Song Jinxin had been hopelessly in love with Shen Changqing for three years, becoming the laughingstock of the capital. He even abandoned her at a hunting ground, where she nearly fell prey to wolves.
In her darkest hour, she was saved by Xie Yanzhi, the cold-faced powerful official whose name she had heard but whom she had never met.
With gritted teeth, she turned around and married into the Xie household, becoming the wife of the powerful Xie Yanzhi.
They laughed at her for being a discarded woman? She’d show them how she could manage the household and help her husband turn the tables.
They mocked her for having a loveless, icy marriage? So why did the powerful official, who was rumored to have no interest in women, linger in her room night after night?
Just as Song Jinxin and her powerful husband were falling in love after marrying first, having children, and moving forward hand in hand,
Xie Yanzhi disappeared while fighting the enemy on the frontier...
Two years later, he returned with another woman...