Leonella and her niece, Antonia, visit a church to hear the sermon of a celebrated priest, Ambrosio, and while waiting tell their story to two young men, Don Lorenzo and Don Christoval.
The female doctor, Yi Qing, had transmigrated to become an exiled Shu girl, had brought along an unknown father as a burden, and had been forced into marriage by her mother, how could this be a tragic word?