"Zi Cong Li Bie Hou" (自从离别后) performed by Zhao Wei, "Li Bie De Che Zhan" (离别的车站) performed by Zhao Wei, Romance in the Rain is a 2001 Chinese-Taiwanese television period drama jointly produced by Yi Ren Communications Company (怡人傳播有限公司) in Taiwan and China International Television Corporation (中国国际电视总公司) in mainland China.

Romance in the Rain was filmed in Shanghai in 2000, and first broadcast in Taiwan on China Television in April 2001.

The protagonist of Romance in the Rain, Yiping is one of the many children of Lu Zhenhua, a retired general with nine wives.

Both she and her mother are banished from the Lu household through the actions of her father's ninth wife, Wang Xueqin.

The mercilessness with which her father and stepmother treat her has made her resentful of the Lu family, which she refers to as the "other side."

At first, she is at odds with her half-brother Erhao and half-sister Ruping for this reason, but she eventually learns to love and accept them as her siblings.

After the death of her father, Yiping became the sole financial support of the Lu family as Erhao also enlists in the army.

Yiping's character is loud and blunt, with a strong sense of righteousness and justice due to the misfortunes that she and her mother have suffered.

At the same time, she also meets Du Fei, Shuhuan's colleague, who develops strong feelings for Ruping.

Shuhuan runs away from their engagement ceremony, her mother has been found guilty of committing adultery and stealing from their family's treasury, and after helping her mother escape imprisonment by contacting Wei Guangxiong, Ruping is the direct cause of the loss of all of the Lu family's savings, which earns her much anger and harsh words from her father.

Towards the end of the story, Shuhuan goes off to fight in the war between Japan and China, leaving Yiping to wait for him.

In the final episode, after arriving in China, Lu Yiping finds him, and Shuhuan runs to her and told her "I love you" many times and then kissed her.

Erhao is the son of Lu Zhenhua and Xue Qin, brother to Ruping and Mengping, and half-brother to Yiping from his father and Erjie from his mother.

However, his relationship with Fang Yu becomes complex after Erhao discovers that his past childhood love, Keyun, once had his child and is now mentally disabled.

Throughout Romance in the Rain, Yiping, Shuhuan, Erhao, Ruping, Du Fei, and Fang Yu attempt to help Keyun recover her memory.

After Zhenhua married Xueqin, he lost interest in Wenpei and eventually was expelled from the Lu household.

She also had an affair outside her marriage for more than ten years with a man named Wei Guangxiong which started in Harbin and continued when she moved to Shanghai unbeknownst to Zhenhua.

One of Zhenhua's officers and most trusted person, Li Zhengde is also a retired soldier and living a quiet life in Shanghai.

Later Yiping takes a job as a songstress in "Grand Shanghai" nightclub to support the family of Li Zhengde as well as herself and her mother.

Qin Wuye gave the job as a songstress in the "Big Shanghai" during the war and during the financial crisis of the Lu family.

However, before he achieved this, Pingping committed suicide in order to avoid an arranged marriage, which had a powerful effect on Zhenhua.

Because of his love for Pingping, Lu Zhenhua gives all of his twelve daughters a name that includes the character Ping (萍): Xinping (心萍), Yiping (依萍), Ruping (如萍), and Mengping (夢萍/梦萍).