It tells the story of the miserable and unyielding life of a handsome boy in a small town during the Republic of China.
In a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, Alang, a young boy from the acrobatic troupe who was sweet-looking, strong-hearted, beautiful in voice and appearance, but very miserable, accidentally met Jiang Lianxin, the daughter of the Jiang family, and fell in love with him. His miserable life began from this.
In order to save Lian Xin from disaster and stay away from the playboy Ren Xiaocheng, he had no choice but to disguise himself as a woman, disguise as a mute, and marry into the Ren family.
For the sake of his sweetheart and to find his mother, he endured the humiliation that a man cannot bear, and was teased and trampled by Ren Xiaocheng, but he still refused to tell the secret that he was a man.
Branded, tortured by the Ren family, disfigured, and forced to soak in a pig cage, he fell into the river and his whereabouts are unknown.
After falling into the river, he was rescued and restored to a man's body. In order to find his sweetheart and reunite with his younger brother, many years later, with the help of the wealthy daughter Yang Qiuxue, he became a boss and returned to the Ren family as a man. After all kinds of hardships, the lovers finally got married.