Twenty-five years old, the third young master of the Shen family returned from studying abroad and ran a cotton mill in Shanghai. Since he had a fever at the age of seven, he has often dreamed of "future events" and has gradually become convinced that they are memories of his past life. In the dream, he broke off his marriage to the Song family in Hangzhou because he obeyed his father's arrangements. The Song family's daughter later met a wealthy businessman from Nanyang and became famous, while the Shen family's family fell into decline.