Shen Zhaoning, a doctoral student in the Department of History, stayed up late to work on his thesis. When he woke up, he became the legitimate daughter Shen Zhaoning on the sick bed of the Yong'an Marquis Mansion.
His biological mother died young, his stepmother was mean, and his second wife was eyeing him. In the twelfth lunar month, she was driven to the back-seat room next to the woodshed to "recuperate". Her charcoal condition was reduced by half, and a human figure could be seen in the gruel - she was called a legitimate daughter, but she was actually an abandoned son.
But they didn't know that this sickly body contained a modern soul who studied the social and economic history of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Starting from a bowl of gruel, Shen Zhaoning struggled to survive in the cannibalistic compound. She checked the account books, searched for the truth, fought against her stepmother, and guarded against her second wife, and gradually uncovered the mystery of her mother's death. Aunt Zhou is dead, Aunt Sun is dead, Cuiping is dead, Old Mrs. Fang is dead - all the people who knew what happened back then were silenced one by one.
That woman wearing a silver bracelet with a lotus pattern engraved on it, that woman in a draped hat staring at everything in the dark, that enemy hidden deepest in the world - who is it?
On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, there was heavy snow. Shen Zhaoning wore a bright red wedding dress and stepped into the Sun family's house, which was like a dragon's pond and a tiger's den. The dowry was from the woman who killed her mother. On their wedding night, the mother-in-law knelt in front of her and tremblingly said:
"Girl, this old slave was forced..."
Before she finished speaking, the mother-in-law vomited black blood and fell to the ground.
Through the crack in the door, someone had just left.
