After being reborn, Shen Zhaoyue finally saw clearly - the man who rescued her from the pit of fire in her previous life was the one who dug the pit.
Xiao Heng, the prince of Zhenbei Hou, is as gentle as jade, with deep love and righteousness. She once thought he was her salvation, but it wasn't until she was forced to death by Yi Zhi and Li Shu in the cold wind of the ancestral hall that she realized that she was just a pawn from beginning to end.
Reborn, she shattered all illusions.
The stepmother wants to force her to marry a murderer? She accepted the land deed from Xiao Heng with a smile, then turned around and sent her stepmother into the Buddhist hall. Xiao Heng thought this was a deal where everyone gets what he wants, but he didn't know that she had a knife hidden in her sleeve - what she wanted was never the false reputation of the mistress of the Hou Mansion, but the fact that she would step into the mud and taste the feeling of having nothing.
But he came up to help her check the accounts, give her evidence, and protect her from the knife. There were gradually more things in those gentle eyes that she couldn't understand.
"What do you want?"
He smiled but didn't answer.
It wasn't until she was on the way to find out the cause of her biological mother's death that she approached the most unlikely person step by step, and then she discovered that everyone in this situation was wearing a mask.
And her biggest bargaining chip is not Xiao Heng's protection, but the living witness who climbed back from the mass grave and pointed at her stepmother and said, "That's her."
When heavy snow fell all over the capital, she finally understood that in this life, she would not be a chess piece, but the chess player.
