There is a Beauty in the North

In the early years of the Republic of China, warlords fought in a melee. The famous scholar Xia Xizun was invited by Duan Qirui's Beiyang government to leave Suzhou and go to Beijing to serve as an official in the Ministry of Education. A family of four travels to Jinan Prefecture, ruled by the great warlord Zhang Zongchang (played by Liu Jinshan). In the chaos, Xia's two children Jiping (played by Lin Miaoke) and Zijian are abducted by traffickers. After many twists and turns, the two children were bought by a kind-hearted middle-aged man Wang Dafu. Wang and his wife (played by Chen Xiaoyi) are ordinary people at the bottom of Jinan. The couple live hard in the steamed bun house. Wang used the money to buy food in exchange for his two children, which made his wife furious, but in the end the Ji Ping siblings settled down in the Wang family. Years later, in order to support his younger brother's education, Ping sent his neighbor Yin Chengru (played by Kou Zhenhai) to study Shandong Qinshu, and then switched to studying Peking Opera, and eventually became a famous Peking Opera actress. But in the troubled times at that time, a lovely person like a flower was destined to face a bad fate...