In order to settle his debt, Zhou Shen Ying decided to pawn his cherished "twelve golden hairpins," which had been handed down by his grandfather. Though he was fixated on being well-liked, he was caught off guard when he was called upon to recover the hairpins. Yet, in order to get them back from the group of twelve individuals who now owned them, Ah Ying must make the difficult decision of sacrificing either "his dignity" or "his physical being."