When Jiang Yichen pushed open the weathered wooden gate of the courtyard house, fate seemed to take him by an unseen hand and thrust him into a ridiculous yet all-too-real drama of the times. Beneath the gray-tiled roof and green bricks, he heard the eldest sister, Zhang Guilan, calling out in "Silly Spring", mingling with the elegant click of An Jie’s high heels on the stone slabs in "Romance of Our Parents". This was not the world he knew, yet he knew its “plot” inside out.
Newly arrived, he was framed by Xu Damao and nearly driven out of the courtyard house...