Ten years ago, more than a hundred members of the Yun family were slaughtered.
Ten years later, Yun Zhao, the orphaned daughter of a general’s household that had been confiscated, seeks a way to survive and investigate the truth behind her family’s destruction. She takes the place of Lin Wan, the daughter of a minor official in the Lin family, and marries into the Xie family, the wealthiest imperial merchants in Yancheng.
On their wedding night, he catches her by the wrist and smiles. “Those hands of yours, made for wielding a sword, seem more accustomed to embroidering withered plum blossoms.”
She clasps his palm in return and says, “Husband, I want a gold plum-blossom hairpin!”
