A female doctor of education who returned from overseas took over a century-old women's college that was on the verge of closure and determined to transform it into a modern women's school.
·The story focuses on her and various female students: a young lady from an aristocratic family who escaped from marriage, a talented girl from a poor family who strives to be independent, a child bride who was domestically abused... They face feudal ethics and the threat of war together, and pursue independence and light in the torrent of change. The heroine also started a game about ideals and love with a conservative scholar who supported her ideas but was in the opposite camp.
