Six years after the divorce, Sheng Wu's ex-husband Si Ye ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. The day the news reached her second husband's family, her mother-in-law, Mrs. Jiang, forced her to give her a divorce letter. Jiang Zhenhong ignored his mother's obstruction and stopped his wife and daughter overnight because the new emperor had already issued an order to recruit him to Beijing to take up his post. Whether it was a blessing or a curse, the Jiang family could not avoid it. When they met again, Sheng Wu called her his wife at the emperor's feet. The emperor's noncommittal and indifferent face gradually gave birth to a smile with unknown meaning.
