Shen Yihui, the Shen family’s legitimate eldest daughter, is tricked by her younger half-sister and sent to marry Pei Jixuan, a wastrel heir in the capital whom everyone laughs at.
Everyone mocks her as a discarded daughter paired with a good-for-nothing, destined to spend her life suffering in the marquis’s household.
But no one knows that beneath her gentle exterior lies a keen and clever mind, or that beneath his wastrel facade hides a talent for strategy that could astonish the world.
She enters the marquis’s household, takes charge of the inner residence, purges the corrupt, and secures her position step by step;
He conceals his brilliance, avoids trouble, and guards his heart, yet for her he casts aside every disguise.
From strangers bound by marriage to allies who would die for each other, she helps him dispel the mists obscuring the court, while he wins her the glory of a first-rank honorific title.
Once discarded by her family, she becomes a noblewoman revered throughout the land;
Once a reckless wastrel, he transforms into a powerful minister who will protect his wife at all costs.
The marquis’s household is as deep as the sea, but I command the tides;
The wastrel hides a true heart, bowing to one woman alone.
A substitute marriage from the start, a lifetime devoted to bringing peace to the realm.
She relies neither on her family nor on fate. She will be her own strongest support!
