More than ten years after being separated from her family, she takes a keepsake from them to the marquis's residence to prove her identity, only to be bullied and forcibly seized by the heir.
To protect herself, she tumbles into Yan Xuheng's heated sedan chair. At a glance, she can tell that he's ill, and as it happens, she can cure him. From then on, she has the chancellor's protection. An imperial decree of marriage binds them together, and she starts throwing her weight around the residence.
Her stepmother lets her wicked servants and three younger sisters torment her at every turn. She turns to her scumbag father and points out that his four other children are the products of an affair. She loves watching them turn on one another.
The heir of Zhenyuan Marquis, who had tried to abduct her, wants to take her back as a concubine. She tears up every stone tile in the marquis's residence. “Young Marquis, your house is full of gold. Did you take it from the imperial treasury?”
A commandery princess tries to ruin her reputation and steal her marriage prospect, so she digs up the princess's father's grave. “Princess, your father committed treason and sold out the country. Under Shangyu law, doesn't that make you an official courtesan?”
The retired emperor, whom she once saved, says, “I'm entrusting my son's happiness for the rest of his life to you.”
His son, Yan Xuheng, says, “She won't let me lose.”
