Mo Yi, master of the Nameless Palace, has two daughters. One married his eldest disciple, Yu Baiqing, and the other his third disciple, Shan Liwu. Mo Yi also intends to pass his position on to Yu Baiqing, leaving his ambitious second disciple, Gu Yunping, bitterly disappointed and resentful.
Gu Yunping steals the relic golden pill Mo Yi spent ten years refining, then abducts his grand-disciples, Yu Mop an and Shan Mobi. He makes them swallow a Blacksteel Relic Pill and a White Crystal Relic Pill, giving them the black-leaf and white-leaf-shaped Impermanence Seals.
Once the seals form, each man's life depends on the other's virginity. If one loses his virginity, the other dies on the spot.
Taking Yu Mopan and Shan Mobi's personalities into account, Mo Yi sends Shan Mobi to pursue official honors and enter government service, while Yu Mopan goes to teach at the Jiang family's Fu'an Hall. There, he becomes entangled in a romance with Shi Yumu, daughter of the retired military governor Shi Yuchuan.
Shi Kaiwu, a retired general, has a son named Shi Yilin who wants no part of officialdom. He studied medicine under a master from a young age and became a renowned physician specializing in emotional disorders. Shan Mobi's younger sister, Shan Shuangwan, becomes his disciple.
After becoming an official, Shan Mobi is dedicated to serving the people well. He meets a female subordinate named Meng Rouning, and the two develop feelings for each other as they solve cases together.
Shi Yuchuan has his reasons for what he does. Shi Kaiwu seems like a saint on the surface, but he has other plans...
A story about family, friendship, and love, and about pursuing selflessness and broadening one's understanding...
