Yan Qingshuang, the eighteen-year-old daughter of an official family, was originally a wealthy person, but she suddenly fell into the abyss. Powerful officials framed her family for rebellion, her father and brother were stained with blood on the execution ground, and her female family members became official prostitutes. She narrowly escaped because she went out to worship Buddha, but from then on she was labeled as a fugitive and fell from the clouds into the mud. In the past, the ladies who had no fingers in the spring water had to crawl around in the streets and alleys to taste the warmth and coldness of the world in order to survive. The cruel reality made her understand that being soft-hearted would only become a fatal weakness, so she buried her tenderness deeply, used ruthlessness as her armor, and beauty and wisdom as her sharp blade, and embarked on the road of revenge.
Xiao Yunheng, the 20-year-old concubine of Ning Guogong, indulged in drinking and sex on weekdays and looked like a playboy, but in fact he was both civil and military and possessed of strategies. He secretly traced the truth behind his biological mother's poisoning, lurked in the family, and used a cynical appearance to hide his edge.