In 1925, Lin Jingshu returned from studying abroad. What she faced was not a bright future, but a shaky family and a marriage contract.
In the deep house, her stepmother plotted and her sisters were separated, and she was forced to take charge of the family business in the whirlpool; under the torrent of the times, war spread, mountains and rivers were broken, and the prosperity and order of the past were crushed into dust.
From the boudoir in Jinling Wutong Courtyard, to the war-torn rear areas of the Anti-Japanese War, to the crossroads of the turning point of the times. This is a woman's path to awakening to break free from her shackles and reinvent herself. It is also a majestic epic about persistence, betrayal, sacrifice and reconstruction of a century-old family in the midst of great historical changes.
Concept: This work uses the thirty years of ups and downs of a Jinling family as a mirror to reflect the most dramatic changes in modern China. The core purpose is to ask: When the traditional clan system and social order are disintegrating one by one in the flames of war and change, how can the conscience, affection and character that maintain human beings meander underground like an underground river and be reborn in the new era? It is a history of women's awakening, and it is also a micro-epic of the national spirit looking for the cornerstone for reconstruction in the ruins.