In the 17th year of Yongchang, Shen Wei, the Marquis of Zhenbei, was falsely accused of collaborating with the enemy and treason. All the men in his family were imprisoned, and the women and children were sent to the Jiaofangsi. Shen Zhaohua, the legitimate daughter of the Hou Mansion, escaped with the help of her maid Aman, but she suffered hardships on the way to escape. She was once trapped in a brothel and almost suffered humiliation, but was fortunately rescued and taken in by the mysterious "Darknet" leader Xie Wujiu. She used her identity as a singer as a cover to deal with all kinds of people, secretly tracing the truth behind her father's tragedy.
In the process, she reunited with the South Vietnamese protégé Su Wantang - they met once when they were young, and the young man has already remembered that begonia-colored figure in his heart. However, after Su Wantang returned to China and ascended the throne, what separated them was the hatred of family and country. She and the current prince Xiao Hengzhi pretended to be cowardly and tried to kill people with a borrowed knife, but found out that he was the initiator of framing her father.
Shen Zhaohua grew up in deception and betrayal, and sobered up in loss and pain. She is no longer the eldest lady who was raised in a boudoir and never knew what it was like to be sad, but has become a chess player who can make moves. When the truth was peeled off layer by layer, she finally understood: the root cause of the family's destruction was not the conspiracy of a certain person, but the irreconcilable contradiction between imperial power and military power.
The final counterattack is not destruction, but rebirth. She joined forces with Su Wantang and single-handedly brought about a strike between the two countries and restored the innocence of the Shen family. And she herself, after completing her revenge, chose to live in seclusion. She planted a garden full of crabapples. From then on, there was only Shen Zhaohua under the crabapple flowers in the world, and there was no longer the avenger trapped in hatred.
