Bai Li is the beautiful, pampered yet surprisingly grounded maidservant of the rich lord of the Xi province.
One day as she was relaxing in the shade she was kidnapped by some slave dealer hoping to make a coin or two. She is sold into the noble household of Ling to serve the young mistress Fei Ling.
Through a series of events Bai Li ,under a new identity known as Hong, is forced to play the Guzheng -a stringed instrument- for a mysterious stranger in the place of Fei Ling.
What will happen if she is found out?