In the twenty-seventh year of Yong'an, the Holy Emperor made a humiliating decree and designated the daughter of the Shen family, a seventh-rank official, as a concubine to Xiao Jin, the fifth and least powerful prince.
Shen Lingshu, the legitimate daughter, was arrogant and domineering. She wanted to cling to the dragon and the phoenix. She would rather die than step into the quagmire of the prince's mansion. However, Shen Zhiwei, a concubine who lived in the woodshed and had been tortured since childhood, saw the only way to survive in this seemingly hopeless marriage - to escape from the cannibalistic Shen family and avenge her mother's unjust death.
She showed up on purpose to agree to this humiliating marriage for her sister-in-law, and became the first concubine in the fifth prince's palace to enter the palace.
In the mansion, Liu Qingmei, the legitimate daughter of the general, has been in love with Xiao Jinzhi for many years. Although she has not entered the mansion, she has already secretly helped Xiao Jinzhi with the help of her family's power. She is known to everyone in the capital as an infatuated person. And Shen Zhiwei, the helpless concubine, walked into the deep red-walled courtyard with a shabby look and full of hatred.
She is neither humble nor arrogant, and works step by step. In the whirlpool of intrigue and love and hate, she transforms from a chess piece that can be trampled upon to a person who can control the chess game step by step.
The snow fell on the red wall, and the cold penetrated the bones and blood.
This substitute marriage is her disaster and her world.
