Three years after marrying into a noble family with red dowry, Su Yi's life was colder than the cold plum blossoms in the twelfth lunar month. Her husband, Ning Yuan Hou Xiao Jue, regarded her as if she were a piece of shit. He stepped on her high and held her low, and even deducted a few points from the charcoal fire in winter. She originally thought that she was not worthy of this cold-faced general with great military exploits, until she accidentally entered his forbidden area that night——
The room is full of traces of another woman: the yellowed portrait's eyebrows are exactly the same as hers, half a mandarin duck jade pendant lying in the dressing box, and a locked diary with the word "Su Qing" embroidered on the cover.
It turned out that she was just a stand-in.
The woman named Su Qing was her twin sister who died young, and she was the one Xiao Jue held dear to her heart. And her marriage into the Hou family was a transaction that used family affection as a bargaining chip from beginning to end.
The diary was quietly opened, and the writing on the yellowed pages ranged from bright to sad, gradually revealing the truth about her sister's "death of illness" - it was not an accident, but a well-planned murder, involving family secrets and the shadow of the Hou Mansion.
When the cold husband's eyes began to linger on her, when the swords and shadows of the house fight pressed closer and closer, Su Yi clenched the blood-stained diary. She is no longer a stand-in at the mercy of others, but an avenger seeking revenge for her sister.
The deep house is treacherous, and people's hearts are unpredictable. She walked step by step in the quagmire, not only to tear off the murderer's disguise, but also to see clearly what was hidden in the eyes of the cold-faced general, whether it was her obsession with the dead or her attraction to the living.
And the last page of that diary also hides a secret that can subvert the two major families...
