Ten years ago, the entire family of the imperial censor, Xie Zhiyuan, was ransacked and his eldest daughter, Xie Zhiyuan, became an official slave and was sold to his enemy, Duke Dingguo. Ten years later, everyone in the capital knew that the old lady of the Duke's Mansion had a most respectable mute girl. She was not literate, but she could manage the whole house in an orderly manner. She was the envied "Manager Fu". Only Xie Zhiyuan herself knows how she has been walking on the edge of a knife in the past ten years. She endured the overwhelming hatred, pretended to be deaf and mute, used her eyes to see all the dirty things in the Duke's mansion, and used her hands to lay a dragnet that lasted for ten years. Under which floorboard was the letter from the Duke of Guo secretly communicating with the enemy? She knows. Where is the account book of the eldest son who misappropriated military pay, in the dressing box in the outer room? She knows. The second young lady gave and received privately, under which crabapple tree was the token buried? She understands too. She was like the humblest spider, weaving a web in the dark. Every thread on the web was connected to the secret of someone in the Duke's palace. Everyone in the house regarded her as a decoration that could not speak, but little did they know that their fate had already been quietly affected by this "display". ——The most important staff member of the Duke of Guo was a scholar from a poor family whom she saved when she was young. ——The eldest son's trusted lieutenant was his father's former subordinate. ——The most favored second young lady, regards her as a confidant, and confides all the girl's concerns to her.
