The story takes place in the city of Taihu Lake. An ancient city is undergoing great changes. The protagonist of the story is a female student who just graduated from a normal university. After returning to her alma mater to teach, she experienced a series of ups and downs in human relationships. The originally simple town has long been filled with materialistic desires... People's desire for money and power has long surpassed the "easy life" advocated by their ancestors... A lawyer from the other side of the ocean helped a real estate company win a land dispute case. With the arrival of this lawyer, a hidden history gradually surfaced...
Did she change his life, or did he enter her soul?
Where will the people of the small town go under the trend of modernization?