The male protagonist is a teacher, teaching Chinese at Shenggong Women's High School. He is a character who only accepts death, but he does not have the pedantic sourness of those literati.
The heroine is the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the niece of a local warlord. She comes from a well-off family and has studied in the UK for a year. She advocates new ideas and culture, has a cheerful personality, and has some military style.
The two met at their cousin's birthday party. The heroine initially looked down on the hero's literati style, while the hero was even more frightened by the heroine's shocking remarks.
Later, the heroine discovers that her cousin is actually attracted to the Chinese teacher, that is, the hero. She becomes more and more confused about what is so good about this person. But as her understanding deepened, she discovered that this man was not as pedantic as she thought, and she began to appreciate him and was willing to be friends with him and discuss current affairs.
The cousin tearfully married the son of a government official on the orders of her warlord father. The heroine asked the hero out, lamented, and talked over wine. Unexpectedly, they had sex after drinking.
The male protagonist insists on marrying the female protagonist, but the female protagonist's parents strongly oppose it. Knowing that they are married, they are even more angry and threaten to expel their daughter from the house.
As a last resort, the heroine begged her warlord uncle to find a position in the army for the hero. In order to gain recognition from the heroine's family, the hero gave up his writing and joined the army and worked very hard in the army.