In the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), a cruise ship was coming from France to China. There are a group of China students who have just returned from Europe, including the protagonist Fang Hung-chien and his classmate Su. When Fang Hung-chien was in high school, he was engaged to his family and had a nominal father-in-law. Because of his fiancee's death, his father-in-law gave him money to prepare for his daughter's wedding and also funded him to study in Europe. The tanker is sailing at sea. On the tanker, Fang Hung-chien also met a Macao woman, Miss Bao. Their friendship is developing like a tropical plant. Miss Bao seduced Fang Hung-chien and quickly dumped him. Fang Hung-chien went back to Shanghai to work part-time in a bank in the name of Zhang's husband, and went to see Miss Su. At Miss Su's home, he met Miss Su's cousin Tang Xiaofu and fell in love with her. After his courtship was rejected, he followed Zhao, Li and others to teach at Hunan University with Gu Erqian. A group of people encountered various bumps on their journey before reaching their destination. When they arrived at San Lv University, the faculty and staff were curious, arguing and jealous. Zhao and Fang Hung-chien hated all kinds of ugly images and left one after another. After Fang Hung-chien was expelled from school, he left San Lv University with Sun Roujia. Under Zhao's persuasion, they chose to get married in Hong Kong. When they got married and returned to Shanghai, Zhao recommended Fang Hung-chien as the director of the reference room of the newspaper office, and Miss Sun went to work in her aunt's factory. Fang Hung-chien was deserted in Shanghai. Because of the war, he wanted to leave Shanghai to look for opportunities in Chongqing. As a result, he and Jou-chia disagreed, which eventually led to the breakdown of their marriage.

At this point, a siege about Fang Hung-chien's married life ended.