Lu Yaqing during the Chinese republican year as she goes from being poor to marrying into wealth and learns to use her skills in embroidery to become a wealthy and powerful woman and making an impact during her time.
Focuses on three different families in Beijing and their development as they witness China going from feudalistic to democracy. Familial affections and love, family and the country, they're all interrelated as men and women develop, whether for love or for friendship.
Kang Woo is a talented college student who is studying the fine arts. Strange things begin to happen when his girlfriend, Wol Ha, and a few friends come to visit him at his family's mountain cabin.
The eldest daughter of a rich family, Xu Xi Xi wakes up from a coma and realises she has lost her memory. She falls in love with her bodyguard Lu Jin Yan at first sight. She learns from Ding Bei Fan that she is not really Xu Xi Xi, but in fact she is An Yue, someone who looks the same as Xi Xi. An Yue discovers more amazing secrets in the process of investigating the truth, while Lu Jin Yan, as a bodyguard, also has a hidden agenda.
Bai He is a college freshman who grew up with her father. She has a deep sense of justice, respects her elders and is also a tad tomboyish. Because of an accident, Bai He's life turns into one of the magical encounters. She is pulled right into the center of different novels that take her through history from the time of the ancient dynasties to the Republican era to the present day. Her mission is to help the insignificant characters in the novel find their purpose. In this way, she will be able to save her childhood friend Li Yan Xi.
In the eight years of Qianlong's reign, a golden chamber bird inspection led to a catastrophic earthquake that caused disasters. It exposed the crisis of the shrinking of grain fields in Daqing.