Set during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, it focuses on the affairs of the Su family, a prominent family in the capital. Su Mingyue, the daughter of a foreign wife, was admitted to the Shangshu Mansion, and stepped into the center of the whirlpool where the legitimate concubines were fighting for property and the concubines were seizing power. The iron fist of the mistress Wang, the femininity of Aunt Liu, and the flamboyance of Aunt Zhao are the three pillars of the back house; the mediocrity of the eldest son, the treachery of the second son, the inheritance dispute is entangled with the factional strife in the court and the power of the world, and the shadow of the old department of the deposed prince quietly penetrates.
Ming Yue is helpless, but she uses wisdom as her blade and forbearance as her armor. She deals with the conspiracy of Chazhan Spice and survives in the cracks of the marketplace. She not only wants to protect her biological mother's relics and uncover the truth about her "death of illness", but she also wants to find hope in the swordsmanship of the nursing home, the censor's calculations, and the game between the royal merchants. The rules of a deep house are a weapon for killing people, the rumors in the market are invisible weapons, and the complexity of people's hearts is the most deadly chess game.
When the beauty of the wealthy family is stained by power and conspiracy, when the wind and rain outside the high wall shatter the tranquility, this seemingly timid woman will eventually find her own way to escape in the entanglement of love and hate, and the battle of life and death.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
