[The bastard's transformation + court tactics]
Jiang Xingzhou is the concubine of the Zhenbei Hou Mansion. His biological mother died young. His aunt-in-law sees him as a thorn in her side, and his brothers see him as a stepping stone. For fifteen years, he pretended to be stupid, swallowed his anger, and lived his life as the least promising person in the house.
Until that night, he accidentally bumped into his aunt's mother conspiring with outsiders, and heard a name - "Zhao Yue" that his mother repeatedly chanted before she died.
The next day, he was framed for stealing a family heirloom jade pendant and was expelled from the Hou Mansion. Before leaving, his aunt-in-law gave him a shabby bundle and sneered: "Take what your mother left for you and get out of here."
In the baggage, there were only a faded skirt, a rusty silver hairpin, and a letter that was mostly soaked in blood——
"My son is traveling in a boat. If you see this letter, your mother is no longer here. Your true life experience is hidden in the old cases of the East Palace..."
At the same time, Shen Zhaoyue, the legitimate daughter of the current imperial concubine, was being forced into a desperate situation by an imperial edict conferring marriage. She has been secretly investigating for many years, and finally found out the truth about her mother's tragic death that year - it was related to the Zhenbei Hou Mansion and a baby named "Xingzhou".
A concubine who was expelled from the house, and a noble girl who was trapped in a betrothal marriage, their fates were quietly intertwined because of a blood letter and a jade pendant.
They all wanted to find out the truth and thought they were fighting alone.
Little did they know that the massacre at the East Palace that shocked both the government and the public twenty years ago had never really ended.
And they were the last two survivors who were deliberately wiped out in that murderous case.
