Male protagonist: Yang Jianing Female protagonist: Su Qingyan
The marriage contract between Yang Jianing, who returned from studying abroad, and Su Qingyan of the Jiangnan Su family was made by the Yang family's old man and the Su family's old man. Yang Jianing, who had studied abroad, had been baptized by the new ideological trends of freedom, equality, and democracy, and was very opposed to the arranged marriages of the old era, so he reported to the newspaper to terminate the engagement. Little did they know that this move caused huge waves in the Su family. The Su family was a family from the old era. In order to preserve the family tradition, they announced that Su Qingyan, the daughter of the Su family, was seriously ill and planned to poison her to death. Su Qingyan's mother secretly let Su Qingyan run away late at night. After Su Qingyan left the Su family, she saw that people's lives also accepted the influence of new trends of thought. He started a new life, and in an era of endless war, he met Yang Jianing again. What story happened to them this time?