"With no clouds in the sky, there will be no rain
With no matchmakers on the earth, there will be no marriage
How can you be without the Golden Ice People when it comes to the biggest decision of your life?"

The Ice People of ancient times are the Matchmakers of today. In the Tang dynasty, three 'ice people' who called themselves the greatest matchmakers in the world went far and wide to bring together true lovers and were eventually famed as the "Golden Ice People".

Chang An's famous Lam family are offering a large sum in search of a son-in-law and is causing some excitement among the matchmakers. With a cheeky but honourable personality, self-named "Golden Bird Bridge" Chuen Ka Fook (Steven Ma) and also famed in the matchmaking world "Golden Chrysanthemum Fan" Lin Pak Hap (Maggie Cheung) put their abilities against each other for the first time and their target is the amazing constable from a noble family Ko Pui (Moses Chan). As the two go head to head, the official matchmaker Ling Ku Hei (Joyce Coi) takes her chance. However, Pui has his hearts set on another and dressed as a man, Hei is not able to gain any advantage and finds herself falling for him instead. For fear of losing the post that she holds and being found out she is misleading the emperor, she can only hide away her love.

Fook and Hap realise that as two dogs fight, there will be one injured, so they co-operate and create "Joined by a Thread" matchmaking service to maximise their hold on the matchmaking business. However on the day of their opening, they find that their respective parents have already arranged their own marriages and their partners are close by!

The court sends down an official order of marriage, everyone who has reached maturity needs to be married within one year and as everyone seeks their other half, major confusion arises...