In the late Qing and early Republican period, the heroine is the daughter of the Hami King and his Han Chinese wife.
As a child, she is taught by a senior imam and receives religious instruction, studying languages and classics from different religious and cultural regions.
As a teenager, she attends a modern school and later studies abroad.
As a young woman, she returns to China after achieving a measure of success in her studies.
The hero meets her when he is young and of humble origins. He earns the King’s favor, studies alongside the heroine, and begins a career in business.
This work follows the historical timeline of the late Qing and early Republican period. Some of the characters’ experiences are fictionalized.
