"Red Ribbon and Old Times" is set in the early years of the Republic of China. It tells the story of Su Wanqing, the daughter of a silk and satin shop, who marries into the Lin family, a declining aristocratic family in the south of the Yangtze River, due to a marriage contract. In the open and secret fights in the deep house compound, she relied on her wisdom to resolve the crisis, but on a rainy night she discovered that her husband still had Bai Yueguang in his heart. With the rise of new ideological trends and the turmoil of the current situation, the secrets that the family had hidden for twenty years gradually surfaced, revealing the love-hate fate of the two generations behind the red ribbon. Su Wanqing struggled between the constraints of tradition and personal liberation, and finally found herself.