At eight years old, Yu Feiwan and her mother, Yu Niang, entered the marquis’s residence. She thought life would return to the peaceful way it had been before, but eight years later, Yu Niang was caught poisoning the Marquis of Jingxi. In the end, she took her own life out of guilt, leaving Yu Feiwan a helpless orphan. She followed her mother’s dying advice: speak little, listen more, and think things through. That was enough to survive in the residence, but a verbal marriage promise was about to shatter everything. Where should she go from here?