During the warlord melee, the remote water town of Lucheng was about to face war. He Qiuyi, the youngest daughter of the rice merchant family, took a awning boat with her elder brother to go to the county town to study. On the river bank, she unexpectedly met the young military officer Lin Xiaolei. A tragic love story unfolds, with the courtyard deep and the country in ruins. What awaits her in the troubled times is a life-and-death love, and a fate of broken flesh and blood...