In the 16th year of the Republic of China, Sucheng, Jiangnan.
The Lu family is the largest silk merchant in the area, with a three-story house and thousands of acres of mulberry fields. Outsiders only see the splendor of the wealthy family, but they don't know that the palace is suppressed by the main house, the concubine seizes power, and the father and son turn against each other. The building has long been in ruins.
The second aunt, Su Manwei, was originally from the Qingyi opera troupe. When she was fifteen, she sang "The Peony Pavilion" and was spotted by Lu Hongyuan, and she was trapped in this courtyard ever since. She thought she was marrying for love, but in the end she was just one of the many names in the Lu family. She had to protect her only son, Lu Jingzhou, and find a way out between the ruler of the wife of the wife and the cold arrows of the third concubine. She also had to pick up the broken hearts piece by piece between the memorial tablets in the ancestral hall and the torrent of troubled times.
Lu Jingzhou returned from studying abroad with blueprints for a new loom. He wanted to save his family business and his hometown, but he first had to face the clan rules of cannibalism without showing blood. He fell in love with Shen Qinghe, the warlord's daughter, but the feud between the two families, family interests, and the approaching war pushed them apart step by step.
Wutong Deep Courtyard cannot lock away the spring scenery, let alone the troubled times. The smoke of the Northern Expedition has not yet cleared, foreign silk is being dumped like a tide, and the shadow of the Japanese army is looming over the country. The century-old Lu family house will eventually be destroyed by the storm of the times.
And those love, hate, fame and fortune, chastity and freedom will all be involved in the same old dream.
——All those who survived went their separate ways after dawn.
