Set in the early years of the Republic of China, “Red Silk and Days Gone By” tells the story of Su Wanqing, the daughter of a silk shop owner, who marries into the declining Jiangnan family of the Lins because of a marriage contract. Amid the intrigues of the sprawling family home, she uses her intelligence to overcome one crisis after another, until one rainy night she discovers that her husband has someone else in his heart. As new ideas take hold and the times grow turbulent, a secret the family has kept hidden for twenty years gradually comes to light, revealing the intertwined destinies of love and hatred behind the red silk. Torn between traditional constraints and personal liberation, Su Wanqing ultimately finds herself.
