Red General

With intelligent AI and a thriving new culture, media professional Lin Jiu returns to Xingyang, Yunnan, to mourn a family member. She gets caught up in a dispute over the inheritance of the Lin family's oil-paper umbrella business. Her father died by suicide three years ago, and she had hoped to use this chance to move her mother, Yao Fang, to a big city, away from the Lin family's oppression and feuds. But her mother remains devoted to the craft she has practiced for half her life and cannot bear to leave it behind.

Lin Jiu returns alone, but on the way back she receives a notice that she has been laid off. Just as she is feeling dejected, she meets Huo Zhengkai, a photographer and documentary director who is hiding his identity as a third-generation rich heir and is determined to travel the country. The two hit it off and decide to work together, using Xingyang's oil-paper umbrellas as their centerpiece and Lin Jiu's mother, Yao Fang, as their representative, to build a traditional women's culture brand called Yishan Hongjiang.

The three join forces to break through the many old customs that restrict the craft, such as