Ye Nansheng, the prince of the Prince's House, faked his death and eloped, leaving all the family's debts to his wife, Yan Niang. After Yan Niang discovered the conspiracy, she simply followed the trend and faked her death with her dowry and escaped to the south of the Yangtze River. On the way, she rescued the down-and-out scholar Shen Tingyun and married him into her husband. The two stayed together for ten years and had a pair of children. Unexpectedly, the scholar turned out to be the deposed prince who had been wronged. Once Shen Tingyun was restored to power, Yan Niang was promoted to princess. When Ye Nansheng returned from despair, what greeted him was the happy ending of revenge that Yan Niang had already prepared.
