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The Taixing is the largest ancient shipwreck in China discovered by marine archeology so far. It is called the Titanic of the Orient because of the large number of victims and the huge treasures on board. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Yu Qingyu, the son of Guangdong Yuzhang, and Tan Zhaoer, the daughter of Tan Zongshang, were childhood sweethearts. In order to escape the persecution of Zhao Daotai, the two boarded the Taixing ship in January 1822 and rushed to Nanyang. Tan Zhaoer gave birth to a son on the ship. Unexpectedly, the Taixing hit the rocks and sank. Tan Zhaoer died. Yu Qingyu and the baby were rescued ashore by a passing ship and survived. In 1999, Yu Haidong, the sixth generation descendant of Yu Qingyu, fell in love with a Chinese girl Xie Meiying in Singapore. Yu Haidong was accidentally responsible for investigating a sunken ship in the Grasse Strait, only to discover that the sunken ship was the Taixing that his ancestors were aboard. Xie Meiying finally discovered that she had been with Yu Haidong for a long time.