The Qu family is a clan with a long history in Guicheng. Since the last century, each new generation has appointed a family head to lead the clan’s continued growth.
As a new century dawns and the younger generation of the Qu family comes of age, the grudges buried for so long finally come to the fore. The Xie family, now reduced to ruin and bereft of its loved ones, and the Luo family, burdened with a blood feud, are both closely connected to the Qu family.
Qu Xiaotang, the granddaughter beloved by the current family head, is a sophomore at Guicheng University. During summer vacation, she joins a teaching program and is sent to Pingzhen in Guicheng as a trainee teacher. While there, she encounters a series of inexplicable murders. Then the truth about her younger brother, Qu Xiaoyu’s, origins gradually comes to light. The arrival of the mysterious police officer Luo Hao draws Qu Xiaotang into an unbelievable conspiracy. The interests at stake lead back to an unsolved mystery involving the Qu, Xie, and Luo families in the previous generation...
And the Qu family is about to welcome a new head...
