The play wrote a gripping and soul-stirring human tragedy. Thirty years ago, the landlord Zhou Puyuan, a young man, drove away his maid Lu Shiping in order to marry a rich woman, who had just given birth to his second child. Desperate Lu Shiping jumped into the river with her newborn second son, Lu Dahai, to help others. Thirty years later, his daughter Sifeng unfortunately went to the Zhou family to be a maid. At this time, Zhou, the eldest son who stayed at home, was tired of the incestuous relationship with his stepmother and fell in love with Sifeng instead. When Sifeng was pregnant for three months, Shiping Road came to Zhou Puyuan's house again. Because of her appearance, Zhou Ping and Sifeng discovered the real relationship between them and both committed suicide. His drought-striken fields' younger brother, Fan Yi's own son Zhou Chong, also died for saving Sifeng. Fan Yi and Shi Ping were insane at the same time, leaving Zhou Puyuan to repent silently in loneliness.