Tian Shaojun

Set against the backdrop of the Boxer Rebellion and the takeover of the Forbidden City by foreign powers, the empress-dowager Cixi and her notorious chief eunuch fight a losing battle to preserve their corrupt and autocratic regime.

Xinghua lives with her husband, who makes money by selling stones from the Great Wall. But she is unable to give him a son to inherit this wealth. When her husband hatches a plan to tear down the local historic fortress to find a legendary hidden treasure, she finds herself drawn to a gentler, more educated man who wants to preserve it.

Daily stories of six young couples who living in the same apartment building.

Folk Singer Wang Laogan's adventures in the city

The story takes place in the Yangtze River valley of China in the first half of the 20th century. The torrents and dangerous deep mountains and valleys and rivers have made countless people daunted.

Fang Baihe has been in and out of a drug rehabilitation center more than a dozen times. Her fragile elder sister Milan might have inherited the same illness than their mother had, so Fang Baihe gave up the man she loved deeply, Cheng Mo, to her sister Zilan. She couldn't let her sister suffer the slightest blow. But has the sister lived a happy life as she thought?