It tells the story of a wealthy lady and her servant who love each other but stay apart. Jing Xing was originally the son of a university teacher, but his father was accidentally killed during a student demonstration; his mother remarried and sold him to a gardener. They relied on their skills in flower gardening to make a living as servants in the drug dealer Xie's family. When Mrs. Xie, who had no children, was pregnant for the first time, Jing Xing was selected as the "prosperous son" because of the compatibility of the eight characters, and was brought into the backyard, where he became acquainted with the third lady Ruoxin. From then on, Jing Xing was with her no matter whether it was rain or shine, becoming a ray of sweet spring in her boring life as a socialite, depicting the scene of the outside world that she could not set foot on.
In times of war, prosperity and death can be fleeting. Xie's family was suddenly ransacked. Ruoxin was sold as a slave to a distant place. When he found her in the sea of thousands of people, he found that the people in the white walls and black tiles were not real things. She became the concubine of a high-ranking official, but he was still just a shadow following behind.
The intrigues of the great era were darker than before in the house, Jing Xing felt distant, Wang Yuqian was cold on the outside and hot on the inside, the oppressive gloom of the enemy country... She suddenly felt confused, holding the pair of shadow puppets from the past, bound together by thorns, and walked into the dusk of the old city.