In the early years of the Republic of China, the Shen family, a prominent family in the south of the Yangtze River, owned thousands of hectares of fertile land and was extremely wealthy. The second young lady of the Shen family is calm, dignified and intelligent, and she falls in love at first sight with Gu Yun, a young talent who has returned from studying abroad. However, the current situation is turbulent, warlords are fighting, and undercurrents are surging within the Shen family. The third young master, Shen Wenxuan, was very ambitious. In order to seize the family property, he did not hesitate to collude with the warlords, framed his eldest brother, and made his father angry to death. Shen Jingshu was forced to marry a warlord as a concubine and suffered humiliation. Gu Yunshen joined the revolution to save Jingshu, but was plotted by Shen Wenxuan and imprisoned. The once glorious Shen family was shaken by the tide of the times and eventually declined. After Jingshu and Yun Shen have gone through many hardships, can they break through the shackles of fate and regain their lost beautiful years? This family history of love and hate witnessed the changes of the times and the complexity of human nature, and told a splendid legend of the Republic of China.
