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This novel mainly fictionalizes "Linhang Mansion", a commercial port in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty. It shows human desires and worldly conditions through the rise and fall of a silk merchant family.

The plum rain was pattering down, hitting the low iron roofs of the urban villages, like countless tiny fingers tapping the past. Eighteen-year-old Shen Suxin squatted under the damp eaves, carefully scrubbing the mountains of work clothes in the basin. The foam of washing powder splashed on her face, she raised her arm to wipe it, and continued to rub the stubborn stains vigorously. This is the third month since my parents passed away. A sudden car accident took away her carefree youth and her right to continue going to school. As the eldest daughter in the family, she has to shoulder the burden of raising her younger siblings, and her emotional life experience is even more heart-wrenching...