Su Meitang, the only daughter of the Su family, has been learning opera since she was a child. She has known each other since childhood and formed an old alliance with Shen Duzhou, the legitimate son of the Shen family. When Mei Tang was born, Shen's father, in order to cling to a foreign company, was forced to cross the boat to marry the daughter of a foreign company, and the old alliance was cancelled. Mei Tang was desperate, but did not want Cantonese opera to be lost, so she supported the Su family opera troupe and stayed on the teahouse stage. After Duzhou was forced to marry, he saw foreign companies suppressing traditional theater troupes, and learned that his father had framed the Su family for profit (leading to the Su family theater troupe almost disbanding). He felt regretful and secretly protected Mei Tang. On a typhoon night, the rain hits the banana trees all over the courtyard. Du Zhou finds Mei Tang who is mending costumes in the theater troupe and wants to restore the old alliance. However, Mei Tang only hands over a playbook of "Rain hits the banana leaves": "The play is over, and the covenant is like a banana leaf, which will perish after the rain." In the end, Mei Tang guarded the Cantonese opera to pass down the fire, while Du Zhou broke up with the family, but it was difficult to get close to Mei Tang's world.
