The series was created by You Chaokai and adapted from his best-selling novel of the same name, which won the 2020 National Book Award. Willis Wu thinks he is just an ordinary Asian. Every day he leaves his small room in Chinatown and walks into the Golden Palace restaurant, where a police drama called "Black and White" is being filmed, and he plays a background actor. But Wu dreams of becoming a kung fu hero, which is the ultimate wish of the residents of Chinatown that he can imagine. When he inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, Wu gradually unravels the criminal network of Chinatown and discovers the feeling of standing in the spotlight in the process.