A scholar went to Beijing to take the exam and was forced to entrust his daughter Duanyun to Granny Cai, who made a living as a moneylender, to be a child bride for her son. In the Cai family, Duan Yun encountered a series of unpredictable things, and was finally wronged and executed.
A few years later, his father went to Beijing to take the exam and went to Chuzhou as an official. His daughter asked her to redress her grievances in a dream. In the end, the father redressed her grievances and cleared her daughter's name.