In the twelfth year of the Republic of China, Zhao Jinyu, the daughter of a wealthy businessman in Suzhou, returned from studying in England and met her sister-in-law, who was just as young as herself but was trapped in the courtyard and had been widowed for many years. A lively and open-minded foreign-style young lady and a graceful and conservative oriental woman, one is testing every step, and the other is silently forbearing. Different cultural ideas collide and merge, and they secretly fall in love with each other as they get along day and night.
In the tall gray-tiled white walls, clusters of roses are like big pink pom-poms, swaying in the wind and covering the branches.
The girl in a foreign dress sitting on the eaves of the wall stretched out an arm towards the person under the wall and invited them with a smile.
"Would you like to come with me and see the world outside the wall?"
Intention: Break through feudal ethics and base on the feelings of family and country