A bride arrives at the remote family estate of her new husband full of hope for the future, but Cloud Mountain is haunted by a curse and the ghost of another bride who died far too young

1806, Cloud Mountain. Jiayi is the lowliest of the Gu family’s servants, so she is thrilled when their son and heir chooses her to be his “little wife.” But this quasi-marriage offers no security, and Jiayi’s situation becomes increasingly perilous as her husband’s family plots against her.

1906, Shanghai. Scarlet is devoted to her work as a midwife in Red House Hospital and can’t imagine abandoning it for the constraints of marriage—until she meets benefactor Wenqiang Gu. After a whirlwind courtship, he persuades her to join him at his remote estate and bring modern medicine to the village.

Scarlet arrives at Cloud Mountain only to find her new marriage overshadowed by superstition. The villagers believe the family is cursed, and soon Scarlet begins to fear her fate is bound to that of another bride . . . one who lived a hundred years before.