The series was adapted from Eryue He's historical novels, which are loosely based on historical events in the reigns of the Kangxi and Yongzheng Emperors in the Qing dynasty (1644–1911).

In 1930, Lin Yu Hui, a thirteen-year-old, lost her mother.

She followed her adoptive mother to Nanjing and accompanied her adoptive father to find a living along the Qinhuai River. Five years later, Chen Mo Ren, the old friend of his father, was brought into a new family. He met with Chen Pei Wen’s brother and sister and the servant Gao Bo’s grandson, Gao Jin Bang.

Because of the father Lin Chu Xi and Chen Mo Ren had a contract for marriage, so she had to end her love with Gao Jin Bang. When the Japanese went to Nanjing things changed and she started to unveiling the truth: the fiancé who she had been unwilling to accept went to the revolution and the people she once loved it gradually became the enemy of the nation.

Now, Lin Yu Hui, an ordinary girl on the Qinhuai River, sang the Nanjing love story of the war years.