The Ladies of Hongcheng

In the nineteenth year of the Republic, a new government took power amid internal and external crises, as the Nationalist Movement reached its peak. The great famine that would last eighteen years also began that year.

Hongcheng, ruled by Beiyang warlords, was a city of stark contrasts. The rich drove cars and lived in Western-style mansions, while the poor had neither proper clothing nor enough to eat.

In the sweltering summer of that year, Wen Siqi, the heroine, was forcibly taken as a bride by Kun Shaoqing, son of the warlord Kun Linjia, and became the eldest daughter-in-law of the Kun family, one of Hongcheng's society ladies. She was known as Young Marshal Qi.

Wen Siqi had been a singer at a nightclub, and later became a famous star. This made Kun Shaoqing feel threatened. When a divorce agreement was placed before him, he began his quest to win back his wife while they were still married...