Shen Zhiyuan died on the snowy night when his family was confiscated and his family was exterminated. As the legitimate daughter of Ji Shitang, she committed suicide in front of the horse of her enemy, Pingnan King Xie Tu, just to save the last bit of face of the Shen family. When she opened her eyes again, she didn't drink Meng Po soup, but drank Hexin wine. The red candle warmed the tent, the dragon and phoenix were sleeping on the quilt, and lying beside her was the man she hated so much. She became Xie Tu's new wife, a trophy sent to "appease" him because of his family's sins. Everyone thought that this once famous noblewoman was now nothing more than a plaything whose pride had been broken and was being exploited. Xie Tu thought so too. He watched her calm down every morning and dusk, serving tea docilely, her brows and eyes no longer had the slightest sparkle of the past, only a dead silence remained. He was very satisfied, thinking that this proud phoenix had finally been tamed by him. But he doesn't know. The soothing tea he drank every day contained the extremely hard-to-detect "pinellia", which would give him nightmares every night and make him restless.
