The Matchmaker may not be old, but he loves his wine, and one drunken mistake can cause trouble. After he accidentally paired the wrong couples, unhappy matches multiplied across the mortal realm. When Heaven called him to account, his young apprentice Yun Zhu, desperate to save her master, got him drunk and took the blame in his place. She was sentenced to five lifetimes of reincarnation, where she would suffer every hardship of the mortal world. The Matchmaker remained lost in a drunken dream while his beloved apprentice was trapped in the cycle of rebirth. When he sobered up, he realized Yun Zhu had suffered because of him. From then on, his heart was never at ease, and he couldn't stop going down to the mortal realm to watch over her. Their feelings as master and apprentice gradually strayed beyond their proper bounds, the Matchmaker's fated red thread began to awaken, and the once-empty little bamboo slowly grew a heart of her own...
