Love Ends on the Qinhuai River

Plot Synopsis

Wang Ning, a palace maid who escaped from the palace, wandered among the common people with her infant daughter. Twenty years later, her daughter Liu Rushi grew into an extremely beautiful and talented woman. By chance, she encountered Qian Qianyi, the renowned leader of the literary world, on the banks of the Qinhuai River. The two fell in love with each other out of admiration for their respective talents. After going through helpless and reluctant waiting in time and space, emotional probing and tests in life, they finally bared their hearts to each other and got married. However, a major era of change arrived, like a storm pushing the fragile love between the two to the brink of danger. Dorgon, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, led the elite troops of the Eight Banners to the city of Nanjing. The monarch and his ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty scattered in all directions, leaving Qian Qianyi alone to hold the precarious situation. To spare the people of the whole city from suffering, Qian Qianyi han