Shen Baozhuang learned that her elopement as a young woman, the Shen family's downfall, and the man who had shared her bed night after night were all part of her husband Ning Changan's scheme. Grief-stricken, she set fire to the attic and took her own life.
Reborn at sixteen, before she ever eloped, Shen Baozhuang is determined to change her fate and the Shen family's, and never again be deceived as she was in her previous life.
She will protect her upright father and the grandmother who dotes on her. She will expose the true faces of her white-lotus stepmother, her black-hearted half-sister, and her former husband Ning Changan. He knew he was too poor to marry her, yet dragged her into the mud, then posed as her savior and expected her gratitude.
But why does Wen Gucheng, commander of the Criminal Investigation Bureau and her father's sworn enemy, look so much like the man who once entwined with her in bed?
When she happens to see the knife scar on Wen Gucheng's back, Shen Baozhuang becomes certain she has the right man. She wants to uncover the tangled grievances between Wen Gucheng, Ning Changan, and her father, but instead finds herself caught in Wen Gucheng's relentless push and pull.
