The story takes place at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. The protagonist Li Fang was born into a royal construction family. She lives in Huaihua Hutong with her parents, brother, and her father's apprentice Chai Ke. Her peaceful life was broken by a sudden construction of a mausoleum. The heavy labor caused her father to die of a sudden illness, and his brother Li Liang took over the position. She and her mother depended on each other at home, but her mother also died of illness a few years later. This time should have coincided with the Revolution of 1911 and the fall of the Qing government. The new National Government funded the construction of the mausoleum. After the construction was completed, both brother Li Liang and senior brother Chai Ke lost their jobs in the palace and had to find new ways out - Chai Ke chose to go south. With Li Fang's help, the Li brothers and sisters opened a furniture shop. Later Li Liang married his childhood sweetheart Tao Jingshu. But there are many teenage thoughts and emotional entanglements hidden in it. In the end, Tao Jingshu paid the price with her life and died in depression. After losing his wife and children, Li Liang was depressed. He was accidentally injured while running a furniture shop. He took opium to treat the pain and eventually died... The heroine eventually lost her family and chose to leave her hometown to find new life opportunities, hoping to make money to redeem her ancestral property...
Concept: A young girl is forced to grow up early due to the cracks in the traditional family and the overthrow of the times, carrying the crumbling family business on her thin shoulders; she struggles in the quagmire of family affection, secret love and betrayal, and finally discovers that some love is destined to be unfulfilled, some families are destined to be unable to be preserved, and a person can only carry the broken past and walk alone into the unknown distance.