The Tek Sing, carrying Dehua porcelain and more than 1,600 passengers, set sail from Xiamen, Fujian province, bound for Southeast Asia, only to meet a tragic end when it sank into the ocean. To research the story, the author Yu Qiang, born in 1944, retraced the ancient Maritime Silk Road from Fujian province to Indonesia. The experiences and anecdotes he gathered on this journey shaped the novel's central romance between the heirs of two rival kiln-owning families. Through their struggles and moral choices amid disaster, the story illuminates both human resilience and the enduring spirit of the Maritime Silk Road.