In the capital, behind the walls of grand mansions, the feuds among four great families have taken deep root over the years.
The Wang family dominates the business world, the Liu family has been a house of high officials for generations, and the Li family has produced generals and ministers for centuries. Beneath all that splendor lies a sealed chapter of the past that no one dares bring to light. The Shen family’s lofty status was never born of noble origins. It was the result of a revenge plot set in motion by an exiled son of a concubine, driven by bitter resentment.
Changing one’s surname means a lifetime of humiliation; staking everything on a single name means a lifetime of obsession. The wind beneath the eaves of the Wang estate blows through the pavilions and terraces of the Shen garden, turning into a bone-deep chill. Ancestral hatred and blood ties have long woven a tight web, trapping two generations in their fated destinies.
No one knows when love begins, only that it can run deep. But this deep love crashes against the walls of an old feud and becomes entangled with the taboo of kinship. The flowers blooming and fading in the Shen garden cannot bear the weight of a love given to the wrong person, nor can it withstand cold family rules and the bonds of propriety.
Love and hatred, passion and grudges all begin in this Shen garden, and here they will finally come to nothing. See how, behind these red walls, the tender feelings of the young become tangled with a family’s sea of blood, entwining lives until everything turns to dust.
