It was a really good Drama. The FL xie Xiao ni(xi'er) at first really annoyed me with her character, but I decided to continue and glad I did. It turned out to be a refreshing drama about the Xie family who were merchants selling silks and very happy. Then you have
the Su family who wanted to be superior with fame/money & didn't want any competition in their way. Now it's time for the "The tribute merchant" for the Emperor and Prince Luo is sent to over see the bureaus lord yuan and lord gao(both bad) and they are not happy. It seems that su gong quan has always won as he and the bureau are stealing money and faking products sent to the emporer. So they try and get rid of the prince and his wagon goes off the cliff and can't be found why? Because xi'er and her brother /sister went hunting and she put an arrow in his leg and upon waking up with amnesia acting like a 5 year old and they have fun. Then one day he sneaks out and the bad guys hit him in the head and upon being found he's back to normal, but doesn't remember the Xie family. Now the tribute happens and the Xie family wins but bad things are done by su gong quan as he has sabbatoged them then framed the Xie family and had them exiled out of the capital, then had them murderer after leaving. Su gong quan continues to worked with the bureau doing alsorts of bad things. While on the otherside xi'er managed to live and was taken in by the Jiangnan yunjin manor who teaches embroidery under the name ni chang. Who then spends the next 2 years learning and teaches them how to dye fabric and meets Prince Luo there who doesn't remember her, but has headaches and flash. Backs. Here she makes close bestfriends with the owner/masters son Cheng tian and yuan xiang and then we have her nemesis yan wen xiu who hates & competes with her ni chang(who doesn't care) on everything. Then one night while everyone was drunk ni chang went to make hangover soup in the kitchen and wen xiu followed her and locked her in the room, but doesn't realizing she knocked over the candle and the hay catches fire. She panics and runs away while master and Cheng tian run to save ni chang and find the door lock and finally rescue her, but the smoke is heavy and the ceiling is falling and master get caught under and tells them to run as the building get engulfed. Master dies and wen xiu thru guilt blames nichang on killing her, but Cheng tian sticks up for her explaining she was locked in and then they blame wen xiu since she didn't have an alibie. Then the next day she disappeared and so the 3 of them decide to go to the capital as xias quin has aunt/uncle there who run a small shop at first they didn't want, but the kids worked hard and had good and bad days as again the sabbatoging started again once ni chang started interfereing withe the Su family stores. When she meets su wen yu again and hides her identity he figures it out due to her signatured hanki. He has always had a crush on her and would go against his family to help her then we find out yan wen xiu she suppose to marry him, but he refused to.. Now the storyline goes on to all the evil stuff by the bureau, su gong quan and yan wenxie which includes murder, blackmail, threats, sabbatog, stealing and more. You will definitely yell at the TV, cry and laugh with them and finally see them get what they Deserve. A must see