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This book is a realistic novel cloaked in art and revealing the cruelty of war. The protagonist (Joy Pratt) is a Chinese-American mixed-race young man from an aristocratic family. And he is not like those aristocratic young masters who are prosperous and wealthy. Because his mother (Ji Hua) is a foreign Chinese, he is spurned by the family and can only live with the servants (they are inferior to the servants). His father (Beddy Edward Pratt) also despises him. Moreover, his mother was secretly drugged and poisoned by her grandmother (Ania Pratt)'s maid (Betsy Gemma) when she was 12 years old. Until the first seven hours of her mother's life (according to traditional Chinese customs), her body was not sent back to her hometown (Shanghai) for burial. Instead, she was buried in a forest, and a simple wooden monument was "delicately" and "intimately" erected. After his mother's death, Joey and his nanny Mrs. Geroma were kicked out of the house by a few people with some authority in the family for being "rebellious and absent without leave". But misfortunes never come singly... Note: This book does not deliberately use history to criticize education, but wants to resist the harm caused by war to the people. The author only wants to call for "peace". The author does not want to use this incident to hype up, but just wants to promote peace!