Silk Road Charm

Nanxun, a water town in Jiangnan. The wealthy Liu family and the Wang family of Wuzhen were longtime friends. Master Liu arranged a childhood betrothal between his son Liu Jiaxing and the Wang family's daughter Yaqin, offering a dragon-and-phoenix jade pendant as the engagement token. But disaster struck the Wang family, and a fire set by Changmao burned the Liu family mansion to the ground. The entire family perished. At the time, little Yaqin's wet nurse was away with her, so they escaped unharmed. The wet nurse took Yaqin back to Nanxun and opened a general store. To repay her employer's kindness, the wet nurse, who was pregnant herself, took medicine to end the pregnancy. From then on, little Yaqin was renamed Yao Xiaoying. Xiaoying always believed the wet nurse was her real mother.

The Liu family's second son, Liu Jiaxing, returned from studying in France. After someone framed him at the docks, Yao Xiaoying happened to save him, suffering serious injuries in the process.

Young Master Liu had no interest in the Dong family's daughter, who was considered a suitable match, and gradually fell in love with Yao Xiaoying. Knowing that her family was beneath the Lius in status, Xiaoying kept her distance from him.

When Xiaoying's father fell gravely ill, she pawned the jade pendant to pay for his treatment. The pawnshop belonged to the Liu family, and the pendant had originally been used as an engagement token for their son, so they grew suspicious of where it had come from.

After many twists and turns, the Liu family finally let their son marry Yao Xiaoying.

But at the engagement banquet, Wang Kan and his wife, who had escaped the fire and returned from France, recognized the wet nurse.

They confirmed that Yao Xiaoying was their daughter, and that her childhood betrothal was to the Liu family's young master, Liu Jiaxing.