the three generations of the meng family are all women. the matriarch, qiao haiyun, has three daughters. her eldest daughter, meng mingwei, who is not her biological child, shares a strained relationship with her daughter, li yijin. after a tumultuous struggle, they eventually manage to sustain this parental bond. meng wanqing, the second daughter, and her scholarly daughter, tao shuna, seem to be the epitome of a perfect mother-daughter relationship. however, as time goes on, they gradually discover each other’s secrets. as for the youngest, meng yi’an, though mirroring her mother with her dominant and independent nature, was determined to forge her own path, avoiding the fate of becoming a formidable woman like her mother. like a cluster of islands, the women of the meng family may be geographically apart, but they never forget to protect and support one another.