Taking the literary prison and the conflict between the Manchu and Han Dynasties during the Yongzheng period as the undercurrent, it tells the story of He Jie, an orphan who was born in a scholarly family in the south of the Yangtze River. Due to her family's decline, she was taken to the Li family in the capital as a maid, and the love story of Li Zhongshuo, the second son of the Li family who shoulders the family mission, from master-servant suspicion to mutual redemption. Through the growth of the two people in court disputes and family secrets, it shows the perseverance and resistance of ordinary people in troubled times.