This book is set in the Republic of China. The male protagonist Yao Guoyan is a high school student with excellent academic performance. Due to his poor family background, he pulls a rickshaw to earn living expenses while studying. He meets Pan Zilian, a daughter of a pearl family, and falls in love. Pan Zilian once rejected two marriages with Fang Shang, the son of a wealthy local family, for Yao Guoyan. The lovers eventually got married, and they became husband and wife before Yao Guoyan went to Guangzhou to study.
The male protagonist rises to prominence, and the female protagonist gives birth to children for him.
The male protagonist's secretary has always been in love with the male protagonist, and uses sex to lure him to a higher position and become his equal wife. The female protagonist leaves in anger.
The male protagonist secretly joined the military and became the number one lurker. After ten years, he rose through the ranks and made great contributions.
Until the defeat of the Kuomintang, the male protagonist left his hometown.
The founding of New China, Land Reform, Cultural Revolution,
The heroine bore the pain he left behind for him...
