During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the Lin family, a well-known weaving family in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Su family, a powerful family in the capital, became connected through a silk trade. The Lin family is famous for its double-sided silk tapestry skills, but is in crisis due to involvement in official disputes; the Su family appears to be a wealthy imperial businessman, but in fact secretly performs confidential tasks for the court. The two families collided with the undercurrents of the court and the business world, and the male and female protagonists met and got to know each other in the tide of the times.
