In Taipei, there is a place called: XIMEN. There, tons of people come to visit, but most of them forget to see and feel the craziness, the loneliness, the love, and the color within that area. Tigger, a smart-but-lonely girl, whose mother is away, comes to XIMEN to start her own business. She quickly comes to the realization that there are 3 unique things in Ximending: movie, money, and madness. One day, she meets the maddest of them all: a homeless man called: XimenKing, aka, the mad king of Taipei town. He is so mad because: A.he likes to give out money that no one knows where they come from B.he never stays inside of a building, and he even sleeps in a tent at night C.rumor has it that he used to have a family, but the 921 earthquake back in 1999 turned his world upside down.

In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family faces the Rape of Nanking by the Imperial Japanese Army, with rapes, mass murder of prisoners of war and civilians including women, children and elders, and disrespect of international conventions.

A mother and her two daughters move to Taipei to open a noodle stand at a vibrant night market, but family secrets and tradition test their fresh start.

Chi Kit worked in a stock company. One day, the stock market crashed and Chi Kit ran into bankruptcy. He called his girlfriend Siu Suen and told her everything. Siu Suen loved Chi Kit so much that she took all her savings and ran away with him to Singapore to hide away from their debts. Unfortunately, Chi Kit met a wealthy woman with an interesting proposal, and it changed everything.

Having spent a harrowing time in prison, Miao Wei looks up both former, casual lovers but also his childhood sweetheart Wennie. It's not long until they're married and off on a perfect path together but Miao Wei takes scars from his prison time into his intimate moments with Wennie. Claiming he loves her too much, the relationship begins falling apart in dangerous ways...

Hui Chi-Ho (Jimmy Lin) is a secondary college student, coming from a rich family. It causes the dissatisfaction of "Crow", the big brother in the class, and he always finds ways to challenge Ho. Then enters a new student, , "Eagle" (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who takes Hui under his wings. Ho is really grateful to what Eagle has done. At the same time, the assassins from the underworld are revenging "Eagle"...

Chu Chi Kit returns to HK from Taiwan after many years in hiding, and immediately resumes his relationship with old flame May and rejoins his old friend Cramp in a drug operation. But times are different, and their big boss Lui now cares more about business than loyalty.