As she lay dying on the hospital bed, Sheng Molan looked at Liang Liulang's indifferent back and realized that she had spent her entire life working as a chess piece in the hands of her mother, Lin Sushuang. In exchange for clinging to the powerful, she was despised by the royal family, rejected by her husband, and desolate in the orphanage.
When she opened her eyes, she was fourteen years old again, before she embarked on the life-ruining plan. In this life, she hid the regrets and sharpness of her previous life, shed her vanity and glitz, and devoted herself to learning housekeeping skills from Mrs. Sheng, breaking the prejudice that "Lin girls only know how to be kitsch" with her calm talent; she took the initiative to resolve the gap with Minglan and Rulan, exchanged her sincerity for sisterhood, and joined forces to end the whirlpool of house fighting; she refused the Liang family's proposal to cling to the family, and chose Wen Yanjing from the scholarly family according to her own will, and found a good marriage of mutual respect.
From being a concubine in a deep house to a mistress who is famous in Beijing, from being dependent on others to opening a Jinxiu Pavilion to help women, Mo Lan uses the experience of half a life as a ladder to break through the haze of the past under the shackles of feudal ethics. When the turmoil in the court arose and her old friend returned home in despair, she was no longer the dodder flower trapped in the back house. Instead, with her sobriety and tenacity, she lived a beautiful life that lived up to herself, her relatives and friends.
