"Far but Near" is divided into 3 parts: "Dispersal", "Return" and "Integration". The readers meet with the first volume of "Dispersal" this time, which starts from Shanghai in the 1930s. Against the background of the national calamity, the love and hatred relationship among the four wives of a rich merchant family and their offspring twists and turns the whole story plot and complicates the interpersonal relationship. Although the whole family wrestles tenaciously with fate and various social forces in the turbulent years, they eventually have to be separated and go to mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United States, etc. The story is beautifully sad and touching.