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Outstanding student Xia Linxi grows close to gifted but financially struggling classmate Jiang Zhenghan. Their relationship follows them from high school into university and working life, where family expectations and career choices test their commitment.

After their mother's death, the five Qiao siblings grow up with an unreliable father and depend heavily on eldest brother Yicheng. Across decades of social change, work, marriage, and family disputes repeatedly test the bonds formed in their difficult childhood.

Sharp-minded official Tang Fan and disciplined guard Sui Zhou join forces to investigate unusual crimes in Ming-era Beijing. Alongside palace eunuch Wang Zhi, their partnership leads from local mysteries into conspiracies threatening the imperial court.