In the troubled times of the Republic of China, the shackles of ethics and education, and the shackles of aristocratic families could not trap two dependent hearts.
Yu Linqiu, the legitimate daughter of the Yu Mansion, despised the feudal rules and family manipulation. Unwilling to be reduced to a bargaining chip in marriage and wasting her life trapped in a deep house, she resolutely cut off her family ties and took the orphan girl Yu Ruoshuang, whom she had rescued and given her name to since she was a child, to leave the Zhumen Courtyard and settle down in the streets to make a living.
In the past, there were different masters and servants. Since then, the luxury and glitz have faded away, and they now work together to do laundry and do business. Identity gaps, worldly rumors, and clan troubles are all crisscrossing my heart. The barriers engraved by ethics and ethics have caused love to twist and turn. They stay with each other day and night, but they dare not be honest and full of love. The two worked hand in hand to overcome the rejection by their peers, the harassment of gangsters, and the supply crisis, slowly breaking the boundaries of superiority and inferiority in the fireworks market, and privately establishing a lifelong love in the same boat through thick and thin.
Good times don't last long, war sweeps through the city, and the torrent of chaos crushes the peaceful daily life. The family business they had worked so hard to build was overturned, and their former home was reduced to scorched earth. The two were forced to embark on a journey of escape. Hunger, cold, illness, plundering, and desperate sieges came one after another. They supported each other across thousands of mountains and rivers, and survived countless difficulties of life and death. In the end, they could not escape the ruthless fate of fate.
The smoke of gunfire breaks the wall, and the beloved leaves and the half-life companionship becomes a yin and yang forever separated. Yu Linqiu watched the fall of the city and the changes in the mountains and rivers alone. She looked back at her half-life of resistance and obsession, breaking away from ethics, escaping from her family, and falling in love with each other, only to be crushed by the times in the end.
Autumn is cold and frost is covering the body. A fateful encounter begins under the laurel tree in a deep house. A deep sadomasochism trapped in an identity in troubled times. In the end, I only have the rest of my life to look back alone. Year after year, I only cherish the memory of my old friend.
Purpose: Women can also be the masters of the family