Ma Xiying is an opera singer. When he was still called Ma Chenglin, his smoking father first sold his mother and then him. But it doesn't matter, because he was so beautiful that he still had a way to survive after being sold to a theater troupe. An Anwen grew up to the age of seventeen, and his master treated him as his own son. He became famous throughout Peiping when he made his first rescue appearance. Ma Chenglin lives up to his name, a single tree becomes a forest and stands out. However, Peiping in the 1930s was not quiet. The actress with a pretty face and a graceful figure was always involved in one incident after another. A sudden glimpse of the benefactor, the mystery of his life experience, and the debut of the Japanese-controlled regime. Every tragedy that is swept away by the times like rootless duckweeds reminds Ma Chenglin: move forward, move forward.