The prototype story of Dwelling House: Song Siming's prototype is Qin Yu. Qin Yu was originally the secretary of Chen Liangyu, the former secretary of Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, and was called "the first secretary of Shanghai". She was sentenced to life imprisonment and deprived of political rights for life because of corruption and bribery of millions of yuan.
Dwelling House is a TV series directed by Huatao Teng, adapted from the novel Dwelling House published by writer Liu Liu in 2007, starring Christina, Zhang Jiayi, Wen Jian, Li Lian and Hao Pingling.
TV plays face the hot topics in the society, reflecting the twists and turns experienced by ordinary people in urban life under the background of soaring housing prices. The play premiered on Shanghai TV Station on July 27th, 2009, and it took only four days to reach a record high. The hot topics involved in the play have aroused heated discussion among the public.