Two young people with a young child, living in the seventies, are full of ideas and dreams. They are madly in love with each other, but a disastrous accident during a sailing trip over the ocean, drifts them apart. Thirty-five years later, they meet again and there is still love, but also other strong emotions to cope with. Does she dare to entrust him a big secret from the pas...。根据上海越剧院演出本改编。明代吏部尚书李廷甫之女李秀英,聪明贤惠,容貌秀丽,父母爱若珍宝。秀英年已及笄,尚待字闺中。李廷甫50寿诞之日,好友王裕夫妇偕子玉林前来祝寿。李廷甫见玉林品貌端庄,仪表不俗,有意试试他的才华,就叫他题写寿联一副。玉林即席挥毫,顺手而成。李廷甫大喜,就以秀英许配为妻。李秀英的表兄顾文友,原有娶秀英之心,今见她被许配王玉林,心中恼恨,遂与孙媒婆密谋定下奸计。。牧野王直逼金殿,金殿之上帝后说出帝有一子:天星。帝后派曼殊寻天星继承大统。宫中谋反,牧野王被擒,赛毅称王。天星曼殊回宫来败阵,不料利剑刺穿赛毅,曼殊手握长剑含泪。自古忠孝难两全,曼殊为忠国而弑父,为孝父而自尽。。