The Shen family in Jinling has been weaving for three generations. In Shen Huaiyuan's generation, only three daughters and twelve old looms are left.
The eldest daughter Shen Yunjin took over the business for her father at the age of eighteen and struggled to support Shen Ji Weaving Factory under the impact of foreign cloth. She sold the Shen family's silk and satin from the Qinhuai River to the Huangpu River, but could not choose a person for herself - until she met Liang Qiming, an industrialist who had returned from studying in England. He helped her introduce German looms and establish the "Qiji" brand. However, when she entered into a business meeting with Taihe Foreign Company, which monopolized Yangtze River raw silk, he discovered that what she wanted was not just a contract, but a trump card that could hedge the rules of the entire old business world.
The second daughter, Shen Yunxin, opened Mingde Girls' School in the back alley of Confucius Temple after graduating from Jinling Women's University. The number of students has grown from seven flower girls to 117 girls who can write letters and settle accounts. When Shenbao reporter Gu Yan helped her apply for funding, no one in the newspaper knew that he was proofreading the questionnaire for her every night, and she was also hiding the deleted manuscripts for him.
The youngest daughter Shen Yunshang went from singing "Peach Blossom Fan" on the banks of the Qinhuai River to becoming a swaying movie star on the beach in Shanghai. After experiencing the bottom of his lover's betrayal (turning over to the enemy) and nationwide condemnation, he fought back, using the stage as a weapon, and staged a thrilling patriotic assassination at the Japanese army's celebration banquet.
