mei Lin’s debt-ridden husband dies in a fall. Li Li mortgages the Grand Lisbon to fund Mr. Bao. Miss Wang begins looking for garment
Episode 26
Jan 7, 2024 · 48 min
Miss Wang heads south to find a factory that will make jeans cheaply enough to win the order. Against his own interests, Mr. Bao secretly helps her.
Episode 27
Jan 8, 2024 · 48 min
Miss Wang scores her first big success, outwitting everyone to win the Walmart contract. Learning of his first love’s death, Mr. Bao looks for company. With Ling Zi and Miss Wang o
Episode 28
Jan 8, 2024 · 48 min
Uncle Ye and Mr. Bao come to an understanding. The latter steels himself for another skirmish with Qiang, who is working ruthlessly to cut off Mr. Bao’s capital sources.
Episode 29
Jan 9, 2024 · 48 min
The final showdown: While Mr. Bao desperately seeks a way to escape intact from the stock market, his estranged friends Tao Tao and Ling Zi make peace without him. Qiang keeps push
Episode 30
Jan 9, 2024 · 48 min
The world we’ve been watching has been totally changed since Episode 1. The suddenly successful Miss Wang returns to Shanghai to find that Mr. Bao has moved out of his fancy hotel