My Stepmother Destroyed My Family, So the Physician Consort and the General Toppled the Court

After the Murong family is framed and condemned, the legitimate daughter, Murong Yue, is forced to marry Zhao Kuangyin, the second son of the Defender General, to save her father and brothers. On their wedding night, he coldly tells her in his armor, “Don’t think of me as your husband,” then rides away, leaving her alone in an empty courtyard. Life in the marquis’s household is fraught with danger. Concubines provoke her, and her legal mother-in-law plots against her at every turn. Using her family’s inherited golden-needle technique, she finds a way through every crisis and turns the tide when the Imperial Hospital is at a loss.

What begins as a marriage of convenience slowly breaks down his defenses amid nighttime assassinations and court intrigue, as he repeatedly shields her with his own body. It turns out that their rescue of each other in the back courtyard of a clinic ten years ago had already sown the seeds of their love. When a wrongful case involving the grain transport canal leads to a palace coup, she uses medical records as proof while he wields military power as a shield. Together, they tear through layer upon layer of conspiracy.

From strangers to husband and wife who would die for each other, how much unspoken love lies within this marriage that began as a scheme? And how will the hidden hand stirring up the storm rewrite their fate?