He was Cixi's personal favorite general, the youngest general of the Hui people in modern times, a prisoner of the Qing Dynasty who could never return, and a man of five women.
She is the eldest lady in a large manor, the wife of a Kuomintang officer, a leading cadre of the Communist Party, and the mother of five daughters.
He and she came happily and went away with a bang. Their life and death are not only the proof of a family's century-long continuity, but also the continuous trajectory of a nation for centuries.
A century of life and death, a century of ups and downs, and ups and downs, the story of an elite family unfolds gently and sharply along with the footprints of every moment in history.