The play is adapted from Tan Tianyin's novel "Kunshan Jade Prequel". It tells the story of a pearl-fishing girl who goes west to do business with the mysterious businessman Yan Zijing during the Dragon Boat Festival. Along the way, she meets the poet Zhang Jinran and her friend Yue Yunxiu. After going through many storms, she becomes a businesswoman..

In the early Tang Dynasty, a girl fishing for pearls in Hepu escaped from the pearl field during the Dragon Boat Festival to avoid being insulted. At a critical moment, the poet Zhang Jinran came to help her escape.In order to find out his life experience, Duan Wu joined the Sogdian merchant Yan Zijing's caravan, relying on his flexible mind to make a lot of jewelry business, and gained a deep friendship with Yue Yunxiu, the lady of Nianyu.Jingdian opened the door to the jewelry world, but Duanwu was involved in the life and death situation set up by Yan Zijing and almost died.

In order to find out the truth, Dragon Boat Festival went to Yangzhou and became famous for his “tortoiseshell armor”. He created the mirror platform with Yue Yunxiu, used jewelry and horse gear to break through the restrictions of local jewelers and occupied a place in the guild, and made colored glaze and sesel toColored jewelry was introduced to Yangzhou, where white jewelry is popular, broadening the local aesthetics and becoming the leader of the industry.

And by chance, she and Zhang Jinran reunited, and the two of them will no longer miss each other.But on the day when she finally became the leader of the guild, she was beaten to the bottom by her former ally Zheng Zhiheng. Fortunately, Zhang Jinran rescued her when her life was hanging by a thread. After escaping, she confronted Zheng Zhiheng, once again made a comeback, regained the leader of the guild, and ledYangzhou Guild once again reached the peak of jewelry art.