The story takes place in Nanxi, an ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River during the late Qing Dynasty. Niu Shiquan (played by Wang Bing) is the richest man in Nanxi. He wants to establish China's first machine-made silk factory. His daughter Niu Fangli (played by Yang Christine) returns from overseas studies and witnesses the murder of Song Jiaoren at Shanghai Railway Station. In the chaos, she meets Qi Che (played by Huang Jue) and falls in love. Unexpectedly, the relationship between the two was strongly opposed by the Hu family. After the Hu family's daughter, Hu Birong, married into the Niu family, she had been a widow since the age of sixteen, and it has now been a full thirty years. When Qi Che realized that she had fallen in love with the daughter of her enemy, she was even more upset. At this time, Qi Che's younger brother Xiao Huang (played by Liao Fan) fell in love with Fang Li's sister Manchan (played by Li Xiaolu), but due to a wrong step, he fell into an abyss of eternal destruction. Niu Shiquan wanted to kill Qi Che's brothers, but unexpectedly he was killed by Hu Birong, who hated him deeply. After that, Xiao Huang and Man Chan disappeared from the world, and Bi Rong set herself on fire because of her affair with a domestic slave. The family feud between two generations was wiped out...
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