Wu Ducheng is a place where merchants of medicinal herbs from the south of the Yangtze River gather.
Li Chongyuan, the head of Chongyuan Medicine Store, has been in the medicinal business for more than 30 years and is quite famous in the local area. His opponent, Wang Bingkun, was the richest man in Wu City. His business spanned medicinal materials, silk, banks, and pawn shops. He had five wives and concubines. He was domineering and powerful.
The two families have been fighting openly and secretly for many years, and their grudges have run deep.
The third young master Li Chengyuan returned from studying abroad. He was in his prime and full of new knowledge. He teamed up with his calm and restrained eldest brother Li Chengzong and frequently made strange moves in the medicinal materials market. At the same time, undercurrents were surging in the Wang family's backyard - the housekeeper had an affair with his concubine, the accountant absconded with secrets, and internal scandals broke out one after another. Li Chongyuan seized the opportunity and took every step to force Wang Bingkun into a desperate situation.
Wang Bingkun died suddenly, and all his property belonged to the Li family.
His fifth concubine, Zhang Lihua, was young, beautiful, and extremely intelligent. During this change of power, she became Li Chongyuan's third wife.
However, a more dangerous love disaster is quietly brewing in this carved building——
