This family tale spans three generations of Chinese trying to understand and come to terms with lifes changes Middlesome relatives stir up a storm The old and the young find themselves and their values developing and evolving and new relationships come and go The eldest family member Guan the son of a royal physician of the former Qing Dynasty has also become a great physician who is able to predict the exact time of a patients death His exdaughterinlaw Yu trained by him to be a physician still stays with the family as his assistant Her exhusband Jin comes back from the USA with his new girlfriend Jenny a beautiful American who is doing a research on the death of Guangxu the second last Emperor of Qing Dynasty who is Guans fathers patient Jenny speaks fluent Mandarin but she has a long way to go before understanding and getting accustomed to the Chinese tradition and mindset On the other hand Yu falls in love with her old friend who is a married man
