This is the tragic love story between the two sons of warlord Tso Tso and the gifted lady Yan Fuk from the late Eastern Han and the Three Kingdoms period. Tso Pei comes between his younger brother Tso Chik and Yan Fuk, secures his father s blessing for his marriage with Yan, and has Tso Chik exiled to Shandong Province. In time, Tso Pei succeeds to the throne and lays his murderous hands on Tso Chik, who manages to keep himself out of harm s way by composing a poem in seven paces. Finally, Tso Pei decides to change his ways for good, but Yan Fuk has jumped into River Luo and killed herself.

Lee Chui-hung works as a housemaid in the Hung family. Grocery owner Mangy Ox and Shu-ling, the sixth son of the Hung s, are her secret admirers, but her heart belongs to Ching Wan-man, the bookkeeper. Later, Lee, pregnant with Ching s child, is banished by Ching s mother to her maternal home, where she is forced to marry Mangy Ox by her own mother. When her son is taken seriously ill, her husband Mangy Ox, penniless and jobless, vanishes without a trace. As a result, Lee is considered a bearer of bad luck and is reduced to begging on the streets. Before long, her son dies. The unfortunate woman chances on Ching, now a prominent official, who offers to rekindle their love. Yet too ashamed of her circumstances, Lee leaves dejected.