Widow You Nianci runs a restaurant called "Dongmi Garden" in Chiligong Town. The store is full of customers. Cis has two sons and a daughter, who are triplets, named Jin Nian, Jin Yue and Jin Ri. Nian was originally a five-rank official in the court, but was sent back to Chiligong Town as the county magistrate because he offended Princess Shen Tian. Yue is lazy and evil, and only became the manager of "Dongmi Garden" because of his good calculation skills. Ri is picky and the men in Chiligong Town don't like him. Shi Biao is a county capturer and is Nian's good friend. Biao's father, Shi Dachuan, has incurred heavy debts from gambling, so his eldest daughter, Shi Mei, had to marry Yue as a concubine to pay off the debt, causing constant quarrels and jealousies between the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law and wife. Since Mei married into the Jin family, the relationship between the Jin and Shi families has become tangled......