In the hometown of Linshui, Suzhou, the women of the Shen family have guarded the house for generations, using their hearts and souls to transform their obsession with antiques.
When Shen Shumei returned home, starting from the Linghua Mirror, he went through the collection of eight old things including silver hairpins, broken paper, orchid combs, cold lamps, rhopa, rusty locks, and bamboo fans. The woman who keeps watch with her mouth, the soul of poetry who burns manuscripts and leaves behind regrets, the sisters who are separated from each other, the legitimate daughter who marries her family to guard the family, the longing woman who looks forward to her return, the beautiful lady who is trapped in the deep court, and the confidants who are separated by family backgrounds.
She empathized with her heart and healed her centuries-old regrets one by one. Finally, under the ancient vines, she fully understood the ancestral precepts and the source of fate of the Shen family. The ancient vines are entangled, and their secrets are waiting to be awakened. While she is helping people and souls, she is also helping herself.
The writing style is pure and quiet, taking the rhyme of the late Ming Dynasty's sketches, writing about the seclusion of the boudoir, and the sigh of a thousand-year-old beauty sharing the same fate.
Purpose: to use ancient objects to overcome regrets, to write about the involuntary fate of women in the boudoir in the late Ming Dynasty, and to express their ambition to protect their hearts and break the situation.