1. Xu Fugui (played by Chen Chuang).

Fugui is a playboy who is addicted to gambling. After losing all his family wealth, his father was so angry that he killed his pregnant wife and ran away from home with their daughter. After his wife came back, Fugui changed his mind and started his life again. He was dragged by the Kuomintang army to become a young man, and later he became a prisoner of the Communist Party in a muddle-headed manner. After going through all kinds of hardships, he finally returned home safely, but by this time his mother had passed away and his daughter Fengxia had also become mute due to illness.

2. Chen Jiazhen (played by Liu Mintao).

Chen Jiazhen is a hardworking, kind and virtuous woman who is hard-working and never complains. She and Fugui have been together through thick and thin. When her husband was addicted to gambling and ruined the family fortune, Jiazhen refused to listen to her advice and angrily took her daughter back to her parents' home. But when Fugui had nothing, and when she heard that Fugui had completely given up gambling, she returned to Fugui to fight with him. She does not covet great fortune and wealth, she just wants to "live a peaceful life."

3. Fengxia (played by Wang Xuejing).

Fengxia is Fugui's eldest daughter. When Fugui was taken to be a young man, she became deaf-mute due to a serious illness. From then on, as I grew older, I gradually became more and more sensible. Then, Fugui gave it to someone else in order to support Youqing in studying. But later, she ran home, and Fugui was reluctant to send her away, so he kept her at home again. After experiencing the pain of her teenage years, Fengxia married Erxi.

4. Liu Chunsheng (played by Geng Shengkai).

Mi Xing’s clerk, Chun Sheng was delivering food to the army for shopkeeper Chen, and was forced to stay as a soldier. After the troops were surrounded, Chunsheng, Fugui and a large number of Kuomintang soldiers surrendered to the People's Liberation Army. Chunsheng became a soldier of the People's Liberation Army and followed the army south.