After experiencing betrayal and deception in two marriages, Princess Yurong began to devote her love to orchestral music, silk and bamboo, raised actors and actresses in the plum garden, and listened to operas and music. After the death of her second husband Ci Guangzhan, Yu Rong gave birth to Yin Sui.
Yin Sui had not been liked by Yu Rong since he was a child. At a banquet in the Song Dynasty, he discovered that the actor Qing Ling looked very similar to the one in the painting hanging in his mother's hall. In order to please his mother, after Qing Ling was injured by the Song Dynasty and thrown into a ruined temple, Yin Sui rescued and took him in.
The appearance of Qing Ling made Yu Rongfu fall into the pain of losing the person in the painting, An Boyuan. At the same time, she was also indulged in the fantasy that An Boyuan would return to her.
Yu Rong's preference for Qing Ling made Yin Sui jealous. Jin Yi, who accompanied Yu Rong, became hostile to Qing Ling. Quansheng, an actor in Meiyuan, was also dissatisfied with his senior brother Xiao Chang's care for Qing Ling. Rumors spread in the government that Qing Ling was Yu Rong's illegitimate son. A filigree bracelet brings Qing Ling's life experience to the surface, implicating the real cause of death of Yu Rong's childhood friend, Maple Leaf Temple Taoist Ling Qing.
The book tells the story of Yu Rong's marriage past, the mystery of Qing Ling's life experience and her emotional path, the betrayal suffered by Yin Sui and his sweetheart He Yueyin after they got married, the love and hatred between actors in the Meiyuan Garden, and their separate fates after the eldest princess's mansion was raided.
