On the wedding day, Shen Lingyi was forced to marry into the Hou Mansion as a substitute, and everyone was waiting to see how the "substitute bride" would die with dignity. But when she lifted the hijab, she saw a pair of terrifyingly calm eyes - the groom was not the one he was supposed to be with. Two discarded stones pushed onto the chessboard by their families signed three covenants under the wedding candle: to protect their lives, to seize power, and to settle their accounts.
The real bride returns home with a token, crying that her life has been stolen; the real groom returns in triumph and forces her to become his concubine to rectify her name. Rumors, ancestral halls, palace gates, account books and blades fell together. She did not rely on tears to clear her name, but only relied on evidence to turn the case over; he was strong, but put the choice in her hands.
This substitute marriage, starting from the moment of survival, will eventually end "uprightly".
