Story introduction
Shen Zhiyi was a well-known talented woman in the capital in her previous life. She had been engaged in marriage since she was a child, and she married into the Jingyuan Marquis Mansion and became the head wife. The back house of the Hou Mansion is as deep as the sea. Her husband Gu Yanzhi is a romantic man, he has a lot of concubines, and the undercurrent of the fight between the heir apparent is surging. In order to save the face of the Shen family and the honor of his legitimate wife, she is forced to get involved in the internal fight, and her hands are stained with dirt. Her only legitimate son, Ayan, was born prematurely and was weak, but the infertile Aunt Liu killed her by eating her. Gu Yanzhi ignored this and regarded it as the child's fate. This became the trigger for her complete break with her husband. In order to protect her, Qing He, a confidant, died tragically due to the poisonous blade of a fight between wives and concubines. Shen Zhiyi, who was despairing of all hope, killed his enemy and was imprisoned in a cold hospital. Before the age of forty, he ran out of fuel and died in loneliness and regret.
Once reborn, Shen Zhiyi returned to the time when she was fifteen and had her haircut, just when Gu Yanzhi came to ask for an early engagement. This time, she saw clearly Gu Yanzhi's hypocrisy and the cannibalistic nature of the Hou family, so she resolutely broke the engagement and cut off the bad fate in her previous life. She refused to be trapped in the fate of living in the back house, caring for her husband and raising children, and took the initiative to become a female official of the eldest princess. Relying on her talents and wisdom, she worked step by step to promote the female imperial examination system and fight for the right of women in the world to study and become officials. She assisted the eldest princess to stabilize the court situation, ascend the throne as emperor, strategize in the court, overcome obstacles, and eventually became the prime minister, becoming a powerful minister. In this life, she never remarried, but she protected her confidants, realized her self-worth, made it customary for women to enter the court, and lived a magnanimous and glorious life that she had never experienced in her previous life. Looking back on her life, she has no regrets.
