One of her best-known works, it has been adapted multiple times into film and TV dramas.The story follows a young girl Lu Yi-ping whose father Lu Chen-hua had for years been a warlord in Northeast China, where he forcibly married many girls, before fleeing the 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution for Taiwan (presumably after joining the National Revolutionary Army to fight the communists as many minor warlords did during the Chinese Civil War).

After realizing her half-sister Lu Ru-ping fancies reporter Ho Shu-huan, she actively seeks his love as part of her scheme.

Lu Chen-hua also dies from shock and anger, leaving Yi-ping full of remorse.

By this point, Yi-ping has forgiven the Lu household, but it's too late to save her love with Ho Shu-huan.

The novel has also been translated to Dutch (as Vuur en regen), Danish (as Ild og regn), Indonesian (as Kabut Cinta) and Vietnamese (as Dòng sông ly biệt), among other languages.