Su Wenxing, the first son of the second lady of Su’s Cloth Store, was once determined to get the store’s cachet and succeed his father’s position. Even though defeated by Ning Yi in his competition for power with his sister Su Tan’er, he took charge of the store in the end after his sister and Ning Yi had left Jiangning. However, he happened to hear servants talking about how others only took him as a mascot of the store. Su Wenxing was deeply humiliated and left for Fuyuan, hoping he can build something of his own, which went unsuccessfully and put him in distress. Just when he was in desperation, his old classmate came up and offered to turn the tide for him on the condition that…...

In the late Jiajing period of the Ming dynasty when corrupt officials almost ruled the government, a secret police officer called Lu Yi, played by Ren Jialun, was ordered to investigate the missing of the funds earmarked for building river embankments in Yangzhou. He got help from Yuan Jinxia, a female constable of Liushanmen. They then became emotionally involved with each other. Later, they got accidentally drawn into multiple conspiracies....