Throughout the play, the Shen family's father and grandfather almost made the wrong choice every time, they thought they knew the times and were handsome, but they couldn't see the situation clearly every time. The Shen family's grandfather and Hua Yi were good friends, and the two set up family affairs for their grandchildren in their early years. The day before sending the dowry to the Hua family, the Hua family was raided because of the crime of speaking, and Shen's father urgently asked people to deal with the dowry and never mention it again (after the Hua family returned to glory), regardless of Shen Qi's wishes, it is normal for people to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, which is understandable.
Later, in order to find support in the court, the father and grandfather of the Shen family wrote a letter in the name of their eldest son Shen Qi to meet King Xian, and chose King Xian to stand in line. Shen Qi is a gentleman, and after learning about his father and grandfather's behavior, he would rather move out and live with them than go along with them. Unexpectedly, King Xian rebelled and died, after King Xian's rebellion failed, the emperor was furious and asked people to investigate the officials involved with King Xian, the father and grandfather of the Shen family were in chaos, and wanted to sacrifice their second son Shen Huan and Cao Lu to make the Jiang family marry, but they didn't know that Shen Huan was in love with the daughter of Ling Wangfu and the male protagonist's sister Peony, and almost missed this thigh. The Shen family was still raided by the emperor. The matter was revealed, and Shen's father and grandfather felt that the identity of the eldest son Shen Qi was more promising, so they let the second son, Shen Huan, answer the charge of communicating with King Xian, regardless of family affection, cold-blooded and cruel. However, due to the intercession of the male protagonist Gu Yanxi, the emperor only disposed of the Shen family's father and grandfather, and the rest were released.
Later, the Jiang family, who the Shen family originally wanted to choose to marry, was also raided due to rebellion, even if they succeeded in marrying the Jiang family at that time, they would also be involved.
Fortunately, the old lady Shen of the Shen family was more reasonable, and after the defeat of the Hua family, she was entrusted to go to withdraw from her relatives, but when she saw the situation of the Shen family at that time, she couldn't bear it, and she didn't take out the letter of resignation, and was discovered by the heroine's grandmother. After the Shen family was down, Hua Zhi remembered that the old lady Shen did not fall into the well in the past to help the Shen family. Shen Qi and Shen Huan are also different from their father and grandfather, they are not opportunistic people, one of them is good at reading, and later became an official in the court as a teacher of the new emperor (the former sixth prince), and the other is good at doing some strange things to help the restaurant business flourish.